Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 59

A surprise
It’s been a month since the whole thing with Ethan happened. Am I okay? Definitely not. Does it

still hurt? Fuck yes. Have I moved on? Absolutely not.

Things haven’t been easy. Every day I find myself drowning further and further in a sea of pain and heartache. I thought I was doing okay when I decided to move on with Ethan. I realize now

that I was probably just lying to myself.

Ethan’s betrayal has drenched up all the other pains I tried burying. All the hurts I tried

forgetting. It was like I was now back to square one. Only thing is that I had a few more new scars

marring my heart and soul.

I go through the days in a fog. Just living numbly. Time and things pass me by because I wasn’t

really living. I am just surviving. Taking each day one at a time.

Everyone seems to have moved on, but I feel like I am just stuck. Stuck in a never ending cycle of

pain and heartbreak. My world right now is dark and cold and I feel all alone.

“Miss Sharp, are you okay?” Mark, one of my students asks me.

Fuck, I hate that name. It serves as a reminded that the people who gave it to me broke me. I

wanted to change it, but I didn’t know which name to take. I didn’t want to take the Howell’s name

given I don’t know that much about them. There is also the fact that I haven’t spoken to them

since that day at my house.

“Yes, I am…focus on the classwork” I reply to him before looking down at the books on my desk.

I loved teaching, but nowadays it has become like a chore. Every day I come to work, I can’t help

but wish the hours would fly by quickly so that I can go home. I wanted solitude but I wasn’t

getting enough of that with Letty and Rowan checking up on me every damn time.

My students have noticed something is wrong. Classes aren’t as fun as they used to be. I wasn’t as

cheery as I was before. I was like a robot. Lifeless. Because of this some of my students have

started skipping class. I just don’t know how to bring back the old Ava.

‘Instead of trying to bring the old you, why don’t you try to create a new version?‘ an internal voice

asks.

Was that even possible? Creating a new version. A version of me that is different from the child,

teen then woman who has been broken too many times to count.

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too deeply about it, the bell rings Taking

my class without saying a single

have

to anyone

lounge and freeze up. I was expecting

packed. I release a groan as I

rings just as I sit down. Nora’s name flashes. I’ve

their relationship with Ethan I go to hang

accept button instead

Ava?” she calls

release the breath

me out. Don’t shut me and

catching at the

say anything. I couldn’t even if I wanted to.

fucking word.

your

hurting and I want to be there for you. I already lost one child, please don’t makeme lose

breaks my heart.

it. I’ve been so emotional these

slowly. Trying

give you time if that’s what you

even when I

know that I’ll always be here for you

good to be wanted, but I don’t know if I can trust them yet.

reply before hanging

just don’t know. What

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That’s what I’m afraid of. Of being used. Of being a

Rowan.

cold or anything like that towards them. I was just trying to protect

pieces of my heart.

girl” Carol says walking

I groan

was a junior highschool teacher and she had a way of annoying

her nose in other

food” she looks at me in shock. “With the

would think you’re preggo” she

freeze in my seat. Her words ring in my mind like a

every

you okay, Ava? You have to know that

right?”

the lounge, I blindly ran through the

of the parking lot.

Please don’t let

to think back. Try to do the math, but my mind is so jumbled that I

caring that I will probably be pulled for over speeding. I

Carol was wrong.

I park my car and rush out. Unluckily for me, I bump into

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