PART 1
I married the boy who once made me believe no one could ever love me.
He swore he had changed.
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But the morning after our wedding, Kevin looked at my suitcase by the bedroom door and said, “Pack the rest, Maggie. Then leave.”
He sat in his wheelchair near the window, his wedding ring still on his finger.
“Kevin,” I whispered. “We got married yesterday.”
His face hardened.
“Yesterday was a mistake.”
In that moment, I was seventeen again, standing in a school cafeteria while everyone laughed.
Kevin had been the boy who ruined me in high school. He spread lies, mocked me in front of his friends, and told me, “No one will ever love you.”
For years, I ate lunch in the bathroom because the cafeteria felt like a stage
