And he wasn’t alone.
The woman beside him held onto his arm as if she had every right to be there, dressed in black but carrying herself like she was attending something entirely different from the rest of us. She leaned into him, close enough that no one in that room could misunderstand what they were.
Sienna.
The name I had hoped I would never have to associate with reality.
I remembered the night Clara told us, sitting in our living room, trying to hold herself together while her world quietly fell apart. She had suspected it, the late nights, the messages, the distance, but she still wanted to believe she was wrong.
Watching him walk into her funeral with that woman on his arm, I realized she had never been wrong.
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