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“Eleanor!” he explodes, pouncing upon her and shaking her. “Stop! Don't say another word, or I can't be held responsible for what I'll do!”
“Remember, Gabriel! Remember us, everything we went through! In this house, everywhere else! You swore that this would never end, that you'd love me and protect me until I died!”
“You are dead to me, Eleanor. You died the day you let someone else decide your destiny for you. And mine.”
“No, I'm here! We can start over again! Nothing is lost! Look at me, I'm still the same! I love you!” she screams before kissing him as if her life depended on it.
I watch this harrowing kiss as if I was part of the scenery. As if these former lovers were already alone in the world. Gabriel still loves her. He admitted that to me yesterday. “In a completely different way.” Now this expression makes sense. He loves her in a way he'll never love me. I can't fight anymore. I have no more strength, no more desire. When he violently breaks free from this embrace and looks at me, guilty and blown apart, I've already made my decision.
“You belong to one another. I understand,” I murmur, walking away with my eyes full of tears.
“Amande, NO! Amande, don't do this!” Gabriel cries, trying to hold me back.
I push him back with my last bit of strength and look at him one last time, my eyes dull.
“It's over, Gabriel. We lost before we began. Let me go and forget you. Let me have the life I deserve. I don't want any more pain. I want all of this to stop.”
The tears fall down his handsome face. His eyes beg me but nothing comes out of his mouth, twisted in pain. I start running like a madwoman, without turning back, without really knowing where I'm going. My mind is on automatic pilot, I go back to our room, grab my purse and head to Silas and Camille's room. I find the keys for the rental car, grab them and rush down the staircase. I get to the parking lot and then jump behind the wheel. I know I don't have my licence, that I'm taking a big risk, but my forty hours of driving lessons are finally going to pay off. I start the car, go past the gate and the security booth, then hit the road.
I drive without thinking, without asking questions. I cry silently on the almost deserted expressway. I don't see the heavenly landscapes anymore as it passes by my window. I'm on a mission to survive. To escape, to leave this house full of crazy people and that broken man, to renounce our love – our present and our future. To prevent myself from thinking I turn on the radio. I turn up the volume. The speakers crackle, saturated, but I don't care. The radio station DJ announces the next song: Diamonds by Rihanna.
A SIGN?
I turn the wheel 180 degrees, making a U-turn that risks my life as well as those of the other drivers. What am I doing? I'm crazy! Leaving the man I love more than anything else in this world! Letting him stay in the arms of his ex-fiancée! The mansion is only a few miles away. I'll be there in fifteen minutes. I'm going to tell him... tell him...
YES!
Yes, I want to marry you!
Live with you, die with you!
I finally get to the top of the hill, where I can finally see the Diamonds residence again. But I'm forced to stop. I hit the brakes right in front of a police barricade. Flames, all I can see are flames! I leap out of the car and grab one of the officers, who tells me to go stand further back.
“Sorry, Miss, but you can't pass for safety reasons. A serious fire has broken out at the bottom of the hill – see it over there, at that house?”
I don't know what I'm looking at. Fear and anguish consume me. I rub my eyes, full of tears and dust. I moan, I yell. I refuse to accept this tragedy, this cataclysmic spectacle. It feels like a sharp knife is carving me up from inside. The east wing of the mansion is on fire, it's literally consumed by flames. The firefighters' sirens wail in every direction. I'm too far away to see Gabriel, Camille, Marion. And
“Eleanor!” he explodes, pouncing upon her and shaking her. “Stop! Don't say another word, or I can't be held responsible for what I'll do!”
“Remember, Gabriel! Remember us, everything we went through! In this house, everywhere else! You swore that this would never end, that you'd love me and protect me until I died!”
“You are dead to me, Eleanor. You died the day you let someone else decide your destiny for you. And mine.”
“No, I'm here! We can start over again! Nothing is lost! Look at me, I'm still the same! I love you!” she screams before kissing him as if her life depended on it.
I watch this harrowing kiss as if I was part of the scenery. As if these former lovers were already alone in the world. Gabriel still loves her. He admitted that to me yesterday. “In a completely different way.” Now this expression makes sense. He loves her in a way he'll never love me. I can't fight anymore. I have no more strength, no more desire. When he violently breaks free from this embrace and looks at me, guilty and blown apart, I've already made my decision.
“You belong to one another. I understand,” I murmur, walking away with my eyes full of tears.
“Amande, NO! Amande, don't do this!” Gabriel cries, trying to hold me back.
I push him back with my last bit of strength and look at him one last time, my eyes dull.
“It's over, Gabriel. We lost before we began. Let me go and forget you. Let me have the life I deserve. I don't want any more pain. I want all of this to stop.”
The tears fall down his handsome face. His eyes beg me but nothing comes out of his mouth, twisted in pain. I start running like a madwoman, without turning back, without really knowing where I'm going. My mind is on automatic pilot, I go back to our room, grab my purse and head to Silas and Camille's room. I find the keys for the rental car, grab them and rush down the staircase. I get to the parking lot and then jump behind the wheel. I know I don't have my licence, that I'm taking a big risk, but my forty hours of driving lessons are finally going to pay off. I start the car, go past the gate and the security booth, then hit the road.
I drive without thinking, without asking questions. I cry silently on the almost deserted expressway. I don't see the heavenly landscapes anymore as it passes by my window. I'm on a mission to survive. To escape, to leave this house full of crazy people and that broken man, to renounce our love – our present and our future. To prevent myself from thinking I turn on the radio. I turn up the volume. The speakers crackle, saturated, but I don't care. The radio station DJ announces the next song: Diamonds by Rihanna.
A SIGN?
I turn the wheel 180 degrees, making a U-turn that risks my life as well as those of the other drivers. What am I doing? I'm crazy! Leaving the man I love more than anything else in this world! Letting him stay in the arms of his ex-fiancée! The mansion is only a few miles away. I'll be there in fifteen minutes. I'm going to tell him... tell him...
YES!
Yes, I want to marry you!
Live with you, die with you!
I finally get to the top of the hill, where I can finally see the Diamonds residence again. But I'm forced to stop. I hit the brakes right in front of a police barricade. Flames, all I can see are flames! I leap out of the car and grab one of the officers, who tells me to go stand further back.
“Sorry, Miss, but you can't pass for safety reasons. A serious fire has broken out at the bottom of the hill – see it over there, at that house?”
I don't know what I'm looking at. Fear and anguish consume me. I rub my eyes, full of tears and dust. I moan, I yell. I refuse to accept this tragedy, this cataclysmic spectacle. It feels like a sharp knife is carving me up from inside. The east wing of the mansion is on fire, it's literally consumed by flames. The firefighters' sirens wail in every direction. I'm too far away to see Gabriel, Camille, Marion. And
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