REGRETS.

“Are you speaking about brotherly love, Carmine?”

“No.” He shook his head. “This is Gérard we are talking about, he doesn’t have such feelings for you, we both know for sure that you are his first love and he’s deeply in love with you.’

His words melted my heart.

I smiled, and then it hit me. ‘What am I going to do, Carmine? Does this mean I can never be with him?’ He dropped his hands and put them at their sides.

“I don’t know how to answer that. I know it’s hard, but the only thing I can tell you is that you should forget about him for the rest of your life and move on.”

My frightened eyes widened. “Move on.’ I whispered.

It was as if a bucket of iced water was poured on me.

Wasn’t he the one encouraging me a while ago? Carmine gazed at me sadly? “Life is such a cruel place, isn’t it, Oceana?”

He left.

That’s it. I ran after him and Carmine ignored me and said no word.

It devastated me.

I should move on. That’s what Carmine said to me. He wants me to move on. How dare he p