William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18

Chapter 6

Chapter 6. And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

'Tommy, don't just get too upset about that, it's just he is not available! Don't mind too much about that!!!' Emma petted my head when I was talking about my sad day.

'Is it that he don't like me anymore?' I asked her like a five year old, but I can't help it.

'Stop thinking about it.' Emma flicked her finger to my forehead and smiled when I whined. 'By the way, do you wanna know the new couch in the gym I am working at? He looked exactly the type you'd like!!!' She took out her phone showed me the picture they took together today.

'That's...' I looked at the picture unbelievably. 'That's Chris!!! That's the Chris I'm talking about!!!'

Emma made a chocking sound and shouted out quite loud. 'God! The world is so small! My brother's crush is working with me! How unbelievable! But he didn't seem very well today, those pretty face with a pale cheek.'

I looked at the picture again. He'd seem not very well, so my body worked faster than my brain:

'Hey Chris, are you ok? You don't sound very well.'

He answered very quickly.

'What do you mean by sound?'

'Well, I hear voices of the sick.'
I made a joke, and received Chris' laughing emoji.

But than I remember that he disappointed me, and the laughing emoji didn't seem that happy anymore.

Like a cloud over the sun.

Than a hand punched my shoulder not so painfully.

'Emma!' I wined not in a very serious tone. 'It hurts...'

'Oh stop your cries about your broken heart, I am having a dinner with all my gym colleague and I need to bring a partner, but I am not dating, so you gotta come with me!'

'We are not gonna do the pretending thing anymore, is it?' I asked, alarmed.

'What pretending thing?' she asked me back innocently, but I knew that she knows.

'Last year, you lose in a truth or dare game, and you had to pretend to be my wife and send a picture of us wearing our parents wedding ring on the internet!!!' I said in a fake angry tone, and Emma faked a scream.

'But you have to admit that is funny!!! Remember your face when I put the ring on your finger? And you loved that picture we took!' Emma laughed.

'Fine, I will go with you, just not in a couple way.' I said, and smiled happily with Emma.

At least I got to see Chris again.
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I brought Sarah to the dinner of the gym.

I still remember the first day of working in the gym.

Everyone was nice and energetic, and I saw someone that got my attention.

The woman who named Emma, she was slim and had a bright smile, a familiar smile that I saw on Tom's photo.

She was the wife of Tom? And my boss???

What a small world.

And I knew I'd see Tom again in the dinner, and I still don't know how to face him... and Sarah.

Sarah is a bigger problem though, and Tom was almost perfect that I wished he'd yell at me for rejecting him just because I realized that there was no future between us. 

He just answered, 'It's fine, we can see each other another day, isn't it?' right after I rejected because of horror.

Then I saw him walking in, with his wife beside him, them both laughing for something fun.

'Hey Chris!' Emma waved at me. 'This is my brother, Tom Hiddleston! I believe that you have meet before!' She shook hands with me, so as Tom, and she looked at Sarah who wasn't looking great, and asked, 'And this is...?'

Wait, brother???? Tom is Emma's... brother!?!

I looked at their left hands, and there was no rings.

Than what about that picture???

'Chris?' A white hand waved in front of me, and I smelled a calming scent. 'Are you with us?'

Tom looked at me worriedly, and I just want to rub those wrinkles off his forehead.

He was like the silvery moon covered by black clouds at midnight.

So elegant yet have a scent of sadness.

'Oh,' I answered after Sarah was going to splash her drink at me. 'I'm sorry, this is my girlfriend, Sarah, Sarah, this is my boss, Emma and her brother Tom.'

Tom seemed to lose light in his eyes, but he smiled brightly like he was fine.

It was all my fault.
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It was the end of dinner, and it was not the best dinner in my life. Maybe the second worst of my list.

I went to the bathroom before I leave, but I heard something that I shouldn't have.

'I can't stay with you anymore! I don't want to stay with you when everyone that is almost as good as me, and you don't even push them away!!! I don't want to worry every day about you leaving me without seeing the bad part of those people!!!'

The stairs beside the washroom stood Sally and Chris, one screaming and another just standing there, seeming tired.

What is happening? I hope it's not an argument that ends their relationship...

'Sarah, look, I can't live with your possessiveness anymore, too. You are limiting the people I can know, and you knew that I am serious with you... But what you have done have destroyed our possible future. I am sorry.'

Sarah looked at him, eyes filled with tears. Than she laughed crazily, and shouted at Chris again,

'HAHAHAHAHA, MY FAULT!?! WHY DON'T YOU THINK THAT IT IS THAT TOMHIDDLESTON THAT DESTROYED OUR POSSIBLE FUTURE??? YOU BASTARD!!!'

She ran away in fury, and I stood in the shadow that I overheard the conversation, a conversation that I have regretted to hear since the very first moment.

I saw Chris looking at the way that Sarah left.

Was it really my fault that destroyed their future?