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

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

point

“Yes, they look like a brother and

and didn’t know better, but the moment she

broke her doll, she had never

appeared in Lewis’ profile picture.

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

never noticed

the photo. She felt heavy-hearted, as if

on her and making it

back to her senses, her vision was

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

on her palm, and the dolls seemed

night, Josephine couldn’t sleep.

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

a cold

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

Then, she returned it to its original size and its

status at the

breath and stared at

She wondered if he

so

the status

was about to exhale when it reappeared as “Lewis

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

with someone

the status disappeared.

minutes later,

you typing

happened. The constantly shifting status remained the same the second she sent the message,

asked again, “Is it to inform me

she sent that message, a red exclamation mark appeared on the screen.

looked at the exclamation mark incredulously. She saw an error message below. It stated, “You and Lewis

request.

he just

confirm her assumption

doubt, Lewis had

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