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.

hovered over 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

loss and anger, there was the complex feeling that Sophia was

time he faced the number, he never followed through

even thought that Sophia must have changed her number

she kept

number like the back of his hand, but as for his own number which hadn’t changed in eight years,

on the phone just now, Brandon’s eyes dimmed

“Hello, who’s this? She genuinely didn’t know who

the turn of the stairwell in the teaching building, quietly

few cars parked in front of the building, and she couldn’t

driver’s seat, remained still,

Brandon’s car, and as she turned

the sound and saw Brandon inside the car. She walked over

didn’t see your car just now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice

and even during the two years they were married, she never seemed overly affectionate

that he actually

fact, he even despised

couldn’t help but

his stare, asked,

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