His Heart Is Now Elsewhere

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Chapter 7

At three in the morning, the room fell silent.

The sound of water in the bathroom rang out.

Maeve pulled back the curtain and walked out with her legs, which had lost consciousness.

She stepped over the scattered broken clothes, placed the memory card on the table, and opened the

door.

After a soft sound, a deep voice came from the bathroom.

“What sound? Is someone there?”

“How is it possible for someone to be here so late at night? Never mind, let’s try again.”

I slightly pushed open the bathroom door, then tightly closed it again.

Maeve turned around and looked at her reflection in the glass, then she turned back and closed the

door.

The streets in the early morning were empty, with no one and no cars.

She wandered aimlessly alone, with a buzzing sound in her ears, but her mind was completely

blank.

I don’t know how long we had been walking, but it was already dawn.

Maeve lifted her bruised eyes and realized, to her surprise, that she had unknowingly returned to her high school alma mater.

was very quiet. She walked alone on the school

dusty memories loosened slowly.

pulled her to run around the 800–meter track of the playground, decorated the small hall with roses for her birthday, and confessed his love to her in front

was just like in the past, but Maeve, who was in

different.

She w

to the teaching building and ran into the headmaster who happened to be

of Donte’s previous high–profile pursuit, almost all the teachers recognized her, and the principal smiled and greeted her.

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suddenly come back to school? And where is Donte? I heard engaged

smile and changed

you

two p

since I last came back, so I thought I’d drop by and

and talked, recalling many past events and feeling a thousand

remember something and took out a yellowed diary from the office

check I used to do during our study sessions. I took it from Donte’s hands. Since your good times

hesitated for a moment, then took it and

back, she opened her diary and saw Donte’s flamboyant

didn’t agree with me, but she smiled at me today, and I felt

vacation was too long. I waited downstairs at Maeve’s house for four hours before I finally saw

23rd, someone confessed to Maeve today, and it made me so angry. I ended up beating him up and got reprimanded.”

today was my seventeenth birthday. Seventeen–year–old Donte’s only wish was to be with sixteen–year–old Maeve, forever, never

page had the same name, writing down the thoughts of the

Maeve’s nose suddenly felt sour, and tears uncontrollably streamed down her face.

by drop, it is a tribute to the

is also

the car stopped at the entrance of the villa, Maeve

emotions.