Five Years Together… And He Gave the Ring to My Old Bully Chapter 03

Five Years Together… And He Gave the Ring to My Old Bully Chapter 03

Alex and I grew up across the hall from each other.

Ever since we were kids, we’d planned on going to Kingsley University together.

Throughout high school, aside from the students on the competition track, we consistently ranked in the top three.

Every teacher told us getting into Kingsley would be easy.

Then Alex bombed the SATs. He missed the cutoff.

I thought the terrible flu he’d caught right before the test had ruined his performance.

I even thought about changing my application just to stay with him.

But Alex refused. “I can’t let you give up your future for me.”

“There are plenty of great schools besides Kingsley.”

“You go to Kingsley. Chase the dream I couldn’t reach for both of us, okay?”

I took his advice. I went to Kingsley University. He barely made it into Caldwell University.

Those eighteen points became an unbridgeable chasm, splitting us between the north and the south.

Every time we said goodbye at the end of a break, he’d make the same promise.

“Just few years. I’ll get into Kingsley for grad school.”

“And when we graduate, we’ll get married. Deal?”

Only now, the proposal had come first. Just not to me.

“Then what are you gonna do about Clara?”

Alex exhaled a slow stream of smoke.

“I’ll marry Clara.”

“She almost got her face scarred for life because of me. I owe her that much.”

“Honestly, she’s exactly the kind of girl my mom always hoped I’d end up with.”

He paused. “As for Savannah…”

A faint smile crossed his face.

“We’re soulmates. We don’t need a piece of paper or some traditional label to prove what we are.”

I wanted to cry. But nothing came. Not a single tear.

Until then, I always thought history mattered more and that no one new could take the place of someone who had been there from the beginning.

I thought what Alex and I had was enough to survive anything.

I never knew he’d crossed the line long ago, where I couldn’t see.

I should’ve walked out and confronted him. But my feet felt like they weighed a ton. I couldn’t move.

When I finally made it back outside, Megan was still arguing with the staff, trying to force her way in.

One of the servers sighed. “I follow Mr. Thorne and his girlfriend’s couple account. I see their posts all the time.”

“They really are in love. He’s not the guy you’re making him out to be.”