Between Him and Her

the kitchen making sushi for the guy I li

luffy omelette were neatly arranged on a plate

zed with a t

Alec Griffiths, "Sorry, Rosanna, something came up, and I can't make

ied, "

r fell onto

o be our first date

a resolution. I couldn't even des

e so important. He didn't

the right to ask. I w

later, we would break thro

given me the confess

es, called while I was at A

girlfriend, the one he had always held dear. I wasn't

s a dog that could be trai

on a business trip, he left the s

ment and feed Muffin. Occasionally, I would cook meals for

tone turned serious. "Rosanna, I heard Lin

uickly asking, "Wasn't she promoted to supervisor

oo. She'll be our new boss. Not sure if that'

carried so much weight.

council president and the most

s first love. They had been tog

s. If you had to find a connection between us, i

other, while Linsey and Alec w

ng at Alec in class, her

was just tall, good at basketball, and

e wasn't competitive and

f us ended up at t

x years. I couldn't even remembe

problem to me, or when he effortlessly fi

second year of university, Al

dn't start dating too early. But as it turned out, men w

ng, I deliberately distanced my

nd although we weren't particularly close, I could sti

ast in the morning, remembering her favorite flavors, and when

weet moments, it felt like a heavy stone

times, I had to make an excuse to leav

e that, still unable to forget

kup curse that seemed to come with graduation. That

ith Muffin, trying to

company, watching him drown his sorrows in alcoho

pulled himself together, I could tell that he st

me the key t

my place in his life. He hadn't confessed, bu

e the signals I picked up were just my own wishful thi

relationship, but in reality, he remained distant

ht was enough to prove how perfec