Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 41

I told myself I could do it. I could still be that cheerful young girl named Luna without him.

torrential rain had caused a brief flood to rise above curb–level. I couldn’t see the road or what was beneath my feet save for dark, muddy water.

It was a perfect metaphor for my current state after deciding to let go of Felix and stay away from him. I still hadn’t found a way nor knew what my next step should be.

I carefully felt my way into the water, tears falling down my eyes and blurring my vision.

I was aggrieved and angry. Why was I always the one left behind? What did I do wrong? I liked Felix so much and treated him like my everything. Why did he have to treat me this way in return? 1

Was shame the only result of liking someone?

I couldn’t hold back the tears as they fell.

I told myself not to cry. I had walked this street countless times that I could go back home with or

without Felix.

But I couldn’t control my aching heart. Tears continued falling as I saw Felix and Lilac running together, laughing in the rain in my mind’s eye.

was so sad and aggrieved, yet I had no one to talk

my entire

my umbrella. I dragged my broken umbrella, wiping away the

tears from my cheeks.

like an abandoned puppy,

minutes, yet every step I took was strenuous. For every

away after it became

open my eyes. I could only walk back home

intuition.

I just had to hold

home would be waiting for

the night grew darker, the strange shadows cast by the streetlamps flitted through the buildings. They seemed like deadly

wrong with the ground. I couldn’t retract my foot fast enough.

on solid ground. Dirty water fell down on

this morning about an abandoned storm drain on the street. It was dangerous as it didn’t have

was and was certain I

less

friends beside me the last time. But this

on that year’s Thanksgiving. Now, he was the bane of my existence. I would surely be down on

a cliff last time and down a drain this time. What about next