I tossed the device into the nearest trash can. As it fell, the screen lit up, revealing the lock screen wallpaper: Thomas and Hazel, smiling radiantly in front of the Lover's Rock at A University.
A sanctuary we once cherished had become the backdrop for his affair.
I drove straight to the university. Ignoring the stares of students, I found our names carved into the stone monument and began to scratch them out.
I gouged at the rock, one cut after another, desperate to erase my past with Thomas.
When the names were finally illegible, I collapsed to the ground, drained. A young couple walked by, fingers intertwined.
A bitter, self-mocking smile touched my lips.
How did we end up here?
We were once the campus myth, the couple everyone aspired to be. Now, the myth was a joke.
Thomas's old vow echoed in my memory—
*'If I, Thomas Gilbert, ever betray Elise James, may heaven strike me down, and may I face ruin and disgrace!'*
Did he really just want to climb the social ladder? Or was I simply too boring?
I shook my head. It didn't matter anymore.
The fault lay with him, not me.