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.”

He looked at the doll in her arms and

Then, she took his doll back and

her point

he commented, “Yes, they look like a brother and his

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

her doll, she had never

the dolls appeared in Lewis’ profile picture.

using this profile picture since she added him to her contacts and had

had never

felt heavy-hearted, as if something was

it difficult for her to

to her senses, her vision was

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

phone lay silently on her palm, and the dolls seemed to stare at her through the screen.

night, Josephine couldn’t sleep.

night, and her bed was cold. Her hands and

a cold

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

photo. Then, she returned it to its original

Lewis, the status at the bottom of the

breath and stared

She wondered if he was going

no message came in. She waited for so

minutes later, the

it reappeared as

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

with someone

the status

two minutes later, it reappeared.

and texted, “Are you

the second she sent the message, as though someone

it to inform me

red exclamation mark appeared on the screen.

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

request.

just block

question mark to confirm her assumption

Lewis had

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