Chapter 30: Background Character, You Say?
"Ethan... what are you doing here?"
He turned around.
Standing just a few steps behind him was a girl with ash-brown hair cut into a shoulder-length bob. Her amber eyes still held the same intensity he remembered from school. She wore a dark denim jacket over a slim black top, and a silver pendant hung at her collarbone, gently swaying with her breath.
Sasha.
The next piece of the puzzle.
Beside her stood a boy in a simple hoodie and jeans, his expression easygoing. He had a soft face with a gentle smile and a faint dimple on his left cheek. That was Nate—Sasha’s boyfriend, and someone Serena had always said was too pure for this world.
They were good people. Ethan knew that.
Back in school, they hadn’t been close.
Not until Serena came between them all like a spark of life.
Sasha blinked, still caught off guard. "It’s really you."