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

with 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

my warm, cozy blankets. But Aunt Mel stopped me from leaving and suggested that I

his room.

reject her offer, but I also didn’t do as she told me. Instead, I sat down in a

scrolling on my

embedded in my brain, and I didn’t

this would make it sound as if I was a very unforgiving person who held on to grudges, i just knew that there was a deep scar in my heart that never healed.

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

doing here alone? You look like a sad, abandoned

phone was suddenly snatched away, making me

on the

I liked tort was good. Rather, I chose it because it was

movie. Give it back to me,” I said, reaching up to try and

me a glance, saying, “If you want your phone back

go to his

time. He didn’t know about those photos. I was worried that he would

got up and went to his room to retrieve my

table. He was holding my phone with one hand, and his other hand beckoned

very widely and happily, showing all of his teeth.

let me be my miserable self for the day.

time?

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