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couldn't look away

I couldn't look away, couldn't look away from those eyes. They held so much pain, so many unshed tears. The warrmness in that set of brown eyes that I had come to know and love had left, the honey drained out of them. But it wasn't just the eyes.

It was the whole face I couldn't look away from. The way his face looked so much older, and suddenly darker. I saw in his face at that moment what I had never seen before. It was terrifying to see the look of sheer resentment toward me. My eyes burned in disgust at myself , with the appology on the tip of my toungue. The appology I never spoke because it was already too late.

I couldn't look away from the face that told me it was too late to appologize, too late to go back, to get back what I had just destroyed. His eyes were puppy dogs that had been hit one time to many, and it was me who had hit him.

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