Ten Years Wasted Before Spring Chapter 09
Not long after, Brynn came to the hospital too.
It was the first time we’d seen each other since everything fell apart.
She had lost weight. Her face was pale. The old brightness
was gone.
“Celia,” she said, wanting to speak and not knowing how.
I nodded. That was all the greeting I could give.
“I want to talk to you.” She followed me. “Can we talk?”
We sat across from each other in silence.
Once, we had been the closest people in each other’s lives.
Now we were strangers.
“I’m sorry,” she said at last. “I know it’s useless now, but I really regret it.”
Looking at her, I suddenly remembered the ten-year-old girl who had handed me a friendship bracelet.
“Brynn, do you remember what we promised when we were ten?”
She froze. Tears rose in her eyes.
“Yes. We said we’d be best friends forever. We’d never
leave each other.”
“Forever.” I laughed softly. “But you let go first.”
She choked on the words. “I don’t know how things got so out of hand. I just couldn’t control how I felt.”
“Your feelings?”
I almost laughed.
“Your feelings for Everett mattered more than twenty years of friendship?”
She had no answer.
“Do you know what hurt the most? It wasn’t just the betrayal.”
I looked at her.
“It was that the two of you actively conspired to play me
for a fool.”
“While I was happily preparing for my wedding, you were taking a goodbye trip with him.”
“While I trusted both of you, you were laughing at how/
naive I was.”
Brynn broke down sobbing.
“I’m sorry. I really know I was wrong. Can we go back?”
I shook my head.
“No, Brynn.”
“The moment you made that first post, you burned this bridge permanently.”
I posted all the evidence online.
My engagement photos with Everett. Graduation pictures. Photos of the three of us together.
The timeline was clear.
The truth came out.
The internet turned on her immediately.
Brynn went from a sympathetic girl fighting for true love to the homewrecker everyone condemned.
Her brand deals were canceled. Partnerships disappeared.
Everett was pressured to resign after the online backlash started affecting the firm’s reputation.
I heard things went badly for them after that.
But none of it had anything to do with me anymore.
