Trading Yesterday

After a shattered heart and broken promises, will she still own me, body and soul? Something inside me snapped as the text screamed from the screen of my phone. My heart started pounding frantically, as I was sucked into a vortex of emotions; immediately pulled unwillingly into a past I’d desperately tried to forget. Teagan Tessler was the love of my life. At least, I thought so. My professional soccer career was part of the future we planned together, but an offer with Arsenal sent me to London a year ahead of schedule. Just months after I left, she married my best friend without an explanation. My world was turned upside down leaving me completely and utterly destroyed when the two people I loved the most, betrayed me. As much as I tried to deny it, the truth of my feelings resonated. My head told me to shut off the phone and forget her forever, but my traitorous heart implored me to get on a plane, no questions asked.