-Summer-
Ashton and I stepped into the huge white room where people had gathered to say goodbye to the crown princess and the pup who never got a chance to be born.
We were dressed in dark blue, mourning colors, but Ashton kept a good distance between us, not saying anything. I tried to reach for him as we entered the big room with a glass ceiling and an empty marble altar at the end of it, with long rows of seats going down the room, but Ashton quickly hurried off, leaving me behind.
Goddess, this is not going to be easy, I thought, as I looked at the long aisle. I took it slowly, my heels clicking against the marble floor. I was looking around for my own family and found them all the way in the front.
My mother was clinging to my dad, crying, and it made my own heart break, tears wel
