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Avery packed her stuff, picked up her bag, and walked out of the building as fast as she could.
Her phone suddenly rang again, and she picked it up without hesitation.
“It’s snowing, Avery! Don’t tell me you’re still in the library!” Tammy said on the other end of the line.
“Tammy! I’ve decided to go to grad school!”
“What?! What happened?” Tammy exclaimed in shock. “Didn’t you say you weren’t going? What made you change your mind so suddenly?”
Her voice was so loud that Avery had to pull the phone further away from her ear.
“Do you know who Professor James Hough is?”
“No idea,” replied Tammy. “Is he some bigshot professor?”
“He is! He’s my hero! I just got a call from his assistant saying that the professor wants me to study under him…” Avery said as she burst into tears. “This is a dream come true… I still can’t believe he picked me…”
Tammy wanted nothing but to give her best friend a big bear hug.
“I’ve always said that you were meant for great things, Avery! Why didn’t you believe me? You believe me now, don’t you?
Where are you right now? Let’s go out and celebrate!”
Avery’s head was spinning from all of the excitement. She wiped the tears off her face, then said, “All I want to do now is go home and sleep. I’m beat. Dinner’s on me next time!”
“Have you been having trouble sleeping?” Tammy asked. “I heard from Jun that Elliot was discharged today. You don’t have to worry about him. He’s got plenty of people looking after him, so I’m sure he’ll recover in no time.” ,
“I know,” Avery responded.
It was not that she was worried about his recovery, but she was crippled by guilt.
He would not have gotten hurt if it had not been for her.
Once the phone call ended, Tammy put her phone down and looked up at Jun. “Avery’s going to grad school,” she said with a sigh. “She’ll probably have to leave the country. I looked up that professor she was talking about and found out that he works at a medical school abroad…”
“It’s a good thing,” Jun said. “I’m sure Elliot would give her his full support.” “What the hell is going on with him anyway? Why won’t he see Avery? She was the one who found him when he fell down that hill… It wasn’t like she was the one who told him to go up there. How could he be upset with her?”
Tammy could not help but stand up for her best friend.
Jun wrapped his arm around Tammy’s shoulder, and the two slowly strolled under the falling snow.
“I don’t think the reason why Elliot won’t see Avery is that he’s upset…” Jun said. “His bodyguard told me that his face was covered in scratches from the fall. I doubt someone as proud as him would want anyone seeing him in that condition.”
“So, that’s what it is! I have to tell Avery before she overthinks things,” Tammy said, then sent Avery a text telling her what she just heard from Jun.
Avery simply replied with a smiling emoji.
Tammy: (Elliot’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks. Have you thought about what you ‘re getting him?]
Avery: (Not yet. I don’t know what to give him.]
Tammy: (Since it’s getting cold out, you should try knitting him a sweater!) Avery: (Are you serious? Who wears knitted sweaters anymore?!]
Tammy: (Just do it. Men like stuff like that.)
Avery: (Problem is, I don’t know a thing about knitting!)
Tammy: (The people selling the yarn would teach you! Or you could look for tutorials online You’re a smart girl. You’ll figure it out!)
Avery: (Why are you insisting that I knit him a sweater?]
Tammy: (Because men always fall for that stuff! Jun told me that he still can’t forget his first love because she knitted a sweater for him. He’s kept it all this time… It drives me nuts, but I refuse to knit him one myself!) Avery stood puzzled in the snow as she read her best friend’s text.
She only snapped back to reality when the cab she had called earlier came to a halt in front of her.
She arrived at her mother’s apartment with a bag of yarn in her hand an hour later.
Laura noticed the bag in her hand and asked, “Are you knitting a scarf?”
Avery’s cheeks flushed as she answered, “I’m thinking of making a sweater.”
Laura gave her a meaningful look and asked, “For whom? It can’t be for me, right? Are you knitting it for Elliot?”
“It’s for you, Mom…” Avery said, then added, “Elliot’s birthday is coming up, so I’m making one for him first. That way, the one I make for you later would be much better.”
“I’m just messing with you!” Laura chuckled. “Is it still popular to knit sweaters for someone you like now? I thought that was just back in my day…”
“Tammy said it’s a thing.”
“I see. I guess this old trend is making a comeback! Do you know how to knit? It’s going to take quite some time. Do you need my help?”
Avery shook her head and said, “I’ve got two weeks to go. I should be able to manage.”
Elliot was sitting in his wheelchair on the second-floor balcony of his mansion. He was staring at the falling snow.
His mind had been blank for the past few days. His heart also felt empty.
It was as if all of the pain and agony before had come to a pause.
He did not feel like seeing anyone, nor did he want to hear a sound.
The only thought that crossed his mind came when his aching body made him think of how things would have turned out if he had fallen to his death.
It was clear to him that nothing would have changed.
The earth would continue to turn.
Those who cried for him would slowly return to their daily lives.
There was nobody in the world who would not be able to live on if someone left.
However, at the end of the day, there was still something that he could not let go of.