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

is…” I take a deep breath just so I can look

she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how for ten years

only come out of a glance of one day,

together with the sky. I maintain my smile as I count the seconds, giving myself a time limit

Ava, if you choose me over Ava before

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

at the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for

I open my eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my

eyes and accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so

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