Love and Chaos

il he walked through the college quad

be

to her neck under the stars. Now he wore designer clothes, drove a silver Audi, an

not

't speak her name. Didn't e

ke she di

he library steps, her heart didn't break-it burned. Like fi

. Why he came back. Why he changed his

n came

art building, tears still wet on her ch

r, his voice low, ste

aid n

ndon added, "that he came back... or

like a ghost. Like the p

he'd ever let herself notice before. "The pas

Exhaled.

you, A

eath c

way you looked at empty doors like you expected him to walk through. I didn't say anything beca

er, his finger

ooses you. Every day. Witho

d in her chest, confu

ks pink, breathless from running. "Brandon, y

giving Almira one last

ft, Rosa

ked at Brandon. Longing. Hope. The

be

elt like betraya

ra spotted Brandon again-but this time, sitt

her, that's when Kron, the tall, soft-eyed guy

neck. "I know it's random, but... would you want to

stared,

ike everything wa

on...

and no

ne across the room, arms folded, his eye

her. He just wo

-

in Albert

, crumpled, but still alive: Almira's smile, fifteen

wall once, hard

ry," he

voice echoe

t where it belongs. No daughter of a single mot

ised obedience. Promis

cut off everyone. But he

't a mistake. It

o stay away from her. To build a new v

watching Brandon get cl

, he said

him, had always

-

Almira's

ring into the campus light

offerin

fering s

ng nothing... but

one who left you empty, but

n't know t

g had changed. And she wasn