Chapter 10

The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. Axel was a risk I took, a mystery, and the most certain thing I’d ever known. What began as a simple conversation, ended in love.

After I wrote that paragraph I leaned back on my chair and let out a shaky breath. I need to stop doing this. I need to stop sugarcoating the story. I need to start writing the truth. But you can’t. No, I can’t. It was hard. If something ever happens to us, I only want to remember the good times I had with him. How tainted our story might get, in the end, it’s only the happy memories what matters.

I grabbed my laptop and phone and walked to my room. Axel wanted to go out tonight and I still had to decide on an outfit. He had learned from his past mistakes to always notify me

five hours in advance if he wanted to go somewhere. The last time he had to wait three

hours for me to get ready. He was not amused. The only reason it to