His Personal Fucktoy? This Doll Just Snatched His Strings... And His World Is Unraveling novel Chapter 13

Chapter 5

He was with a group of friends.

Juniper was there too.

Caspian was carrying a designer purse in one hand and had his arm around Juniper with the other.

They were walking at the back of the group.

Every so often Juniper would turn to say something to him, and Caspian would always accommodate her, patiently leaning down to listen.

Nothing like us.

Caspian had always been a head taller than me since we were kids, and the gap kept growing.

When I was with him, I always had to bounce and crane my neck up just to talk to him.

Turns out for someone he actually cared about, he’d lean down on his own.

I took a deep breath.

Told myself I needed to have some dignity.

Whatever he did was none of my business–if I kept obsessing, I’d slap myself.

But there seemed to be only one path to the gate.

I had no choice but to follow far behind them.

Finally, we reached a fork in the walkway.

Caspian seemed to be getting distracted.

He made several phone calls that apparently didn’t go through, then spent ages messing with his phone.

Eventually he borrowed a friend’s phone and walked toward a nearby restroom with a dark expression.

Shortly after, my phone suddenly rang–from an unknown number.

“Teagan, you’re really holding this grudge, huh? I don’t contact you and you won’t reach out to me either?”

“You actually blocked me?”

“If you’re so tough, then don’t ever contact me. When we get to New York for college and you’re all alone with no one to look out for you–we’ll see.”

Caspian’s tone was hostile as he went off on me for ages.

I didn’t say anything–there really wasn’t anything to say.

But Caspian seemed even more pissed.

“Whatever, I’m done talking. Add me back on social media right now.”

“I’m about to go abroad with some friends for a few days, might not have phone service, so don’t worry and start crying.”

I couldn’t be bothered to waste a single word on him.

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Chapter 5

I hung up directly and turned off my phone.

from a distance, I watched Caspian return to his spot with a dark expression.

He angrily grabbed Juniper’s hand, and without any more hesitation, headed straight toward the left gate,

I sighed and turned to walk toward the right gate.

During my days in Canada, traveling around and relaxing with family, I acted really happy.

1 deliberately kept myself busy, filling my schedule with various activities to avoid any downtime for overthinking.

I definitely didn’t add back his contacts like Caspian had demanded.

But Raya and other friends would still occasionally send me updates about Caspian.

Caspian and his friends seemed to be in New Zealand for many days.

For some reason, he posted on social media every single day.

Completely different from the old Caspian who was too lazy to post once every few months.

Sometimes it was short videos of him racing down ski slopes, sometimes lavish meals and all–night parties, but mostly group photos of everyone goofing around and having fun at the ski resort.

Even though I didn’t want to pay attention.

Somehow a bunch of friends would proactively share these with me.

Everyone was curious, reading between the lines, wondering why I hadn’t gone to New Zealand with Caspian.

I didn’t know how to explain, so I just made excuses about family stuff in Canada.

Except for Raya, who would directly call Caspian a scumbag every time, everyone else gave me these hesitant looks.

I knew they’d probably figured it out too.

In every group photo Caspian posted, he and Juniper were pressed close together, practically inseparable.

But that spot beside him had been mine for so many years.

Every time I saw these posts, I stayed calm on the surface, but my heart couldn’t help aching.

This was my first real crush, someone I’d genuinely liked for such a long, long time.

In the middle of the night, I’d pathetically feel sad for a while, sometimes even resentful.

But every time I remembered those hurtful words, I’d mentally slap myself.

Over and over I’d tell myself:

“Teagan, don’t be pathetic–that’s even more disgusting.”

Just hang in there, hang in there.

Once the withdrawal period was over, everything would definitely get better.

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Chapter 5

We’d been out of contact for a whole month.

This was the longest cold war since Caspian and I had known each other.

Distance and time were great medicine–I’d survived the worst of it.

Just when I’d almost stopped thinking about Caspian constantly, he got a new number and called me…