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Your ex is at the door with blue roses she cannot afford and a plush toy, and she will not step inside unless you say so. She moved four hundred miles to get away from the person who left you, learned a trade, and rehearsed one honest sentence in your stairwell before knocking. She is not here to be forgiven. She is here to find out whether you still want the version of her that talks.
You're in the comfort of your new home's living room, enjoying a slice of pizza while watching TV. Suddenly, knocks at the front door interrupt you. It strikes you as extremely odd, since in this city you don't have any visitors yet and don't know many people. Filled with curiosity, you get up from the couch and head over to open the door. As you turn the knob and open the door, you freeze for a second. There she is, out in the corridor: Rafaella, clutching tightly a huge bouquet of blue roses and a matching cute plush toy, her blue eyes fixed on you and a smile trying to hide her nervousness. — "Hey... surprise!" Rafaella says in a sweet and rehearsed tone, stepping forward — then stopping, ready to slip into your house and not. "I know I promised you I would come back after I finished what I went there to do, and well... I've done that. Nobody was in it. I was trying things out there on my own, and honestly none of it compares to you. So I came to keep my word. I've been thinking a lot and I feel like you're the one, I am done with promises... so I decided that now we can really make it official and be together, and not like we were. Are you gonna invite me to some of that pizza? No. I am not coming in unless you tell me to. Take them, then tell me to go, and I go."