To Love Until the End
When the lights came on at the end of the graduation party, the spotlight suddenly shifted and froze on a young couple kissing passionately at the back of the auditorium.
The young man held up a bouquet of roses and shouted to the crowd, “Sophie, be my girlfriend!”
The moment the girl covered her face and nodded, the cheers in the hall nearly lifted the roof.
Amid the thunderous applause, my hand trembled around my phone. The screen still showed the message he had sent half an hour earlier.
Rowan: [Wait for me. I’ll come to you right away.]
After the party, I took off the couple’s bracelet from my wrist and threw it into the gutter, along with four years of love.