Her heart skipped in a beat, she couldn't move
It felt like her feets were glued to the floor.
“I… I..” Ariel stuttered.
Elias stared at her, contemplating if he had asked the right question. He wanted to take it back, at the same time he wanted to hear the answer.
Ariel glanced at Elias but she didn't stop walking, she didn't look at him. She struggled to find the right words, she wished he had stayed, she wished everything could be different.
The voice in her head screamed and questioned her. Ariel took in a deep breath, “I really can't say. Maybe things would've been different, we might have grown closer or further apart. Who knows?” She sighed heavily. “We just have to understand that things don't always work out the way we expect, life moves forward and we're where we are now.”
She knew her answer wasn't just about his question, it was about her life. No matter how many times she asked and questioned herself; “what if it was all different?” She knew that nothing would go the w
