Xavier

She must have heard the strange tone in his voice because she looked at him strangely. All he secretly wanted was for her to speak, to answer, to put him out of his misery, because he had to know for sure that it was over for them, even if it would only be the beginning of his despair, he was sure. And hopelessness was what he felt. A miserable and unexciting feeling. A feeling he couldn't escape even if he tried.

"Who? Rylan of course," she said with some surprise, as if the answer was obvious, and maybe it was, but not to his clouded mind.

"Rylan," he repeated...