His brows relaxed and he said, “Okay, please come back after we get married.”
Seeing his back humming a song as he went to the bathroom, I smiled bitterly.
We wouldn’t get married.
The phone on the coffee table vibrated, it was Elmer’s.
I had no intention of looking at it, but when I stood up, I saw the name on the screen saying “Only Love”.
And that avatar also existed in my WhatsApp friends. [Elmer, he doesn’t want me anymore, I only have you.]
My hands and feet were cold and even my breathing stopped for two beats.
When Elmer came out, I was pouring water.
He habitually picked up the phone and the next moment, even though I had already prepared myself mentally, I still saw his face change instantly.
He went back to his room and hurriedly put on a piece of clothing. He was always a serious person and didn’t even notice that he had buttoned the wrong button.
When he walked to the door, he seemed to remember me standing at the table without saying a word.
He hurried over and said, “Baby, there’s an emergency case in the hospital. I have to go there right away. Don’t wait for me tonight.”
He perfunctorily touched my forehead and as the door closed, the room fell into a dead silence.
I lowered my head, looked at the water flowing all over the table, took a tissue and wiped it carefully.
Then I walked to the refrigerator and took out a birthday cake.
I lit the candles and made a sincere birthday wish for myself before twelve o’clock.
“I wish you happiness every year and I will never return to Elmer in this life.”
It was already noon the next day when Elmer came back.
I was cleaning things with gloves on when I opened the door.
He rubbed his eyebrows and pointed to the black bag piled at the door. “Is there so much garbage at home?”
“Well, there are quite a lot.”
After all, it was all the things he gave me in the past five years.
And every one of them, I flipped through all the dynamics that Melissa specially opened last night for a whole night.
They were all things she mentioned, bought and liked.
Elmer spared no effort to replace all his deep affection for Melissa with me.
And I was like a clown, treating false feelings as treasures.
Now, the garbage should return to the garbage dump.
He didn’t ask or look at it and walked over.
Until he saw that most of the cake was left on the table.