Seven Years of Marriage with Jake

Chapter 31

Book 2- Chapter 22

I searched hard through my memories, and finally, the small figure from deep in my memory overlapped with the tall man before me.

I was delighted: "It's you, Zack Pearson!"

Zack was my elementary school classmate, or more accurately, my first-grade classmate. In second grade, his parents took him to another city for school. Because we had the same surname, the teacher arranged us to be desk mates.

at school, and after school and on

same town. Sometimes I would go to his house to do homework,

and my mom would invite him to stay for

I was feeling

brought a white rose from his home to cheer me up. It was brought back by his mom;

I got the flower, it smelled so good! It was also from that time that I dreamed of

didn't know how to take care of it, and the flower wilted the next

roadside, crying my eyes out, clutching the flower. Zack looked at me seriously and promised: "Ava, don't cry. When I grow up, I'll buy you a big bunch of flowers, ninety-nine of them!" Later, his family's driver came to pick him up in a car, and I sat on my mom's