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

and the rest of the house was lights. We’d hear caroling outside the door from time to time, and the

for me to do, and I wanted nothing more than to go home and burrow under my warm, cozy blankets. But Aunt Mel stopped

his room.

didn’t do as she told me. Instead, I

and started scrolling

was already deeply embedded in my brain, and I didn’t allow myself to forget it

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. Maybe

soul, but I also didn’t dare to get any closer

are you doing here alone? You look

suddenly snatched away, making

a tall person. He held onto the armrest on the couch and brought my

up an action movie to watch. I didn’t choose it because I liked tort was good. Rather, I chose it because it was a

back to me,” I said, reaching up

he took a step back and threw me a glance, saying, “If you want your phone back come to my room to get it.” Then, he turned on his

go to his room, much less chase

phone was full of photos of him. Most of them had been secretly taken by me, and I’d saved them for a long, long time. He didn’t know about those photos. I was worried that he would come across those photos

up and went to his room to

He was holding my phone with one hand, and his other hand beckoned me in. “Come in. We can watch the

all of his teeth. His eyes were

not the person he liked. He shouldn’t give me any false hope by leading me on. He should just let me be my miserable self for the day. Why couldn’t he just leave me be instead of

time?

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