Chapter 20

He tossed my phone back at me, and I caught it neatly. I managed to catch a glimpse of frustration on his grumpy face.

My head started hurting. All of a sudden, I didn’t know how I was supposed to spend the rest of my winter break with him around.

If I got close to him, he would feel disgusted and get sick of me. But if I kept my distance from him, he then said that I was a killjoy who didn’t know how to take a joke.

Whatever I did, he would always find a way to criticize me.

After getting my phone back, I wasn’t in the mood to continue watching the movie anymore. Instead, I found myself over–analyzing the words he told me just now.

“You girls are all the same overthinking species.”

He used the plural form of “girl“, which meant he was referring to me and at least someone else. But then again, it wasn’t hard to guess who else he was referring to.

First of all, he used to be quite anti–social since he was young and hated talking to females. I was the only exception. As of now, the only other female he was talking to was Lilac.

He had never once belonged to me. Everything I did or felt for him was just wishful thinking on my part.

After thinking it through, I opened up the photo gallery on my phone. I then deleted each and every photo of him that I’d carefully collected and cherished over the years.

Deleting his photos had been a lot harder than I thought. It felt as if I was ripping ctparts of my sanity with each deleted photo. It was painful yet calming at the same time.

All of his photos were soon gone from my phone. From then on, I no longer had any e

him any further.

to linger on

Around 9:00 pm that night, Colin video–called his family. He chatted merrily with everyone and got along

with them like a house on fire.

come here. Colin has something

Aunt Mel obediently as she turned the phone around to face me. Colin’s face was

He was looking at me quietly with

you around campus because

you been doing? So

okay.” I answered. We hadn’t seen each other for more than

mature now. The twinkle in his eyes continued

was on a whole other level altogether.

the corner of his eyes. It made him look like a

the

But I didn’t lose any weight. In fact, I love the food there. The pork ribs are some of the best

ever tasted!”

Colin was amused by how much I kept talking about the food there. He gave me a

said. “Alright then. I’ll be back

you to a meal of pork ribs as soon as

was the highlight of my time at

quite a long time. By the time it was over, it was past 11:00 pm. It

fireworks would go off. However, I was

and couldn’t keep my eyes open. I lay on their couch and went

a lot to drink, so Mom first took him back. She said that she would

while.

overwhelmed by sleep while doing the dishes earlier.

want to

fast asleep. Let’s not wake her up.

It’s just a few steps

“Alright.”

bonscious, but!

room to

answering Aunt Mel’s request.

jerked awake. As I felt his familiar scent coming closer and closer to me, I began to panic. I used up every ounce of strength in my body to struggle and fight

heard a rather loud exclamation. I’d knocked my head

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