Ashburn and I tacitly refrained from contacting each other, putting that night’s events out of our minds.


    This was our usual game.


    I shuttled between school and the apartment, busy with my graduation project, attempting to make all news about Ashburn disappear in this way.


    But asionally, I still heard news about him from others.


    “That Sophia has clearly improved her resourcestely, probably from her boyfriend.”


    “I’m so envious. That Ashburn, rich and handsome, willing to spend money on his girlfriend. Look at my boyfriend, Ugh.”


    Every time I heard these things, I wondered, where could I go to stop thinking about him?


    The teddy bear he sent me was ced by my bedside.All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    I made a wish to it, wishing not to love Ashburn anymore.


    But my teddy bear, it seemed to have fallen from god to be a devil.


    As long as I said that to it, Ashburn woulde over in the evening with a strong smell of alcohol.


    I never opened my eyes, and he assumed that I didn’t know.


    It seemed like we were ying a game of stubbornness, waiting to see who would give in first , whether I would open my eyes first or he would drink himself to death.


    However, soon, another man appeared in my life.