With renewed hope, I look up at Sky. "Do you think he would even listen to me again?"
"I don't know," Sky answers regretfully. "Since you left him, he hasn't been the same."
I saw that with my own eyes. But I don't know much more about him. If he's going to give me another chance, I need to find out more about him. Only then can I find a way to reach him.
"Why doesn't he dance anymore?" I ask since I'm sure Sky knows.
"Because it doesn't make sense to him anymore. That's what he told me," my friend replies wistfully. "The day after you disappeared, he left the academy."
As Sky recounts the past years, my mind races at full speed. There must be a way to fix this, but simply confessing the truth to Maxime won't be enough. Too much has been broken.
Those are just words,Aurora, he said yesterday, and he was so right. He will only give me one chance, if at all, and words won't be enough. I need to show him what I've come to realize. He needs to feel that a new Aurora stands before him. But right now, that seems impossible.
"If only I could undo all of this," I say as Sky finishes her story, thinking of the life that Maxime and I lost. The plans we never got to fulfill. The many compartments of the memory box that could be filled with happiness, but have remained empty. "I would do anything to start anew."
"Anything?" She raises an eyebrow.
"Anything," I confirm, and at that moment, something happens. I know it. I know what I'm going to do to finally show Maxime what I've understood too late.
Everything.
That's the answer.
