Chiara was walking alone in the mall when she saw Toby with another woman.

“Chiara…” Toby muttered in surprise.

Chiara was so shocked that she suddenly couldn't move. Toby tried to go to her but then the girl he was with held him in the arm to stop him.

“Toby, why don't you tell her that I'm the one you really love?" the girl asked Toby.

Toby faced the girl. “I'm sorry, Jessa. I never told you I love you. It was Chiara. She's the one I love. I couldn't leave her for you. I'm sorry."

Toby removed the woman's hand from him and started walking towards her. Her boyfriend took her hand and looked at her with an apologetic face.

“I’m sorry, Chiara. I’m sorry. Please...forgive me. Please...give me another chance. Please...I can’t lose you.”

At that exact moment, she forgave him. Toby promised him that he'd never do that to her again. That he'd never look at another woman again. That he'd never hurt her again. She believed that promise. She held on to it.

“Lean, I'm still looking for the right timing to tell her the truth…”

Chiara was suddenly back to the present upon hearing that voice.

"Really?" Lean asked. "You're waiting for the right timing? Or maybe you really don't have any plans of leaving him, Toby? Please tell me if you can't leave that girl because I don't plan to be the other woman forever. I don't want to wait for nothing, Toby."

Toby raised his hand and carefully held Lean's face.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five.

Chiara felt like her heart was getting stabbed over and over again with the scene happening right in front of her.
But then despite the pain, she still continued walking towards him.

“Toby...” Chiara didn't know how she managed to call Toby despite the breaking of her heart.

Toby and the girl with him stopped and turned to her.

“Chiara…” Toby muttered in a surprised face.

She saw how his face contorted in panic when he realized she heard them.

“What, Toby? Who between me and your girlfriend are you going to choose?" the girl asked Toby.

Chiara swallowed the lump in her throat. That scene had already happened before. And Toby chose her then. Chiara was sure that Toby would still choose her this time.

Toby looked at her. She waited for him to leave the girl and started walking towards her. But that didn't happen. Instead of choosing her, she heard those two painful words from him.

“I’m sorry.”

Two words that were enough to break her heart into pieces.

CHIARA was crying non-stop while walking alone on the sidewalk. She was oblivious to her surroundings. That's why she didn't manage to see a man following her.

Her steps halted when she felt a sharp thing on the side of her stomach.

“Miss, give me your bag if you don't want to get hurt." a deep voice said beside her.

Chiara looked up. From her blurry eyes, she saw the dark face of a man.

If this had happened before, she would have felt scared of him. But not right now. At that exact moment, she felt no ounce of fear while looking at the eyes of the hold upper. She was too hurt and heartbroken to even feel scared.

“Did you hear what I said? I said if you don't want to get hurt, you must hand me your bag!”

Instead of following him, Chiara started to cry again.

“He already left me,” she said as tears flowed from her face.

“I wonder what I did wrong? How could he leave me? I love him so much. I gave him my all but then he still chose to leave me!"

The man in front of her parted his lips in disbelief. He stared at his tears-stricken face before he moved away from her. He then put the small knife he was holding inside his jacket’s pocket.

The man sighed and looked at her with sympathy. “You know what? I know that feeling, Miss. My girlfriend also left me three months ago. I was devastated then.” He sighed again before shaking his head. “Just go home and drink, Miss.”

After saying that, the man walked past him and crossed the streets as if nothing happened.

Chiara looked around. That’s when she noticed that she was currently on a bridge. He looked down at the water underneath her. While staring at the dark water, the rain started to pour again.

It had already been a week since Toby broke up with her. She could never forget that day.

“Toby, please. Don’t leave me...” she begged him.

“Chiara, I'm sorry.”

“I’m willing to forgive you for what you did. Just like the last time, Toby. I will forget everything. Just please choose me again. Don’t leave me.” Chiara held on tightly to Toby’s shirt. Her tears won’t stop falling from her eyes.

“You told me you will never leave me, right? You promised me that! You already chose me before, Toby. Please choose me again this time. I promise I’ll be a better girlfriend.”

She loves Toby so much. She was willing to do everything just for him to stay with her. She couldn’t afford to lose him. No. She couldn’t.

“I really love her, Chiara… I can’t hurt her...”

She looked at him with tears in her eyes. “How about me, Toby? You love me too, right?”

“I don’t love you anymore...”

Chiara didn't know how many times she begged Toby that day. But in the end, he still chose to leave her.

“What the hell, Chiara? How many times do I have to tell you that I don’t love you anymore? You have to stop now, please. No matter how many times you beg, I won’t choose you this time. I’m sorry.”

That was the last thing Toby said to her when she went to him in his apartment.

Everything in her was breaking right now. In an instant, everything fell apart.