If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
‘Til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

Kristin sang to herself as best she could as the tears continued to fall from her eyes. It had been two hours since Tommy had stormed out of the apartment and she still couldn’t stop crying. She had been aimlessly wandering around the house, touching every object that reminded her of her husband, since he left. Her husband; she never thought those words would ever come out of her mouth. She never had been any good when it came to relationships, she thought it was different with Tommy; turns out it wasn’t so different after all.

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

She couldn’t remember the first time she had heard the song; all she knew was that it described her emotion at this point in time perfectly. She shouldn’t have told Tommy she was pregnant, she thought it might stop him; might make him stay. She thought she knew the man she had been married to for 3 years; oh how wrong she had been! Somehow the house seemed colder when Tommy wasn’t there; she went to turn up the heat.

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with

Singing usually cheered her right up, not this time though, she needed a hug. Tommy always was the best at giving her hugs; when he wasn’t scared of her that is. She was small but, according to Tommy, she had a way of shoving people up against the wall when she was mad at them that could hurt. Tommy…he had always called her his little firecracker; a name, she supposed, was given to her for a reason. Why did he have to leave? They had always been able to work things out before, why did this time have to be different? She knew that she could be a bit controlling at times and she knew it annoyed Tommy; but he had left without telling her where he was going! She knew she had every right to be angry with him this time.

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

She had to stop dwelling on the sadness. There had to be a way to get Tommy to come back to her; there just had to be! She was picking her brain for absolutely anything that would have given him an excuse for not telling her that he was going to be away; she couldn’t find anything. They hadn’t had a fight for weeks, he hadn’t said anything to her that he might have thought qualified as telling her he would be away, he hadn’t left a note; nothing. What was she going to do? She didn’t think she could live without him.