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

make a wish, Blowing out candles after making a wish did not

at

seen her waiting for hours. The man from earlier on had everything planned. out

since, and the person

it was to be stood

her eyes and blew out the candles. The manager

from his pocket and passed it to Josephine. “This is a souvenir from our restaurant. Please take it as our birthday

figurine and took it. She nodded with a smile on her face.

then that the manager realized in astonishment

any more of their time, Josephine picked

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

so she took her phone out and

home, Mrs. Alvarez. Shall we

looked at the cake. Although she couldn’t stomach any more of it,

and left. She made a beeline for the trash can

was left in her stomach

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her system of the thick

her arms around herself tightly. The

streetlights cast long shadows around her. She walked slowly, stepping on her own shadow with every

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

and approached the person, only to find that

she went

shock. She heaved a sigh of relief when she

taking the half-eaten bun which she hid behind her, the

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

old lady looked Josephine up and down. She didn’t look like she

was holding on the ground and motioned,

butterflies fluttering around in the air under

her gaze to look at Josephine’s face. Her voice wavered.

tears in her eyes. “Yes, I’m

walking stick beside the trash can and hobbled over to take a seat on

Josephine followed her.

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 to the Alvarez family

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