The Day My Slow Brain Finally Felt Heartbreak Chapter 03
The day I was supposed to leave turned out to be another rainy day.
Joy insisted on dragging me to the bakery off campus to buy roasted chestnuts from my favorite bakery.
She claimed that eating something sweet would cheer me up.
Nathan walked beside us, holding an umbrella.
But the vast majority of the umbrella was tilted over Joy’s head.
My left shoulder had been completely soaked by the rain a long time ago.
But I didn’t say a word.
That was the only good thing about being slow. They always assumed I couldn’t feel the cold.
The three of us, who used to be inseparable, now found ourselves in suffocating silence.
Joy kept her head low, while Nathan spoke with a tense, raspy edge to his voice.
“Valerie… there’s something I’ve been meaning to confess to you…”
He leaned forward slightly, finally ready to confess everything he’d been hiding he had harbored for countless
days and nights.
The next second, as we reached a maj
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A delivery scooter suddenly lost control while trying to swerve around a massive puddle. It came barreling
straight toward us.
It was moving incredibly fast.
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I wanted to reach out to shield Joy, who was on the outside, but but I moved too slowly and tripped. I tripped over my own feet, falling directly toward her.
Nathan’s expression changed instantly, and he violently shoved me away.
“Joy!”
The sheer force of his shove sent me flying straight into the path of the out-of-control bike.
BANG-The impact slammed me through the air.
I skidded and rolled across the rough, wet asphalt several times.
Nathan held Joy tightly in a protective, panicked embrace before screaming at me in a fury.
“Valerie, how can you be so malicious? You literally tried to push Joy into the scooter to protect yourself!”
The words had barely left his mouth when his eyes met mine, which were already clouded with blood. He
choked.
I lay flat in a muddy puddle. Dark red blood dripped down my cheek, staining the rainwater around me.
Nathan instinctively let go of Joy, taking a step toward me to pull me up.
“Valerie, I…”
In his arms, Joy let out a weak, fragile whimper.
Her eyelashes fluttered, and she went completely limp, fainting on the spot.
Nathan aborted his step instantly. “Joy! Joy, what’s wrong!”
I lay paralyzed on the ground, watching the scene unfold.
The cold rain lashed against my open wounds, causing an excruciating, piercing agony.
My developmental delay had completely vanished at this exact moment.
I forced my head up with everything I had left, looking at Nathan, who was only a few feet away.
My lips trembled weakly.
“Nathan… it hurts…”
But the downpour was too deafening.
He didn’t hear me.
His entire world was consumed by the unconscious girl in his arms.
After what felt like an eternity, the piercing wail of an ambulance cut through the curtain of rain.
Paramedics rushed down with a stretcher.
I struggled to keep my eyes open.
Through the blur, I saw Nathan’s figure.
But this time, he didn’t run to me. He scrambled on his hands and knees toward the first ambulance, carrying
Joy.
A paramedic blocked him. “The girl over there is in much worse shape! She’s losing a lot of blood!”
Nathan held Joy in a death grip, screaming hysterically.
“She only has surface wounds!”
“Valerie can wait! She has a developmental delay, she doesn’t feel pain normally! She can wait for the next
ambulance!”
“But Joy can’t! She’s pregnant! She passes out at the sight of blood, she can’t wait!”
His voice cut through the heavy rain.
It shattered my heart into a million jagged pieces.
