𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎 𝑂𝑛𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑠

𝐼𝑛 𝐴𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 - 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡

Maria's POV
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I watched, smiling though my mind wanted me to cry. I watched her walk down the aisle, walk towards him. Watched her kiss him and say 'I do', and nothing would ever be the same.

I was her best friend, that was all I would ever be to her.

She was my everything, the reason I wanted to wake up in the mornings.

I knew I couldn't have her, yet I still wanted her. I still wished that we could be more than friends, that she wasn't with him, that she was with me.

But she was happy, and that's what I really wanted. I wanted for her to be happy, and live her life to the fullest even if it wasn't with me. That was why I had stayed quiet, because she was happy with him and I was ok seeing her happy.

So as she danced with him, smiling and laughing as they spun around the floor, I forced a smile and tried to look happy, for her sake.

Her.. Elizabeth Schuyler.

Eliza, who had helped me escape from James.
Eliza, who was my only friend for years.
Eliza, who didn't care what I did or what I looked like, she just wanted me to be me.
Eliza, the one that got away.

Because while Eliza had my heart, Alexander had hers.

Perhaps we could be together in another life....

Just not this one.