They sat by the window and had a panoramic view of the traffic downstairs.
“Do you mind if I smoke?” Susan said first.
“When did it start?” Edward watched her skillfully light a cigarette.
Smoke soon wreathed between them. Susan leaned against the back of the chair, “After you left.”
Edward snatched the cigarette and smoked it.
“I’m sorry.” Edward gently exhaled the smoke.
Susan seldom saw his such childish behavior and smiled, “You don’t have to feel sorry. It’s your choice. If I were you, I would make the same choice as you.”
“You seem to have changed a lot.” Edward looked at her.
After hearing that, Susan suddenly wanted to cry. She turned away and looked out of the window. There were two shadows in the transparent glass window, “I also feel that I have changed a lot, at least I am no longer as naive and stupid as before, and I was so stupid that I didn’t know anything.”
“I wish you were the same as before.”
“Then you can only hope that people cannot go back to the past, nor can they live in the past.”
“Susan, there are many things I haven’t told you.”
Susan suddenly stood up and interrupted him, “It’s so late. I should go back now.”
Edward smiled weakly. Susan walked ahead, not daring to look back at him. She was afraid that she couldn’t help hugging him if she looked at him.
But when she met him again, there was a sense of distance which made her feel desperate in addition to the long-term miss.
Edward became so radiant and popular with many people.
As for her, she was just a little-known reporter.
A gust of wind outside the restaurant dissipated the sweltering heat in the house, which refreshed them.
Susan was about to hail a taxi, but her wrist was held by Edward again.
“Let me go.” She didn’t dare to look back at him.
Edward didn’t let go, and he looked straight at her, “I won’t let you go.”
“I tell you to let me go!” She couldn’t get away anyhow, and the bitterness that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time surged up in an instant, so she cried and trembled slightly, “You left me so resolutely. You chose Shanghai, not me, Edward, we were over at that time.”
“You always run away from me and refuse to look at me.” He clutched her tightly, showing sadness on his face, “You blocked all my contact information and didn’t give me even the slightest chance to get close to you. Aren’t you heartless to me?”
“You deserve it!” Susan’s voice was husky with crying, “You gave me up.”
She just beat Edward in the chest with all her strength, as if it had been an accusation for such a long-term helplessness.
Then she was pulled into the familiar while unfamiliar chest. Edward whispered in her ears, “I am a greedy person. I chose my dream, but I never thought of giving up you.”
Susan was heartbroken from crying in his arms. Edward patted her back again and again to comfort her.
It was not until Edward sent Susan back to the hotel that Susan reacted, “How do you know I live here.”
Edward stretched out his hand and pinched Susan’s face, “I saw you smoking on the bench that day. At first I thought it wasn’t you, which shocked me.”
Susan remembered that when she first arrived at the hotel, she still remembered there was a noise behind her, but she did not look back then.
The brown-black band-aid on Edward’s hand was a bit offending to the eyes. It turned out that he was the one who was burned.
It was about nine o’clock in the evening when they came back. Susan looked at the yellow lights not far away. There were too many people who lived in the hotel to watch the game. She was a little worried about being seen by someone.
“You should go back to your room, and I will go back, too.”
“Are you hungry?” Edward ignored what she said.
“Uh…?” Susan looked up at him, “Uh…”
Edward suddenly kissed her. There was rubbing between their lips and teeth.
The kiss was lingering and intoxicating. They stood in the shade of the tree and hugged, which seemed erogenous in the night.