He perfunctorily touched my forehead and as the door closed, the room fell into a dead silence.
I lowered my head, looked at the water flowing all over the table, took a tissue and wiped it carefully.
Then I walked to the refrigerator and took out a birthday cake.
I lit the candles and made a sincere birthday wish for myself before twelve o’clock.
“I wish you happiness every year and I will never return to Elmer in this life.”
It was already noon the next day when Elmer came back.
I was cleaning things with gloves on when I opened the door.
He rubbed his eyebrows and pointed to the black bag piled at the door. “Is there so much garbage at home?”
“Well, there are quite a lot.”
After all, it was all the things he gave me in the past five years.
And every one of them, I flipped through all the dynamics that Melissa specially opened last night for a whole night.
They were all things she mentioned, bought and liked.
Elmer spared no effort to replace all his deep affection for Melissa with me.
And I was like a clown, treating false feelings as treasures.
Now, the garbage should return to the garbage dump.
He didn’t ask or look at it and walked over.