Shirley quickly collected her wandering thoughts. The sky was gray, and it was drizzling.
Shirley was having an unquiet state of mind. She looked at the driver who came over to help her and thanked him.
The driver wore a cap and a face mask. He did not speak. He merely kindly helped her into the car and put away the wheelchair.
Shirley sat in the car and looked at the scenery outside the window. Her expression looked abnormally dispirited.
During the drive, the driver would occasionally lift his eyes to look at Shirley from the rearview mirror.
Shirley, who was looking out of the window the whole time, did not know that the driver was observing her.
Although it was only drizzling, Shirley felt that it was raining cats and dogs in her heart.
Her only family member had died, and the friend who took care of her this whole time was dead as well.
She had even personally gone to destroy the future o f the man she loved the most.
Heh.
Shirley chuckled at herself. She felt that her life was a failure.
It was true. She was such a failure.
She thought self-deprecatingly. Unbeknownst to her, the car had driven very far.
Shirley had not been paying attention to their whereabouts, but after a long time, she realized the car was not driving toward the airport.
She was going to go back to Glendale and back to her old home, but this was obviously not the way back home.
Even though Shirley’s hometown was in Glendale, she had been living in St. Piaf for so many years that she was very familiar with this entire place.
“Excuse me, this isn’t the way to the airport. You’re going in the wrong direction, “Shirley reminded him.
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