Used as "Practice" Then Kissed? I'm Done with Him!

Chapter 6

Less than half an hour after he left, Lily sent me a screenshot.

It was Claire's social media post.

[Claire: Just said I was hungry, and a loving breakfast magically appeared! Feels like my crush and I are moving towards each other~]

The photo showed packaging identical to the crab roe buns on my dining table.

I didn't reply.

I just silently wiped away my tears and crouched down to carefully clean up the soy milk Ryan had spilled.

After trying for a long time, I sadly discovered that the stain had seeped deep into the wool carpet and couldn't be removed no matter what.

In a fit of anger, I simply threw out the entire carpet.

It was the one Ryan and his parents had carefully chosen and carried back for me after an entire afternoon of shopping during their trip to Nepal anyway.

While I was at it, I gathered up all of Ryan's things left at my place, as well as all the big and small gifts he had ever given me.

I even collected all our photos together.

It took me all day to pack everything up and throw it away.

I guess he wouldn't want these old things anymore either.

After Ryan left that day, there was no news from him for several days in a row.

I suppose things were going well with the school beauty.

Or maybe he was waiting for me to give in first.

In the past, I had always been the one to make up first after every cold war, without exception.

But this time I didn't reach out to him.

There was no need to reach out anymore.

I blocked his SnapChat and phone number, changed my home's door passcode, and deleted all my social media accounts.

After doing all this, I called my parents who were away on business trips.

I told them I wanted to visit my aunt in America during the summer break.

My plan was to spend the summer there, then go straight down south with Lily to start college when the break was over.

Except for Lily, no one else knew I had applied to a school in Florida.

This plan should perfectly avoid any chance of running into Ryan.

Mom still teased me on the phone, "Oh my, are you and Ryan going on vacation together?"

I made up an excuse to deny it, not wanting to explain too much.

I just told her I wanted to spend time with my aunt and grandmother.

I begged Dad to buy me a ticket on the soonest flight. I was planning to fly out that very night.

As I was leaving, I unfortunately ran into Ryan's mom at the entrance of our building.

She warmly greeted me:

"Mia, why are you alone here? Didn't Ryan come to pick you up?

"Didn't he say he was taking you skiing in New Zealand? Go and have a great time, Auntie fully supports you two."

I was a bit confused.

During our intense SAT prep period, I had indeed mentioned to Ryan that I wanted to go skiing in New Zealand to experience winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

But given our current situation, how could we possibly go on a trip together?

However, I was running out of time, so I just hastily made some vague replies before leaving.

But what I didn't expect was that at the airport, I actually ran into Ryan.