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.”

is me?” He looked at the doll in her

his doll back and sat it beside hers.

point clear.

they look like

and didn’t know better, but the moment she

since Daphne broke her doll, she had

in

since she added him to

had never noticed

the photo. She felt heavy-hearted,

it

came back to her senses, her

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

and the dolls seemed

night, Josephine

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

a

looked out the window at the first glimmer 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 enlarged photo was

long-clicked the screen and saved the photo. Then, she returned it to its

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

her breath and stared at his

was still early. She wondered if he was going to text

came in. She waited for so long that she almost forgot

the

exhale when it

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

with someone

the

than two minutes later,

you typing a

the second she sent the message, as though someone

asked again, “Is it to inform me to

red exclamation mark

the exclamation mark incredulously. She saw an error message below.

request.

he just block her?

typed a question mark to confirm her assumption and received the same

doubt, Lewis had

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