Some People Are Just Nasty (1)

A moment later, Jason and I went downstairs together. He got into the company's business car and I got in Isabel's car.

I suddenly had a headache. I even thought that Jason should not have told me the news that Jane would come back so soon. After three years, I did not know how to face her.

I had been crazy for countless days and nights and I wanted to see her, but I was also afraid to see her... I was afraid of the silence and awkwardness when we met.

Isabel started the car. After she changed lanes, she asked me, "Howard, why do you look so upset?" Then she shook her head and added, "You shouldn't be like this!"

I smiled and replied, "Do I have to be happy?"

"Did Jason tell you that Jane will come back?"

"Yes," I responded. Then I opened the window and lit a cigarette.

"I knew it. In this world, no one can make you upset except Jane!" Isabel sighed.

"That's not true. She isn't that important to me, and I'm not that vulnerable," I responded with a smile.

Isabel shrugged and said, "Howard, only you know how you truly feel... The brighter you smile, the more pain you feel."

"You speak as if you know me well." I stopped my fake smile to prove that I was not as vulnerable as she thought.

"We have been friends for so many years and I know you... Howard, although we feel sorry for you and Jane, I have to say that when a woman ceases to be faithful, the man she once loved will become a second-hand cigarette. She will no longer be able to feel any pleasure from it. At this time, the only thing she can do is abandon this second-hand cigarette. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Why are you telling me this?" I took a deep breath and asked.

"I hope you will just let it go."

I was silent for a long time and then asked with unwillingness, "What do you think love is? Isn't it just a promise and then a lifetime of commitment? Why do they give someone a promise but fail to keep it?"

"Howard, love is really not as simple as you think. You should understand why Jason and I can have a good ending, but you and Jane can't."

I was silent again. I did understand that although Jason and Isabel were not rich, they were well-matched. As for Jane and me... I clearly remembered that before Jane went abroad, her father bought a nice car for her as her graduation gift. But did love really have to be measured by money? I didn't understand!

Isabel said, "Jane really loved you. You also knew that she went abroad to study because she wanted to avoid the 'forced marriage'. She thought that if she stayed there for three years, maybe her parents would accept her relationship with you when she returned. But I don't know why she broke up with you after she went abroad. Maybe it is really because..."

I didn't want to replay the pain I felt when we broke up again, so I interrupted, "Stop. Just like you said, I became a second-hand cigarette that can't make her happy."

"It's just a metaphor..." Isabel comforted me.

There was a kind of person in this world who was really good at comforting people. Isabel was no doubt one of them.

...

I spent the whole day shopping with Isabel for the things they needed for the wedding according to the list that Jason had given her. It was not until evening that I had a meal with Isabel. Then we went home.

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