Scarlett’s POV

I stop, but I don’t know how to turn around.

For a long moment I pause there, and for a long moment, he waits patiently behind me.

How great it would be, if he had asked me this question at ANY POINT in our marriage? If he had doubted Ava just a little bit in the long time window when I kept hope, I would have jumped to tell him the truth. If I had even a shred of confidence that he would have belleved me, I would have.

But now…

I turn around, only to find him standing on the green grass when I’m already off on the cold blacktop. A hard line between us, like the five years that we can leap over. He looks at me with too complicated a look that I can’t quite read. In his eyes are hope, struggle, hesitation, and…fear.

Of me being the girl he

so I can look

For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how for ten years I have been the girl who had a crush on you when you could only see

only come out of a glance of one day, but if it was…then maybe, maybe, I can try

smile as I count the seconds, giving myself a time

that girl more than you loved Ava, if you choose me over Ava before

in the corner where the sun can’t shine on, Sebastian lets out a resighed laugh, “the

the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for what it’s

touches my lips. Startled, I open my eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in

struggled but he wouldn’t let me go. In tears, I close my eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so

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