Forever Mine: Hayden & Savannah (Roommate Duet, #0.5)

by Kennedy Fox

I knew when we were thirteen that she was the woman I wanted to marry. The thought makes me laugh now, considering she’s thousands of miles away, and I haven’t seen her in ten years.

I notice Savannah’s still looking at me. But instead of seeing lust or our old chemistry in her gaze, it’s full of bitterness and anger. I decide right then that I’ll do anything to get her alone because we have a lot to talk about.

For years, I thought about what it’d be like to see him again, but this feels like something from my worst nightmares, especially since he’s with that witch. I wish a house would fall on her and the Munchkins would come out to celebrate with me.

People say time and distance help through a breakup, but the way I loved Hayden was different. It was fierce and beautiful, and I chose to let him go. Nothing or no one has ever been able to fill that void in my heart. It’s a shallow grave of where our love once lived. It’s always been reserved for him, and I’m sure it’ll always be there.

Sometimes, regardless of how many years have passed, it’s better to be truthful than to keep harboring it all.

The way she feels pressed against me. The softness of her skin. The smell of her hair. It’s as if no time had passed at all. It’s as if she didn’t break up with me over the phone and shatter my entire life. It’s as if I haven’t spent the past ten years wondering what-if.

“It was all a lie,” are her last words before she finally passes out.

“I knew lying to him would eventually catch up to me, but this is so fucking cruel.”