A Fresh Start 소설 & 이야기

We were finally committing to something we'd talked about in passing, my hair. He would cut it for me, not chunks of hair, just a bit, enough to notice notice. I wanted to enter the new year with my new hair. To approach the year with a fresh and new look. Cutting my hair is like a symbol of newness and beginning again. It's like starting afresh. And Roman, wanted to do this for me. " Close your eyes for me." He says. I close my eyes, feeling slightly nervous. " Are you ready?" " Hmm." I nod.

Nothing good ever happens to me. I take some deep breaths and I put my shoes on. I opened the door and the scent hits me again. I give a couple of steps and I stop in front of her door taking in her smell. I shake my head telling myself this can’t happen and I walk downstairs towards outside. There’s a big tent in the back garden of the house and I can hear people talking. The noise is defining. The pack was sent to only had the elders unmarked. I never got to mark Emily. A year appears on the corner of my eye and I shake all those thoughts away from my head as I walk inside the tent.

Not like a flight or anything by the way, it was just time for us to return to the pack and start our life afresh as the Pack's leaders. Kiara turned and I could see the mark on her neck, my mark. There for all to see and know that she was mine. I tapped her lightly to wake her up and she groaned in protest. Note to self: She's not a morning person. I shook her over and over again until she finally answered. “What!?” She asked groggily. “It's time to get up, sleepyhead.” I replied her. “Why?” “Because we have one hour to get ready and back to the pack in time for your inauguration.”

He started speaking politely. "Cut the chase and come straight to the point Ficco." Adriano stated. "Umm, Adriano I want to be your business partner again." They started their discussion. "Years ago it was you who denied to do business with me and now it's my time. Explain why should I be interested in this anymore." Both of them started their business talks that I have zero percent interest in. For the whole time that the conversation went on, Arora kept staring at Adriano, I could see the heart emojis in her eyes.

"You're trying to make a clean break, a fresh start. I get it." "Yeah," I nodded, "and sometimes the best way to make a fresh start is to decide what you're not going to carry forward with you." The air between us seemed to clear, like a mist dissipating to reveal the path ahead. We were all stepping into a new chapter, some more willingly than others, and the weight of our old lives was something we would have to decide whether to bear or leave behind.

*********** Six years later. The years have passed like a day and days like hours and hours like minutes and her son is all grown up now, a very mischievous little man. Aileen was on her way to pick him up from school, she received a call that he got into a fight again. She had never thought raising a child was hard until when she started to raise her own, that little man is very stubborn and mischievous like a certain someone from the past. Suddenly her phone rang, she picked it up and put it on speaker since she was driving "Hello, who is this?" It was an unknown number. "Hello, I'm an agent from Capital A gaming company, excuse me, am I talking to Mrs Fletchers?" Said the man over the pho

“Good.” Ethan felt something inside him loosen, the tight grip of guilt and fear unraveling just a little. He squeezed her hand. “Then… what do you say we start over?” Hannah raised an eyebrow. “Start over?” A slow, hopeful smile tugged at his lips. “Let’s renew our vows.” Hannah blinked, caught off guard. “Ethan—” “A fresh start,” he said quickly before she could object. “Just you and me. A promise to each other, without all the secrets, without everything weighing us down.”

A fresh start. “Paris, huh?” I murmured, staring out the window. Alex’s voice was calm but firm. “A fresh start.” I nodded, still gripping the tickets tightly. “Yeah, a fresh start.” Silence filled the car for a while. I thought about everything I had left behind – my old life, my broken marriage, all the pain that had followed me like a shadow. Maybe this was what I needed. Maybe going to Paris would help me heal. But there was still a tiny part of me that felt scared.

“It would mean pulling up my whole life overnight to move somewhere I barely know. Away from everyone. Away from you.” Even just saying so out loud makes my throat tighten with uncertainty. The very notion rattles me. I’ve never not had Chloe and Leah by my side. Chloe nods slowly, clearly trying to be delicate. “Look, I understand your hesitation. But maybe doing something totally new and different could wind up being really fulfilling too, you know?” She offers an encouraging smile. “A fresh start.” I know inherently what she’s implying. My failed relationship with Karl has left me at loose ends.

The chains of the past had been broken, and for the first time, my future was my own. --- A New Beginning The morning sunlight filtered through my curtains, casting a warm glow over my room. It felt surreal to wake up without the weight of secrets and lies pressing down on me. “Lila!” Sophie’s voice called from the hallway, accompanied by the sound of her footsteps. She burst into my room, her energy infectious. “Come on! We’re going out for brunch, and you’re not bailing this time.” I groaned, but her enthusiasm was hard to resist. “Alright, alright. Give me ten minutes.”