He did part-time jobs and made 3,000 dollars in a semester. The day he fainted, he had planned to go to the hospital to pay the money and let his grandmother have chemo.
But he was stopped by the bullies from the vocational high school. He brawled with them like a wolf, but he still lost the 3,000 bucks in the end.
On the way back, he felt like his world was all dark.
He walked in the snow like one without a soul, but he could feel that someone was watching him.
'Laughing at me, right?’ he thought.
He had been ridiculed for a long time.
When he was young, some laughed at his grandmother for picking up things others threw to sell; when he was older, some mocked him as a parentless wild child; when he got older, some taunted him for being one who would haggle over a penny.
He let them laugh, and he was already used to it.
This world was like this. When your weak points were shown, others would only laugh at you.
When he fell, he thought his falling was good.
His grandmother had kept him company for almost seventeen years. Compared with the thing that he would have to watch her die, he thought dying in the freezing snow was nice.
But before he died with all his consciousness being lost, he heard someone come over and call him.
But he could not talk anymore, nor did he want to. And he didn't think the person would save him. Since the person did not fish in troubled waters, he, Harley Dane, thought of the person as a kind one.
But the person did save him, which he had not expected.
Every word of hers was for his sake.
The young man's heart was cold and hard, but it was also soft. Then it was easily softened by the simple kindness.
Sadly, his grandmother died that winter in the end. It meant that his only relative had left him. If he had not heard Cindy's words a few times in his dreams at midnight, he would probably have died that winter too. Later, he would occasionally go back to the middle school and stand at the school gate to watch her for a while.
Sometime after that, he enrolled in Adelpore University and learned that she went to the high school where he had been.
A few years later, she stood at the entrance of Adelpore University saying hello to him on a sunny day.
Cindy asked Harley when he fell in love with her, but Harley didn't tell her. In fact, he had been watching her as his prey like a hungry wolf since the year he had met her. And she had since been in his heart.
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