Backstreet Rookie Reviews Novels & Stories

The sea that Ethan had promised to take me to for sixty years was somewhere I never got to see. The waves crashed as they surfed and dove together on their private beach. Fancy restaurants, fireworks, night skies, and sea breeze. Everything he had once promised me was being fulfilled, for someone else. Photos after photos of smiles, hands held together, kisses. My tears fell onto the screen, blurring the last photo—two hands with their fingers intertwined, resting on a marriage certificate. The caption read: "We got our marriage certificate! Heaven knows how much I ugly cried just now. He kissed me with a smile, saying I'm the most beautiful girl in the world."