Rewriting Destiny - Leaving My Boyfriend to Save the Future

My painter boyfriend, Jared Brown, ran eight red lights to rush back and celebrate my birthday with me.

Everyone knew he loved me to the bone, that I was the one he would marry. But that didn’t stop him from pinning another woman in his car, creating art in an entwined embrace.

Suddenly, a shooting star streaked across the night sky.

Amid my friends' warm blessings, I closed my eyes and made a wish on my twentieth birthday.

This time, my wish wasn’t to marry him. Instead, it was to vanish completely from Jared’s world, so he could never find me again.