"Yeah."

"Is it my mother's death that's made you start hating me?" Dorothy could only think of that as an explanation.

He hated himself.

Otherwise, why would he be so heartless?

"...Don't bring that up.

Dorothy pursed her lips. At this point, she didn't want to argue with Everett. It was too exhausting, and because there had been love.

The only real relationship she had, she didn't want it to end in embarrassment for both of them.

"Everett, I'm begging you, okay?"

Dorothy turned away, refusing to look at him.

Because she didn't want to cry in front of Everett.

She didn't want anyone to see her at her weakest.

leave. I promise I won't contact

"Dorothy..."

too deeply entangled, involving the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed, being together we only hurt each other. So,

take things lightly. She had been thinking about this for

and Everett just couldn't

difference in status was something that could never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez family, then... there wouldn't have been any issue with

the root of it, it was because she wasn't good

understood this early on, it felt like a cruel

her live a dream,

the dream, not clinging to it was the only way to preserve the last bit of

me if you

couldn't maintain its

tried, he still

afraid, terrified

Dorothy left, he'd

up on him, and even if she later learned

Dorothy, she wasn't one to easily trust. It had taken him over a decade of effort to finally make her

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