Novel & Cerita Yesterday's Promise

I'd jumped up to give him a big hug, giggling in his ear: "Meeting you was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me." He'd hugged me back so tight I could barely breathe. "Meeting you was my blessing. I promise I'll make lots of money in the future and make you the happiest person alive!" Now I walked aimlessly through the snow, thinking how ridiculous those sweet memories and promises seemed. He had plenty of money now, but instead of keeping his promise, he'd transferred all that affection to his mistress.

Elion rinsed the soap from Cale’s shoulders. "Write your vows about the present," Elion suggested. "Don't promise fifty years. Promise tomorrow. Promise Tuesday." "Tuesday," Cale repeated. "The day the flower blooms." "Exactly. Promise me Tuesday." Cale looked at him. The steam from the bath softened the lines of pain on his face. "I can do that," Cale said. "I can promise Tuesday." "Good. That's a start." "Elion?" "Yeah?" "What will you promise?"

During the dream schools exercise, I expected him to list Araros, but instead, he matched my choice of Nyxifall. I was shocked. "What about Araros?" He slumped over his desk. "Nah, it's overrated. Nyxifall sounds solid." ... Three days before the exams, he ripped up his slip. When I probed, he stayed silent. That night, I learned the truth: Pierre Wiley's wife and son had both perished in a car crash, and he was summoning Mamie and Ted back. Pierre finally paid attention to his one remaining heir, offering legitimacy and inheritance if Ted stayed in Eldonfield.

Burying my face in my arm, I closed my eyes and let the tears fall. “Let me help. Let me do something…please…” I shook my head. “Lo único que puedes hacer por mí es dejarme ir.” [The only thing you can do for me is to let me go.] His hand froze on my back, and I could feel it clench slightly. “No sé si puedo prometer eso.” [I don’t know if I can promise that.] Smiling and chuckling this time, I lifted my head up and looked back at the dancers twirling to the music.“No cumples las promesas de todos modos.” [You don’t keep promises anyways.]

"Uh.. I'll not be coming over this weekend, I'm sorry" "What!" "We're about to sign a deal with huge investors and I have to meet with Nick on Saturday" "But you promised" I whine "Aw baby! I'm sorry, I'll make it up okay, next weekend, I promise" "Another promise?" "I'll be there next weekend. I can't wait to feel your body on me Lee, thanks for yesterday" The thought of yesterday makes my whole face turn red. Yesterday was- "Did you just moan Lee?" Did I? "Uh.."

Layla heard what he said clearly. “What did you just say?” Layla blurted out. She already had enough of matters to think and the guy whom she thought would help her ease her headache was now speaking thing she couldn’t understand, making her head feel even worse. “I heard you mumbling something about a promise I made before. I don’t know who you are, and I just met you yesterday, in case you forget about it. However, talking something like this…as if you have known me… It feels strange,” she continued.

"A promise." In the back of his mind, the Utterance stirred with recognition. A promise. Of course. The Hungry consume possibility. Futures. Tomorrows. But a promise is a future that has been committed but not yet delivered. It exists in a state of permanent potential. It can never be fully consumed because it is always becoming. "Exactly," Jack said. "Ben, you listening?" "I am filing a one-thousand-and-forty-one-trillion-credit counter-suit while simultaneously restructuring our planetary defense budget and trying not to have a stress-induced cardiac event. But yes, I am listening."

This was quiet and level and aimed straight at me. "Kade—" "Not asking you to say it back." He got there before I did. "Not here to make your life harder than it already is. I'm here because I made you a promise two years ago and I keep my promises. Twenty-three days. Then you walk out those gates and don't look back, and I'll be standing there." My eyes stung. I blinked hard and refused to let it go any further than that. "And until then?"

“What’s in it for me?” “Anything you want. Just name your price and you’ll have it, I promise.” This time I couldn’t hide the surprise. My jaw dropped an inch. I ran my tongue over my dry lips, savoring those two loaded words. I promise. “Do you remember what happened the last time you promised me something? Because I do.” I’m going to get my dad. It’ll be okay. Everything will be okay, Lilac. I promise. He stepped towards me, his hands fisted at his sides. “Lilac, I—”

Yuna patted her back and continued, “I know you’re scared, but after you get to your new home, you won’t have to worry about anyone hurting you. Would it make you feel better if I promised?” Yuna stuck a pinky out in front of her. Sun was confused, she hadn’t socialized very much with others and didn’t know what a pinky promise was. Yuna hooked her pinky onto Sun’s pinky and said, “This is called a pinky promise. People hook their pinky’s like this to mark that they will never break the promise.” Sun had a tough shell, and she wasn’t easily swayed by Yuna’s promise.