While he was there, he reached out to me. He made a strange request, he wanted me to help with his inheritance notarization. In case anything happened to him, he wanted me to get everything.
I turned him down without a second thought. I didn’t want or need his inheritance.
Then, one night, his voice came through the phone, low and regretful.
“Yara, I really regret not accepting your feelings back then… choosing Melissa for business instead.”
I couldn’t help but laugh, though it was more bitter than anything. “But I never confessed to you. I never planned to.”
He’d seen my diary, sure, but I never had any grand intentions to confess to him. I just wanted to have my crush in silence, to quietly let it be. But I ended up paying the price for that youthful infatuation.
Orion was quiet on the other end.
Before he could say another word, I hung up and blocked his number.
That was it. Our final goodbye. Any feelings we had for each other had long since been washed away with time. There was nothing left to salvage.
The next time we’d meet, it’d probably be at his funeral.
As for me? My future is still wide open.
