Chapter 14 Empty Hands
The next day, someone delivered beef ball soup from Jiang Huai in a thermos, still hot when I got back to the dorm.
Wasting food is wrong.
I ate every drop.
After that,
Jiang Huai sent me good things to eat every few days.
But he never showed up.
I started wondering if I had gone too far that day.
The words were already out.
I couldn’t bring myself to go look for him.
Three months passed.
I had gotten used to his deliveries.
Then this week,
they suddenly stopped.
I didn’t know how to act.
My head kept asking why.
I shook it off.
This was what I wanted, right?
So why wasn’t I happy?
After a long time,
I called Older Brother.
He picked up fast.
“What?”
I tested the water. “You doing okay lately? How’s Jiang Huai?”
“You broken or something? Asking mushy crap like that. If you wanna come over, just come.”
He hung up.