Chapter 7

“Give me back my passport.”

“We’re already over.”

“Where I go next is none of your concern, Pax.”

I turned off my phone, the pale glow fading into the darkness.

Silence settled around me, thick and unshakable.

Pax knew I had never left the country before.

Knew I had never even considered applying for a passport.

Yet here I was.

At the beginning of the year, he had mentioned it so casually, like it was just another passing thought.

“I heard the first snowfall in Norway is breathtaking

“You should get your passport sorted. We should go together sometime.”

Back then, I had laughed, brushing him off.

“We should save money first.”

We had never traveled together.

Never even made real plans.

Not for him.

For myself.

a future I never told him

phone vibrated again–a voice message.

edged with

said we

scoff. A short, incredulous laugh.

I say we were

confidence was

confidence was ma

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Chapter 7

to leave me, but do you really have to

trip. You even went and got your passport,

me.”

are you still pretending?”

the words sit there,

he still thought

Not him.

years we had spent together.

he thought I would hold on, that I’d forgive, that I’d let this become just another

he thought I’d still

Then–another message.

his frustration giving way

wanted to be honest with you?”

what I wanted to tell you.”

-The lies.

The deception.

to be one of us

Nina came back early, and everything got…

A pause.

A sigh

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