Leona quietly turned and walked away from them, heading toward the school's back garden.There, an old banyan tree stood, its trunk once carved with Sebastian's name and hers, accompanied by a small heart.It was during their first year of high school when Sebastian had pulled her close, carefully etching their names into the bark with a pocketknife. He said this meant they were carved into each other's lives forever.Now, Leona took out the key she always carried, found the names, and started to scrape them away with force, little by little.Just as she finished scraping and was preparing to leave, Maureen's playful voice and footsteps echoed from behind."Sebastian, come look! I heard that if we carve our names into trees in this grove, our future will be bright! Let's carve our names too, okay?"Leona didn't turn around, but she could imagine Sebastian nodding in agreement.Sure enough, she heard his deep voice. "Okay."Then, she heard the faint scraping sound of a knife aga
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