They broke it
Lance Everdale
He remembers. Every single of it. How he sneaked away from his home that night. How he came up to her house in the hopes to see her but can't.
He doesn’t have the right to press the doorbell and demand to meet her at once. He can't climb the walls to trespass her room. All the options of trying to see her are slipping away. One by one.
He was a fool for thinking he will succeed. What's the point of coming here? Isn't he doing all of this to make her his someday? Why try and rush it?
He said he will do anything. He promised his father…. He thought he was prepared for the price. But to be away from her is hard.
He doesn't want to say goodbye. It's too much for him to bear. He wants to see her one last time.
Yet, there's nothing he could do except to stay. Stand farther away from her house. If her parents saw him coming here it would be over. The promise will be over.