Garden of Sins

“I won’t let you do this alone.” He looks outside again and his fingers drum gently on the ledge under the window.

My stomach knots up and I start again. “Bro, maybe our paths must part.” When I say it, I feel sick and Caden stares at me in complete shock. “I mean, I’m... I’m a person who loves the shadows and you like the...the sun.”

He listens carefully and the drumming stops. “I have lost my sun,” he replies monotonously. “Besides, they won’t want me without you and they won’t want you without me. They know what we are worth together.” I would do anything to bring Alayna back to him. I tried to call her too, but she blocked me. I can understand that, I really do. It still hurts, seeing him feel like shit because of her. It hurts that he has to go through the same shit I went through. We have both lost our sun and maybe that’s why we only have life in the dark left.

“Are you sure?” I ask quietly and he turns his head sluggishly to me.

“No. But in the next 24 hours, I will be.”

I stare at him for a few seconds and then the traffic light turns green. “Okay,” I say and look ahead again before I press the gas and we start moving.

I’m driving, Isabelle, toward an uncertain future, toward a dark future. Maybe I will be lucky and somehow get my own personal light back. Maybe this is not the end for Caden and me. Maybe this is just the begi

Who knows, princess?