Lahat ng Kabanata ng Application Approved: Officially Done with You: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

Compliments from strangers followed them everywhere. None of these people realized that the perfect couple they were admiring was my boyfriend and my best friend, while I trailed behind them, dragging my luggage like some kind of afterthought.Becca Holloway glanced back at me and gave Nolan Keller a light tap on the shoulder, her tone teasing. "Nolan, slow down a little. Fiona can barely keep up."Nolan stopped, his expression softening. "Come on, give me some of those. They're too heavy for you."Becca looked pleased.It was always like this.The last time I had a 102-degree fever, I called him from a different number. The moment he heard my voice, he cut me off and told me to submit a request first.The time before that, I couldn't take it anymore and stormed into his office to have it out with him. He just took out his hearing aid.In that moment, all the hurt just caught in my throat.It wasn't until Becca called him later and talked him down that he finally bothered to co

A crack of thunder split the air outside. I grabbed the sheets beneath me on instinct, my whole body shaking.At the first rumble, Nolan was already on his feet and heading for the door. "It's storming. Becca doesn't know her way around here. I should go be with her."Just as his hand reached the door, I threw myself at him and buried my face in his chest."Nolan, can you stay with me tonight? Just tonight, that's all I'm asking."Years ago, Dad brought his mistress into our home. Mom jumped from the roof on a night just like this, thunder and pouring rain.I was on my knees in the courtyard, watching her fall right in front of me. The rain was so heavy, but I could still see the red, bright and vivid, spreading across the ground.Nolan's hand froze on the door handle. He rarely saw me like this. Even when we fought, I mostly just swallowed it down and cried quietly."Okay. I'll stay."He looked down and noticed I wasn't wearing slippers, then let out a soft sigh. He slid one h

I thought I'd missed my chance at the Northern Lights for good. But during my layover, I ran into Eli Vance.He was the boy I grew up with, and the one I never got over. He moved away with his family years ago and left me with nothing but a necklace shaped like the aurora. In all the years I'd been with Nolan, I tried to put that part of my life behind me.His eyes landed on my pale face, and worry crept into his expression. "Fiona, are you sick?"It was such a simple question, but it broke something open in me. I couldn't stop crying. He pulled me into his arms, his long coat shielding me from the stares of passing strangers, just like he'd done so many times before.There was a secret I'd kept buried for a long time. The Nolan I first fell for reminded me so much of the boy Eli used to be.Once I'd calmed down, Eli asked quietly, "Do you want to come with me to see the Northern Lights in Linden Cove?"My fingertips trembled. I looked up at him, my mind racing.When we were kid

A chill ran through Nolan's entire body. He hadn't gone with me to see the Northern Lights. So who was the man beside me?It was probably a stranger. That was what he told himself. But the dread gnawing at him was almost more than he could take.He called his friend immediately. "Screenshot every one of Fiona's posts and send them to me."His friend was confused, but Nolan's tone left no room for questions, so he sent everything over at once.Nolan swiped through them one by one, his face darkening with every photo. That same figure appeared in all of them. In one, the man was standing just out of frame, tying my scarf back in place after the wind had blown it loose.His friend messaged again, this time with a screenshot of Becca's feed, filled with the wedding photos. Even Nolan could put it together now. And she'd hidden the post from him.He had his friend take a screenshot of the rest of Becca's feed. It wasn't just this one time. She'd been hiding things from him all along.

The snow came down harder and harder. Nolan was on his knees, digging through it with bare hands, his fingers already raw and red from the cold."It fell right here. How can I not find it?"By morning, he was gone. I assumed he'd given up and left on his own. But the moment I went downstairs, I heard that a man had been found passed out in the snow earlier that morning and rushed to the hospital."Feeling sorry for him?"I met Eli's eyes and shook my head.After that, I thought I'd finally get a few peaceful days. Instead, Becca tracked me down.Her nose was red and her eyes were puffy, like she'd been crying. "Fiona, how could you just leave without telling us? We were so worried about you."I didn't want to deal with her. I turned to walk away, but she grabbed my sleeve."Fiona, there's nothing going on between Nolan and me. Nothing happened. You can't just jump to conclusions like that."She sniffled, putting on the most innocent face I'd ever seen. People around us started