The Love that Never Really Dies

Sebastian said nothing.

But his gaze fell sternly and steadily on her face for the first time in so many years.

When exactly did he start hating her?

If he remembered correctly, when he was around the age of ten, the Wand family moved into town out of the blue. They were originally from the North. Soon after that, Mr. and Mrs. Wand brought Sasha, who was only five years old then, to meet the Hayes. Young Sebastian was told that the girl would be his future wife.

At that time, a ten-year-old boy had yet to grasp the meaning of love.

But, on that day, he saw with his own eyes how her parents rejoiced at the arrangement. The look of pleasure on their faces, and the way the little girl gawked at him…

They filled him with disgust.

He saw the clinging greed in their eyes. He saw the little girl’s idiocy. He hated them all.

But later, the adults of the Wand family got really close to his father. They often dropped by for visits with little Sasha in tow. And whenever they came over, they would leave the foolish girl in his company.

“Sebby, would you like an orange?”

Young Sasha was actually very gentle, just like Vivian.

Every time she came to visit the Hayes and met the handsome boy who never showed his emotions, she would always offer him her favorite candy.

But Sebastian had never appreciated her kindness.

He did not like her, so naturally, he did not like everything else about her. He would snatch the candy from her, toss it on the ground, and then stomp on it a couple of times to get her to leave!

Young Sasha’s eyes were always red and swollen, swimming with tears.

very soon she would come back again. She would observe him timidly, and from a short distance away. She was like a piece of sticky bubble gum that he could never seem

that had

was that one time when he had an episode, and she happened to run into

about Sebastian’s condition. He did not confide in any of them. He was afraid that, once his family found out

his uncle who was living abroad

and strangle the family cat until it took its last breath. Consumed by terror, she quickly fled the scene to tell her

to the hospital by his

treatment. Even after he was taken home, he was kept in his room in virtue of the authoritative diagnosis by the hospital. He had not stepped out of

was not until six years later that his uncle finally managed to persuade

that he disliked Sasha

of his feelings towards the woman. If it had not been for her, his uncle might

years in a living

was not enough, a most unbearable fate was waiting for him. When he finally got out of that

How ironic!

for many years. How he wanted to cut

the incident of that particular year, he never saw little

was served that night looked too familiar to him. Of course, he had been eating the exact same thing for the entirety of six terrible years. From the very beginning when he turned a blind eye to the fruit until the very last one, which appeared

And so he ate.

it said: Have something sweet to forget the

Are

Sasha gulped.

had always worn his emotions on his sleeves in front of her. When provoked, he would fire

gotten so calm? The stillness

“No.”

gaze. For an instant, his thin lips turned pale and his voice raspy, as though lead