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 her arms and continued, “Then, is this you?”

nodded vigorously. Then, she took his doll back and sat it beside hers.

her point

they look like a

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

doll, she had never

the dolls appeared in Lewis’ profile picture.

profile picture since she added him to her contacts and

had never noticed it.

photo. She felt heavy-hearted, as if

making it difficult for her to breathe.

to her senses, her vision was

closed her eyes and wiped her tears. Then, she covered her eyes with her

the dolls seemed to stare

night, Josephine couldn’t

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

had a cold

covers aside and got out of bed. She saw her phone on the bedside. She couldn’t control herself. She

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

she went to her conversation with Lewis, the status at the bottom of the

her breath and stared

if he was going to text

for so

minutes later, the

to exhale when it reappeared as “Lewis

changed. What on earth was he doing? Perhaps he wasn’t

someone else instead.

the

minutes later, it reappeared.

“Are you typing a message to me?”

second she sent the message, as though someone

“Is it to inform me to sign the papers?”

a red exclamation

She saw an error message below. It stated, “You

request.

he just block

a question mark to confirm her assumption and received the same response.

had

it had never crossed her mind that