Only you in my love

When Michelle woke up, she heard the sound of running water from the bathroom. Lydia was there, washing her face and brushing her teeth.

There was a rumbling sound beside Michelle, which was what woke her up. She fumbled around her bed, trying to find the source of the sound. When her fingers reached the pillows, she found Lydia's phone vibrating. Both she and Lydia had access to each other's phone, so Lydia knew that Michelle's wallpaper had always been Leon's photo.

When Michelle picked up Lydia's phone, she was able to unlock it easily. The phone came to life, and the bright light made her squint. With blurry eyes, she saw the chat group notifications popping out. Michelle knew she wasn't holding her phone.

After a while, her eyes gradually adapted to the light. Before she was about to put the phone back, she had a glimpse of the word "Leon" by accident.

When someone was in love with another person, they would quickly grab anything related to them.

This was the case for Michelle. Hearing the word "Leon" had become a staple of her day that it became routine.

That was because she and her roommates would always talk about him.

Michelle rubbed the sleep off her eyes and sat up.

She had no intention of snooping around Lydia's phone. But since she saw something related to Leon, she couldn't help but want to know more.

Debra had set up a small group chat, including Lydia and Rainy. Michelle wasn't part of it.

The chat was currently active, with new messages popping out as Michelle read. She didn't understand the context of their messages, so she had to slide up from the very beginning.

The first message of the group chat was a photo sent by Debra.

"Why did you set up this group chat?" Rainy asked.

"Oh my God! I'm crazy! I saw something I shouldn't have seen. Just click the photo and you'll know what I'm talking about. Don't tell Michelle. I wanna talk here first before she finds out. I don't know whether to tell her or not," Debra replied. Rainy recognized the man in the picture. "Is that Leon?"

"Yes, it is. I took the photo myself and saw it with my own eyes," Debra responded.

Michelle frowned as she read the messages. She then clicked on the picture that Debra was referring to.

It was a picture of a handsome man with a proven track record of making her heart skip a beat. Looking at his picture tightened her chest, which made it difficult for her to breathe.

But he wasn't alone. Beside him, there was a woman, and behind them were two hotel doormen and a revolving door.

In the picture, Leon was wearing a well-cut dark suit, and his hair was meticulously combed. His tall and slender figure accentuated the woman's petite and exquisite body.

She was wearing a cyan dress, and her hair fell smoothly down her shoulders like a waterfall.

They looked like the ideal couple.

'What a perfect match!' Michelle's heart ached.

She had seen Valerie on more than two occasions, so she was able to recognize her face in the picture. When Valerie was driving her home, she told Michelle the story about her and Leon. Michelle wouldn't have mistaken her for someone else.

Something clogged her throat as she continued to stare at the photo for a long time.

She stared for so long without blinking that her eyes started to sting.

After she snapped out of her daze, she returned to the group chat and continued reading the rest of the conversation.

"Who is the woman next to Leon? Where did you take this photo? Why does it look like a hotel?" Rainy continuously asked.

"It's the LC Hotel!" Debra replied.

The name of the hotel sounded familiar to Michelle.

She remembered Valerie telling her that she lived in the LC Hotel. Valerie even invited her to go there if ever she needed any of her help.

'Is Leon with her in that hotel?

Why are they staying in the hotel?'

She scrolled down the chat group, hoping to find an answer when she stumbled on one of Debra's messages.

"Do you know what it means when a man and a woman appear in a hotel together? They're there to have sex.

I really didn't expect Leon already has someone he likes. If Michelle learns about this, she would cry her eyes out!"

"Is it possible it's all a misunderstanding? Maybe you're wrong," Rainy replied.

"If only that were the case, but no. It's the truth. When I went downstairs from the hotel, I almost bumped into Leon. At first, I wanted to say hello but thought against it. After all, we were in a hotel! What was he doing there?

I thought about it and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Leon was an upright man. It's possible he came here to the hotel for business purposes. But when I saw a beautiful woman beside him, I know something was up. So I hid quietly to watch them from afar and took this photo.

