When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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After the Love Has Gone

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I prepared plenty of dishes on Christmas day, waiting for Helena Hawthorne to come home for dinner.

However, she never noticed any of them as she continued packing her things into a suitcase. She then said coldly, “I won’t be spending Christmas with you this year.”

I didn’t say a thing as I started eating in silence.

Right at the stroke of midnight, Helena’s! ove posted a photo on his Instagram feed. Helena was leaning against his shoulder in an intimate manner in the photo as fireworks lit up the sky behind them.

The caption read, “She said that as long as I wanted it, she’d leave everything behind to be with me.”

I didn’t get hysterical or question her anymore this time. Instead, I just double–tapped on the post to like it.

A second later, Helena called me, sounding like she was anxious and panicking. “Don’t get mad. I’ll definitely spend the next Christmas with you…”

I laughed self–deprecatingly and said, “It’s a pity that we won’t have till next year anymore.”

By the time Helena came home, it was already the next day.

her at the

then got a text message

having my lunch. I just replied to her simply, “Come back yourself. I’m having

when Helena came in with her suitcase. She sounded tired as she huffed and puffed. Then, she stared at my back and said, “I

have immediately made her some food, but this time, I just said, “I don’t have the time. You can

glared at me. Still, she suppressed her anger as she said, “I know that you’re still mad at me

the dishes and dried my hands next. “I’m not mad.”

t

so

not.”

answered faintly, “Sure. I

into my eyes as if she was trying to see through me. She then said in a tired voice, “You’re making me exhausted like this. Can you just stop it with your

“I’m not throwing a temper tantrum. You don’t need to explain things to

she retrieved a model airplane from her suitcase and handed It to me. She looked down at me and said

airplane wasn’t wrapped up in gift paper. In fact, there were even some creases in the original packaging. It was a drastically

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off on his

I took it from her and said

of dissatisfaction appeared in Helena’s eyes. She asked me

answered simply, “That’s

She held her hands out toward me and demanded, “Where’s