Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 19

I felt a pang in my heart. The sweet, juicy watermelon immediately turned sour in my mouth.

I kept my silence as I frowned and tossed the watermelon skin back onto the table. Then, I wiped myself clean with the towel.

Was that a harmless insult? Or did he really look down on me that much?

He was perfect. As someone who’d had a crush on him for the longest time ever, how much harder did I have to work to shift my affection to somebody else?

I didn’t know if I was destined to spend the rest of my life alone while waiting and hoping that my childhood sweetheart would finally come to his senses.

“Felix White, you’re a meanie. Can’t you stop being so cruel to me?” I whined inwardly.

It was bad enough that he didn’t like me. But he didn’t have to rob me of my peace either.

Please, could he just leave me the fuck alone?

Both our families still spent Christmas Eve together.

Mom, Dad, and I were all quickly ushered over to Uncle Austin’s house early in the morning. Mom then looked at Christmas dinner recipes with Aunt Mel while Dad and Uncle Austin pored over a game of

chess.

p with fairy

Christmas decals, and the rest of the house was lights. We’d hear caroling outside the door from time to time, and the TV just kept playing Christmas movies on repeat. It really felt

do, and I wanted nothing more than to go home and burrow under my

his room.

reject her offer, but I also didn’t do as she

and started scrolling on my

the past kept flashing in my mind. It was already deeply embedded in my brain, and I didn’t allow myself to forget

a very unforgiving person who held on to grudges, i just knew that there was a deep scar in my heart that never

liked him with all of my heart and soul, but I also didn’t dare to get any closer to him.

alone? You look like

snatched away,

on the couch and brought my phone up to

watch. I didn’t choose it because I liked tort was good. Rather, I chose it because it

back to me,” I said, reaching up

“If you want your phone back come to my room to get it.” Then, he turned on his heels

his room,

taken by me, and I’d saved them for a long, long time. He didn’t know

got up and went to his room

phone with one hand, and his

widely and happily, showing all of his teeth.

He should just let me be my miserable self for the day. Why couldn’t he just leave me be

time?