Mr. Conrad Proposes To His Ex-wife Again

Stella was not going to waste her time on arguing with him, so she talked back immediately, “Never mind if you don’t want to tell me.”

Clarence grabbed her shoulders and asked word by word, “Stella, do you like Emmett?”

“…” Stella frowned, “What a weird question.”

“Just answer me.”

Stella answered after a while, “No.”

Clarence tightened his grasp and asked again in a soft and low voice, “Then do you like me?”

“You stopped me here for asking these boring questions?”

“How could they be boring?”

Stella raised her voice, “They are totally boring! And, I have been wondering why did you come to my party with my friends. Don’t you feel embarrassed and uncomfortable?”

“Not at all.”

“But Mr. Conrad, have you found that everyone else was upset by your present?”

Clarence responded in an unemotional voice, “I don’t care others’ opinions. I only care you.”

Hearing his words, Stella couldn’t help laughing, “Mr. Conrad is serious?”

“Yes.”

“If Mr. Conrad really cares what I think, haven’t you figured out that I hate you? Your appearance upset not only my friends, but also me ….”

Clarence interrupted her, “Stella, this is your answer?”

“What ….”

Stella realized what did he mean as soon as she uttered the first word.

He referred to the question that if she liked him.

Stella looked at him calmly, “I thought you knew the answer.”

Clarence asked, “Now that you hate me, why did you help me today?”

the atmosphere because of you. And, I owed you a lot, so I

that she was soft at

wretched man had been mean to her most of the time, but he was nice to her

Street was the most peaceful

time, although Clarence couldn’t cook, he cooked fish soup for

of a ruined

was a trouble, when there was a power blackout, he would take out the coal burning oven to heat water so that she could

though the electricity supply was restored before he could do

an abortion, but he

Although ….

and stopped

me. It’s a

grown-ups. There’s more than like in our world. Let me tell the truth. From the moment when I asked to divorce you, I have never had the idea that we would get back together

up and down. He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t open

you with the baby to make you divorce me. You should hate me. I deserve it. I will take the consequences with no complaints whatever they will be. However,

have been divorced for six months. And the baby’s gone as you wished. We are even now. Why don’t

low voice, “You think that

If it is possible, I hope Mr. Conrad would never show up in

“If we had kept the baby, would you have a different

“Clarence, you should know that the problem between us is

let her go slowly,

relieved, but she felt

was flooded with

it so clear, allowing for no possibilities. He had to stop pursuing her

last farewell to him, she was in darkness all of a sudden. Clarence kissed her lips with

Stella, “…?”

him away,

held her anger, “Clarence

understand what you said. But it doesn’t matter to me. It’s enough to know

to crack his skull to see

“It was my fault that you didn’t have a good time in the past three years, but

“?”

till you can leave the past behind and forgive

misunderstood. I

“Yes, you did.”

“….”