Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

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

We’d hear caroling outside the door from time to time, and the TV just kept playing Christmas movies on repeat. It really felt

and burrow under my warm, cozy blankets. But Aunt Mel stopped me from leaving and suggested that I spend some

his room.

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

started scrolling on

past kept flashing in my mind. It was already deeply embedded in my brain, and I didn’t allow myself to forget it either. Even

held on to grudges, i just knew that there was a deep scar in my heart that never healed. Maybe I would never recover for the rest of

and soul, but I also didn’t dare to get any

doing here alone? You look like a

away, making me

on the couch and

it because I liked tort was good. Rather, I chose it because it was a very long movie, and

back to me,” I

you want your phone back come to my room to get it.” Then, he turned

to his room, much

them for a long, long time. He didn’t know about those photos. I was worried that he

I got up and went to his room to

phone with one hand, and his other hand beckoned me in. “Come in. We can watch the movie

happily, showing all of

hope by leading me on. He should just let me be my miserable self for the day.

time?