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.”

me?” He looked at the doll in her arms

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

point clear.

they look like a brother and his

know better, but the moment she heard him, her adoration for the dolls

since Daphne broke her doll, she had never played

dolls appeared in Lewis’ profile

to her contacts and had never changed it

she had never

kept staring at the photo. She felt heavy-hearted,

making it difficult for her to

to her senses, her

Then, she covered her eyes

palm, and the dolls seemed to stare

night, Josephine couldn’t sleep.

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

a cold again.

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

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

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

and stared at his status.

early. She wondered if he was going to text

message came in. She waited for so long that

later, the status

when it reappeared

he doing? Perhaps

with someone else instead.

later, the status

minutes later,

“Are you typing

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

to inform me to sign

sent that message, a red exclamation mark

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

request.

he just

a question mark to confirm her assumption and

had blocked her.

She didn’t know how to respond as it had never crossed her