Lily gasped in shock.

She thought she had heard him wrongly. The features of the boy in the image started to make sense to her since she had wondered why he seemed so familiar in the first place.

"Girlfriend?" She swallowed, surprisingly losing her voice to a crack.

Roman looked like he was shocked he had said his thoughts out loud. With a sigh, he lowered his voice and put the picture back into the book and stuffed his hands in his pocket. "Was."

"You don't have to lie to me." She said, unable to hide the hurt that flashed through her voice.

'she's dead.' He said like it was nothing. 

"Oh." Lily blurted and felt her heart warm instantly. "I'm so sorry." She sighed. She knew she was supposed to feel sad but a part of her felt relief that this woman in question was not a part of his life anymore.

"What happened?" She wondered 

"I don't want to talk about it " he said, putting the book away. Now that his brain cells had