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Amanda was alone in a foreign country,and it was inevitable that she would feel restless.Moreover,I was so far away from her.When I missed her,I couldn't even see her,so she naturally got angry and threw tantrums.
During that period,I was interning in our family company.Every day,my father made me extremely busy and tired,and my mother kept introducing all kinds of little girls to me.I was really annoyed to death.
Sometimes,I didn't get home until early in the morning.That time happened to be when Amanda was resting.Usually,she would choose a time when we were both free to send a video call,but later,she would call or send video calls to me at various times.
I would hear the buzzing sound when I had just fallen asleep.I would hear the phone ringing when I was in a deep sleep and having a dream.Later,it made me feel inexplicably scared whenever the phone rang,no matter who was calling.
She hysterically questioned whether I loved her.Of course I loved her!She asked me when I would go to see her.I rushed to finish the work at hand and bought the plane ticket,but my mother called me again and again to cancel it.
I also really wanted her to care about me,to ask me if I was tired.But it seemed that she was immersed in her own world and didn't want me to enter it anymore.
I started working crazily,thinking that one day,with my own ability,I could support her,make my parents shut up,and make her never have to worry about being alone.
But the situation got out of control.I couldn't appease her anymore.No matter what I said or did,I couldn't make her happy.
The day Amanda called to break up,to be honest,I felt a sigh of relief.But every day after we lost contact,I missed her desperately.I wondered if she was lonely in a foreign country without my company.I wondered what she was doing now and if she had enough money to spend.
I was tortured by guilt every day,and I kept postponing contacting her.I was both self-pitying and numbly in pain.Until Dora dragged me to an amusement park.
Dora had lived in my house for more than twenty years.I had always regarded her as my little sister.Since she was a child,she was lively and active,chatting non-stop in our house.My father and mother made fun of her,saying that she must have been a sparrow in her previous life.
Her father was my father's driver.He had been working for nearly thirty years,even before Dora and I were born.My parents even arranged his marriage.As time went by,my parents and her parents seemed to have no distinction between master and servant anymore,and they became more and more like a family.
Dora forcefully entered my life and my home.At first,I was annoyed and would tell her to go back home.
But she just wouldn't listen.Until that day I got so drunk that I should have been sent to the hospital for gastric lavage.When I opened my eyes,I thought it was Amanda.I hugged her in my arms,but then I realized something was wrong.
The moment I pushed her away,Dora's eyes showed a mixture of shyness,surprise,sadness,and helplessness,with so many emotions all mixed together.
Only then did I clearly realize that she liked me,and it seemed that she had liked me for more than just a day or two.
