[My star is showing me the world!]The photo: a first-class cabin. Alex smiled brightly, beside Hailey’s sleeping profile.One by one, each post. Liam jumped up and down in anger. He pointed at Alex’s SnapChat and yelled, “That scumbag! Is Hailey blind? Can’t she see that jerk likes her? Even a blind man could see it!”Liam was furious.But I felt strangely calm. It was as if I was close to getting over the pain of heartbreak. Regarding Liam’s anger, I calmly commented.”Hailey knows perfectly well.”
“She knows?” Liam sat beside me. “Then why does she still claim they’re innocent?””In Hailey’s eyes, as long as they haven’t literally slept together, it’s innocent. After all, she always maintains that she hasn’t cheated.”Hailey always held that line. So, whenever I threw a tantrum, she would always hit me with that line: [Alex and I are completely innocent, it’s your heart that’s dirty! You see everything with a dirty mind!] And I would be speechless.
Now, looking back at all that, I felt a strange sense of release.I reminded Liam, “The moving company will be here soon.”Hailey and I were getting a divorce, and I needed to move out and retrieve my belongings.After all, my mother’s keepsakes were still there.”Good that you’ve finally come to your senses,” Liam said, following me home, waiting at my doorstep.I had seen Alex’s SnapChat and knew Hailey was away on a business trip these past few days.
I thought Hailey and I wouldn’t meet, but to my surprise, as soon as I pushed open the door, I smelled food from the kitchen. As I got closer, I saw Alex sitting at the dining table, legs crossed, casually eating shrimp.Seeing me, Alex froze. Like a child caught red-handed, he immediately stood up and called out, “Julian.”I watched Alex, dressed in my pajamas and slippers. Then I saw Hailey emerge from the kitchen with a dish, her smile freezing.
She stiffly asked, “Have you eaten?”I ignored Hailey’s attempt at pleasantries and walked into the bedroom.I suddenly froze.All my collectibles, neatly arranged by my bedside, were now scattered. The bed was a mess, the wardrobe had clearly been rummaged through, and even the innermost safe was open.My heart clenched. I instinctively looked inside the safe.”Julian…”
The safe was empty.Alex, standing in the doorway, spoke so weakly I could barely hear him: “I’m sorry, Hailey and I lost our luggage on the way back from our trip, and Hailey told me to get some clothes from here to wear first.””I accidentally… opened the safe…”My head buzzed. I turned and saw crystal fragments in Alex’s hand. My breath hitched.”I really didn’t mean it.””Julian, please!” Alex suddenly lunged at me, then dropped to his knees in front of me with a thud, grabbing my arm and crying.”Please forgive me!”4″I didn’t know these were your mother’s keepsakes! I didn’t know, I really didn’t know!” Alex grabbed my hand.
“Hit me!””Please!””Hit me and make me feel better!”Alex was about to bang his head on the floor when a hand suddenly came between us. Hailey placed her hand on his forehead, pulling the trembling Alex up. She looked at me indifferently.”The dead can’t come back, and things are just inanimate objects.
There’s no need to make things difficult for the living over some possessions. Alex already knows he made a mistake.”Hailey’s tone was so flat, as if this was the most trivial matter. And I was the petty, narrow-minded one.She stood protectively in front of Alex and told me, “Don’t keep bothering Alex. He’s already carrying enough guilt.”I couldn’t say a word, couldn’t even react. As long as Alex acted pathetic, it was all my fault.From Alex stealing my watch, to him taking my painting, to him smashing Hailey’s and my wedding photo, to him brazenly intruding into my home, my sanctuary, and now, to him shattering the last keepsake my mother left me.
And Hailey was still telling me to forgive, telling me to be magnanimous.My head was buzzing continuously, my throat tightened, and the tremor in my fingertips betrayed my lack of composure. I turned to look at Alex, still shedding tears in Hailey’s arms, walked directly up to him, and right in front of Hailey, I grabbed Alex by the hair and slammed his head against the wall.Then, amidst Alex’s scream of utter breakdown, I kicked his knee.
This time, he truly dropped to his knees before me.”That’s not how you grovel for real.”I pressed my foot on Alex’s knee and slammed his head hard against the floor with my other hand. A violent impact echoed. I heard Alex scream and saw crimson blood seep from his forehead. I told him, “This is how you beg for forgiveness!”My eyes were bloodshot. I grabbed Alex’s head, ready to slam it down again, but Hailey grabbed my wrist. She forcefully stopped me, her gaze dark.”Let go!””Dream on!”Hailey then raised her other hand and pressed down on me, forcefully prying my fingers open.
