This story is based on a song. I won't write the name of the song here, I hope you can guess which it is. I would confirm it in the comments if you do get it though...

Attention! All rights to the song and the lyrics on which this story was based on belong to their respective singers. The idea of the book is mine but the idea of the song itself in which the book is based on belongs to the songwriters.

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It was almost 11 o' clock and I was still in the traffic jam, my mind was on a whole lot when the earthquake hit. The ground beneath the car shuddering with every breath the earth took but I hardly even noticed. I was thinking about her again, like I always did whenever I was free.

The only things that crossed my mind were memories of us from a year ago.

They only made me wonder what she was doing now. If she was out alone drinking like she used to when she was lonely and wanted company but she couldn't get any because the rest of her friends and I were all busy. Or if she was out clubbing like she used to with her friends. If she was chilling in the living room binge watching The vampire diaries again for about the thousandth time in her new boyfriend's shirt like she did with mine over and over again.

It made me wonder how I'd done so well not giving in to temptation and contacting her whenever I had my phone.

I took my phone and wallet and ditched my car. Her house was only three blocks away anyways. Maybe that's why I was thinking of her again.

I wanted- no I needed to see her. I ran the rest of the journey. I couldn't do this anymore. The lack of communication was killing me. It had been so long. The light of the moon and the stars shone across my way so I could just barely see, till I got to her blue painted door,  panting, catching my breath, as I knocked as loudly as I could.

"Who-who is it?" She asked. Her voice was timid, melodic. Like it always was.

"It's me! It's Gray, open up! I" informed her. The noise of stones rumbling in the distance making me frantic.

"Gray?" Was her timid reply.

"Yes, Gray! Open the damn door, Laura it's me!" I shouted, hardly hearing my own voice over the noise in the distance
The power cut off and she screamed. She was probably panicking like she did when it got dark and she felt claustrophobic even though her house wasn't small.

"Open the door! Now, Laura! I know you're claustrophobic and scared of the dark! Just let me help you, love."

She opened the door immediately and jumped into my arms. I hugged her, stroking her hair. She sighed in satisfaction. Either that I was here or she wasn't alone in the dark, I didn't know.

"Stand here, I'll go get a torch or something." I told her.

She whimpered, holding me closer to herself. "No."

I sighed. "Ok."

I took out my phone from my pocket and turned on the flash leading us to her room and over to the bed. I dropped down on the bed, dragging her down with me. She fell on the bed beside me. I shone the light on her to see her. To really see her. She was still as beautiful as I remembered. Brown eyes, black curly hair pulled tight in long braids on either side of her hair, her small pink lips subconsciously puckered in a tiny pout. She wore a black button up that looked suspiciously like mine and some shorts. She watched me watch her but said nothing. I broke the silence.

"Is that mine?" I asked.

"What?" She was so confused it showed on her face.

"The shirt." She directed her gaze to the door so I could only see the side of her face, and I could tell the shirt was mine.

"You didn't get a boyfriend?" I asked hoping to get her to look at me.

"You didn't get a girlfriend?" She countered turning to me raised brow.

"No, you were my last."

"Oh. Well I tried." She looked to the floor, hiding from my gaze again.

"What?"

"Getting one. A boyfriend." She muttered under her breath.

"Oh?" I didn't particularly know how to feel about that.

"I couldn't do it."

"Oh."

Silence.

"I'll go get a light. I know you hate the dark." I made to get up from the bed, but she wrapped her arms around my torso, pulling me back down as she rested her head on my shoulder.

"I don't care about that now. Please stay."
I took her arms, holding them away from my body and turned round so I was facing her.

I pulled her onto my lap, her thighs either side of mine, so she straddled me and I rested her forehead against my chest, holding her tight.

"I'm not going anywhere."

I could feel the earth shaking between my feet and the shudders that racked through the house. I heard crumbling in the distance, but I ignored it, as memories of our past took up my thoughts.

Memories of our last drunken kisses, on a Friday night like this. We stumbled into the house, tripping over our own feet trying to get past every article of clothing, we didn't even make it past the kitchen. Felt like yesterday. I could still feel the ghost of her kisses on my lips, on my skin.

"Gray?" She called.

"Hmm?" I pressed a kiss to her neck.

"I love you." She told me, squeezing me tighter and pressing her ear against my chest over my heart. She must have heard my heart skip a beat.

I hugged her tighter to me, realising my grip on her had loosened while I was in my reverie. I could hear the chaos outside louder now. It sounded like it was heading this way.

"I love you too. So much." I confessed in a whisper beside her left ear.

"Gosh, I'm such a liar. I told you we weren't made for each other, when you're the best damn thing that ever happened to me." She choked out, laughing bitterly.

I shrugged. "You told me at the beginning you weren't down for forever. I couldn't force you to stay, no matter how much I loved you." I told her, and rested my chin on her head.

"Looks like we won't even get forever, after all. And it's all because of me. I'm so fucking stupid. I'm such a coward. I knew you'd find someone better than me, so I left you before you left me. I didn't want you to hurt me, but I ended up hurting the both of us." I could feel something wet on my t-shirt and guessed she was crying as her body shook against mine.

"I'm so sorry." She sobbed as she covered her face with her hands now resting her head on her hands on my chest. "I'm fricking stupid."

"Hey, you're not stupid. You just did what was necessary to protect yourself."

She cried a bit more before her sobs came to a stop. My phone died, plunging us into darkness. She squeezed me tighter.

"Stay the night?" She asked looking at me. And just that moment, the moon shone into the room, the light landing on her, making her look even more beautiful against the darkness.

"Always." I told her, making reference to my first night in her house. I gave her a kiss on her forehead, her left cheek, then her right cheek, her chin and her nose. Then I placed a soft kiss on her lips one last time, lingering longer than I did the others, and I felt tears stream down her face as I cupped her cheek.

The rumbles and tremors of the ground that seemed like mere vibrations had turned to a full shake and the groaning and crashing of the buildings that were in the distance  were much louder now.

Our building was falling apart all around us, but that was ok. The world was ending, but at least I came over right?

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So guys, this is my first ever tragedy story! Please don't hate...