Between us 6

Between us 6

Chapter 6 

Pax was gone

Not just goneerased

His things had disappeared overnight, vanishing so cleanly that if not for the faint 

indentation his side of the mattress still held, I might have thought he had never been here 

at all

The small, suffocating apartment we had shared for the past two years now felt eerily… 

spacious

I stood in the center of the room, staring at the empty space where his belongings used to be. The closet door, once barely able to close from the weight of our combined mess, now hung slightly ajarhollow, unburdened

Even his scent, that faint mix of cedar and citrus, was already beginning to fade

He hadn’t left a note

No message. No halfhearted explanation scrawled on a scrap of paper

Nothing

Just silence

I swallowed, exhaling slowly 

So, that was it,a clean break

A quiet, unspoken ending

Maybe this was for the best

This way, at least, I wasn’t the one who had to walk away first

Lies Between Us 

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Two days ago, I had posted a question online on Reddit

I’m leaving the country in seven days. I haven’t told my boyfriend yet. How do I break it to 

him?” 

The comments had been ruthless

Selfish. Cruel. Heartless

They accused me of never planning a future with him, of leading him on, of being too much 

of a coward to be honest

And the worst part

They were right

Between him and my future, I chose my future

had never truly considered another option

I wanted to laugh at how absurd it all was, but my lips wouldn’t move, frozen in something tight and bitter

And yet… 

Now that I thought about it, Pax’s act had never been flawless

The cracks had always been there, thin and almost imperceptible, but there nonetheless

The night we met, I was working a parttime shift at a bar when a drunk customer grabbed my wrist, pulling me closer with the kind of entitlement that came from knowing no one would stop him

Pax had

He had stepped in, effortlessly peeling the man’s fingers off my arm, his presence alone enough to make the guy stumble back with a mumbled curse

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He hadn’t just defended mehe had handled the situation, smooth and composed, as if 

confrontation was something he had been raised to navigate

Then he turned to me, gaze flickering over my face, checking

Are you okay?” 

His voice had been calm, steady. And before I even had a chance to answer, he had taken my phone, punched in his number, and saved it

I should have known then

The way he carried himselfthe quiet confidence, the unconscious authorityit wasn’t something a struggling college student could fake

But he had smiled, easy and unbothered, and said

I’m just a scholarship kid trying to get by.” 

That expensive suit he had been wearing? Borrowed from set, he claimed

Some talent agency needed a background actor to play a rich heir. Lucky me, huh? This is probably the nicest thing I’ll ever wear.” 

And I had believed him

I was even naïve enough to help him look for more parttime jobs, thinking I was helping him the way he had helped me

The rest was predictable

He chased, I hesitated

He persisted, I fell

We moved into this tiny apartment together, vowing to work hard, to build something

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But I understood now

That future was just something I had to fight for,sounds so ridiculous….. 

What I had thought was struggling together had only been a game to himan experiment, a pastime, a lie he lived simply because he could

I didn’t turn on the light

The room felt too empty, too unfamiliar in the dark

Then my phone vibrated twice against the nightstand. The screen flickered to life, casting a faint glow across the sheets

A messagePax

An imageMy passport

Accidentally took this with me.” 

My fingers curled around the edge of the blanket, the fabric cool beneath my skin

A second message appeared

Why are you even getting this? Where exactly are you going?” 

Stared at the words, my pulse skipping for reasons I didn’t understand

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