Her hometown was 1,100 kilomiles away with no direct train, Sophia would need multiple connections to get there.
After booking the tickets, she made two calls.
First, her aunt back home: “Dad and I’ll be there day after tomorrow. Can you pick us up?”
Then the lawyer she trusted: “Remember what we discussed. The will.”
Afraid she’d forget, she started to tape photos of herself and Dad inside her jacket with contact numbers written on
the back.
Then she packed everything she owned into one small suitcase. Five years of marriage, and this was all she had.
She sat by the luggage for a long time.
At 4 AM, she printed screenshots of Summer’s posts and left them on Nathan’s desk with the divorce papers.
The clock hit 5 AM.
She wheeled her suitcase to the door and took one last look at the house.
Jnder the dim streetlights, she got in the waiting cab.
feading to the nursing home, she watched the city blur past and suddenly asked the driver: “Can we stop at
Rosewood Estates first?”
That’s where Lucas had bought Lily a house.
No problem.”
An hour later, they pulled up outside the estate.
Sophia stayed in the car without getting out. Through the gate, she could see lights blazing inside, rose petals covering the driveway.
At that time, the front door opened. Lucas and Lily stepped out, fingers intertwined, walking through their perfect garden.
‘Girl, jerk man’s not worth the tears,” the driver said gently.
‘He’s not a jerk,” Sophia whispered. “I am.”
Hearing this, the driver glanced in the mirror and went quiet.
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Sophia watched Lucas and Lily standing side by side, afraid she might forget this moment. She took out her phone and captured a photo of their silhouettes.
Through her tears, she could almost see herself beside Lucas instead of Lily.
“Let’s go.”
As the car continued toward the nursing home, Sophia kept staring at the photo, tracing Lucas’s outline with her finger.
she couldn’t take it anymore.
she texted him:
Sorry, I can’t make it to your wedding. I’m married now, and I can’t let my husband think I still have feelings for
omeone else.]
fter sending it, she deleted everyone–Lucas, Nathan, Lily, Summer from her contacts.
he car arrived at the nursing home, then she collected Dad and they headed to the station.
efore boarding, Sophia opened her private blog to document her final day in the city.
December 16th, 2024. Sunny.
ad and I are leaving the city today.
ying goodbye to the two most important men in my life – Nathan, my husband who I used to love deeply, and
ucas, the man I love now.
seemed that I’ve always spent my whole life loving the wrong people at the wrong time.
athan and I grew up together. Everyone thought he was crazy about me. But I knew he only loved Summer.
n my 18th birthday, I even once followed him to that hotel and watched him confess to Summer in front of our
tire school.
it I waited outside for him all night.
I never been jealous of anyone before until Summer. So I did something pathetic stalked her social media for a
ar under a fake name.
en I met Lucas. With him, I finally forgot that Nathan didn’t love me.
icas was the second man I loved, the second man I wanted to marry. But when I loved him most, my family went inkrupt. I had to abort our baby and marry Nathan.
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Between the five years married to Nathan–1,879 days, he brought home over 1,800 women who looked like
Summer.
Now Summer’s back for real. Time to give him what he’s always wanted.”
Typing and deleting, Sophia wasn’t sure what she was writing anymore. She just wanted to record everything while she still remembered.
*Now Lucas is getting married too. Both men I loved found their soulmates. Time for me to go.
Dad and I are going somewhere beautiful, and we’ll never see them again.”
She hit publish, not realizing she’d forgotten to make it private, which causing her post went live directly under the account “Mrs. Sterling“.
In that moment, people all over the world saw what she had posted.
Meanwhile, as the announcement echoed through the station, Sophia took one last look at the city skyline.
‘Let’s go, Dad?”
“Fine.”
Under the winter sun, a thin figure helped an elderly man onto the train. They disappeared from the city forever…
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