The November Snow

She collapsed on her knees, in the snow. She tried to hold on to the grass, but the snow fell apart in her hands, just like her life. Unstable. Falling apart. She did not know what to do. She did not have anyone to help her. She was broken. She did not want to admit it, but leaving the college, meant she couldn't sustain without money from it.

She cried into her hands full of snow, her tears melting the snow cupped in her hands. Each drop seemed to melt a little piece of herself away. Then, a shift. She wouldn't let herself dissolve like that. She wouldn't be the same fragile girl, susceptible to the world's harshness. She wouldn't be that fragile girl, melting her life away. She would change forever, for the better.

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When Samuel finds Rosaline after three years, he is shocked to see a different version of her. She isn't his Rosaline, she changed herself to the stern and guarded Scarlett. He wants her back, but can she forgive him for all that he did?