Chapter 5
“I… Steve drank too much, so I brought him back. You stay at home, and once I hand him over to you, I’ll feel relieved.”
“No, you take care, I have to go!” “But…”
“What were you holding in your hand?”
Steve suddenly spoke.
“The suitcase, my belongings, I moved some of them first, and I will come back in two days to take the rest!”
“Josie, don’t be like this, Steve already knew he was wrong!”
Vivian wanted to move forward, but her wrist was grabbed by Steve.
“Let her go!”
Vivian pulled Steve anxiously, her face full of worry.
“Steve, stop messing around. You need to apologize to Josie!”
“I said, let her go!”
“Steve!”
I watched them pulling and tugging with indifference, it was boring.
I stopped at the door, walking to the door.
“You said I’m different from Vivian, Steve. I’m quite curious, what exactly did you mean by that?”
“She wouldn’t be as unreasonable as you!” Steve shouted, “Vivian is gentle, considerate, and understanding. And what
about you, Josie? Are you tired? You’re always suspicious, overthinking, and causing trouble. It’s you who wants to argue
and make a scene, and it’s you who comes running to make peace. And then you act like nothing happened. This time,
you better follow through with your words and not make me lose respect for you!”
I turned my head and looked at Steve.
Suddenly, he burst into laughter.
I pointed at him and then pointed at Vivian.
“You liked her, didn’t you?”
Steve’s face changed.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
I suddenly became calm tonight, after being in emotional turmoil.
I approached Steve step by step.
“Do you like her?”
“Josie, shut up!”
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I suddenly realized. All those details that I had ignored in the past were connected one by one.
Our close friends in the circle are all long-time friends with whom we used to have a great time.
Only Vivian is different.
She went on blind dates with Steve.
I had a big argument with Steve because of this matter in the past.
The reason was just an argument, not a breakup.
It was because he was Henry’s relative who helped.
On that day, the time for the blind date had already been set, and the woman had been waiting. However, Henry suddenly
received a notice for an emergency meeting.
“Standing someone up on the first meeting, my mom would kill me. Besides, no matter what, I can’t let the girl wait in vain. So, can you run an errand for me?”
Steve has never been one to meddle in other people’s business, but he went that day.
I treated the girl to a meal.
Arabella didn’t care. “It has already passed.”
I didn’t know about this at first. It was Henry’s first-time bringing Vivian to have a meal with us. When we were ordering,
Steve suddenly said, “Change the mango mousse over there to chocolate.”
“What happened?”
“She was allergic to mangoes!”
Steve almost blurted it out.
After speaking, both of us fell silent.
I went back that night and fought.
I have only seen the plot of blind dating for someone else in novels.
This matter was so absurd that I forgot about it. He remembered Vivian’s mango allergy after just one meal.
And there was last winter.
My friend air-freighted half a sheep.
Steve was excited and personally cooked in the kitchen.
Everyone enjoyed the meal.
Only Steve absentmindedly glanced at me twice.
At first, I thought he was going to say something to me, but when I looked up, I realized his gaze was not on me. On the second glance, I couldn’t help but ask, “What are you looking at?”
He said, “Nothing.”
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At that time, I didn’t pay attention.
Even though I followed his gaze and looked at Vivian beside me, I didn’t pay any attention.
Originally, he was looking at Vivian.
the hallway.
The outdoor motion sensor light turned on for a moment.
A few seconds later, it went off again.
1 suddenly felt the sourness in my nose, and tears uncontrollably streamed down.
But I didn’t cry.
It doesn’t count as crying if you didn’t cry out loud.
When the ambulance arrived, I had already composed myself, except for slightly dry and sore eyes, there should be no
visible abnormalities.
On the way to the hospital, I started to doze off, and I slept until the afternoon of the next day.
My whole body ached, the pain radiating from deep within my bones. Another day passed, and finally, the fever subsided, and I gradually regained my strength.
Many people contacted me these days, and all of them came to talk.
Among them was Vivian.
She said, “Josie, that day Henry was downstairs, he had drunk too much before I took Steve upstairs. If I did something that made you misunderstand, then I promise you, I will never meet Steve again in the future.”
I replied, “You can tell these things to his next partner, we have already broken up!”
I was never a person with a good temper.
Over the years, I would indeed take the initiative to make peace and actively resolve issues after encountering problems
with Steve.
But when conflicts arose, I never backed down from a fight.
So I came out of the hospital and went straight to the hardware store, where I bought a hammer, and then I went to
Steve’s house.
This house was bought by him, no doubt.
But there were many things that I purchased.
For example, the shoe rack outside the door.
I swung the hammer, and the shoe rack fell with a loud noise.
Just as the second hammer fell, the door suddenly swung open from the inside. My friend anxiously and hurriedly stuck
their head out, and upon seeing me, their faces were filled with horror.
“Josie? What were you doing?”
“Are you all here?”
“Ah, we were drinking tea!”
“That’s great!”
