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.

cruelly. My heart was colder

spoke to one another in the rain. Lilac

But Lilac’s smile was too sweet, and her embrace too alluring. Felix

in the

heard the sound of my heart

Lilac turned around and yelled out to me.”

to be a caring phrase, yet it broke my heart so

only me alone in

me. I stood there in the street and

the pain in the deepest corners of my

that I had never

on the streets. Lightning flashed ahead from time to time, my heart flinching

Felix wasn’t yours? He never was and never will be, so why are

so many other boys in this world. Why

desperation?” I asked

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

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