The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0303

Bridget.

The girl that Julian had said he loved who Nicholas had stolen away from him. This girl in the picture, wearing a bright smile, wedged between Julian and Nicholas, was her.

A younger version than who she was now, but at least I finally had a face to place with the name. Even as a young teenager, she was beautiful, with a head of loose blonde curls, and a big, toothy smile.

Her blue eyes were bright with life and joy.

She seemed the kind of person that lightened those around her, if Nichola s’s and Julian’s easy, matching smiles were anything to go by. Nicholas finished dressing and came closer.

“The three of us were thick as thieves back then.We did everything together.Julian, ever the instigator, led us straight into trouble.Bridget followed him blindly, and I followed her.” He laughed.

“Once, he had her entirely convinced that he found a tunnel that led to the center of the earth.I was skeptical, but Bridget believed anything those days.Julian took us to a cave and we got lost, of course.

We were only missing an hour, but it was long enough for our parents to cause an uproar.

“We stumbled out of the cave and straight into a massive search party.Julian was grounded for three months.I knew he was bluffing the entire time about having found a path to the center of the earth.Bridget, though… She defended him until we all parted ways.

“What happened?" I asked.

“You seemed so close.What could change?” Nichola s’s eyes went distant a moment.

“We grew up.” I waited a moment, but he seemed to be unwilling to give more information than that.

Or he was simply lost in a memory.

Either way, the wall between me and his past seemed thicker than it had before, I wasn’t sure how to sneak past it. “What happened to Bridget?"

I asked. Nicholas startled, like he had forgotten I was there.

I frowned, but tried not to let it get to me.

what it was like to be

against me. I just wished he hadn’t been lost on a nostalgia trip thinking of another woman.

movies… She’s a big actress now.” I

never been willing to spend the money I didn’t have, when ! so desperately needed it for other things like food and rent. But now that Nicholas mentioned it, I did

full truth about what happened, but I could easily believe that much. I wondered how many other hearts she’d broken along the way. Was Nicholas one of them? Looking at him

eyes were on

was present again, returned from the nostalgia trip that had claimed him only a few

Julian had been right, and Bridget was a part of

any pictures of me in this

He hesitated, then

door

Nicholas

I reached for

were deep wells, showing a sea

he was still stuck in the past, or maybe he was here with

I couldn’t really tell.

since we were who we were. “Piper, I – I placed my fingers to his lips,

didn’t know if I would be

too dangerous otherwise.” He pressed a soft

who?” “Both of

my hand away. “Piper “I’m

here and there, but we’ll never be

we give it a name and a life, it will only hurt us later.” He closed

“It doesn’t have to.”

“But it will."

so sure of

“At least for me."

I licked my lips.

want to admit my own feelings,

you, we shouldn’t fool around like we have

gaze bore into me like he could see deep down into

saw, pained