Clemency

Mago

Well, I think I shouldn't have come in here in the place I thought when I saw what was waiting for me in the garden.

“Ash, can I speak to you for a minute?” Ian asked me while getting up from the wooden bench he was sitting on and walking towards me.

“Sure, what do you want to talk about?” I asked him in a monotone and directly looked at the forest ahead of us.

“I know what my drunken ass did back then was something unforgivable, and I am not expecting you to forgive me this instant either, but it would be great if we could start our friend from scratch. And trust me, Ash, I have changed, I am not the Ian you knew two years back.” Ian confessed, and when I finally looked at him, his eyes were glassy with unshed tears.

At that instant, all of the hoarded enmity, I had towards Ian vanished like vapor. The moment I saw the unshed tears in his eyes, I knew he isn't lying to me and that he was genuinely interested in starting our friendship back again.