What Separates Me and You

Chapter 177 Lewis Blocked Her

Lewis brought Josephine to the arcade once, and they got these dolls.

Looking at the photo, the blurry images in her mind regained clarity.

It was a sunny Friday afternoon.

Josephine waited for Lewis at his high school entrance. She waited for hours, but he was nowhere to be seen.

It was almost dark before the teenager walked out of the school entrance with his friends, wearing a white shirt, carrying his uniform and bag in one hand.

His friends saw her and joked, “Your betrothed is waiting for you.’

Teenage Lewis slapped the back of his friend’s head and abandoned them for her. He squatted before her, staring at her downcast expression, and asked with a laugh, “Have you been waiting?”

She was very innocent then. She honestly nodded and stretched out three fingers to tell him. she had been waiting for three hours.

He habitually carried her in his arms and gently pinched her face. “I’ll make

up

for it.”

He brought her to the arcade. Holding her hand, he pointed at the claw machines around them. and said, “Come, pick one, and I’ll get it for you.”

She chose the dolls sitting next to each other, one bigger than the other.

They looked alike except for their sizes. There was a fleeting instance when she thought they resembled her and Lewis.

The dolls she wanted were stuck in a corner, and it was almost impossible to capture them.

Lewis kept on trying until the arcade was about to close. He spent more than a thousand.

dollars but failed.

Eventually, they approached the owner and bought the dolls.

Although they acquired them through purchase, Josephine treasured them and wouldn’t stop hugging them.

She handed the bigger doll to Lewis. He accepted it and asked, smiling, “Are you giving this to me?”

She shook her head and pointed at the doll, signing, “This is you.”

in

took his doll back and

point

like a

still young and didn’t know better, but the moment she

since Daphne broke her doll, she had never

dolls appeared in Lewis’ profile picture.

been using this profile picture since she added him to her contacts and had never changed it

had never noticed it.

felt heavy-hearted, as if something

on her and making it difficult for her to

her senses, her vision was blurry.

her tears. Then, she covered her

palm, and the dolls seemed to

Josephine couldn’t

sat up in bed before dawn broke. She didn’t sleep all night, and her bed was cold. Her

had a cold

of bed. She saw her phone on the bedside. She couldn’t control herself. She picked

she returned

conversation with Lewis, the status at the bottom of the screen showed that he was

held her breath and stared at

wondered if he was going to text her.

waited for so long that she almost forgot

the status

to exhale when it reappeared as “Lewis is typing…”.

changed. What on earth was he doing? Perhaps

someone else instead.

later, the status disappeared.

two minutes later, it

“Are you typing a message

status remained the same the second she sent

it to inform me

sent that message, a red exclamation mark

was stunned. She looked at the exclamation mark incredulously. She saw an error message below. It stated, “You and Lewis aren’t friends yet. Click

request.

just

confirm her assumption

had

blank. She didn’t know how to respond as it had