CHAPTER NINE

Cameron had stayed with me longer than I expected. We went home and talked about our time in school, but we did not notice how much time flew by. I was grateful for his visit, even if at first I had dreaded it.

But seeing a familiar face again after so long reminded me of my own existence. Once, I had a past that was not strewn with suffering.

I had been a bit disappointed when Cameron announced that he should be leaving. It was almost as though I did not want the day to come to an end. Cameron had not judged me, not one. He had sympathised with me, and that was all. He had not thought me weak or hinted at my foolishness when I told him about how I gave everything up for love.

Instead, he had called it the circle of life. Explaining that most people did worse things for the sake of love and only realised later how much they'd given up.

“But that is how life is.” He had said: “We made mistakes so that we can learn from them and do better when presented with such a situation again.