Chasing Ever After

“I’m sorry.”

That is what he replies right after I, with all my heart and soul, confess to him the feelings I have been keeping for so long.

I want to cry, but I don’t. Instead, I force a smile.

“Thank you,” I say, and then turn my back to him and leave.

The very minute my best friend, Annie, spots me, she asks me one single question. “Are you okay?”

I chuckle half-heartedly. “I’m fine. Just because I got rejected, that doesn’t mean I’m going to die or anything. I already expected this. It doesn’t even hurt, at all.”

This is how I am. I swallow all the pain, raise my head up high, and erase the memory of ever liking Jack, so that tomorrow, I would go back to being normal, happy, cheerful Sadie. I would forget this night ever happened.

Just like I always do.



Have you ever confessed to someone you liked so much, only to get rejected in the end? Well, there's not much to do about it; you just accept it. Move on. That's what Sadie Hall does right after Jack Ames, her long-time crush, rejects her, which, for some reason, bothers the hell out of Jack.

And so, with this complicated turn of events, the chase begins.