TWENTY-FIVE

"She just left I don't know where she is going," Her mother tells the king.

"I would follow her and from there head to the palace you three bring her back.

Aurora heads for the river where she had met the stranger she had a drink with hoping she would find him there again.

"Why am I even here?" she kicks the sand and walks away.

After walking around she finally settles to eat, "Excuse me!" she signals.

"Aurora?" a male calls

"Michael?" she looks at him. "I thought you said that you wouldn't be able to make it?" What am I even asking it's not like I didn't know he lied.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"What? ain't I the one to be asking you? she eyes him, she prayed he had come to apologize, she was ready to take him back

"Baby? what's wrong?" a girl sits beside him.

Aurora's hearts scattered, she knew there was no way he was going to apologize to her, her heart bleed once more, she held herself from crying. She wanted to bear him up, her heart like a