“Hi, has it been a long time? Or maybe it's only been a short while, and I’m the only one who feels that way, as if ages have passed. I suddenly miss you. Can we meet? I think we’ll have a lot of interesting conversations tonight. I’ll be waiting at the place where we first met tonight. That is… if you still remember it.
—From Arsene, your lover. Or maybe, to be more accurate now, your ex-lover. Right?”
Raellyn stared at the lines of text she had just received on her phone. From a number that, not too long ago, seemed so beautiful. once memorized by heart, once kept close like a secret song that never failed to lift her spirits.
A number she used to wait on for hours, days, weeks. The same number that now brought a strange bitterness to her mouth. One she used to long to see light up he
