Felicity sniffed and glanced at him. Then, she said in a quavering voice,” What thing?”
Vermont paused as if he had something difficult for him to talk about. Then, he said after some time, “I used to have a girlfriend who was a model. She showed interest in me first, and she looked kind of pretty. So, I dated her fora while.”
Felicity paused. “You mean you slept with her for a while, huh?”
Vermont was speechless.
“I didn’t!’ Vermont glared at her. “I only wanted to be in a relationship because I enjoyed the process of it, okay? Who told you I slept with every girlfriend I had? Besides, she was the one who chased after me. I only dated her because I thought she looked kind of cute, and she was fun to hang around with. But-“
His tone changed as he gritted his teeth, ’But, that model was Nicole’s exgirlfriend! Nicole thought that I stole her girlfriend, and she got so angry that she tried so hard to be with me just so I would break up with her exgirlfriend. Not only that she could take revenge on her ex-girlfriend by doing that, but she could also hurt my feelings.”
Felicity was confused.
She could not process what she had been told. “Nicole’s ex-girlfriend? Isn’t Nicole a girl? Her girlfriend… l-ls she…”
Felicity widened her gaze.
Vermont put on a look on his face that said, “It’s exactly what you’re thinking.”
Felicity was speechless. ‘What I wrote is already cliche enough. I can’t believe the reality is even more cliche.1
Vermont said in a low voice, “Only a few people know about this. I’m only telling you this because I trust you. So, you better not speak a word about it. The people in our country are not that open-minded yet.”
“I know.” Felicity’s voice sounded a lot softer too. “I’m not stupid.’
Then, she asked, “Why did you send her flowers and confess to her then?”
Vermont answered, “She wanted to be with me, but I already had a girlfriend back then. Besides, I didn’t have any romantic feelings for her, so I kept ignoring her. But, she’d come looking for me at the snooker club. She just wouldn’t leave no matter how hard I tried to chase her away. She wanted to play a game with me. She said that she’d never appear in front of me again if I won, but I’d have to visit her at the set with flowers and tell everyone that we’re dating for a day if I lost.”
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