Tale of Two Lives
"Well, I hope you've got it through your head this time. I better not see you clinging to me again tomorrow.
"No matter who my future wife will be, it will never be you."
"Yea."
As I spoke, a burden was lifted from my heart. It took an entire lifetime and two lives to understand his words, but this time, I still had a chance.
When we were younger, Horace, who was eight years older than me, lived next door to me. As a kid, I had loved chasing after him and playing with him.
After that, my family went bankrupt, and my father ran away with what little money we had left and abandoned the five-year-old me in the streets to die.
Bab Populer