But her words only drove a stake through his heart.

"What about me?" he asked. "Am I… all in the past too?"

Serenity turned to him and looked straight into his eyes, saying, "Yes. To me, everything that happened between us is all in the past now, so there's no need for you to keep dwelling on it any longer."

He suddenly chuckled lightly and muttered, "There's no need, huh…?"

His pain, his regrets, his guilt… was it all just unnecessary things to her?

Just then, the car stopped right in fro