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.

wind and rain swirled around me cruelly. My

in the rain. Lilac

too sweet, and her embrace too alluring. Felix wasn’t able to control himself

of Felix holding tender little Lilac in the rain and kissing her was quite

sound of

in the rain, leaving me behind. Lilac turned around and yelled out to

was supposed to be a caring phrase,

soon left, leaving only me alone

rain tore the skies above me. I stood there in the street and

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

I had

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

know from the start that Felix wasn’t yours? He never was and never will be, so why are you

let him go? Why are you still crying? There are so many other boys in this world. Why hurt yourself again and again through

you give up out of desperation?” I asked myself again and again, yet my heart

couldn’t find an answer, not with how in shambles

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