Ten Years Longing: A Spin-Off (Clara's POV)

She promised she would wait.
And for years, Clara did-
holding on to a love suspended in time,
even as the years wore her down,
even as hope began to hurt more than it healed.

Until one day...
she realized she wasn't the same girl who said, "I'll wait."

Somewhere along the way,
someone stepped into the space he left behind-
not as a replacement,
but as something real... something present.

And on the day she walks down the aisle,
Clara finds herself standing at the edge of a choice
she never thought she'd have to make:

Stay loyal to a love frozen in the past,
or choose the one who stayed when everything else didn't.

Some choices don't feel like winning.
Sometimes... they feel like leaving something behind forever.

And sometimes,
waiting isn't the hardest part-

letting go is.