Professor F

Fuck buddies!

It was too late for August to stop herself from saying those words. There's no need to point it out, they're doing it already. It only made her feel awkward after Flynn stopped moving.

It's as if her words brought him back to his senses.

"It's not going to work."

Those words escaped his lips with a dark expression on his face as he withdraws and fixed his clothes.

She stayed lying on the floor and smiled sadly as she tried to hide her tears, looking away from the brightness of her smartv. She bites her lower lip.

"Nothing is going to work." Flynn's voice was weak but enough to reach her ears that pained her heart.

She sniffed as she turned on her side. "We both know that from the start. But didn't we try things to make it work? So why saying this now? Why did we—" Her words stopped when Flynn pulled her up for a tight hug. She cried even harder.

"I'm sorry. I tried. Believe me." He breathes hard and gently kissed her hair. "Now it's—" He sighed soundly. "Can you promise me one thing?" She didn't respond and just waited for him to talk again. She's too numb to move. "Will you promise me to finish your studies and be the person you want to be?"

Why is he asking me this now?

"Hmm? August? Will you promise m—me?" He continued as his voice trembled. He gave out a short chuckle. "I'll take that silence as a yes." He then released her from his hug and cupped her face with his hands, as if memorizing every detail of her face. "I hope this will be the last time you'll cry because of a jerk like me. I'm sorry." He wiped her tears while his own runs down his cheek as his fingers trembled. He moved closer to give her a soft and gentle kiss.

But August was too stunned seeing him cry that even after hearing him say goodbye and the door of her apartment closing shut after he left, she still stayed seated on the floor.

Goodbye, August.

after fixing her clothes, she went out to run after Flynn. She went to his apartment door, knocked multiple times

it feel like he's disappearing? Like

but his phone is turned off. She runs out of the

this really

help the pain she feels inside her heart. But she told herself to keep the promise he asked of her. "I

chance. Instead of just being truthful about what she really feels

••••••

Graduation day

smiling at the camera while holding a bouquet of lilies and roses given by her parents. Her Aunt Ruth

she takes

"August!"

was who called her name and they smiled seeing Pierre holding a bouquet of carnations in his hand as

greeted and opened his arms to

smiled.

I just wanted

she calls Grey to

her life. He stopped teaching in Pearsons and people from the trucking company came to their apartment

to use her mom's phone to call him but he's

that she had to lock herself in her room. She didn't even answer her parents' calls that weekend,