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.”

looked at the doll in her arms and continued, “Then, is this you?”

Then, she took his doll back and sat it

point clear.

commented, “Yes, they look like a brother and his sister indeed.”

young and didn’t know better, but the moment she heard him, her adoration for the dolls decreased

doll, she

in Lewis’

him to her contacts and had never changed it

had never

felt heavy-hearted, as

and making it

her senses, her vision

her tears. Then, she covered her eyes with her hand.

the dolls seemed to stare at

night, Josephine couldn’t sleep.

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

a cold

of dawn. She pulled the covers aside and got out of bed. She saw her phone on the bedside. She couldn’t control herself. She picked it up and unlocked the screen. The

screen and saved the photo. Then, she returned it to its original size and

at the bottom

her breath and stared at his

if he was going to

waited for so long that she almost forgot to breathe.

the status

it reappeared as “Lewis

earth was he doing? Perhaps he wasn’t texting

someone

the status

than two minutes later, it reappeared.

you typing a message to me?”

The constantly shifting status remained the same the second she

again, “Is it to inform me to

that message, a red

mark incredulously. She saw an error message below. It stated, “You and Lewis aren’t friends yet. Click this message to send him

request.

just

her

had blocked her.

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