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“Yes,”it slipped out of me faster than I could think.

I smiled like a Cheshire cat.

Julian had asked me if I wanted to go out with him? He was asking me if...

I looked him straight in the eyes.

My childhood best friend smiled softly. “Probably overdue.”

A moment ago, I had been devastated and now Julian had asked me out on a date!Him? Me?

I was literally floating across campus toward the legal department because my heart was jumping up and down. Until the moment Vivienna Westcode brought me back down to earth by crashing right into me.

“I’m sorry, I...”

The roses were scattered around us on the path, and when I realized whom I had just accidentally ripped the folder from, I broke off mid-sentence.

I was more than happy that not even this arrogant cow could manage to burst my bubble.

She gave me a nasty glare. “Don’t get too excited!”

I glared at her.

“Everything tells meyoudid that pregnancy test.”

My joy died abruptly.

Julie.

I had wanted to talk to her all along. It had taken me hours to make this decision, but I couldn’t leave her alone with it. Not after I had taken the test with her and put her in this situation to a certain extent. As much as I didn’t want to admit it.I owed a Blair-Quatura something.

Vivienna picked up her things, huffing. “Better watch out next time! Why do you have such good senses if you don’t use them?”

Then she rolled her eyes and hurried past me.

This day had been a tough one.

Chapter 35

Julie

Alone In This World

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I had to get rid of it. Somehow.

Once again, I was on my own in my small, cold, and dark world. I had never felt so lonely as I did right now. With every little thought of what this something inside me could mean, another fragment of my future was shattered. Like a child throwing stones at a mirror without knowing what it was doing. Something destructive inside me that had decided to take on a life of its own. It was like a storm brewing in my body. And helpless didn’t even come close to describing what I was feeling.

It had started yesterday in the kitchen, when Vivienna had been standing there holding the pregnancy test in her hand. Ice cold shivers had run down my spine and I had felt how the drawer of the large kitchen island that I had been clinging to had gradually become covered in ice crystals. It had felt as if everything I came into contact with was trying to signal to me that I had failed. Especially that stupid pregnancy test.

I had hardly been able to bear Emely’s pitying look. Because if there was one thing I didn’t need, it waspity.

I didn’t care if she hated me, because anyone who didn’t like me was doing themselves a favor and didn’t give me any more unnecessary hope of being better than I actually was.

It had felt deserved when Vivienna had pushed me aside in the hallway that one day. But yesterday, when she had held up the pregnancy test like Cinderella’s shoe, I had felt like I was going to collapse the next moment.

It had been the Salma that had given me the last bit of strength to pretend that everything was fine. That’s how close I had been to the edge.

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