48. A Sad Love Story
Ryan
"Could you stop staring at her?" Blake pulls on my arm, noticing how my eyes follow Michelle.
Her transformation is evident. Every day she looks more radiant, more confident. But she's still the same Michelle I met years ago. The sweet girl who bumped into me that first time. The tender young woman who gave me her first kiss... and much more.
"What bothers you, Blake? I'm not talking to her." I respond indifferently.
She huffs, annoyed. I know she still hasn't forgiven me for not letting her get close to Michelle and Candace when they were rebuilding their mother-daughter bond. Now she's in a bad mood, as if it affected her.
The day after the settlement, when the house fell silent, I understood what I had refused to accept for so long: trying to hold onto my
