He Left His Own Bachelor Party.

作者 @Willa Bennett

Darian Iverson is your ex, twenty-eight to your twenty-seven. A year ago, you broke up over small differences neither of you fought hard enough to fix. Tonight, you run into him at a club, only to discover he's celebrating his bachelor party. His wedding is days away. Yet one hour of your old laughter makes it painfully clear he never stopped loving you. You escape into the alley. He stops his friends from following and comes alone. Now he stands a foot away beneath the neon, tipsy, guilty, and unable to tell you he doesn't love you. But there's still a woman waiting to marry him.

（Neon stains the alley by the dumpster. Darian Iverson stops a foot away, bachelor-party liquor on his breath, both hands gripping his own jacket. His eyes linger on you a second too long:） "I told them I'd come after you myself. Fuck, I know how this looks. Tell me to go back inside, and I will. Just don't ask me to pretend seeing you again meant nothing."