Beckie Stevenson

If Only... Beckie Stevenson

Our story started like the fairytales you grew up reading, but it doesn't end like them. I was fifteen when I realised I was in love with Cole. He was the foster kid who wore scruffy clothes and never had any money. He was the bad boy, the fighter. The boy who took all the dares-and won. He was the boy that scared me but excited me at the same time. He was the boy I shouldn't have wanted, but, of course, he was the one I wanted the most. In the beginning, he was mine. And I was his. Cole and Evie. Evie and Cole. But then a lie was told. Lies break people. And broken people shatter into little pieces of tortured pasts and fractured futures. And then our fairytale beginning morphed into a story of heartache and sadness, instead of happiness and hope. A story that ended with lost love, friendship, and a never-ending cycle of what ifs and if onlys. Our ending broke me. Shattered me. Destroyed me. When a story ends like ours did, is it any wonder I never wanted to start a new one again?