The Love that Never Really Dies

Sasha was speechless.

She dried the tears on her cheeks and turned to look at the person who had sat down next to her. She was surprised to find that he was just a young boy.

His clothes were shabby and well-worn, and a guitar was strapped across his back.

“What’s with that look? Is a wandering singer like me unworthy of sitting next to you?

“Huh?” Sasha immediately shook her head. “No, no! You just reminded me of my younger brother, that’s all.”

Her “brother”; the one who had impersonated as Lance on Wall Street.

Sasha felt like crying again at that thought.

The boy saw her expression change and quickly started strumming on his guitar. “Shall I play you a song? Maybe you’ll feel better after some tunes…”

“Will I really?”

“Of course! Just listen and see!”

Then, the boy, who Sasha noticed was rather handsome, began to play a melody.

“Now that I am a man,

I can only keep running,

No matter how scared I am,

Running through the darkness,

Hello, tomorrow,

Smile through your tears,

be

through the subway, sounding strangely familiar. Sasha just listened as he sang. She suddenly understood that she had

could I let man and a divorce crush me like this? I don’t belong to him; he’s not my master! Why does he always have the final say in everything? Back then, we got together because he wanted to get together, and now,

felt enlightened. Her entire being

his song and smiled when he saw the change

nodded fervently. “Yes, I do! Thank you! Well, I’ll be going now.

a wad of bills from her pocket and gratefully pressed them into

She wanted to get her children, pack up, and move as soon as possible.

brought her three children together

seen her leaving with bags of their belongings. She had protested and said she was insane for moving when Christmas was just

had ignored Sabrina’s words and instead, had

been there, right? We’ll clean up the place together and you can pick out a room. We’ll spend Christmas

Sabrina had

she had scooped up Vivian, who was lagging behind,

smiled and shook

cleaning up the villa

When

Okay, Mommy will get you some

that

would usually be coming home, she deliberately asked the children to turn

turn off all the lights now. We’ll only turn it on when