Goodbye My Beloved, Leaving Me in Desolation

She didn't know about this and was still talking excitedly in my ear.

"I'm so sorry, Maria! It's your birthday, yet you have to spend money on me."

She said this, but there was no embarrassment on her face.

I had been used to giving her gifts, so she had always spoken in this way.

Usually there had never been any problem, but now I felt a surge of anger towards her in my heart for no reason.

I immediately snatched the phone from her hand and put it back on the counter.

"Return it! I don't want it anymore!"

"Maria, what are you doing!"

Queenie stood behind me, shouting and looking at me in disbelief.

But I firmly asked the clerk to process the refund for the phone.

The clerk looked at me strangely and then at Queenie, politely refusing the refund.

Queenie's face flushed with embarrassment. When she heard that he said the refund was not possible, she immediately clung to my arm again.

"Ah, Maria, stop kidding me. The phone has already been bought so it can't be returned!"

Queenie's voice sounded soft and sweet, with a hint of coquettishness.

I used to enjoy her talking to me like that, but today I felt particularly disgusted.

Perhaps the mechanical voice in my head had too much influence on me, so I immediately pulled my hand away from hers and spread it out to her.

"The box, and earphones."

There were strange looks from the clerks and people around.

Queenie was embarrassed all over, squirming as she reluctantly handed the earphones to me and trying to make excuses with a forced smile.

"Maria, you are planning to wrap them as a gift for me, aren't you? Ah, you don't have to, it's fine as it is."

I didn't reply. I packed the phone and earphones back into their original boxes, put them in my bag, and then turned away.

Queenie was very surprised by my attitude. In the embarrassed gazes from the people around us, she stubbornly chased me out of the store.

And the mechanical voice came to my ears again.

"Stop the loss in time and return the amount."

The extra money deducted from the mobile phone balance was returned.

I walked faster.

Queenie chased after me from behind, grabbing my arm.

She asked me with anger and gritted teeth.

"Maria Samuel, what do you mean? Are you deliberately trying to humiliate me? You know I have no money, and yet from childhood to now, you've always enjoyed humiliating me in these ways"

Queenie's words successfully made me stop.

I hadn't expected that I would be that kind of person in her heart. Does she think I was teasing her on purpose?

Since I was a child, I knew that her family was not well off, so I treated her very well.

I tried my best to satisfy her whatever she wanted.

She said her father was very strict, so I always invited her to my house to play, or even better, to stay at my house.

She said that since she was a child she could only wear new clothes during the New Year, so I shared all my clothes with her and even used my own pocket money to buy her all kinds of beautiful dresses.

She said she had never even eaten fried chicken, so I took her to taste delicious food from all over the world.

But I never expected that today she would feel that what I had done was to intentionally humiliate her.

"I fell down the stairs today." I softened my tone, trying to communicate with her calmly.

"Fell, fell, fell! Why didn't you fall to your death!"

Instead of showing the concern I expected, she even blurted out such hurtful words.

I also wanted to know why she hated me despite having been best friends for many years.