My tears started flowing out even more. Was this really all I could have done? There were so many other possibilities in my life and yet I ended up with this. I was there, crying my eyes and heart out and he was there, having his hand on top of my head. He wasn't saying anything, just staying there. "Ariadne, I think we could-" I heard a distant Theo's voice. But he stopped in the middle of his sentence when he saw the whole scene. Gentle pats were touching the top of my head. I hid my face in my hands and cried and cried. I wanted to scream how unjust everything was. How I didn't want my life to be like this. How I wanted everything to happen differently. Who knows how much time had passed, but the sky was slowly getting purple and darker when I finally looked up and saw the world aroun

