What Separates Me and You

Chapter 28

Chapter 28 Happy Birthday

The smile froze on Sierra’s face. She struggled for quite a while before finally managing what seemed like a smile.

“I was just joking! What’s gotten into you, why are you being so fierce?”

The corners of Lewis’ lips raised as he chuckled. “I was just kidding too.”

People in the restaurant came and left, and still, Josephine waited silently. An hour passed, and then another. Still, there was no sign of Lewis.

She rested her chin on her hand, gazing out the window at all the lights out there. One by one they went out, and the bustling crowd on the road dwindled gradually.

Soon, the diners in the restaurant left too.

The lights outside were slowly switched off, and in the end, even the lights inside the restaurant were switched off.

The person who promised to celebrate her birthday with her never showed up.

“Mrs. Alvarez,” someone called out behind her.

Josephine snapped out of her reverie and turned around. It was the manager followed by two waitstaff standing beside her.

The manager smiled and said, “We’re closing.”

Josephine looked around her in the dim lights of the restaurant to find that everyone else had left.

She wasn’t exactly disappointed. After all, she was already used to it.

She hadn’t waited that long either. It had just been five hours. Compared to how long she had waited for him in the past, five hours wasn’t that much.

Just as Josephine got up and was about to leave, one of the waiters brought out a cake.

“Mrs. Alvarez, it’s your birthday today. This is a cake that’s been prepared for you in advance. Happy birthday!”

The waiter put the cake in front of her, and the manager said, “It’s almost 12, have some cake before you leave, or you can make a wish.”

Josephine felt that the flickering candles on the cake were not well wishes. Instead, they were the manager’s pity and sympathy toward her.

She tried very hard to put on a smile, although it did not turn out pretty.

closing her eyes, she said silently to herself, “Happy

candles after making a wish did not work. She’d

sighed silently to himself at the

earlier on had everything planned. out and had informed him that someone would be there soon. But

the person was not there

to be

and blew out the candles. The manager

cake from her. Then, he pulled out a little plastic figurine from his pocket and passed it to Josephine. “This is

looked at the figurine and took it. She nodded with a smile on her face. and signed

then that the manager realized in astonishment

of their time, Josephine picked up a fork and

mouth, her stomach churned. However, she bit down on the urge to throw up and forced herself to

took her phone out and typed on it. “Thank you, I’ll make a move

Shall we

cake. Although she couldn’t stomach any more of it, she got

made a beeline for the trash can as

left in her stomach and felt much

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system of the thick

herself tightly. The moisture in the air was so chilly that her nose went red from the

the deserted pavement, the dim streetlights cast long shadows around her. She walked slowly, stepping

distance, Josephine caught sight of someone by the trash can not

blinked and approached the person, only to

she went up

and whipped around in shock. She heaved a sigh of relief when

bun which she hid behind her, the old

lady and reached out for her hand, shaking her head to tell

want this too?” The old lady looked Josephine up and down. She didn’t look

the ground and motioned,

seemed like butterflies fluttering around in the air under the dim illumination

while later, the old lady shifted her gaze to look

nodded with tears in her eyes. “Yes, I’m Josie.

She picked up a walking stick beside

Josephine followed her.

had been a household staff of the Alvarezs’, and was a trusty worker of Old Mr. Alvarez’s. She had been the one to take care of Josephine ever since she came

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