I'm going to explain the original ending here, because I had a couple options.
Ultimately, Atlas and Arabella had a relationship built on past traumatic experiences. I knew after Anaya died that the ending could only go in three ways.
1. They die.
2. They separate and get back together, years in the future (an additional 10-15 chapters)
3. They separate with no getting back together.
This is because they built their relationship around a traumatic experience for Arabella, and she needed to let go. That doesn't mean they can't be together in the future.
Also, I chose #1 because there's significance in them dying in the BMW, which symbolizes death. Leo died in the crash. Arabella's childhood died in that crash too. Anaya watched life as she knew it die: her husband died, her daughter was severely injured. I thought Arabella and Atlas dying in that car would fit this reoccurring theme.
I chose the first one and now I'm kind of regretting it and I've been thinking about this for months now.
Why I chose the second option:
I decided with all the trauma that both of them had gone through, the two of them deserved something better than what they got. They deserved to learn to overcome it and live with it in a way that wasn't unhealthy to themselves and each other.
I decided I wanted a happy ending and number two was the best approach to it because Arabella and Atlas had a lot of learning and unlearning to do that they couldn't do together without driving each other away because therapy is mind wrecking; it's bringing out emotions that both of them bottle up. It's learning from yourself with someone to help you.
Knowing Arabella and Atlas, they would've driven each other away with the lack of communication and overwhelming emotion which is why I decided they needed to be separate for it because they would've fallen back into the cycle of using sex as a way to get out their emotions, which isn't healthy. That's just my personal analysis of them, by the way.
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Teen Fiction{MATURE CONTENT} Arabella Turner doesn't know where she fits. She can't tell if enjoys the peaceful quiet or the partying and crowds, but she just blames it on her mood swings since there's no in between. All she wants is to get through her last two...
