She looked at the man in front of her, completely stunned.
What did he just say?!
"If breaking up means you'll stop loving me and want to forget me," he said, his voice raw with emotion, "then... let's not break up. Let's start dating again, just like we did before."
He was a man who had always stood by his decisions, no matter what.
But this time, he was taking it all back, completely reversing his own choice, all for her sake.
It was her chilling indifference and her desire to erase him from her memory that he found absolutely unbearable.
Rachel couldn't help but laugh this time, a bitter, broken sound that made her nose sting and her eyes well up with unshed tears.
He had been the one to so easily say goodbye on her birthday, cruelly dropping her from heaven straight into hell.
But now, he was asking to start over, to go back to how things were before... BeforeHow could they ever possibly go back to that?
