"The trailer looks long," mused Ari, who had just been contacted by her cousin's best friend. "Thank you for the link."
She had been kept in the dark about the details, so the moment she received it, she prayed to the gods that it wasn't anything weird.
With an excited heart, she opened the link, and a video played in front of her.
Averie, with his back towards the camera, was sitting on the bank of a river, watching the sunset.
His face was only slightly visible through his cascade of hair.
The camera panned to show his right hand, which was tightly clutching a ballerina's dress.
"Goodbye, my dreams," the actor said, his eyes gazing into the distance. "We were never as close as we thought."
He held a zip lock bag in the other hand.
"And if I could lie, I would say we had something beautiful."
He lowered his head with a heavy heart, took something from his pocket, and opened the bag.
The shot was taken from behind, so what was in it could not be seen.
