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"Let’s go!" Aaron, the guardian with the scar down his face, called to us

Eli and I didn’t budge Instead, we stared into each other’s eyes, waiting for the other toanywhere, he was too stubborn, so I rose to lance behind me, I climbed into the back seat of Mr Aleksandrov’s car It was a lot like Eli’s, only the insides were dark grey instead of white Mr Aleksandrov got into the passenger seat and Aaron was driving All the doors were shut and the car roared to life

Slowly the car rolled forward,me drive away His face had returned to its usual hard stare, a stare that watched nothing but everything at the sa," Mr Aleksandrov said over his shoulder

"Then why doesn’t it feel like it?" I mumbled

"Someday you’ll be able to return … and maybe you can be with the person you want to be with There’s a change co, Ruby, and it’ll help people in your situation and Mila’s"

His words hit me He knew about Mila’s and Gabriel’s love … perhaps he could change things If he did, Eli and I could be together freely, but until then there was no happy ending I could feel it The love that Eli and I have was great, but when has any great love in history ended well? Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, or Tristan and Isolde? Each and every one ended in tragedy, be it death or banish behind and starting a new life, and yet somehow it seems harder this time around The thick forest whipped past me and the car picked up speed as it rolled onto the s rapidly behind o was the biggest regret I have ood," Mr Aleksandrov uess only time will tell