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.

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 a twenty–five cent blue plastic ring that he got from a toy dispenser at the

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

at me with a deep sadness in his eyes. “I can’t find it,”

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

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magically get back together with you. We’re over.” I paused and waited a moment so that my words hopefully sunk in. “We are never getting back together. You need

head, refusing to believe the truth. He looked pitiful sitting

I told Gai and Alexander as I turned around.

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the bamboo forest, Alexander picked her up and carried her. He didn’t want Ethan to catch up to them. That crazy man could find his own way home. Olivia didn’t even protest but snuggled closer into Alexander’s warm chest. She wanted to get away

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.

who was obeying the fifteen mile per hour speed limit that was

stepped

was pressed against her seat. Her leg was bouncing, and she looked at Alexander, trying to get some reassurance that everything was going

contact with him, a car pulled right in front of