Chapter One

Sephy

I couldn't believe that Callum was gone. I told him I loved him right before he got hanged. He tried to say it back but then that basted pulled the lever. All I saw was Callum's body, dangling like a puppet on a string. The bag that was over his head his expression but no bag his mine. I was crying my eyes out. I couldn't see very much but I knew the Crosses where giving me dirty looks. Did they expect me to feel no pain? To hate Callum? To hate all Nougats'?

"Sephy, you should come home," Minerva told me as she put her hand on my shoulder.

I shrugged it off and kept crying. I tried not to look at Callum's lifeless body but I couldn't. He was just there. I knew he would have been crying in his last moments or at least I think so.

"Persephone, it was for the best. The blank-" I cut my mother off my saying, "The father of your grandchild is dead and all you can say is that it was for the best! How dare you!"

A prison officer then walked up to me. The prison officer was male and a Cross. His expression looked sad as if he cared about Callum. I hope he cared about Callum.

"Are you Sephy?" He asked me.

"Yeah, I'm Sephy. Who are you?"

"I'm Jack. Callum's friend. He told me that he loved you and your child. Callum also gave me a letter to give you," Jack handed over a white envelope with Sephy written on the front. "I'm sorry about Callum and I know he was innocent."

"Thank you. If you were Callum's friend then can I ask something?"

"Of course."

"When my baby is born I want you to come and see her so you can tell her about Callum."

"Why?"

"I don't know what Callum did before he died and I want someone other than me to tell my baby that he was innocent."

"I understand. You are welcome to call me anytime," He said and handed me his phone number on a business card.

I took he card and Jack slowly disappeared into the crowd. The crowd then started to exit, even my mother and sister left. I was almost alone in the courtyard of death so I sat down on a chair. Opened the letter and read it.

Dear Sephy,

I love you. That's the only three words that come close to describe my feelings for you. It would take me five hundred years to explain how much I love you. But as you can guess, my time is short. I don't want to die but it's either our baby or me. I'm glad I am going to die and our baby will live. If they baby is a boy please call him Ryan, after my dad. And if it's a girl you can call her Callie Rose. I really want it to be a boy. I want him to be athletic and smart. Caring but strong headed. I want so much for our baby and it saddens me to think that I won't see it but I'm glad you will.

Before I die Sephy I want you to know. When I was in the L.M I was dead inside. Stone cold dead. I killed Crosses and felt no regret. But the one night we spent together I felt alive. You made me feel like myself. You made all my emotions come out. It was as if you made my heart beat again. I missed you but I didn't know how much I missed you. I love you Sephy. I love you. I love you. I love you. And no one can ever change that.

Love

Yours forever

All my heart,

Callum

The letter suddenly became wet. I looked at the sky but it wasn't raining. I touched my cheek and it was soaked with my tears. I was on my own and it seemed tears were all I had left. I also had a baby but why should this baby live and Callum die? What made that right? Then again, nothing in this word is right. Nothing.

Chapter Two

Jack

I was so glad I gave Sephy Callum's original letter. If I gave her the one he wanted to give her I don't think she would have coped. I loved Callum like a brother but the letter he wanted me to give to her was just wrong. If anyone gave me the letter he wrote her, I don't think I would be able to contain my depression. I know I shouldn't've read the letter but Callum should have never written it. Some of the things in that letter still haunt me.

As for the sex – well, you were available and I had nothing better to do, ran through my mind every time I thought about his baby.

As if I could love someone like you a – a cross and worse than that, the daughter of one of our worst enemies, was the line I thought about when I begin to think about the love Callum and Sephy shared.

To think I actually kissed you, licked you, touched you, joined my body with yours, I just thought about that line randomly but that didn't make it any less chilling.

I had to think of my other lovers the entire time to stop myself from pulling away from you in disgust, that's the line I realized that Callum didn't mean a word of it because he had no other lovers. It had always been Sephy.

I've already forgotten about you, he never forgot about Sephy and I knew his last thoughts were of her. I just knew it.