Always the Wrong Spin by Mark Twain 7
Chapter 7 Life Was Still Long
Chapter 7 Life Was Still Long
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Just then, Zachary walked in carrying a lunchbox. He frowned when he heard the tail end of their conversation. “What gift?”
Kristen looped her arm through his and said with a sweet smile, “Autumn knows she messed up, so she brought me a gift to apologize.”
Looking at how thin Autumn had gotten after being sick, Zachary felt his anger finally soften.
“Well, if you know you were wrong, then stop targeting Kristen from now on. The wedding’s in three days, so go home and rest up. I’m gonna stay with Kristen for now, but I’ll be there on the wedding day. Wait for me, okay?”
Autumn felt nothing. Three days from now, the divorce would be final, and she’d be gone. She wasn’t waiting for Zachary anymore.
Over the next three days, Zachary didn’t come home, and Autumn didn’t contact him.
On the first day, she smashed their wedding photos, tore up her diary, and burned everything to ashes.
On the second day, she packed up her custom wedding dress and shipped it to Kristen.
On the third day, she deleted Zachary, Kristen, and everyone connected to them from her phone, her social media, her messaging apps, her chat histories. She wiped them all out completely.
The day the divorce became official, she left early in the morning and went to the Courthouse alone.
When the clerk handed her the divorce license, she ran her fingertips over the gold embossed letters and stared at it with an unreadable expression.
When she got home, she was surprised to find Zachary there. He was wearing a brand new black suit and standing in the middle of the living room. When he saw her, a gentle smile crossed his face. “You’re up early. Where’d you go?”
Before she could figure out how to answer, he started joking around. “Don’t tell me you were out getting that super special wedding gift you promised me?”
Autumn froze. She hadn’t expected him to remember that.
Back when she and Zachary had just gotten together and their relationship was taking off fast,
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she’d carefully brought up the idea of having a wedding.
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Zachary hadn’t understood the point. “We already got the marriage license. Does it really matter if we have a wedding or not?”
She’d smiled at him. “Of course it matters. If we have a wedding, I promise I’ll give you an amazing surprise gift on our wedding day.”
So for this “gift,” Zachary started carefully picking out the perfect wedding date.
The irony wasn’t lost on Autumn. The wedding she’d been waiting for forever was happening on the exact same day she’d get her divorce license.
Her mind was racing, but she kept her expression calm and nodded while clutching the divorce papers in her purse. “Yeah, I was out getting a gift.” The divorce license counted as a gift, didn’t it?
Zachary glanced at his watch. “It’s getting late. Let’s head to the wedding venue first, and you can give your gift later.”
He grabbed his car keys and headed for the door, but then noticed Autumn hadn’t moved. He looked back at her, confused. “Aren’t you coming?”
Autumn stayed quiet for a moment. She still couldn’t bring herself to tell him she was leaving for good. She made up an excuse instead. “You go ahead. I’ll come once I finish handling something urgent.” Something urgent? What could possibly be so urgent right now?
Zachary wanted to ask more questions, but his phone buzzed with a message from Kristen asking where he was. He rushed out a quick response. “I gotta go. Hurry over once you’re done, okay?”
Autumn stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and watched his black car pull away and quickly disappear from view. She pulled out the fresh divorce license and set it on the table, then picked up the suitcase she’d already packed and quietly closed the door behind her.
For some reason, a quote she’d read once popped into her head. “Let the past die like yesterday, and let the future be born like today.” Life was still long. She’d just treat this as a chance to start over completely.
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