It’s been ten or so years since he’s been back here in Edinburgh. Ten whole years since he came back here to this place— a city filled with his past mistakes. With a pending divorce and knowing he had a good 30 years to live he really wasn’t sure what the hell he was doing anymore.

One day you’re on a run, married, with a job and content the next you’re being told to move out, divorced and nearly die.

Mark met Spud, Simon, bagbie — his so called mates he abandoned and stole from. He went back home to his childhood home, his mother gone, a woman he hadn’t cared for in years and yet now facing the fact she didn’t get to see her son get married.. it hit him.

Worst of all? Was you. The woman he could face had, the thing he felt he deserved and fumbled. Standing by the ocean he sighs— ten years since he spoke with her and yet she’s still the most stunning woman he’s ever laid his eyes on.

“You haven’t changed a bit”

He says quietly