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 lost

hadn’t been lost on a nostalgia trip thinking of another woman. “We all went our separate paths,"

in the movies… She’s a

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

he was telling the 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 now, he

eyes were on

a few minutes

right, and Bridget was a part of

was here with me. Though there weren’t any pictures of me in this

He hesitated,

door

Nicholas close behind me.

as I reached for

His eyes were deep wells, showing a sea of

still stuck in the past, or maybe he

I couldn’t really tell.

about to say something, and it might be something we would both come to regret, since we were who we were. “Piper, I – I placed my fingers to his lips, stopping him before

if I would be able to hold myself

too dangerous otherwise.” He pressed

for who?”

away. “Piper “I’m

there, but we’ll never be

us… if we give it a name and a life, it will only hurt us later.”

“It doesn’t have to.”

“But it will."

was so sure

“At least for me."

I licked my lips.

to admit my own feelings, but if I

you, we shouldn’t fool around like we have been.” “Distance your heart…?”

His mouth snapped shut, but his gaze bore into me like he could see deep down into my

he saw, pained