The phone clanked out of the woman's pants pocket. I bent down to pick it up just as a message popped up on the screen.
[Esmeralda, thank you for helping me block the wine tonight, but I’m sorry. I can't take the necklace you gave me. It's too expensive.]
The next second, I saw Raymond's circle of friends named ‘Love is priceless’. The accompanying picture was a necklace that shone like nothing else. It was the only one in the world that was auctioned off by the mysterious tycoon in the news at a cost of one hundred million dollars. I knew Raymond had sent it to me specifically to see.
This week Esmeralda was so busy that she didn't have time to eat. She was sent to the emergency room with a sudden stomach disease.
But as soon as she opened her eyes, she flew to England.
I was furious and heartbroken that she didn't even want to lose her life for the sake of her work. Later I realized that she was going to an auction.
Even though she was in pain and couldn't stand up straight, she was going to auction for the world's most precious necklace. Esmeralda dedicated it to her sweetheart.
I entered the lock screen password for some reason. After entering the last number, the lock was successfully unlocked. It was Raymond’s birthday. Esmeralda never let me look at her cell phone. She wanted us to leave personal space for each other.
Just after unlocking it, Raymond's bright and handsome smiling face came into my eyes. No wonder Esmeralda's eyes were inexplicably gentle whenever she unlocked her phone. I then opened her photo album in the phone gallery.
I then realized all the names were the same. It was about Raymond Fletcher. I saw Raymond’s pictures when he was ten years old, eleven years old and twenty-five years old.
Each album recorded Raymond's smiling face at different times. None of the thousands of photos belonged to me, not even herself. It was only Raymond Fletcher. Just like her heart, there was only Raymond from the beginning to the end.
When I opened the memo, it was Esmeralda's diary.
[2018, Raymond cut his leg by a branch today. It's all my fault, I shouldn't have planted a tree in the yard.]
[2024, Raymond got married today, as long as he's happy anything I do is worth it. I love to make her happy].
[2024, I got married. The moment I saw Raymond on the stage. I wished that the person standing beside me was him.]