Competitors In Love.

For a couple of minutes, the two stay quiet and distant in the room, especially Mark who secluded himself from his loneliness, covering his ears, he remains still.

"You never really loved me did you?" He questions Leia who stays quiet.b

His answer would determine his next move, however, she's as confused as can be about what to respond with.

Did she love him?

"Once upon a time, when I didn't know better," she replies, instantly plunging a dagger to his heart.

Mark scoffs, he's unsure of what to make of the situation or what to address himself as.

A fool? Or someone who's been blinded by something he would never have.

"Was it a crime, to want something?" He asks her with teary eyes.

Her heart is pained by the pain she was inflicting on him, but she knows too well to leave him with false hope. The two of them were simply never meant to be.

She couldn't possibly deny that.

Still... If she were Mark, she would also be this hurt to know that the one thing she wanted to have, didn