When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 269

take up figure skating. At the time, Blakey lacked any motivation to learn the sport, and no matter what approach she took, he wouldn’t budge. So, she proposed a bet to him. She promised that if she could execute the most challenging move at the time, he would have to return and learn figure skating again. This move was so complicated that even professional figure skaters struggled with it. Blake assumed that she would fail and thus would give up pestering him, so he accepted the bet. It was true that Amelie failed to execute the move, but she practiced tirelessly for seven days, focusing solely on that one move. It was a jumping move, and she, a beginner who could barely stand on ice skates, had no fear of skating up a slope and making a jump while spinning in the air. She fell every time, but she persevered.Blake watched the stubborn girl who was half a head shorter than him, feeling warm inside. Despite that, he was also concerned when he saw her jumping repeatedly. Every time she landed with a thud, it struck his heart hard. At the time, what he thought about the most was that he hoped she couldn’t take it anymore and would leave. But in the end, she didn’t leave. She persisted for seven days, only asking him to watch her. She jumped for seven days, and he watched for seven days straight. His heart thumped for seven days and ached for seven days, which was a new experience for him since he had no family to experience any bonding with.Ever since his only grandmother passed away, there was nobody in the world who worried about him, and he also didn’t have to worry about anyone else. He realized that worrying about someone else was