Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Ethan nodded as though he had expected me to say that. "I won't take your time," he said. "If anything, you can just call me."

And with that, he turned and left, his silhouette fading into the distance.

I hastily stuffed the name card into my pocket as if I was allergic to it and was afraid that others would see it.

"Gosh! Am I dreaming?" Lianne mumbled with an astonished look on her face. "Mr. Grayson wants to collaborate with you? That's simply unbelievable!"

I didn't share her exuberance, though. Somehow, I felt as though everything was in Ethan's grasp.

It was as if he was trying to lure me into his trap and that he was carefully planning his every move so that I would fall right back into his world.

I couldn't stop worrying about how uncertain the future may be, and my thoughts weighed on me, making me feel suffocated.

"Let's head back. We don't want others seeing us here," said Kevin, pulling me back from my thoughts.

Lianne grabbed my arm. "Right. We'll talk about it later."

let the two of them drag me away with

to the dorm, I still couldn't snap out of the shock of meeting Ethan just now. I seemed so zoned-out and listless that

started to worry. "Are

I smiled wryly. "I just... don't know what to do. He suddenly showed up, and his suggestion for a collaboration... It's just

opportunity is hard to come by! It's not necessarily a bad thing,

this

him now that he suddenly took the initiative to be kind

us, and there was an uncrossable chasm between us. I was scared of making the same

you're worried," she told me. "Rather than overthinking, you should just talk to him and ask him about

the same page. "Go see him and find out what he's trying to do. Isn't that better than overthinking? You have the right to refuse if he

added, "You

to say first. You can also tell him where you stand so that you won't give him false hope. Isn't that what you had

it some thought, I decided that it was a reasonable idea. I couldn't just avoid him until the end of time, so I might as

I said through gritted teeth. My mind was made up. "I'll see him. I'll take it as a

Kevin and Lianne stopped persuading me. They simply told me to