Chapter 40

“Yeah, I’m heading back now, Sophia whispered, “Gotta hang up.”

And then she hung up the phone.

Brandon slowly put down his phone only when the busy signal “beep beep” hit his ears, glancing at the screen.

The phone had already gone back to the lock screen.

He unlocked it and, on the call log page, that dialed number was still just a string of digits.

That string of digits had been saved in Brandon’s contacts for eight years.

A number he jotted down in his youth, during the time he reconnected with Sophia, he almost never dialed it, even though he knew it by heart without having to save it

Brandon couldn’t tell why he never called in those years. He often thought of Sophia, remembered how she stood. quietly at the podium, introducing herself with her unique soft voice, “Hi everyone, I’m Sophia.” Every time he thought of her, he couldn’t help but fish out the number, but he never actually dialed it.

the call button, memories of the graduation party when the teacher regretfully informed everyone that Sophia couldn’t make it, wishing everyone fun, would flood him with a sense of loss and anger. That year, Sophia had left without

that loss and anger, there was the complex feeling

complex disappointment, every time he faced the number,

even thought that Sophia must have

turned out she kept

her number like the back of his hand, but as for his own number

on the phone just now,

had responded with “Hello, who’s this? She genuinely didn’t know who was on the

figure appeared at the turn of the stairwell in the teaching building, quietly looking

a few cars parked in front of the building, and

seat, remained still, just watching her

around but didn’t notice Brandon’s car, and as she turned to head in a different

and saw Brandon inside the car. She walked over

car just now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice as

and even during the two years they were married, she never seemed overly affectionate or clingy. It was as if

time, Brandon realized that he actually didn’t like

he even despised

but glance at

his stare, asked, “What’s

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