Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Chapter 20 He tossed my phone back at me, and | caught it neatly. | managed to catch a glimpse of frustration on his grumpy face.

My head started hurting. All of a sudden, | didn’t know how | was supposed to spend the rest of my winter break with him around.

If I got close to him, he would feel disgusted and get sick of me. But if | kept my distance from him, he then said that | was a killjoy who didn’t know how to take a joke.

Whatever | did, he would always find a way to criticize me.

After getting my phone back, | wasn’t in the mood to continue watching the movie anymore. Instead, | found myself over-analyzing the words he toldjust now.

“You girls are all the soverthinking species.” He used the plural form of “girl“, which meant he was referring toand at least someone else. But then again, it wasn’t hard to guess who else he was referring to.

First of all, he used to be quite anti-social since he was young and hated talking to females. | was the only exception. As of now, the only other female he was talking to was Lilac.

He had never once belonged to me. Everything | did or felt for him was just wishful thinking on my part.

After thinking it through, | opened up the photo gallery on my phone. | then deleted each and every photo of him that I'd carefully collected and cherished over the years.

Deleting his photos had been a lot harder than | thought. It felt as if | was ripping ctparts of my sanity with each deleted photo. It was painful yet calming at the stime.

All of his photos were soon gone from my phone. From then on, | no longer had any e him any further.

to linger on Around 9:00 pm that night, Colin video-called his family. He chatted merrily with everyone and got along with them like a house on fire.

“Lulu, chere. Colin has something to say to you.” | sat next to Aunt Mel obediently as she turned the phone around to face me. Colin's face was on the screen. He was looking atquietly with a twinkle in his eyes.

“Lulu, I'm sorry | haven't been able to show you around campus because | was too busy collecting data with my supervisor. How have you been doing? So far, so good?” I'm doing pretty okay.” | answered. We hadn’t seen each other for more than a year. Colin looked even more mature now. The twinkle in his eyes continued to glimmer.

Felix was already very good-looking, but Colin was on a whole other level altogether. | was particularly drawn to a tiny mole in the corner of his eyes. It made him look like a mythical creature.

“You've lost sweight. Is the food there not to your liking?” “Really? But | didn’t lose any weight. In fact, | love the food there. The pork ribs are sof the best I've ever tasted!” Maybe Colin was amused by how much | kept talking about the food there. He gavea wide smile with the most endearing eyes I'd ever seen and said. “Alright then. I'll be back sometaround March or April. I'll treat you to a meal of pork ribs as soon as I'm back!” Colin's video call was the highlight of my tat the Whites’ house this Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve dinner lasted for quite a long time. By the tit was over, it was past 11:00 pm. It was less than an hour away until the Christmas fireworks would go off. However, | was feeling very sleepy after dinner and couldn’t keep my eyes open. | lay on their couch and went straight to sleep.

Dad had had a lot to drink, so Mom first took him back. She said that she would cback forin a while.

| was already overwhelmed by sleep while doing the dishes earlier. | was still b didn’t want to open my eyes.

‘Felix, look at Lulu. She's fast asleep. Let's not wake her up. Why don’t you bring..

rest? It’s just a few steps away.” “Alright.” bonscious, but! room to | could hear his cold voice answering Aunt Mel's request. Then, he reached towardwith his arms.

| instantly jerked awake. As | felt his familiar scent coming closer and closer to me, | began to panic. | used up every ounce of strength in my body to struggle and fight him off.

Suddenly, | heard a rather loud exclamation. I'd knocked my head against something, and it hurt quite a bit.

+15 BONUS Baldy opened my eyes and saw Felix with his hand over his nose. He was pointing atwith his other hand as his eyes titled up with tears in silent accusation.

As it turned out. I'd accidentally knocked my head against his in my haste to get up. He hadn't been able to avoid the collision.

Hooked at him with guilt in my eyes. He appeared to be in a sorry state.

“Sorry, | didn’t do it on purpose. | was still half-asleep.” | defended myself.

Then, | saw small streams of red gliding down his hand. | quickly ran to the bathroom to get a face towel for him.

He then sawout of the house with anger in his eyes. | could feel his scorching stare on my back as i walked back hnext door.

Red was a cheerful color, after all, right? So, it made sense for him to “see red” on Christmas day.

Perhaps he could consider it my Christmas blessing to him.

It would only be many, many years later that | realized he was a lot more prone to nosebleeds after that because of this incident. a And that was the only last impact I'd ever left on him in my 18 years of living.