"If you both want me to let this go then just give me the simple answer, do you guys still love each other or not?" Ashen now turns to both of them.
When Kyle came in, the three of them had kept the conversation grounded in the basics, how they'd been doing, what was happening in their lives, how things had been over time.
It was surface-level. All of them were aware of what they were avoiding.
Beneath every word exchanged was the heavy silence of what remained unspoken.
They had carefully tiptoed around the emotional ruins of their past, all too aware of the weight that still lingered between them.
But Ashen's question is a sudden slash through that veil of silence. A question that forces them to look directly into a place none of them had dared to go back to.
They both turn to each other slowly.
