Please don’t be mad at Hailey. I’ll quit tomorrow, I’ll disappear immediately! Hailey truly loves you. Don’t make her sad, okay?”I detested Alex’s hypocritical act the most. Watching him cry, my tears actually stopped. I forcefully shook him off and shouted, “Get lost!”Alex fell to the ground, looking up at me in shock.”Julian Hayes!” Hailey, her heart aching, helped Alex up. Seeing his palm scraped, she yelled at me, “
Are you out of your mind! Apologize to Alex!””Don’t even dream about it.””If you want me to apologize,” I looked at Hailey, then at the flicker of triumph in Alex’s eyes, and dropped the ultimatum: “If you don’t agree to a divorce, we’ll go through legal proceedings.”I didn’t look back, nor did I pay attention to Alex’s constant whimpering and Hailey’s voice comforting him and calling me a maniac.Instead, I took a taxi directly to Liam’s house.
Liam didn’t say a word. After letting me in, he pulled out dozens of beers he’d stocked up in the fridge and placed them on the table. He just asked, “Is that enough?”I looked at Liam, and my eyes welled up. Liam remained silent, just opening his arms to me and asking, “A hug?”I completely broke down, sobbing uncontrollably into his arms. I cried until my voice was hoarse, trembled uncontrollably from crying, and ended up throwing up my guts in the bathroom until the world spun. When I finally stopped, I told Liam.”I want a divorce!””I want a divorce!””I want Hailey to rot in hell!”What is the end of love?
It’s when two people who were once intimately connected and willing to fight the world together turn into opponents, blades in hand, determined to destroy each other. It’s moving from once hoping that even if marriage was the grave of love, it would still bloom with flowers of affection, to finally realizing that even roses wither.3I stayed at Liam’s house for two weeks.During that time, I saw Alex’s SnapChat stories update daily. Every single post had Hailey’s presence.[The sky has the moon, and I have my star.]
The accompanying photo was Alex’s selfie, with Hailey’s back in the corner, on the phone by the floor-to-ceiling window.[My star always shines, and I will chase its light.]The photo showed a star-shaped ring on Alex’s hand, refracting a halo of light under the lamp, and a pair of slender, beautiful hands.They were Hailey’s.
