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.

memories of the graduation party when the teacher regretfully informed everyone that Sophia couldn’t make it, wishing everyone fun, would flood him with

other hand, after that loss and anger, there was the complex feeling that Sophia

he faced the number,

Sophia must have changed

turned out she kept it

for his

this? on the phone

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

turn of the stairwell in

quite a few cars parked in front of the

in the driver’s seat,

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

Brandon inside the car.

warm voice as she

upon their reunion, and even during the two years they were married,

that he actually

he

couldn’t help but glance at

his stare,

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