Novel & Cerita Past Is Past

The folder held countless emails. I opened them one by one, and each was a draft addressed to Lilith that had never been sent. The most recent was from a month before Isaac proposed to me three years ago. Every line in those emails was filled with the longing and despair of a love that could never be his. "Lilith, you've been abroad for two years. Today I walked past our old favorite dessert shop and bought a slice of your favorite cheesecake. Too bad it wasn't you sitting there."

Unexpectedly, she stopped talking and started cooking some pasta attentively. Caleb liked food with a richer taste. Hence, Layla added some peppers to the pasta. When she served it, she told Caleb to be careful since the pasta was hot. On the other hand, my cold pasta was laid aside and was ignored. I would have gotten jealous in my previous life. But I was not sad when I saw the three of them talking and laughing at the dining table. All I could think of was getting out of there as early as possible. Before I bade Alex goodbye, he told me that the tentative date for going abroad was set for the twentieth of the next month.

And yeah, Chuck helped take them off you, personally. "You two are something else. Grown adults, and you can't even spring for a hotel room—had to hook up in my car? Want me to pull up the dashcam footage and help refresh your memory?"

What was said was in the past. “Maria…” “Casey…”

Is what the elders say true? To live means to suffer and lament. To live is to learn and be happy. To live is to have experiences and create memories that you can take back to heaven with you. There is no such thing as a do-over or a remake. But, what if I make one, will I be labelled a sinner because I have crossed the line of life? What if I cross that line? Will I be having what I have loss in the past if I turned my righteousness to evil deeds?

Ocean eyes. The kind of eyes that reminded me of someone in my past. Someone who had ripped my heart from my chest and crushed it under his boot with pleasure and mirth. The very person who had played with my feelings and destroyed the slightest reputation I had. Someone who stole everything away from me. My heart. My love. My innocence. My family. My friends. My dreams. My entire life.

she laughed at the other end of the call “I guess the saying is right, near-death experiences change people. “Don't act tough with me Mason, it's me your first love. Give me what I want or I will take it forcefully” “Take it forcefully? You are forgetting something, when I bought that company there was a transfer of ownership. It no longer belongs to your dad, using alimony as an excuse to collect it from me won't work.”

Lucas felt a massive headache in his head and the pain gnawing at his heart. The guilt of what happened a few years ago surfaced again in his emotion. Fate has its unique way of toying with people’s feelings. Maybe, in the past, he was too impulsive to rebel against his father’s decision in that manner. Now, he was regretting it all. He was too arrogant in the past, and it unknowingly has become his weakness. It made him judge people without a clear head and looking at things from another person’s perspective.

For his role in aiding theft and committing assault, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Adrien died of sudden cardiac arrest in detention. When I received the news, I felt unexpectedly calm. With love in my life, the weight of the past had gradually begun to fade. Vincent never gave up searching for my biological parents. In return, I did my best to fulfill my role as Mrs. Holt. There was still a long road ahead, but my life would only get better from here on out.

But… that's all we will ever be. I straightened up, not looking back, and walked into the apartment. Behind me, Willow's tearful pleading reached my ears, but I didn't turn around. Some wounds needed time to heal, but some mistakes could never be forgiven.