Without You

Epilogue

*Five Months Later* (3rd Person Pov)

Aubrey buttons the back of her dress, sad thoughts circling in her mind.

More than four months ago, she applied to the University of Alabama. After for waiting this long, no letter or anything has come back for her.

The thoughts that she won't be going to the same school as Luke terrifies her.

She hasn't even told him yet. As far as he knows, they will be attending the same school, comes Fall.

She knows that if she tried to, she would just burst into tears.

"Ten minutes until we leave, hurry and get ready. You better wear those damn wedges too," her mother calls from downstairs. Aubrey sighs and takes a seat on her bed.

She can't believe today is graduation. It feels like the time just flew by.

Over the past five months, Luke and Aubrey have gotten impossibly closer. To strangers, they look to be already a married couple. Even to their friends.

The couple had stayed as strong during the past five months as they had during the first few weeks of their relationship.

They were in a never-ending honeymoon phase.

The knew everything about each other. They were always 100 percent truthful and they never told lies. They knew each other physically, very well, and they knew each other emotionally.

This is the first time Aubrey has ever kept something from him and the one time she does, it is huge.

Feeling like she can't give up, Aubrey opens her computer. For the first time since applying, she signs into her account and looks at her application.

She wonders what on earth went wrong. She did everything right and she submitted.

Her eyes fall to the bottom of the page.

Are you sure you would like to submit?

The red button stares back at her and her heart falls to her stomach. She never fully submitted. She clicks the button as quickly as she can, hoping that clicking it faster will give her a better chance of getting a letter back.

You have just submitted your application to the University of Alabama! You have used the rolling deadline to submit. February 1st was the deadline for priority admissions. Your submission will be reviewed but not prioritized. We hope to see you this Fall! Results will be sent within 4-6 weeks.

At reading the screen that pops up on her computer, her heart drops even more.

'I've got to tell him', she decides.

She finishes getting ready and she puts the pair of wedges on.

There is no place she applied that is close. The closest would be eight hours away.

The car ride to the school, she fiddles with her David Yurman silver bracelet that Luke had gotten her for her birthday only a month and a half prior.

She had been exceptionally thankful when she opened the gift. She had seen the bracelet in a window while out shopping with him a while before her birthday and she thought it was absolutely gorgeous.

That is until she saw the $500 dollar price tag that came with it.

After receiving the gift, she did tell Luke off for buying something so expensive but she forgave him shortly after. Now, she wears it every day.

As her mother pulls into the school parking lot, she exits the car swiftly. She and her mother's relationship had really never been the greatest but as the months have gone by, they're hardly even acquaintances.