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.”

at the doll in her arms and continued, “Then,

she took his doll back and sat it

point

“Yes, they look like a brother and

moment she heard him,

broke her doll, she had

the dolls appeared in Lewis’ profile picture.

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

she had never noticed it.

the photo. She felt heavy-hearted, as if

it difficult for

to her

her eyes and wiped her tears. Then,

palm, and the dolls

Josephine

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

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

the screen and saved the photo. Then, she returned

the status at

her breath and stared at

early. She wondered if he

for so long that she almost forgot to

the status

was about to exhale when it reappeared as “Lewis

on earth was he doing? Perhaps he wasn’t texting her

with someone

later, the

minutes later, it reappeared.

and texted, “Are you

happened. The constantly shifting status remained the same the second she sent the message, as though someone had

again, “Is it to inform me to

sent that message, a red exclamation mark appeared on the

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

request.

just

confirm her assumption and

Lewis had

mind went blank. She didn’t know how to respond as it had never crossed her