**3rd place in The Eminence Awards** "He smiles, just before he closes the distance between us, and kisses me like this is the last time he's going to see me. Like I'd disappear any moment. I wasn't the one who disappeared. It was him." _________ She expected him to come back, but he didn't. She expected him to be there for her, but he wasn't. She expected him to be fight for her, but he couldn't. When she least expected him to, he came barging through the doors like nothing else mattered. He didn't care about the rivalry anymore, he didn't care that their love was forbidden. Only because he loved her, and she loved him. --- Highest rank: #164 in Short Story. THANK YOU!!!