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.

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

in the bamboo forest. Then, Ethan kissed me and

in the spot where we had buried the box. After five minutes, sweat was pouring down his face, and his hands were filthy with dirt. He looked up at me with a deep sadness in his eyes.

my chin. “Maybe you’re looking in

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make me magically get back together with you. We’re over.” I paused and waited a moment so that my words hopefully sunk

to believe the truth. He looked pitiful sitting there on his knees, his white shirt

I told Gai and Alexander as I turned around. “We’re done

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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

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

obeying the fifteen mile per hour speed limit that was posted all over the school’s parking lot. “No

stepped on the

bouncing, and

pulled right in front of their car,