Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

59. A surprise

It’s been a month since the whole thing with Ethan happened. Am I okay? Definitely not. Does it

still hurt? Fuck yes. Have I moved on? Absolutely not.

Things haven’t been easy. Every day I find myself drowning further and further in a sea of pain and heartache. I thought I was doing okay when I decided to move on with Ethan. I realize now

that I was probably just lying to myself.

Ethan’s betrayal has drenched up all the other pains I tried burying. All the hurts I tried

forgetting. It was like I was now back to square one. Only thing is that I had a few more new scars

marring my heart and soul.

I go through the days in a fog. Just living numbly. Time and things pass me by because I wasn’t

really living. I am just surviving. Taking each day one at a time.

Everyone seems to have moved on, but I feel like I am just stuck. Stuck in a never ending cycle of

pain and heartbreak. My world right now is dark and cold and I feel all alone.

“Miss Sharp, are you okay?” Mark, one of my students asks me.

Fuck, I hate that name. It serves as a reminded that the people who gave it to me broke me. I

wanted to change it, but I didn’t know which name to take. I didn’t want to take the Howell’s name

given I don’t know that much about them. There is also the fact that I haven’t spoken to them

since that day at my house.

“Yes, I am…focus on the classwork” I reply to him before looking down at the books on my desk.

I loved teaching, but nowadays it has become like a chore. Every day I come to work, I can’t help

but wish the hours would fly by quickly so that I can go home. I wanted solitude but I wasn’t

getting enough of that with Letty and Rowan checking up on me every damn time.

My students have noticed something is wrong. Classes aren’t as fun as they used to be. I wasn’t as

cheery as I was before. I was like a robot. Lifeless. Because of this some of my students have

started skipping class. I just don’t know how to bring back the old Ava.

‘Instead of trying to bring the old you, why don’t you try to create a new version?‘ an internal voice

asks.

Was that even possible? Creating a new version. A version of me that is different from the child,

teen then woman who has been broken too many times to count.

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can answer that question or think too deeply about

class without saying a single word to my

just want to breathe a little before I have to go to my next class Luckily, no one stops me in the hallway. I wasn’t

to anyone

the teacher lounge and freeze up. I was expecting it to be

groan as I walk to the furthest

I sit down. Nora’s name flashes. I’ve ignored their

relationship with Ethan I go

accept button instead

she calls

Just release the breath I

my dear, please don’t shut me out. Don’t shut me and your father out” she whispers

at the

even if I wanted

fucking word.

in your life. I want to be

1. there for you. I already lost

again just after finding you would kill me” she

breaks my heart.

it. I’ve been so

time” I tell her slowly. Trying to push back

releases a breath. “I’ll give you time if that’s what

when I thought you

know that I’ll always be here for you if you

to be wanted, but I don’t know if I can trust them

reply before hanging

What if she’s just

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I’m afraid of. Of being used. Of

Rowan.

them. I was just trying to

pieces of my heart.

walking

groan

highschool teacher and she had a way

stick her nose in other

me in shock. “With the

preggo” she finishes with a

know she was joking, but I freeze in my seat. Her words ring in my mind like

fear through every

behavior and frowns. “Are you okay, Ava? You have to know that I was

right?”

the lounge, I blindly ran through the hallway till I am out of the school. I immediately jump into my car and speed

of the parking lot.

Please don’t let it

back. Try to do the math, but

that I will probably be pulled for over speeding. I needed to

Carol was wrong.

I park my car and rush out. Unluckily for me,