“I’m so incredibly envious of you, having a man to back you up wherever you are.” Leyla turned around and picked up the purse she had placed on the couch after saying these nonchalant words, and as she walked out, she didn’t forget to ram it hard toward Skyler’s shoulder, knocking Skyler back a few steps.
The scent of her perfume filled the area around Skyler’s nostrils, invariably invading her senses like a coma-inducing, deadly poison.
Leyla left, but her words remained deep in Skyler’s heart, her words are not bad at all, she is a shameless person who eats from the bowl and looks at the pot, a shameless person who is a red herring.
She still kept her grip on Stephen’s wrist and stood there for a long time. Stephen reached out his other hand to take hers, and Skyler only came to her senses completely when his warm palm attached itself to it, and she freed her hand to move the one Stephen had attached to the back of her hand, slowly.
“Stephen, just now my rebuttal … is not very pale and feeble? Very bottomless ah?” She spoke noisily, her voice a thin mosquito voice.
Stephen did not know how to answer her, Leyla such a mess, also let him understand one thing, he seems, from the beginning to the end did not notice that there is Leon such a person exists … from the beginning to the end did not pay attention to the person in front of the person they are pursuing, she is still single or not.
His fingers moved feebly and finally hung against the pocket of his pants, as if his life up to now, but also never felt what is powerless, right?
The powerlessness to change all this is the past that cannot be changed.
“I’m … sorry …” for a long time only out of the mouth of these four words, like a long time to deliberate before saying, and like completely without thinking out of the mouth.
Skyler smiled, but the smile on her face was not easy, and there was even some bitterness: “Sorry? Sorry for what?”
Skyler looked at Stephen next to her, still with that familiar sense of distance, obviously he was standing there, but she felt far away from him, so far that she could never reach him.
“Actually … I really like being with you …”
When the air brought the words to Stephen’s ears, Stephen’s heart hanging in mid-air landed on the ground, this feeling is not true at all, making him wonder if he fell into the third dimension.
So much so that he just looked at Skyler standing in front of him, her mouth smiling, the corners of her eyes curved reminiscent of pink cherry petals, this smile, as if for Stephen at that moment, is a lifetime.
Skyler passed by him, the wind blew her snow-white corner like a white gardenia, Stephen also do not know where he got the confidence and courage, in Skyler and himself about to pass that moment, he reached out again and grabbed her wrist.
The force of his grip is very heavy, as if the next second she will disappear in front of him, this life will not see him, and like a drowning man, clinging to the last straw to save his life.
Skyler intended to leave it at that, Leyla’s words made her understand her situation, she is not a person who can leave everything behind, she is not a free person, but Stephen is, that’s why Leyla’s words were justified.
The marriage contract that was rejected back then, the people who didn’t understand back then, all because the fate between her and him didn’t get to that point, right?
It turns out that it can be so hard to pretend to learn to walk spontaneously.
Just why when he pulled himself at that moment, he would have a heartfelt joy? Why is there an impulse to give up everything?
Stephen’s voice was a little more solemn and calm than usual, far removed from his usual image, but still melodious.
“I also really like …”
Skyler’s mouth rose in a larger arc of a smile, she knew, even if he did not say she knew, the joy of two lovers, the joy of meeting a friend in wine, are enough to make two people like.
Stephen’s gaze was fixed on her long, flowing hair, on her long, slender eyelashes, and on his face was a look she had never seen before, a tenderness she had never seen before.
“You …”
Stephen took her hand, the smile on his face was so warm that it could melt everything: “Your understanding is wrong, it has to be connected like this to be a complete sentence, to be the meaning I want to express with you.”
Her clear vision was instantly invaded by tears, the world before her eyes was like a mosaic, she could not see anything, she could only feel the warmth in front of her eyes were his shadow.
Still such understanding her, understand her, even if she does not say anything, he can also express her meaning perfectly, such a heart to heart, how can it not be fate.
Stephen took her hand and pulled her whole body over, looking at her face with tears really crying and laughing, he pulled her hard into his arms, giving the confused her a most solid rely at the moment.
This should be considered the first hug Stephen really gave her. Her whole body was buried in his arms, and she could only feel the warmth from his broad chest, blazing like the sun.
Stephen touched her head, her hair as smooth as freshly woven silk: “What are you crying about, no good.”
Skyler’s hand was hanging down for a long time, but did not lift up, after hearing these words, she reached out and punched Stephen’s back heavily a few times, because it was just crying, her voice was full of sobs.
“You’ll … you’ll get me killed …”
Stephen also did not move, allowing her to vent on his back: “You die, of course I will go with you, otherwise without you in this world, for me there is what meaning.”
Stephen’s arms tightened around her, and Skyler in his arms buried her face in his shoulder, her voice sounding muffled.
“Some things just start, but some things have to have an end.” Skyler squeezed her eyes shut, trying to put a familiar face out of her mind as she made a selfish decision, one that, presumably, would have to be based on the man’s pain.
The heavier the guilt she felt inside the more she told herself in her mind that maybe it was all wrong in the beginning and she was now, desperately trying to remedy that mistake.
In her life, two people appeared, one was Leon at the beginning and one was Stephen who changed later, and once these two people appeared, they easily changed her life.