She seemed to be choked on my words for a moment and stayed silent for quite a while.
When she urged me to buy a car back then, I didn't even have a driver's license.
She gave me a vision.
She said, "With a car, I can pick you up and drop you off at work. It's so romantic!
"Once we have a car, we can take a weekend road trip, go out in the suburbs, and have a world that only belongs to the two of us."
But just a few days after I bought a car, Lara became impatient.
"Your company is so far away, and it's not on my way. It's early in the morning. I need my beauty sleep.
"Handle it yourself. Don't bother me again!"
After she said that, she never picked me up or dropped me off at work again.
I spent my days on the crowded subway while paying off the car loan. Now that I thought about it, I was such a big sucker.
"Is your colleague who rides with you a man or a woman?"
"A woman. She's just a friend. Do you have any other questions?"
She hesitated for a while and couldn't say anything.
Maybe to make her suffer more, I said deliberately.
"Relax. I have never taken care of her when she was sick, never peeled crabs for her, and never stayed overnight at her house in the middle of the night!"