From then on, she would live out her days
behind bars.
My body was eventually cremated.
At my grave, Ethan bowed his head, gently
caressing my headstone before pressing a
reverent kiss to it.
“Sarah, you are my fiancée. In this life and the
next, we are husband and wife. Forever.”
His eyes were hollow, but his tone was sweet,
like a groom still in the honeymoon phase.
[Goes to show, love that comes too late is
cheaper than dirt.]
[I think the fiancé is pathetic. Tortured sis over
a misunderstanding, then acts all devoted after
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[I agree. The early comments were crazy, I was
afraid to say anything.]
Jason stood in the memorial hall, looking at my
portrait, drinking and talking to the air.
“I ordered a lot of white roses. I know they’re
your favorite flower. I’ll order them for you
every month from now on, okay?”
“Will Sarah be lonely by herself? Should brother
come down and keep you company?”
No, thank you. If he ever appeared in front of
me again, I’d be so disgusted I’d puke up last
night’s dinner.
Chad locked himself in the basement, a place
filled with our memories.
When he was seven, I gave him a teddy bear I
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made myself. A year ago, he threw it in the
river, calling it a cheap and ridiculous gift.
Yesterday, he jumped into that same river to
find it. It took him a whole day and night, but he finally found it in the mud on the riverbank.
He washed it clean and kissed it as if it were a
priceless treasure.
“Sister, I love you. Since we were kids, you only ever had eyes for Ethan. I just wanted you to
look at me more.”
“But I don’t want anything anymore. I just want you to wake up. It doesn’t matter who you want
to be with. Please, sister…”
A year later, at a monastery, Ethan knelt before
the altar, hands clasped, solemnly announcing
his intention to renounce the world.
“Father, I have sinned. I failed the person I love
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most. I wish only for a life of quiet prayer to
atone, and to pray for my love.”
The abbot shook his head and sighed. “Your
obsession is too strong. But the person in your
heart has already moved on to another world.”
Ethan gave a bitter smile, looking at the photo
of me hanging around his neck.
“That’s fine, too. As long as my Sarah is happy,
that’s all that matters.”
Ethan gave up his entire fortune from the
Crestwood Corporation and announced he
would never appear in public again.
He was insistent on praying for me, so the
abbot gave him a way.
The three thousand steps up the monastery
mountain. If he prostrated himself on every
step, day and night, for fifty years, his wish
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So Ethan really did it. Every single day, through
sun, wind, and rain, he never stopped.
