He would also share an ice cream cone with the woman he liked, would kiss the back of his lover’s hand, and would go shopping with her during work hours.
The only person who could make him willingly do these things was not me.
For the next two days, I didn’t go back home and focused all my attention on the preparation for the final art exhibition.
Marcel initially praised me for not caring about the details and not being concerned with Nyla. But later on, he started asking, “Alexa, what’s wrong with you? Why aren’t you responding to any messages?”
I looked at the chat history with Marcel, and from beginning to end, it was filled with long paragraphs of green. The number of times he messaged me
was few and far between.
So I replied evasively, “I was busy with work,”
On the day of the art exhibition, the assistant Lacey, who had d gone to pick up the painting, suddenly called me.
“Alexa, is the final painting not being displayed anymore?”
I sat in the car on the way to the airport, quite surprised “Why would you say that?
Lacey sent me a video, and when I saw the content, my heart suddenly contracted.
The painting that I once cherished so much has now been splashed with a large amount of reddish–brown paint and colorful pigments.
And in the only blank space of the painting, there was Nyla’s proud and arrogant comment
“Delusional!”
I was momentarily stunned, unsure of how to handle the upcoming art exhibition, when my mentor suddenly spoke up.
“Alexa, that year in college, you gave me your first painting, and I have kept it at home ever since. I remember the name of that painting was ‘New
Beginnings‘.”
“Sometimes, saying goodbye is not necessarily the end, but a new beginning”
I gave, Lacey the mentor’s address and then I called Marcel,
My voice choked with an indomitable sob, “Marcel, Nyla ruined my grand finale painting”
Surprisingly, Marcel responded quickly, “Just destroy it, it’s just a worthless painting anyway, and you have so many other paintings.”
“Alright, stop sulking. Today, I also went to the art exhibition and then proposed to you.”
“You didn’t know that 1 had put off all my work for the past two days just to give you a surprise for this proposal.”
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