Madi Don't Leave (PlayRadioPlay Fan Fiction)

Daniel Hunter POV
Lyrics From 'Madi Don't Leave' by PlayRadioPlay

It takes a lot to phase me
I'm pretty stable
I'm pretty sane but..
I'm looking at my future
and, god, do i have to lose her?

My phone rang, and I knew who it was, I wanted to never answer. I ignored the persisting rings, that scram my name, begging for me to say hello, and let my heart shatter in her hands. I wasn't ready to lose all I had wanted.

we share conversations on
how we're all just floating
through space and nothing matters
I'm looking for a pattern

I end up answering the insistent ringing.
"Hello" my voice sounds broken, forced. I don't want to hear her words, but her voice always reels me in.
"Dan" she asked, her voice almost as struggled as my own. I want her to know that im here, and will always be, but no, im weaker, even than her.
"Madi" I asked, knowing that it was of course her. Her voice was high, yet emotionless. It was unusually cold, and empty of its constant life, happiness.
"We need to talk Daniel" she said, in a cool tone, one that was meant to crawl through your bones, and find a way to break into your body.

is it possible to say
"baby, let's run away
to the east coast or Seattle
Corpus or St. Marcus,"

She told me to goto her house, I had known her a lifetime and knew exactly how to make it there. I crawled out of my bedroom window, I did this so many times nowadays. I slid down to the first floor roof, then jumped off, landing on my toes. I ran my way to her house, which was only a couple of blocks away. I tossed a stone to her bedroom window, where she opened the window. She came outside. Her long black hair, that fell in soft waves to her waist. Her skin was pale, and thin, somehow papery. Her bright green eyes, shown in the night sky. She wore black shorts and on of my Misfits band tee. She tossed her rope down the side of her balcony, where years off doing this led to her sliding down casually gracefully. She took my hand, in her soft skin, and dragged me over to her treehouse.

I've got a credit card
and a reliable car
let's drive...to Pennsylvania

And I instantly got pulled back into that memory, of young children. We were only around ten, and both eager to learn. We no longer believed in cooties, but we were still childish and innocent. Things happened that day, in this very same tree house that children should never be exposed to. But no matter how sick or perverse what had happened we believe was, we never regretted it, because we loved each other.

madi, dear, can't we just disappear
and take our chances
on a teenagers' romances?
put our money where our mouth is
madi, dear, can't we just disappear
and take our chances
on a teenagers' romances?
put our money where our mouth is

She cleared her throat, sitting on the soft wooden floor, running her thin fingers across every corner. She smiled, knowing that this place was all we were. We had been friends since she had forgotten her crayons, and I was the boy in kinder with the sixty four pack. And now, thirteen years later, we were both still here. She shuffled uncomfortably.
"Madi, are you going to speak" I asked, knowing I wouldn't like what I was about to hear. She shuffled nervously again. Her eyes then turned to me, with their blazing green potential.

it takes a lot to make pretty angry
and very sad
and I'm looking towards the outcome
there must some hidden reason
we shared kisses upside down
and on your old quilt
by your computer

"Im moving Dan" she mumbled, staring now at the wooden floor, and running her neatly manicured nails over the wood. I wanted to throw up, maybe choke on own remains and die. But I managed to live, for the next second.
"Madi, dear" I mumbled, cupping her face in my hands, and looking into her eyes, knowing this may have just been the last time.

i was hoping
your garage as it opened
is there anyway
you can change schools and stay
up here in ft worth
'cause you're what i look for

"Daniel, I hate them" she hissed, through clenched teeth. She referred to her parents. I wrapped my arms around her, smelling her comforting aroma. I knew that this was the last time I would ever smell something so beautiful, like home.

I've got a hopeless crush
maybe that don't mean much to you
but, I'm hoping this can keep going

"Madi" I mumbled again, she pulled away, looking into my eyes. She was in tears, but I didn't know what to do, how to keep her here. I knew that soon she'd be gone, and no matter how hard we'd tried, we'd eventually lose each other in the population of the rest of the world.

madi, dear, can't we just disappear
and take our chances
on a teenagers' romances?
put our money where our mouth is
madi, dear, can't we just disappear
and take our chances
on a teenagers' romances?
put our money where our mouth is

We spent most of the night, wrapped in each others arms. Silent, knowing that nothing would ever change, and knowing that we had lost it all. I was the boy with the drunken father, another motherless bastard. And she was from what seemed to be a we'll composed family, but her mother beat her senseless, for no apparent reason, and her father was never around. We meant the universe to each other, and we were losing what we had grown to need.

I've got a credit card
and a reliable car
let's drive...to Pennsylvania

"Madi, why don't we disappear, leave, go anywhere" I said, somehow impulsively. I was watching the sun creep up the horizon. She laid on my chest, trembling.
"Danny, I can't" she half yelled, I knew why she was leaving, I also knew that she would be going to university soon, and even though I had no future I couldn't drag her down with me.

it's six am and ice cream is the first thing on my list
and pez improves our kisses
after so many misses

The next morning she stood in her lawn, a 'SOLD' sign lying on the pure green canvas. She hugged me tightly, sobbing against my arms. I kissed her forehead, and mumbled senseless phrases into her ear. Her eyes were swollen, lost in their own small pool of pain. I had known she was going to move, news traveled around this barren town quickly but now, it was all over. Everyone had said that id get over it, and id move on, but they weren't losing the only human that had ever meant a thing to them, were they? They called her name, Madeline. She pulled away, and dropped her gaze the the floor, covering her face with her thick dark bangs. She turned and walked away, to her parents awaiting car.

madi, dear, can't we just disappear
and take our chances
on a teenagers' romances?
put our money where our mouth is
madi, dear, can't we just disappear
and take our chances
on a teenagers' romances?
put our money where our mouth is

It was night now, she had only been gone for a couple of hours, but I was lost, completely disoriented. I could picture how things might've been if I hadn't lost her. We'd be happy, but we would never last in the real world, no matter how much we'd love each other. I knew I couldn't live without Madi though. I grabbed a thin knife, and pressed it into my arm, drawing a light line of crimson to my arm. But the pain wasn't this shallow, so I dug it deeper, in a vertical line across my wrist. I could feel the blood seeping away, the idea of death was seemingly comforting, and before being sucked away into the darkness, I heard a series of dark words being delivered by a blur like shadow.
"Danny, I didn't leave"