Rose Coloured Glasses



[close your eyes]

Let's play pretend, Jarod, because that's all we've ever done.

[imagine our wedding, you standing at the isle, all jittery and nervous, imagine me dressed in virgin white, beautiful without being deadly]

You wanted to re-write the story, but for all your genius you can't figure out that even if you do the ending remains the same.

Fate, destiny - words I hate to say, but that's what it is.

[see our daughter, she has your eyes and my hair, her skin is soft like mine was years ago]

My father - no not my father - Mr Parker knew the ending. Do you think he would have jumped out the plane if I skipped off with you and had 2.5 kids?

[see our son, he’s almost as smart as his sister, his eyes are not haunted with dark shadows and he dreams in a land of peace, you’ll take him fishing and do all the father and son things you never did]

Our lives have always played out before us Jarod, never around us. Someone has always been pulling our strings and we've always been their dancing puppets.

If we snipped the strings and stood on our own, how long would we stand, do you think?

Or would we fall like all those before us?

[your parents baby-sit on odd weekends, they say its like watching you grow up, we make love every time like it was the first time, like it was the last time and time stretches endlessly before us]

There can't be a happy ending Jarod, I don't believe in them, and neither does The Centre.

If we stood and fought like in the battles of old, do you think we'd win? Do you really believe that one man can change the course of destiny, that a love will defeat all opposition?

Do you think they'd even let you think that?

You're naive Jarod, always have been, seeing the world through a child's eyes. You see me through those eyes too.

[you say ‘I love you’ and I say ‘I love you too’ and it’s the simplest thing in the world]

Sometimes you need to stop pretending, to stop seeing things that never would have worked anyway.

I don't know if I'm saying like us.

[the only thing we’ll fight about is who forgot to pick up the toothpaste and where we’ll go on holiday]

We never had a choice, Jarod; normality happens to other people, there's no point in fighting for something you'll never obtain.

[open your eyes]

See yourself, see me, and see us.

Do you see why I said no?