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The moment their eyes met, Ava knew this was it. She had of course heard about it, that instance you meet your soulmate and that you would just know. Alas, she didn’t think her moment would come, since so many of her friends were now married and living their happily ever after while she was stuck in that diner she worked in. Sometimes she wondered if maybe they forgot about her… they, being whatever higher power it was that was supposed to match soulmates. Yet, here he stood, right in front of her and honestly he’d never felt this way before. The second she felt the sparks and chemistry with him of all people, she was ecstatic. She couldn’t have wished for anyone better, Jaime was everything Ava could ever want… But, she knew she wasn’t good enough. Not for him. Jaime deserved someone stable, someone not… as much of a wreck. Someone not her. She watched him lean in and for a moment all she could do was thank her stars for him… But she also knew that she owed it to him to be honest. “No… No please… It wasn’t wrong. That wasn’t wrong… What I meant was… I’m wrong for you. You… Can do better than me, Jaime… I don’t… Deserve you….” Her gaze cast down, her hands hand been clutched together but now they suddenly let go and gripped on to both of his. She still wasn’t looking at him though even as she spoke. “I feel this… I do… And I want this so much… But you deserve so much better than me… I’m nothing, no one. I can’t give you anything….”

Jaime was fairly ignorant of what was going on around him, always. He took little interest into other people’s lives and barely showed them even a friendly smile. He was so focused on his business; on his restaurant that people presumed him to be arrogant, or cocky. But nobody knew him. He was used to people running from him, or not taking the time to get to know him. He’d never had a steady girlfriend because of that. He’d never slept with anybody, despite his age and he’d never even thought of chasing after any of that. His business was his relationship. It was what he loved. What he enjoyed. Only, it couldn’t hurt him. He couldn’t let it down in the way he could let down a person. He didn’t have to get intimate with it. 

HE’D BEEN IN JAIL FOR A MATTER of months. Twenty-ish of them to be precise. During his time in there he’d given up. He hadn’t bothered to contact any of his family, nor the few friends that he had. He’d not expected to be let out, especially since he was guilty of murder. It was too protect somebody - but it was still murder. But apparently new evidence had come to light, which seemed impossible to him. Still, he wasn’t going to argue. Aaron didn’t know where he was going to go. He didn’t have any money, no home...he’d just have to improvise. 

He’d only recently turned nineteen years of age and his parents had decided they had to go away to America on business for a month or longer depending on how it went. They didn’t trust him to look after the house - despite him being one of the most sensible people his age - and so had decided to enlist his grandfather to do it instead. It had been a short amount of time since they’d found out about the sexual abuse the oldest man had thrown at Jaime throughout his life and that had burst into a very big argument. Even so, they still made the man stay there with him again whilst they were off doing whatever they were doing. As anyone would be, Jaime was very cut up about it and still upset to know that they’d always known about what his grandfather had been doing. He wanted to move away, especially for this month but he had no money and no where to go so that was out of the question.

So the only thing he could do was be strong. So that was what he did. He stood up to the man; asked him why he was a monster. But his grandfather turned violet very quickly. Jaime awoke the next morning with purple bruises on both his arms and body. He decided to get up quickly and run out of this house before the old man could awake. So he ran to the only place he could think of. Ava’s. Turning up on the doorstep he was out of breath from the rush to get there. “Hi. Sorry it’s early but...I thought I’d come and visit you.”

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