Chapter 22 - Right Choices (1/2)

Chapter 22 - Right Choices

"There, I ain, but she looked different She had cut her hair—"

'What's weird about that? Maybe she had an ielica wondered

"I thought the same when I first laid h, and her eyes… basically, it looked as though she wasn't taking care of herself," Rudy asserted

"I wanted to ask her if she has been doing alright, but I didn't After the party was over, she said she wanted to talk toa little strange, but o"

"So, ent behind the school where ays ate our lunch together She recalled a few things about the tiether Then suddenly, she said, 'Do you know I have always loved you?'"

"I was totally bewildered after hearing that I mean, Alice was… is… a school idol, and she is loved by almost the entire caet noticed by others unless they needed so I love to s"

Rudy was always pessimistic whenever it was about hi because he hadn't done anything great in his life However, he had one chance to change his life, which was stolen fro years being crippled and helpless, Rudy's pessiot even worse But he wasn't to blaelica asked curiously

"I honestly thought she was joking or trying to tease me For your information, Alice has always been like that She jokes tooabout that too But…" Rudy bit his lips before co his sentence

'But…?"

"But of course, she wasn't kidding I told her, 'If you truly loved me, then you should have told me sooner' as a joke I said that as a joke, but… I shouldn't have said that"

Rudy kicked a stone near hielica was afraid to ask what happened next

"One day, when I was giving ot a call My phone was in , so I wasn't aware of it When I checked my phone after that, I saw a few ht he was back from overseas, and he wanted to meet me, so I called him back"

"At first, he didn't pick up, so I had to call again Then, he picked up and told me the news" After a brief pause, Rudy uddered in a disdainful tone: "Alice had coelica didn't speak a word

Rudy kept walking to the school with elica finally broke her silence and asked, 'Did you blame yourself for her death?'

"At first, I did But then I became numb to it"

'But you have a second chance now You can do it better!' Angelica reassured Rudy

"Yeah I a any of my past life mistakes," Rudy swore to himself "You knohat I learned from my past life, or should I say what I learned as an adult?"

'What?' Angelica asked with a hint of curiosity in her voice