A Moment in Destiny

He shook the key in his hands and she blushed suddenly. It turned out she seemed to have forgotten it during their passionate kiss a while ago. In helplessness, she sat on the sofa again and he crouched in front of her.

His hands held her pale face full of tears. He smiled looking at her tear stained face, but this time there was no sarcasm, no haze, just pain. “You put on makeup!”

She was stunned. She closed her eyes and took a breath.

His eyes were fixed on her. His dark eyes like deep wells that made people fall in them and be trapped forever. Those eyes were full of deep affection.

“But wasted it all while crying like a little kitten.” He said softly, his tone fond.

She stared at him in a daze unable to believe him.

Then she said angrily, “I wanted to waste it!”

Her tone was full of resentment, anger and despair. She didn’t know that she looked like a little tantrum throwing child and yet, he raise head and looked at her, “Okay, you wanted to. You can do whatever you want.”

“What are you doing here again?” She pouted, feeling quite shy because of his soft tone.

“If I don’t come back, what if the bad guys broke in tonight?” He raised his eyebrow. “Maybe someone already took the key and made a copy. They can just open the door and come in especially to harass a weak woman like you.”

“Yeah right!” Apart from him, no one was going to come to harass her.

“Sherry, don’t make me leave, okay? I am really tired!” He looked at her. Only by looking at her could he calm his heart.

His tone was pleading, causing her heart to ache.

She sniffed, wanting to cry. How could she tell him to leave when his eyes were red and he looked haggard and thin.

“Go, sleep.” She said.

“So, are you letting me stay?” his voice trembled, seemingly unable to believe it.

“You can leave after getting a good sleep.” She restrained her emotions and said lightly. Then she stood up and walked to the bathroom.

“How are you always so rational? Must you push me away?” William shouted desperately behind her.

“All I know is that you need to rest.” Sherry turned around and said in a breath, “How long have you not been resting properly?”

They stared at each other like this for a long time. William felt his heart was as desolate as a dessert in that moment, his eyes swollen and sore, as if he could not bear the weight of the world. “I don’t know!”

“Go to sleep.” She said.

to sleep.” His eyes darkened. He lowered his head, gloom

face in the crook of

going to lose her mind, become desperate and hysterical. She was afraid that she was going to end up loving

knew that it was all because of him and that her life was not

was really too selfish! He was thinking if

began to bathe. She needed to think carefully about it, otherwise she was not

water, Sherry suddenly submerged her head deep in the water until the feeling of suffocation

she got better but then found out that William didn’t love her, was she going to be triggered and become sick again? If it all came back to a full circle, was William going to

the water again, Sherry closed her eyes, trying to not think about anything. But Lucille’s scary

later, William realized that Sherry still hadn’t come out and he felt worried.

with her eyes closed. It was impossible to tell whether it was water or tears on her

tugging on his heart. He walked over, took the towel from the side and picked up

arms but didn’t open her eyes. She still didn’t know how to face him. After

that she didn’t want to let him go. Now that

porcelain doll in his arms. He hugged her lifeless looking body tightly and stared at her gray deathly pale face

silence. William had never felt such panic before. She did not say a word, she felt like

I don’t care, what does someone else’s life or death has to do with me? You know that if you entangle me like this it will only make me hysterical and unreasonable, right? I don’t want to become that kind of a person!” Sherry

tightly, wrapping his arms around her and stared affectionately at her pale face. She didn’t know that

be able to let go!” Tears fell silently from her closed eyes as she curled her

wiped her tears away. His big hand gently stroked her cheek. She loved him. Thinking that, his sad heart that had

William!” She paused, taking a deep breath and trying to calm her hurting heart, “You still have Lucille! Tell me

he knew what to do, it wouldn’t be so

I can

her close into his arms and bent over to find her lips. Sherry’s lips were suddenly covered by William’s soft lips, making her

and struggled, trying to push him back. But he locked her into his arms dominatingly,

smell of tobacco

waving around in her heart, as rippling wave after wave of emotions hit

lifted it

His deep black eyes had a strange charm, enough to make her want to drown in them. He said

her expression was dazed and

a trance again. There was always another way? Always? Should she

William’s voice was too gentle and

tears filled her eyes and were about to

him call her like that, the resentment, grievance, anger, despair, everything she felt in her heart

“Go to sleep!”

that, he looked like if he didn’t sleep

his face seemed to be immersed in a pool of water, so

bloodshot her eyes were. His heart hurt under her