Chapter XXXVII -Friend?#

In the absence of words, and the space given by silence, she spoke.

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—What do you want from me? —she asked seriously, as direct as always.

I was stunned by that question.

And she continued, "If you want a smile, an I love you or a kiss, but without feelings, I will give them to you. After you take any of these, turn around and you can forget me, it will be goodbye.

—I don't want a simple caress or a kiss, just to see you happy. As you know I am madly in love with you and I thought you might love me the same; but it seems I must wait. For now I pretend to be a friend," the last word tingled and I felt uncomfortable.

—I gave you a choice, any man would take it," she looks at me blankly.

I looked back at her and my eyes wobbled from the shameless rejection, now the sparrows couldn't fly, sing and recite poems because they were as wounded as my heart.

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