She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

Scarlett's POV

I stop, but I don't know how to turn around.

For a long moment I pause there, and for a long moment, he waits patiently behind me.

How great it would be, if he had asked me this question at ANY POINT in our marriage? If he had doubted Ava just a little bit in the long time window when I kept hope, I would have jumped to tell him the truth. If I had even a shred of confidence that he would have believed me, I would have.

But now...

I turn around, only to find him standing on the green grass when I'm already off on the cold blacktop. A hard line between us, like the five years that we can leap over. He looks at me with too complicated a look that I can't quite read. In his eyes are hope, struggle, hesitation, and...fear.

Fear of what? Of me being the girl he saved? Or not?

"The question is..." I take a deep breath just so I can look into his eyes, "Do you WANT me to be?"

care of Ava ONLY because of that girl, or was your love for her also because of who she was? For ten years she has been a mean girl but you could never see that. Just like how for

don't see how such a strong love could only come out of a glance of one day, but

the sky. I maintain my smile as I count the seconds, giving myself a time limit as I wait for

that girl more than you loved Ava, if you choose me over Ava

are right," In the end,

pulls our shadows so long that it reaches into the darkness in the corner where the sun can't shine on, Sebastian lets out a

and the truth

doesn't matter now."

them, smiling at the sky. The story of my first love ends here, but, for what it's worth, it has

open my eyes as I flinch, but Sebastian locks my waist in his arm as

accept the kiss. It ended anyway, so why

ten years ago deserves this kiss, and so does the boy who

for air," protected her for that, yes! I took care of her for that, because saw the desperation in her eyes for her own home that day, and I wanted to keep her eyes clean

what? My oxygen brain is not able