It was like a train on its tracks that had derailed, traveled for a\u00a0<\/p>\n
while, and then returned at some junction, getting back on the\u00a0<\/p>\n
normal track.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was all so surreal, yet it made perfect sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine felt a tightness in her chest. The feeling of her\u00a0<\/p>\n
destiny being tightly gripped by someone else, unable to\u00a0<\/p>\n
deviate no matter how she struggled, was too suffocating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did you end up like this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine murmured the question, not expecting an answer\u00a0<\/p>\n
from Zoe, but more as if asking herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was guessing, wondering if Zoe\u2019s madness was really\u00a0<\/p>\n
because of the awakening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I\u2019m useless now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zoe chuckled, repeating the same hysterical line from before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After she spoke, she turned her head strangely to look at\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 111\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re useless now too. It\u2019s so weird, how come you haven\u2019t\u00a0<\/p>\n
gone crazy?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMe?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine gave a bitter smile. \u201cI lost my memory.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLost your memory\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zoe nodded. \u201cLosing your memory is good, too. Forgetting all\u00a0<\/p>\n
the stupid things you\u2019ve done, that\u2019s pretty good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After she finished, she looked up at the ceiling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, when I found out I was just a supporting character\u00a0<\/p>\n
in Edward\u2019s world, do you know what my first reaction was?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine looked at her and shook her head.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first reaction was to kill him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKill him?\u00a0<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t kill him. He\u2019s the main character.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, that\u2019s why I went crazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zoe chuckled again after she spoke, and Madeleine couldn\u2019t tell\u00a0<\/p>\n
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if she was sane or not right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before Madeleine went in, the doctor had said there were only\u00a0<\/p>\n
ten minutes for a private visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So Rebecca was waiting at the door, listening \u2018for any sounds\u00a0<\/p>\n
while keeping an eye on the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was going to pull her out the second the ten minutes were\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTen minutes!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Camryn was even more nervous than her. As soon as his\u00a0<\/p>\n
phone\u2019s timer went off, he quickly looked at Rebecca.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just as Rebecca was about to raise her hand to open the door,\u00a0<\/p>\n
it opened from the inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine\u2019s face was ashen, her lips colorless. She gave her a\u00a0<\/p>\n
very forced smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s go. I\u2019m a little hungry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before they left, Madeleine had said she wanted to treat\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca to lunch, so she\u2019d made a reservation a day in advance\u00a0<\/p>\n
at a super popular restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 111\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the way, Madeleine chattered on and on about how great\u00a0<\/p>\n
she was at picking restaurants, and how she was going to order\u00a0<\/p>\n
based on some food blogger\u2019s recommendations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everything seemed normal, but Rebecca felt like something\u00a0<\/p>\n
was off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once they were seated in the restaurant and had ordered,\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca cut Madeleine off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGive it a rest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She frowned. \u201cWhat exactly did you and Zoe talk about?\u00a0<\/p>\n
It feels like you\u2019re hiding something.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAm I?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think so. Wasn\u2019t I always like this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After saying that, Madeleine let out a small sound and picked\u00a0<\/p>\n
up her phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t paid you yet for coming with me to see Zoe today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thanks, Rebecca. Oh, right, you don\u2019t like me calling you that. I\u00a0<\/p>\n
won\u2019t do it anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
As she spoke, she kept her head down, typing in her transfer\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 111\u00a0<\/p>\n
password, trying hard to hold back the tears welling up in her\u00a0<\/p>\n
eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Damn it!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t cry!\u00a0<\/p>\n
What\u2019s there to cry about? It\u2019s all just speculation, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n
After talking with Zoe, a terrifying thought had taken root in\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine\u2019s mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If all the supporting characters existed only for the\u00a0<\/p>\n
protagonist\u2019s growth, would she become one of them again?\u00a0<\/p>\n
To become that unreasonable Madeleine again\u2026 she couldn\u2019t\u00a0<\/p>\n
bear to think how much it would hurt the people around her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, whether it was possible or not, all she wanted now was to\u00a0<\/p>\n
cherish the present and be good to the people around her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca wasn\u2019t that perceptive; she just felt Madeleine was\u00a0<\/p>\n
being weird, but she couldn\u2019t put her finger on why.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After thinking for a moment, she took out her phone and texted\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca: Your wife is being weird.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 111\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, she raised her phone, secretly took a picture, and sent it\u00a0<\/p>\n
to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A moment later, she got a reply.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick: Weirdly beautiful.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca: \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine\u2019s mood came and went quickly. Mainly because the\u00a0<\/p>\n
restaurant\u2019s food was genuinely good, and she forgot\u00a0<\/p>\n
everything once she started eating something delicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca, whether she was happy about getting paid or just\u00a0<\/p>\n
wanted to humor Madeleine because she seemed off, kept\u00a0<\/p>\n
chatting with her about boring celebrity Gossip throughout the\u00a0<\/p>\n
meal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After they finished eating, she even agreed to go shopping with\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is great. Thank you, Rebecca.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine linked her arm with Rebecca\u2019s and let out a heartfelt\u00a0<\/p>\n
sigh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 111\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor being willing to be my friend. Otherwise, I wouldn\u2019t have any friends right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rebecca frowned. \u201cWhat about your friends from when you\u00a0<\/p>\n
were eighteen?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 112\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 112\u00a0<\/p>\n
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