She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Scarlett’s POV

In his sorrowful gaze, I shake my head subconsciously. But I can’t utter the word “no“. It’s hard to lie, especially when the lie won’t trick anyone. Not me, nor him.

With a bitter smile, he lets go of my waist slowly.

He was the one who pushed me away. He wanted it so badly, and finally, when I did it, he was also the one giving me this sorrowful look, making me feel guilty as hell.

“Action!”

Just at the moment where I’m dying of awkwardness, James Deep shouts. I quickly turn to the scene, and Sebastian walks up to my side.

Samuel and Aria — Sebastian and Ava – talk in the hallway just like how they used to in my memory. Except this time, she isn’t the one stealing such a moment from a dark, jealous sister, but the actual girl who was saved–

Samuel walks in with his football pals in laughter and talks, his eyes bright and his smile clean. When he passes Aria, she lowers her head and dodges his eyes. He stops, staring at her with a curious look.

– she just ran into her long–time crush on the first day of high school, a senior hot guy who is still in his

girl with a non–harmful secret

of the locker, bending a little to look at the girl on the same level, his eyes clean with a shred of curiosity. “Do you have a yellow princess dress whose

odd question to ask. You just… reminded me

is an odd question alright,” Aria smiles at him, leaving with her books, “and yes,

mumbles but she is already far. He cocks an eyebrow, staring in the direction where she left, his pals nudging him with mocking laughs but

the locker is the mean sister. Instead of a vicious face, she looks more sad and

The scene ends.

I can’t object to anything.

there?” Sebastian

first day in high school, it was him and me. And our reunion didn’t end up with me telling him about the dress, but Ava telling him that I was the mean sister she had told him

at me with despise in the following

moment when you started hating someone,” I put on a harmless smile,