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

burrow under my warm, cozy blankets. But Aunt Mel

his room.

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

started scrolling on

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

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

him with all of my heart and soul, but I also didn’t dare

doing here alone? You

suddenly snatched away, making me jump in

onto the armrest on the couch and brought

so bored, I’d pulled 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 very long movie, and it was

it back to me,” I said, reaching up to

a glance, saying, “If you want your phone back come to my room to

didn’t want to go to his

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 by

up and went to his

I reached his room, he was sitting by his table. He was holding my phone with one hand, and his other hand beckoned me in.

happily, showing all of his teeth. His eyes were also bright and

was 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

time?

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