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.

darkened. He

crook of her arm and began to

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

knew that it was all because of him and that her life was

He was thinking if

Sherry filled the bathtub and began to bathe. She needed to think carefully about it, otherwise she was not going to be

of suffocation swept through her body. Then she raised her head back up,

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 feel guilty for her

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

realized that Sherry still hadn’t come out and he

laid in the water with her eyes closed. It was

William felt extreme distress tugging on his heart. He walked over, took the towel from the side

eyes. She still didn’t know

him go. However, he came back. God knew that she didn’t want to let him go. Now that she had let him go, she knew how

Sherry to the bed. She looked like a porcelain doll in his arms. He

never felt such panic before. She did not say a word, she felt

you go; never let you go again to go bear your responsibility. 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

stared affectionately at her pale

make me reluctant to let go. I won’t be able to let go!” Tears fell silently from her closed eyes as she curled her lips into a

hand gently stroked her cheek. She loved him. Thinking that, his

deep breath and trying to calm her hurting heart, “You still have Lucille! Tell me what do I do?

knew what to do, it wouldn’t be so

I can only leave…”

brought 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 swallow all the words that

to push him back. But he locked her into his arms

voice echoed in her ears, the familiar smell of tobacco surrounding her, completely melting her

like an ocean was waving around in her heart, as rippling wave after

fingers pinched her chin and lifted it slightly to let her face

black eyes had a strange charm, enough to make

but her expression was dazed and

mind fell into a trance again. There was always another

William’s voice was

eyes and were

that, the resentment, grievance, anger, despair, everything she felt in her heart all turned into the

“Go to sleep!”

that, he looked like if he didn’t sleep now, he

immersed in a pool of water, so distant and hazy. “Okay,

eyes were. His heart hurt