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.

couldn’t quite pinpoint his feelings during those years Every time his finger 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

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

the mix of anger and complex disappointment, every time he faced the number,

thought that Sophia must have changed her number

out she kept it all

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

back to her polite “Hello, who’s this? on the phone

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

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

a few cars parked in front of the building,

in the driver’s seat, remained still, just

car, and as she turned

and saw Brandon inside the car.

with a warm voice as she got into the

had always been like this. During their school days, upon their reunion, and even during the two years they were married, she

time, Brandon realized that he actually

he

couldn’t help but glance at

his stare, asked, “What’s

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