The engagement ceremony ends successfully, and Karin quietly leaves the scene. She walks on the road alone in contemplation. Everyone has their own different thoughts. What she prefers are beyond the understanding of others; similarly, what others like are beyond her reach. Therefore, she is doomed to be alone.
"Karin, Karin..."
Billie calls her behind her. So she stops and turns back and then asks Billie, "Why do you come with me?"
"Because I want to talk with you."
"But it is your big day. How can you leave now?"
"It doesn't matter. The ceremony ends just now, and it's time for dinner. I can go."
Billie goes into a coffee shop with her.
Listening to the melodious music in the coffee shop, Karin feels better. She is stirring the coffee in the cup while adding sugar to the coffee. Billie looks at her with puzzlement, as if she doesn't know her.
"Is something on my face?"
"No. I remember that you never added sugar when drinking coffee."
Karin smiles and says, "It's too bitter without sugar."
"Why didn't you think that it was bitter?"
"At least I think it was less bitter than now."
It didn't matter even though it tasted bitter before, because she felt happy in her life; however, she only feels pain in her life now.
"Then what are you going to do?"
Billie asks her. She hopes Karin will not be painful anymore.
am going to
"Edinburgh? Why?"
want to
and she almost chokes because of the
you really pregnant with his baby? Are you going
you talking
you
whether he lied to me or not. I don't believe he would make love with me
When a man stays together with a woman he likes, especially when they are drunk, he will lose his mind
think that this is
shakes her hands quickly and denies, "Of course not. I just think that he might have slept with you at that
find him. Now
"Can you contact him?"
mobile phone number has been suspended, and the mailbox where he sent me an email
find him?
says, "I don't know, so it's hard to find him. But
You are pregnant now. Even if you can find him then,
"That's impossible!"
impossible. I don't think you should take the
then continues, "If he says this is his baby and asks you to stay with him, you
this baby, I have to leave him; if I choose him, I have to abandon the baby. No matter who
between Troy and your baby. As the saying goes, you
to do right now. And then Billie suggests to her, "I think you should give up
She feels shocked because she doesn't believe
this baby now. Please think twice. Will you feel happy if you leave Troy? Will he be
When she is thinking about what Billie said to her
Lily takes her to her parents' grave
shakes her head with puzzlement, "I
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