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

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

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

his room.

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

started scrolling on

from the past kept flashing in my mind. It was already deeply embedded in my brain, and I didn’t allow myself

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

I also didn’t dare to get any closer to him. Just what was wrong

You look

snatched away, making me jump

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

I liked tort was good. Rather, I chose it because

I said, reaching up to try and

phone back come to my room to get

go to his

of him. Most of them had been secretly taken by me, and I’d saved them for a long, long time.

got up and went to his room to retrieve my

phone with

showing all of his teeth. His eyes

me any false hope by leading me on. He should just let me be my miserable self for the day. Why couldn’t

time?

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