I’m standing in the middle of the hallway and he’s looking at me with those eyes again. He tells me that he wants to be with me again and I look up at him to meet his ice-blue gaze. There’s nobody in this hallway but us, but I feel kind of … trapped?

            I can’t quite explain the feeling, but all of a sudden, a sense of fierceness, a sort of boldness, washes over me.

            A small sigh comes out of my mouth and I smile up at him. He must’ve thought it worked, but no. I reach up to caress his face and what comes out of my mouth shocks both of us.

            “What makes you think you could ever love me again?”

            And that was it.