If I weren't there, I wouldn't have been able to take a photo of their faces."

"You still could be wrong. Maybe they don't know each other, and they just happened to enter the hotel together. After all, it's a hotel; many people enter there every day," Rainy replied.

"I hoped so. But when I followed them inside the elevator, they got off the same floor! You can think about the rest."

After reading this message, Michelle turned off the phone.

She also hoped that Debra was wrong.

If she hadn't seen Valerie, known her name from Wynn, and heard Leon and Valerie's story from her, she would've probably continued to deceive herself. Although Wynn's and Valerie's stories seemed to contradict each other, when she thought about it, she realized that Valerie's story was the follow-up to Wynn's. At first, Valerie and Leon broke up. But it was also true that he liked her and had been looking for her for four years.

It was also true that now, they were living together in a hotel.

Even if Valerie didn't like Leon in the past, his gentle nature would make her fall in love with him slowly.

When she heard Valerie tell that story, she could feel that Valerie did like Leon.

All this made her very sad but felt that she had no right to be.

'Two people who love each other should be together. I should be happy for Leon, right?'

Michelle pondered.

While Michelle mulled over her feelings over Leon, Lydia came out of the bathroom and saw Michelle's downcast face. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"Your phone's been vibrating non-stop. There are so many messages. Here, read them quickly. I just read a little, but I don't know how to tell you. You can read them yourself." Michelle pressed her lips, with tears starting to well in her eyes as she forced herself to smile. Lydia knew it had something to do with Leon.

She picked up her phone and opened the group chat. After reading the messages from beginning to end, she replied, "You don't have to hide it from Michelle anymore. She already knows about it. These days, she has been feeling depressed over it."

"Oh my God! She knew about it! Did she cry?" Rainy messaged.

"Yes. Several times," Lydia answered.

After a while, a message from Rainy popped up. "I don't know what to say. I feel very sad for her. She likes Leon so much! You should comfort her."

A new message from Debra appeared. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? That's why Michelle said she wouldn't celebrate Leon's birthday, right?"

"Yes. Leon celebrated his birthday with his girlfriend yesterday. It seemed that they were in the Hot Spring Resort," Lydia texted.

"Girlfriend? Are you saying they're dating?" Rainy chimed in.

"Looks like it," Lydia confirmed.

"Damn it! I can't believe it! Leon has a girlfriend?! Why didn't he tell us from the start? Why does he keep flirting with Michelle? He even asked her to send him a necktie as a gift. Ugh, what a two-timer!" Debra's chat read. "Yes, I also thought Leon was flirting with Michelle. I thought the two of them would be together," Rainy replied.

"It's really true what they say. The gentler a man is, the more likely that he's a bastard. From now on, we'll call Leon a bastard," Debra declared.

"Leon is a bastard!" Rainy echoed.

"At first, I thought he was good to Michelle. But then he turned out to be a bastard. And if you're good friends with a bastard, you must be a bad guy yourself. So I'm going to unfriend Wynn," Debra texted. Rainy didn't agree with her. "Even if you're angry, don't blame the people around him. Don't you like Wynn?"

"I don't like him anymore. I already have a boyfriend!"

Out of impulse, Debra deleted Wynn from her list of friends and then sent a message to Aron on WeChat. "Both of us have to be responsible for what happened last night. From now on, you're my boyfriend." As soon as she hit the send button, she got a reply from him.

Debra was in love again.

When everyone knew about it, they were so excited for Debra since she broke her promise that she would never fall in love with one of her classmates.

When Michelle knew about this, she felt happy for her and pitiful at the same time. She thought that Debra's personality was a good match for Wynn. However, it looked like Debra and Aron were a better match.

Ever since that day, Michelle started to become more reserved in front of Leon. She didn't dare to act intimately with him or do anything that he could misinterpret. She didn't want to cause any more trouble for Leon.00000000