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//The setting is a city street, dark with night but lit by the city itself. Car lights, street lights, and bright-colored illuminated signs are reflected in the street, wet with drizzling rain. Cars pour through the wide street between the skyscrapers, and people bundled in rain coats and ponchos scurry along beneath umbrellas. A girl, shorter with curly, cropped copper-toned hair, now drenched in the rain, walks briskly down the street, her gait fierce and her expression annoyed. A boy is following swiftly behind her, tall and wiry with long shaggy hair, equally drenched. He calls after her.//

Rowan: (Apologetically) Eve, please just wait!

Eve: (Without turning around) There is nothing you can say to change my mind, Rowan.

Rowan: (Catching up to her, he seizes her arm, spins her around to face him.) Just listen to me... Please... I know what you're going through, I-

Eve: (Cutting him off by shoving him away, yet doesn't try to continue down the street) No, you really don't. And this, (gesturing towards Rowan, then herself) will never work out. I just can't handle this.

Rowan: (Keeping patient) What's there to handle, Eve? You're just scared, I know. (Looking her squarely in the eye, a pleading look) I understand what you're feeling, and I will never let you fall like he did, (Firmly but gently grasping her shoulders).

Eve: (Suddenly furious) No! (Breaks out of his arms, stumbles down the street) Promises are only good for being broken, (She spits behind her as she storms away) I refuse to let you in...

Rowan: (Firmly, sternly) Evangeline,

Eve: (Hesitates, arms folded protectively over her chest)

Rowan: Evangeline, I love you.

Eve: (Stopping dead in her tracks)

Rowan: (Softly, looking at her tenderly) I will __never__ let you down. I will __always__ protect you, Eve.

Eve: (Tears welling in her eyes, turns to look back at Rowan)

Rowan: (Raises his arms slightly, welcoming)

Eve: (Runs into his open arms, crying into his chest. He smiles as he holds her.)

Rowan: (Stroking her hair) I've got you.

//Fin!//