Chapter 40

“No, it really is her,” I said faintly.

Lilac had supposedly returned home with her mother after several days. She was standing under a small klosk by the roadside. She held a large umbrella above her as the rainwater splattered her short skirt, making her curves all the more apparent.

Lilac looked like a fake flower sprouting in the rain.

She placed her hands near her mouth again before yelling. “Felix!”

Felix saw her this time. Light glowed in his dark eyes. He ran out into the rain like an excited child, his white sneakers splashing in the dirty rainwater. “You’re back, Lili.”

Felix ran over and held Lilac in his arms. She giggled happily.

I stood there in the torrential rain, not even noticing that my umbrella was off–kilter. My heart felt numb.

Felix always managed to hurt me without so much as lifting a finger.

and rain swirled around me cruelly. My heart

to one another in the rain. Lilac giggled again and nuzzled into his

Felix wasn’t able to control himself in the

Felix holding tender little Lilac in the rain

the sound of

behind. Lilac turned around and yelled out to me.” We’ll be leaving first,

supposed to be a caring phrase,

only me alone in the usually

wind and rain tore the skies above me. I

thunder, and lightning, as well as the pain in the deepest corners of my heart, to

love that I had never

clouds seemed to nearly swallow me whole. Water began pooling on the streets. Lightning flashed

from the start that Felix wasn’t yours? He never was and never will

so many other boys in this world. Why hurt yourself again and

scared of hurting again? Won’t you give up out of desperation?” I asked myself again and again, yet my

answer, not with how in

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