“I didn’t!”
Stella glared at him, “You did! You even said that you want to be with Jaylene instead!”
Stella told the lie so unwaveringly that she put Keegan in doubt.
“D-Did I really say that?”
Stella continued, “Yeah. You said that you couldn’t remember me, so you didn’t want to be with me or even see me.”
Keegan looked somewhat pitiful, like an abandoned puppy. His lips trembled.
After a long silence, he said, “I must have been confused. Can I take back those words now?”
“Can words spoken be taken back? I’ve heard them all.
When you said those things to me, my heart broke.”
Keegan frowned, racked his brain, and said pitifully, “Can you forget them then?”
Stella could not help but chuckle upon hearing that. She reached out to pinch his earlobe and gently rubbed his nose, “Hug me, and I’ll forget them.”
Keegan immediately hugged her, “Have you forgotten?”
Stella closed her eyes, “Not yet.”
After a few seconds, Keegan asked again, “Have you forgotten?”
Stella replied slowly, “A little bit.”
After some time, Keegan spoke again, “Have you-“
“I’m not going to forget anything if you keep running your mouth.”
Keegan instantly kept quiet.
Stella leaned against him and asked softly, “Do you remember what happened after you let go of me in the river that day?”
Keegan thought for a moment and began to tell her everything that he could recall.
The slender trunk could not bear their weight, and they could not climb up either.
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