Chapter 25

I smiled and leaned on Aunt Mel’s shoulder like I used to do when I was young. I said playfully, “Aunt Mel, please don’t say things like this again. If my boyfriend finds out, he’ll be unhappy.”

That night, I lay in bed sleeplessly for a long time. The pain in my heart continued to spread, and I gritted my teeth as I endured it.

When it was almost dawn, Felix sent me a message on WhatsApp. “Do you really have a boyfriend? Who

is he?”

I stared at the phone screen unblinkingly for a long time until my eyes began to ache.

No matter who he was, it wasn’t Felix. Why did he still have to ask so much?

I put the phone on silent mode and tossed it at the foot of the bed without replying.

I didn’t have a boyfriend. Whoever he was, it was my business and had nothing to do with Felix. I had no

reason to tell him anything.

The next morning, with huge dark circles under my eyes, I made plans with a few of my high school

friends to go hiking.

But our houses were next to each other, and even bumping into each other was a normal occurrence. The

was the reason I wanted

past, I loved things like hiking and other outdoor

me, I suddenly changed. I no longer liked sports that were too

I just wanted to stay quietly

in a group, I preferred finding a quiet place to read

do this in order to

opened the front door, Felix was coincidentally putting on

Lilac on his arm.

I couldn’t believe that I had met them

planning

you’re pretty punctual. Let’s go.

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was startled. “You guys

going to let you gallivant off by yourself?” Felix looked sideways at me, and there was mockery

the chill of dismay in

earth were they barging in on this hike? Couldn’t they just let me have

myself?

organized this, and if I were to

kill me.

really wanted to slap myself in the

wanted to go out because I didn’t want to see the two of them, but now, they were

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