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 a better

Sasha just listened as he sang. She

life, how 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, we’re getting divorced because

suddenly felt enlightened. Her entire being came

he saw the change in her expression. “Do you feel

you! Well, I’ll be going now. Thank

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

hurry back home. She wanted to get her children, pack up, and move as soon as

reached home, she had brought her

with bags of their belongings. She had protested and said she was insane

Sabrina’s words and instead,

on, let’s go! Let’s celebrate Christmas there together. Besides, you’ve never been there, right? We’ll clean up the place together and you can pick out a room. We’ll spend Christmas

had

she had scooped up Vivian, who was lagging behind, and both

 Sasha smiled and shook her head

cleaning up the villa

I’m hungry. When

Mommy will get you

the groceries that she

dinner was ready, right around the time when Sebastian would usually be coming home,

surprise? Let’s turn off all the lights now. We’ll only turn it on when