Chapter 78

When Brandon came out from the balcony, he saw me asleep at the computer. The dim yellow light cast a glow on my face, and his gaze lingered there. I could sense it but couldn't wake up. After a while, I heard him calling me softly, "Mae..." Mae? Was he calling me? Yes, he was. Before I joined the Gildon family, I was called Mae, not Maddie. But it had been a long time since anyone called me that. "Bran, my name is Mae..." A vision appeared before my eyes: a little girl with two buns on her head and a baby face sweetly calling a boy. The boy was aloof and didn't like to talk. Then, I became that girl, and Brandon became that boy. I was piggybacking on him. "Bran, you smell nice. "Bran, you've got a tiny black mole on the back of your neck. Let me get it off." "Mae, don't pinch. It hurts. "Mae, I'm tired. Can we stop running?" … "Mom, I like Bran. I want to marry him…" My parents laughed at me. "Mom, Dad, stop laughing. I want to marry Bran." "Mae, you can't marry hi