Two years later

Everything is different. The world is bright. He can hear birds. He can see the sun. People walk around as they want.

The opposite of prison.

The place he has been for the past 712 days.

No visitors were allowed in prison. No friends. None of his kids. He was a slave to what he was told to do by the guards. He was given set times to eat. Locked in a cell with nothing to do but wallow in self-pity.

He took a risk when he became a prostitute.

At first, it was for his family...

He had the chance to quit, but he didn't take it.

He glowed in the praise and attention his clients gave him. He glowed when he received his Friday paycheck.

But now, he is empty.

Left with nothing but a shattered heart and prison scars.

Walking out of prison alone. Lost contact with his friends. Kids moved state. And Harry... well Harry was long gone. Harry can't look at him.

Louis thinks he deserves it.

For what he did.

He hurt his husband.

He hurt their kids.

Harry still thinks of Louis. The one he married and had planned to die married too. But, he doesn't think of Louis as the boy who held their dying dog. He thinks of Louis as disgusting, the one who broke their family.

And he is, Louis thinks he is.

Louis still wants to curl into a ball and never wake up.

Louis wants his mum to hold him, but she is on holiday.

But most importantly, he loves Harry...

He wants Harry.

And he always would.

Life doesn't always give you what you want. Sometimes, you are left feeling empty and lifeless. A small mistake of yours can cost you your livelihood.

But Louis' mistake, was much more than small.

It was the reason he couldn't find employment.

It was the reason people looked away on the streets.

It was the reason he lost his husband.

Divorced.

Gone.

Left.

Harry was the kindest person in the world. He wanted the best for his husband and their children.... but so did Louis. He just went around getting it the wrong way.

That would forever, haunt him.

A mistake.

That cost him everything.

He doesn't feel like he is in a bright world. He doesn't hear the happiness when birds sing. The sun just seems to cast a shadow.

He, the prettiest boy his town had ever seen, is left feeling more broken than before.

The End.

Not all endings are happy.