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Once dressed, she stood by the bed and looked down at John asleep on his stomach, his hands to either side of his head He had a beautiful body and she’d spent every night of the past six months underneath it She ached to touch hi he bla She couldn’t speak either lest she wake him So in the temple of her mind, she spoke one silent prayer to hiot a letter that I’ve been accepted to UC So I’ there today You don’t know that No one knows that I wanted to tell you but I know you and you’d find a way to talkYou’d find a way to keep me here It wouldn’t be hard You’d only have to say ‘Stay’ and I would stay That’s why I couldn’t tell you I couldn’t give you the chance to talk me out of this, because you would I don’t know if this helps or makes it worse but you’re the only man who’s ever protected me You need to stay a cop so you can protect other people And someone would have found out about us eventually and you’d never be a cop again I couldn’t live with that, knowing I’d taken you from the life you love So this is the only way I proain There’s two things you should know I love you But I lied"

Daphne turned around, picked up her car keys, walked out the back door and got into her car

She started it, she backed out of the driveway and she drove

She drove to the end of the street and stopped at the stoplight

There was no one else on the road She was alone, all alone

The light turned green

But Daphne didn’t go

She had to go

The light turned red again

Daphne waited If she went back, she could slip into his bed and he’d never know she’d gone

Or she could drive away and start a new life without hireen

"So what happened?" Kyrie asked, flipping over onto her side to face Elle "Does Daphne go back to hiht then? Or does she drive away?"

"That’s for you to decide," Elle said "I left it open-ended What do you think she did when the light turned green again?"

"I don’t know," Kyrie said, sain, she’s only seventeen Can you really find your true love in high school?"

"I thought I did"