Will
WILL
He’s tried everything he could think of to get her to talk to him, but nothing’s worked. hasn’t been able to get Bridget to answer the phone, call him back, or reply to his messages. After a few weeks, he’s realized she would never get back to him. And why would she? She deserves better.
Which is why he picked today to be the day he says goodbye. Goodbye to her and to the life they maybe could’ve had together if he’d been honest from the beginning.
He doesn’t deserve happiness—that’s for sure—but Bridget deserves the world. She deserves peace.
won’t move on from this—he can’t. You don’t get two loves of your life. Bridget was it for him and he’s just going to have to live with the fact that he’s lost her forever.
And though just the thought of that makes his knees weak from the emotional toll it’s taken on him, he’s decided to take a page out of Bridget’s handbook and look at the bright side for once. The silver linings:
First, even though he lost it, found his love—something many people spend a lifetime searching for. He will always treasure every moment he and Bridget spent together even if she will forever be the one who got away.
Second, despite accepting he’s destined to live a life of solitude, he can now focus on what’s next for him. Relationships will no longer be a distraction for him because there’s no way he could ever love anyone the way he loved Bridget. And if that kind of love isn’t possible, he doesn’t want it, anyway. Not when he’s known what it’s really like to love someone.
Third, is definitely never working for his grandfather again. He’s spent the last few weeks trying to figure out what he wants to do now that he’s freed of the shackles that bound him so tightly and is still coming up short, but he at least knows that he’ll never go back to the family business. And he’s ecstatic about it.
Yes, these are the good things he can focus on now to get him out of bed in the morning. Still, he’d give it up in a second if it meant being with her.