She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

055 The Perfect Crime

Scarlett’s POV

I would have given everything for such a speech from him, five years ago.

Hell. I did give everything, when I asked for exactly what he is offering me today. If only he had been less cruel to me anywhere in the past five years; if only he believed Granny and did not let his emotion cloud his judgment. But life has no “if only“. I’m not there anymore. I’m not excited, or happy. I’m just tired.

I just want to live my own life without them keep on hurting me.

I can’t go back, not for Granny’s wish, not for my coming baby, not for a Sebastian who still doesn’t see me.

He still doesn’t know that it was me who he saved in the woods, not Ava.

only found out about this misunderstanding five years ago. When Ava

a recording of Sebastian saying the three scared words to her, promising that he would have no one but her as his

that all he wanted to do was to protect the little girl he saved from the woods that day, because she was the most innocent, brave, cute little with a touch of rebellion that he had ever seen. His speech was touching, but

confused, angry,

because he found the wrong girl. He said he cared about that little girl because she was brave, and innocent with a touch of rebellion. I WAS all those things, and Ava was nothing like that. But we were both in front of him for a decade after his “mistake“, yet he never even noticed that what he said that he loved, was nowhere to be found in the girl he kept in

lying, then

felt was a bizarre, absurd, surreal irony, not happiness. The boy I loved for ten years, loved another horrible

saw me for who I was, and he

either.

+25 BONUS

Ava the first time, Ava said no. She thought he would see through her

guess somewhere deep down, I WAS touched, at that time. And that one shred. of bittersweetness,

lies, made me finally gather courage, to ask the boy for what I have wanted, what he said HE wanted, for the first time. I didn’t know what else to do. If I went to him to tell him “the truth“, he would hate me even more and

that was why she dared to let me

that if he could love a vicious snake as evil as Ava for so long just because of that one twilight he spent with me, then maybe, MAYBE, I had a chance at doing that

I should have known.

then it’s no longer a trick. If he stayed friends with Ava even though she was nothing that he “loved“, then it’s Ava who he loved, not the perfect memory he thought