The Distance Between Us

Chapter Two

Ayla's POV

'It was just a dream. Well more like a bittersweet memory that I haven't thought of in a while. I'm wondering if I dreamt that memory due to getting proposed to yesterday evening.'

I lifted up my left hand and looked at my ring finger. There it was the gold band ring with a square diamond in the middle on my finger staring back at me. 'I can't believe Seth proposed to me after six months of us dating. I'm still in shock. I do love Seth and I could imagine a future with him but I feel like six months of dating is too soon to get engaged let alone get married. It's too sudden I feel like. I just didn't have the heart to reject his proposal especially in front of our friends and family. I will just have to talk to Seth and see if we could just have a long engagement. I hope he will understand my feelings and thoughts about it.' After sitting on my bed talking to myself in my head for a few minutes more. I get up to shower and get ready for my new job I just received.

Today will officially be my first day at my new job. Last week all I did was my orientation and training with the assistant that I am replacing. I still haven't met my boss. He was away on vacation while I was training. I do not even know his full name, his assistant was just referring to him as Mr. Martinez. I hope I give a good impression to my new boss that I get to keep the job because the salary wage is beyond anything I have received before.

I started giggling thinking to myself what if Mr. Martinez is Keiran Martinez, ya that would be one in a million. That would never happen though Keiran just disappeared from the face of the earth after the day of graduation. None of our mutual friends even know what happened to him. His family and him just got up and moved away without a word. I just hope wherever he went, he is happy and well.

As I'm finishing up my makeup to head out I'm trying to push the dream and Keiran in the back of my mind. That dreaded memory that I had buried years ago but I will not let it get to me. It has been 9 years since that day and it's time for me to start a new beginning with my life, my new job, and my now fiance.