Freya walked beside him, watching him rather than the letter. She knew it was from Abby, purely from the look on his face but she wouldn't ask him what it said. Not until he volunteered the information.
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Glykia, the letter began, Abby's handwriting perfect on the blank page.
I know you deserve an explanation, whether you want one or not. But after earlier, I'm not sure if I could bare seeing the pain in your eyes as I told you what happened between us. I know when I called you for the last time, I said some things that I didn't mean. In fact most of what I said was a lie. And although I know it was wrong, I am not going to make excuses for myself. I fucked up, to put it bluntly. You were the best thing that ever happened to me and I let my own insecurity ruin that.
In mid March, I started receiving anonymous phone calls from a woman who claimed that you were cheating on me. I dismissed it immediately, knowing in my heart that you would never do it to me but it wasn't the only call. Day after day I would get a call from the same woman. If I didn't pick up, she would keep calling and calling leaving voicemails on my phone until my inbox was full. You know this, because I told you but you laughed it off saying it was someone who was jealous. But the truth is that I didn't tell you just how bad it had gotten. After a week, the woman was calling me up to three times a day where she would laugh and call me all sorts of horrid names.
It was then that I started to receive emails along with the calls. I stopped picking them up, and changed my number but she got the new one saying that she'd taken it from your phone. Attached to the emails were pictures of you with other woman, innocent at first but soon they weren't so. Some were obviously photoshopped, but others weren't.
This continued for two months. My grades were dropping and I lost a whole load of weight from the stress of it. One of my friends, Isabel, from my Biology class told me that I should talk to you but I was ashamed that I had let it get to me.
The morning we broke up, I received a letter at my apartment with a lock of your hair inside and a picture of you asleep beside another girl wearing nothing. I was terrified. I thought she was going to hurt you all because I wouldn't let you go, but my fears of telling you were fighting against them. So I let you go, making up some random excuses. I couldn't handle it anymore. I was a coward. I should have told you and I know that but there is nothing I can do to change it now.
But know this, I still and will always love you with everything that I am whether you believe it or not.
I began to date a girl after we split, but even she knew that I wasn't over you. I would cry out for you in my sleep and eventually she left me because of it. It made me realise that I couldn't fill the hole in my chest where my heart had been because it wasn't my heart anymore. It always belonged to you.
Abigaia Skye Collett
Oh and congratulations on your impending marriage, Hunter just told me. Well done on being able to move on, I wish I could.
On the back of the page were two simple lists, one reading all the things she loved about him, and the other with the one reason why she would never get over him. Because he was her soulmate. But all of this, was now crossed out with a small sentence written below.
So sorry, I didn't know you were engaged. They still apply but I don't suppose it matters.