Making Tea

Seeing the forest that seemed to be welcoming her as she stood at the mouth of the entrance, Josie stopped her heels, deciding to lift her face and look at the sky instead. Although she had moved to the forest, it was still difficult for her to find stars with how cloudy the sky had been that night. Josie closed her eyes, recalling Shawn again, making her realize how deep his existence was in her heart, no matter how much she tried to deny it, Shawn was a close friend.

But it all had to change.

Josie didn’t want to make the same mistake as she did before, betraying Rose to the point where she had almost thought to end her beloved younger sister’s life. Her younger sister, who did not hesitate to give herself to marry someone she had never seen for her sake; her younger sister who was always worried for her even when she had visited another Kingdom. It was unfair for her to ever direct her hatred toward Rose.

She wasn’t stupid either to not notice how Shawn was using her. She knew w