Occasionally I would tease him, “Don’t you think it’s a waste of time to remember so much?”
But he smiled and scratched my nose and said, of course not, he said he would record all of these and when we were old, we could sit in a rocking chair and read them slowly.
After flipping through them for a while, I took all these things to the yard and burned all the past without hesitation.
Time flew.
Fred had never come back.
I had been cleaning the house these days.
I stopped only after I made sure that there was no trace of me in this house.
Looking at the big “3” on the calendar.
I started to choose a birthday gift for Aunt Mandy.
In the end, I chose a jade pendant.
I hoped that when I was not around in the future, Aunt Mandy could be healthy and safe.
After everything was done, it was Aunt Mandy’s birthday, which was also the day before the wedding.
In the meantime, Fred sent me a message to explain that the company needed to go on a business trip, but I didn’t reply.
Later, he called me again to ask me why I sent a text message to abuse Ellen.
He asked me to apologize to Ellen and said that as long as I admitted my mistake, Ellen was simple and kind and would not care about me.
I found it ridiculous. We had known each other for so many years, but in his mind, I was actually someone who would do such a mean thing.
I hung up the phone directly.
His text messages came one after another: [Sabrina, how dare you!]
After a few minutes, he sent me another message asking me: [Sabrina, I really can’t figure out why you have become like this now?!]
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Aunt Mandy was my mother’s best friend and Fred’s aunt.
When my parents went to other places to develop their careers, they entrusted me to Aunt Mandy.
Later, Fred’s family moved next door to Aunt Mandy’s house.
He and I were in the same class, went to school and went home together every day and gradually became familiar with each other. Until graduation from college, he confessed to me and we naturally established a relationship.
After work, he said he was worried that it would be unsafe for a girl like me to rent a house outside.
He bought a house near my company and asked me to live with him.
Everything between him and me seemed to be a natural outcome.
The 18-year-old Sabrina probably never thought that she would have this day with Fred, right?
After suppressing the chaotic thoughts that suddenly popped up in my mind.