Chapter 5

Chen 

[10 years earlier]

What causes a person’s heart to flutter?

With my right arm on top of the table, I tapped my fingers, unable to find an answer to a question I couldn’t seem to understand. The other one was then placed on the table with my elbow pushing into the surface and my chin resting on my wrist.

If you’re like the majority of people, you believe what they say about love.

I scoffed. “Love,” I whispered, stretching my lips wide while looking at the table and shaking my head.

Those goddamn junkies would say that getting high somehow feels the same as falling for the person. Despite the lack of experience in such nonsense, I am not that ignorant about it.

I know it’s a powerful feeling you have for someone or something you value.

However, it has nearly been impossible to find someone who matches me, someone who could handle me, for someone who does everything either too intensely or too passively, or black or white is th