Bittersweet Always
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She winced. “Ouch, that’s pretty brutal. What did you do?”
“I got angry. I didn’t want us to end, to just fade away by loss of interest and distance. I changed my number and decided that if I was so easy to forget about, I’d make it harder for him to find me when he finally felt like it. It didn’t take long for me to regret it, though.”
Sympathy leeched from Pippa’s creamy face, the softness in her eyes, and I absorbed it, choking up a little as I remembered those dark days. “It was changing me. I was … I don’t get too sad or down. That’s not me. But I didn’t know what was happening to me. So I agreed with my parents, with my friend Alexis back home who I still spoke to sometimes, and cut him loose.”
“And what, you think he still decided to attend college here?”
That was the terrifying part. What if he didn’t? Then he didn’t. I’d have to get over it once and for all. I couldn’t believe that, though. “We made a promise. And I promised myself that if I crawled out of my funk and remained the girl he once said he loved, then it’d be okay.” I laughed humorlessly. “Sounds so cheesy and dumb, doesn’t it? Who does that?”
Voices traveled out in the hall, doors slamming as we both absorbed the quiet notes of uncertainty that lay ahead. New lives, new beginnings, and a chance to rekindle old flames or find new ones.
“A brave girl who gave her heart away to someone she felt worthy of it. That’s who does it,” Pippa finally said.
A tear snaked its way down my cheek as I smiled at her and repeated her earlier words. “You and me, we’re going to be friends.”
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Ella Fields is a mother and wife who lives in Australia.
While her kids are in school, you might find her talking about her characters and books to her cat. She’s a notorious chocolate and notebook hoarder who enjoys creating hard-won happily ever afters.
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