Over the last four years, all she wanted was to hear his explanation.
Yet, when he was ready for it, she was full of panic. What was there to explain? If the explanation was ludicrous, it would only make things more awkward between the two of them, and she would find her years of pain and wait to be in vain. And if the explanation was acceptable, so what?
Would she forgive him?
She did not even know for sure herself.
"Don't say anymore." She turned away, "I don't want to hear it."
He did not expect that response. Where was the girl who called him and pressed him incessantly for an answer four years back? All of a sudden, he could feel the distance between them — a distance that entailed more than just the time spent apart and the ocean that lay between them.
And this feeling scared him.
"Xiao Ling." There was a change in his tone.
