Watch Me Win, Alpha

We walked for about ten minutes. Soon, my ankle was protesting with pain, and sweat was beading down my forehead.

“Are we almost there?” Alexander asked and glanced anxiously at me.

“Yes,” I answered before Ethan could. “We are.”

A few moments later, the bamboo ended, and we stopped at a small grass clearing.

Alexander squinted and gazed around. “There’s nothing here,” he said.

“Yes, there is,” Ethan said and walked past us, heading to the middle of the clearing.

Alexander moved to follow him, but I grabbed his hand. I ignored the electric pulse that went down my arm from the contact.

“Let him do this on his own,” I muttered. “He has to.”

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Ethan dropped to his knees and began to dig in the ground. Gai and Alexander shared a look, probably wondering if Ethan had finally gone off the deep end and was now truly crazy.

But I knew what he was looking for.

year of college, on the night that we first said we loved each other, Ethan gathered items that were special to us. The movie ticket stub from our first date, the stuffed animal he won me at the fair in tenth grade, and

bamboo forest. Then, Ethan kissed me and promised me that we would come back here and dig up

five minutes, sweat was pouring down his face, and his hands were filthy with dirt. He looked up at me with a

I didn’t,” I said and raised my chin. “Maybe you’re looking in the

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that my words hopefully

to believe the truth.

told Gai and Alexander as I

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catch up to them. That crazy man could find his own way home. Olivia didn’t even protest

it to the car, Alexander still took care to gently lower Olivia into the passenger seat. After putting the crutches in the trunk, Alexander dove into the backseat and yelled at Gai to drive. His head whipped around, his eyes searching for Ethan in the dark night. He wasn’t worried about himself, but he didn’t want Ethan to try to harm Olivia. His hands curled into fists at just the thought of him laying a hand on her. He didn’t know if he would be able to stop himself

mile per hour speed limit

and stepped

was bouncing, and she looked at Alexander, trying to get some reassurance that everything

before she could make eye contact with him, a car pulled right