AN: Happy Valentine's Day! Like all my works, this is cross-posted from AO3/Archive of our Own.
Easier to Lie
"It's okay. I didn't show up either," she reassured him, wearing a casual smirk.
Yet Kitty thought of that church in Santa Coloma—standing at the altar in that silly white dress.
She recalled the agonizing wait; the pain setting in her heart when hours struck off the clock without him; the cold stone of the steps where she sat, long after the guests left; the way her lips stayed silent, but her tears spoke freely, till they were trapped in the fur of her arms.
But she didn't tell Puss about any of that. It was easier to lie.