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.

rain swirled around me cruelly. My heart

to one another in the rain. Lilac

embrace too alluring. Felix wasn’t able

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

heard the sound of

turned around and yelled out

phrase, yet

left, leaving only me alone in the usually busy

rain tore the skies above me. I stood there in

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

love that I had never

clouds seemed to nearly swallow me whole. Water began pooling on the streets. Lightning flashed ahead from time to time, my heart flinching

Felix wasn’t yours? He never

go? Why are you still crying? There are so many other

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

find an answer, not with how

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