But now, hearing the conversation between the young couple, he finally understood. The thing she carried with her all the time was not a symbol of her not despising him. It was a clear sign that she was hoping to break up with him soon...
No wonder she didn't want anything he offered to buy for her that day when he tried to cheer her up with gifts. But in the end, she asked for this cheap Stone Story trinket. So, that was what she had in mind all along.
What a joke... Like a fool, he had told her, not knowing any better, to take all three of the stones she had chosen if she liked them. She obediently agreed... Three... She must want to leave him so badly that she chose three at once... What was even more annoying was that he thought she genuinely liked these oddly shaped little stones. So, when they were leaving the mall, he specifically went to the Stone Story store and bought her two more beautiful new stone pendants...
