Haunted

 She tightened her grip around his arm and rested her head on his shoulder. 

"Don't let go of me, ok?", she said.

"I won't and you know that. Why even say it?"

"Because I get insecure. Anything I have touched with my heart, anything that I have loved with my life, has left me. They left, when I thought they'd never. I am insecure about being abandoned".

He looked at her and she had tears in her eyes. "Hey, come on now. We aren't going to ruin this moment, this time together with this talk and your salty waterfall of tears". 

"I'm sorry. I know. It scares me though, that I could love you more than life itself but leave you before you leave me. That scares me. It haunts me. Whoever did this to me, haunts me still".