Blue (Another version)

Same story as before, but what if Sean didn't let her in? (Way shorter)

He sat on the back steps gazing off somewhere distant. In his own world yet again.

“Sean?” Her voice snapped him out of his trance in an instant.

“Ann?” … She was standing in the doorway, her long auburn hair softly waving through the air.

He was confused. Why was she here? After everything that had happened he thought she’d be done with him. He turned his back to her, putting his head in his knees.

“Why are you here?” Sean asked.

She sighed softly and sat on the steps next to him.

“Why do you think I’m here?”

“To tell me what a screwup I am.”

Ann laughed a little. Not a happy laugh, an exasperated one. “You need to try getting out of that head of yours sometime. I’m here because you need me, Sean.”

He picked up his head and looked at her, confused and frankly annoyed. “I need you? I don’t need you! I don’t need anyone!”

“That’s what you want people to believe … that’s what you want yourself to believe.”

Sean stood up quickly, his hands balled up in tight fists. He faced her with obvious anger plastered on his face.

“Sean … you need to listen to me-”

“No Ann, listen to me! I don’t want your help or pity! You don’t understand me at all… you just think you do. You can’t possibly get what it’s like to be me. Every day I have to worry about what people will do to me just because I exist.” Sean felt tears swelling up in his eyes as he turned away from her.

“You don’t get anything.” He said softly.

Ann felt as if her stomach dropped all the way to her feet. She’d never seen him like this. “You’re right Sean. I don’t understand how you feel, but I want to understand. The only way I can begin to try is if you let me in. Please, let me help Sean.”

Her eyes were pleading. A moment of silence passed between the two before Sean spoke up.

“No.”

She tried to reach out to him, but he swatted her hand away.


“You’ll never understand. No matter how hard you try.” He stood up, keeping his back to her. “Just give up Ann. You can’t fix everything.”

Her eyes widened and she opened her mouth to say something, but he didn’t wait for her to speak before leaving.

He left her all alone.

“ … fine. Be that way.” She said to herself. She pulled her knees to her chest, and began to cry.

The End