leo valdez x reader (book 1)

Here Comes Goodbye

This song is one of my favorites from Rascal Flatts. I'm crying because it's so sad and I can relate. So yes, another song fic. AUTHORS NOTE AT END TO READ! <UNEDITED>
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I can hear the truck tires coming up the gravel road
And its not like her to drive that slow, nothings on the radio
Footsteps on the front porch, I hear my doorbell
She usually comes right in, now I can tell

You were sitting in your house on the couch waiting for your daughter Leah. She was twenty two and just like you.

She had Leo's appearance though. You were thirty nine because you and Leo got married young and had her when you were seventeen.

Leah was the first born. You did have a second child. It was a boy and Leo named him Elliot.

Elliot died at the age of four. He got meningitis at one of the youngest ages possible.

You witnessed your son dying in the hospital bed. You told him that it was okay to let go. You told him it was okay to go towards the light.

You teared up at that memory. You didn't expect to lose your son at such a young age.

You lived in the country, so you had a long gravel road leading up to your driveway.

You heard truck tires coming up the gravel road. You knew it was Leah because she drove a Chevy Silverado.

You heard her driving slowly, which was not like her. She had a reason to drive slow though.

She parked her truck in the driveway and you heard the car door shut. You heard her walking.

She walked up the front steps and ringed the doorbell. Leah never rang the doorbell, she usually just walked in.

You saw through the window that Leah sat on the porch steps and put her head in her hands.

You opened the door and sat next to her. You rubbed her back while she cried into your shoulder.

Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear I'm gonna cry
Here comes the pain, here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye

Everything was done in that moment. Here comes the last time of seeing who you always want to see.

Now starts the sleepless nights. Every night would be a sleepless night now, and you didn't want it to be that way.

This was the first time you cried in a long time. You hugged Leah and your first tear rolled down your face.

You tried to hold it in so you could look strong for your daughter, but you couldn't do it.

You felt the pain in your heart. There was a piece missing. There was now an emptiness.

"I wish things had never changed." Leah whispered into your shoulder.

"I know. Me too." You whispered back.

Leah was now here in your arms after a while. She lived across the country from you for her career.

But after this, it would be gone again for a while.

I can hear her say I love you like it was yesterday
And I can see it written on her face that she had never felt this way
One day I thought I'd see her with her daddy by her side
And violins would play here comes the bride

"I love you mom." She said.

She said it like it was the last time she would say it. Leah said those words with so much meaning and heart.