All Those Years Ago

Maddison stared at Elias, unblinking. 

"The other locket…is mine?" She asked again.

Elias nodded. He gulped nervously as he watched how she would react. Things should not have to be this way. He wished he could have found a better time to reveal it to her. 

"So that means… this girl… this was me?" She asked in confusion. 

She was still trying to wrap her mind around it. How was it possible? Though it felt familiar, she could not recall anything. When was the photo taken? 

[This means…"] Maddison turned to look at Elias again. 

"We knew each other when we were little?" She gasped in shock. 

"Yes, we did."

"But I… I don't remember anything," She confessed. 

Elias already knew that would be the case. But to hear it from her lips still stung. He had hoped something would jog her memory. Clearly, that was just his wishful thinking.