He already knew what was wrong—and he blamed Gerald for it!
Some time later, Gerald and Cindy finished their meal together, and exchanged their contact numbers. Then he called for a cab to send her home.
Gerald stepped into the karaoke bar next door to have a look. Everyone had left, and the bar had closed for the night.
He hadn’t expected this to be such an eventful day. He was exhausted.
Hailing a cab for himself, he returned to the hotel where he was staying. The moment he stepped into his room, his phone rang again. It was that unknown caller who’d tried to reach him while he was at the restaurant earlier.
Who could it be? Curious, Gerald took the call.
“Gerald, what’s going on? Why didn’t you pick up?” It was a lovely, feminine voice. Gerald was taken aback when he recognized who was speaking.
“Giya? It was you calling?” he exclaimed, baffled.
It had been half a month since term break started. Gerald had spent most of this time in the hospital looking after Mr Winters. Perhaps because of what had happened on the first day of term break, Giya hadn’t spoken to him at all since.
Gerald had been thinking that it was just as well. And so, they’d severed contact with each other.
He hadn’t been expecting to get a call from her.
“Hmph. Surprised? I’m calling you from the landline phone in my room. So what am I to make of you not contacting me all this while? Are we not friends anymore?” Giya grumbled.
“Nothing like that… I’m just shocked that you called me!” Gerald responded wryly.
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