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After countless sleepless nights, surprisingly caught some solid z’s on the flight.

In my dreams, Antonio’s face kept showing up, like he was just waiting for me there.

Back when we were just seven, we used to play games together.

He’d tell me he was the groom, and I was the prettiest bride.

When we turned eighteen, we made that game real.

He vowed to hustle hard and give me a grand wedding.

But when did things start to fall apart between us?

Did it start after Stella showed up, or was it before that?

I couldn’t even remember it anymore.

Antonio had been the center of my world for as long as I could remember.

No matter how much I tried to stay cool and get over him, it felt like my insides were being torn apart.

Once I landed, I didn’t even have the guts to turn on my phone.

‘Grace!”

My mom was waving at me, standing out in a sea of foreigners.

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It had been ages since we last saw each other.

She wasn’t the same woman I remembered, sitting on the couch, crying, waiting for my dad to come home.

She was older, but she exuded more charm than before.

said, her voice filled with wonder.

mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over and over again.

and hugged

“Mom, I’m not holding it against you.

love myself first before

been calling non–stop,” my mom warned me. She tried to dry my tears, but hers

I’m with you all the way,” she said, supporting

up with calls and messages from Antonio.

I could even catch up on the

laden with stress, like he was holding the whole world

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this worked up

why was he still worried about

to explain, “Grace, have you read

Stella. I promise you. She’s just like a sister to me.

tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was never my

feeling kind of spaced out.

you think you’re obligated to stay with me, but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s

happy with it?

“Why the tears?”

diary, Stella was his shining moment, the highlight of his darkest days.

most vivid chapter of his

put in the work to get him back on top.

the glory days,

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groveling to business associates, doing whatever it took to keep us

was the one downing drinks till was senseless, so wasted! nearly lost

registered with

the heady, fantastical ride Stella offered

it was a reminder of the

to keep alive was his fiery Stella.

he had the chance to

did he miss me now?

bad for me, so much that my recent lack

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