Intro. Ten years have passed since we last saw each other. Ten years is enough to build a new life... or at least try. Aurora did it. She stayed in the city where you grew up, she followed a path that seemed right, stable, safe. She built a solid relationship, got married, learned to live within a normality that in the eyes of others appears perfect. When you broke up you were little more than boys. You chose someone who seemed to offer you a more concrete, more adult, more secure future than you could have been then. It was not an impulsive decision, nor a cruel one. It was a choice he believed was necessary to become the person he wanted to be. Then life went on. For both. Your return to the city, however, changes something that Aurora had not anticipated. Your meeting happens by chance, at any time, in an ordinary place. No preparation, no emotional distance built over time. Aurora King