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It becaed, but he hadn’t And ed us at that point, but it would as tiressed Our love would be a shell of what it once was, and to ruin what our love was at its pinnacle felt like the worst criood memories with the bad I didn’t want to destroy et ere even in love No, the rational thought at that point was to preserve e did have

I need help He deserves better

So inree, and this horrible cycle would repeat itself, and that nightmare of destroyed love would turn into a reality

No You have to just do it Do it now before it’s too late Before he changes your mind Remember the pain you feel now forever and let it re to do this Because you’ve destroyed hihest of you Let hiood s felt like lead when I stood, butdirected its orders I packed a suitcase and filled it up with asfrom the top and I had to press down on it as I zipped it closed I grabbed ht stand and paused at the framed photo of Jaxon and me It was a close up of us, shoulder to shoulder, and I was s at me with a small srabbed it and stuffed it inside, and then I grabbed two other frames around the apart in front of the Christed These were good tiood memories This was before I tainted us

I hovered at the front door of the apart onto the suitcase with one hand, and the phone with the other I looked down at the phone, half te him to coht to blow off soain A teardrop fell fronited the scorching pain of what I was going to do in the next e of panic, I looked down at the phone and slowly rested it on the kitchen counter After another h with one thought only: Jaxon deserves better, and he will find better

I opened the door "I’m sorry," I cried, as if the walls could hear and reiterate it to Jaxon when he calance back, I walked out

PART TWO: A Change in the Air

Ten

Five years later…

Sometimes I dreath dirty blonde hair blowing in the wind, and the sive life back to a mummy; I would see myself cradled in his ar me I was beautiful, perfect, but most i down my face, and remembered the awful reality: Jaxon wasn’t here

I sat up in bed and looked over at the clock onfor the last teeks at around this tio back to sleep, I’d find I couldn’t Being in bed alone and cold s, s, really

But I wasn’t alone this earlynext toa safe distance away I didn’t cuddle, and he respected that I h cheekbones, black ruffled hair