Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 179

It was raining in Yarchville the next day. I held Grandma's ashes and portrait, and with Lyla and Antoine by my side, we buried her.

The rain was especially cold in winter. It felt like ice. As I felt the raindrops falling on my body, I felt an ache in my chest,

soon, Grandma's tombstone was erected. I was sitting next to it, and I reached out to touch it, but for some reason, I was afraid. Grandma used to feel soft and warm to the touch, but now, she was just ice cold.

I closed my eyes and burted my head in my knees.

Ila was shielding me from the rain with an umbrella, and she said tearfully, "Eve, if you feel sad, just cry. Okay?

Cry? I wanted to, but I just couldn't. The rainwas getting) heavier and heavier. The raindrops hit the black umbrella with a thud.

It had never rained so heavily in Yardville in winter. It was as if the entire city was feeling gloomy.

"You guys can leave first." I looked up at Lyla and Antoine. "Thank you for staying with me for the past two days. It's cold, so you should head home first. I'll stay here for a while."

have me, your best friend, Tknow I'm not smart. You don't tell me a lot of things because you're afraid I'll get

at the tombstone and placed her chin on

a tinge of warmth. "I'm fine. I tried to push her away, but I felt the warmth at tears on

you have to tell me. I won't find you annoting, for will Tabandon you. I'll always be by your

lot of memories came to my mind, but in the end, all of them felt distant and blurry. I didn't want to do

move forward.

wanted it

I mentioned or thought about her, 1 would feel as if she was still here with me and

at me, her eyes swollen from crying, I felt another kind of guilt weighing down on

yet

and forced myself to close off my emotions. Then, I said, "Okay, wait for

compromised, the trace of you in

faded slightly. She let go of me and wiped away her tears. "Okay, Antoine and I will wait

the said. "It's freezing. Make sure you don't catch

grandma will always be