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"let's promise that we'll be together forever"-he said when we were five.

"let's promise we'll always choose each other in everything, even if it's tag." -he said when we were nine.

"let's promise we'll always have each other's back." he said when we were eleven.

"let's promise to never split up, even if we have to have assigned seating in lunch." -he said when we were fourteen.

"let's promise that we'll support each other throughout our lives." -he said when we were sixteen.

"let's promise to never let anyone come between us, no matter what." -he said when we were seventeen.

"let's promise to never forget each other and who we are, that we're best friends 'till the end." -he said when we were eighteen.

"let's promise that we don't know each other, at all." -he said to me through text today.

i stared at my phone, thinking of all the promises he told me, and him just ending it like that.

me
what do you mean?

zion
i mean, i have a new life now. i want to let some of my old memories pass.

me
zion, you still keep your other old friends around, what makes me any different?

zion
olivia, we both know.
and me saying it is going to make it worse.

me
then why not keep me around?

zion
i met new people. and keeping the person i love most around is just going to keep me distracted from focusing on what really matters.

me
your career? the money, the fame, the fans, that matters to you more than your best friend!?

zion
.... we aren't best friends.

me
you're right. my best friend wouldn't care about all the luxuries and treatments, he'd care about the person who he spent most of his life with. what happened to you? did those promises we made when we were kids mean nothing to you? and the necklace and ring? did that mean anything to you?

zion
we were kids olivia.

me
we weren't kids two years ago when you made that last promise.

zion
i can't do this, bye olivia.

read: 2:43 pm.

that's what i get for loving him. eventually, his fame was going to take over. and that day was today, that day was my birthday.

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