Coy Love

Coy Love- 13

"When life seems perfect it crumbles apart letting you acknowledge the scars"

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I stared at the man before me, who drank himself into misery. I held my glass of beer to my lips as I stared at him, his eyes were red and puffy as if he had been crying. His clothes drenched from the rain, and his fingers were red as if he had been punching something.

I was not aware what had happened, but my friend before me seemed to be in pain. He ordered another round of alcohol, chugging it down as if to want to forget the pain.

"I think that's enough." I said to Angel, he swatted my hand away and shook his head at me.
"No, I'm not done." He said before telling the bartender to continue the drinks, who silently did which was asked.

"Will you tell me what's wrong?" I asked him, I could feel my phone buzzing and I knew it was Crystal, wanting to know if I was alright. But I chose to ignore it, my friend needed me at this moment.
"I love her, I fricken love her. B-But do you know, she's running away." He scoffed before chugging down another drink, a little bit of liquid leaked down from the edge of the cup and on to his neck.

I narrowed my eyes at his words, not aware that my friend had found himself a women. He was always so disclosed that I had never realised that he was with a women.
"Drinking is not the solution, I have been through that stage and nothing good ever comes from it." I said remembering the times when I had drunk myself into my own sorrow, when I assumed Crystal was never going to come back to me.

"The moment she realised her feelings for me, she runs away. Fuck I'm such an idiot, I always knew she did not want anything serious but she's just so perfect. No one can be a fool not to fall in love with her Ace." He continued to speak, I rubbed his back as he wiped his tears away. Angelos had always been strong, there was never a moment where I had seen him crumble and break.

"Women's can be hard to understand, they want to say yes but say no. They are hurting so they hide behind an imaginary wall which they had made. I can speak from what I have seen from Crystal and Callista." At the mention of Callista his head snapped towards me, I narrowed my eyes at him. Making him grab his drink and chug it down once again.

"She's so beautiful right?" He asked, his words were a slur which made me know he was drunk.
"Who is?" I asked confused to who he was talking about.
"Callista." He said making me arch my eyebrows at him, I began to piece everything together and it made me wonder if him and Callie were a thing or had a thing.

"I mean of course she's beautiful, but why are you asking?" I tilted my head to get a better look at him, turned his head to look at me with his red eyes.
"Fuck, I know you said she's off limits but I couldn't stop myself. It started off as just a mere fling, I did not realise when or how I began to fall in love with her. The she found out about me coming here to find myself a wife, and she ran away." His words had surprised me, how had I not clocked. The looks they had been sending each other, the way they acted it all made sense.

I began to feel guilty as I knew I had told Crystal about him coming here to find a wife and how his mother had already from his a bride who he did not want. It was obvious Crystal had told Callie, and she ran away from Angelos.

"I will not lie to you, Dorian. I did share with my wife regarding your reason to stay longer here, I was not aware of you and Callie. Believe me I would have never shared the information if I did." I said, Angelos looked at me seeming to be in deep thoughts before he let out a sigh.

" I can not blame you from sharing it with your wife, Ace. It's my fault, I should have told Callista from the moment I felt it was getting serious on my end the true reason I was here. I-I just wish she would stop hiding her feelings and running away from it." He sighed again, and I nodded my head. The music on the background had began silent to us. We both in our own little world.

"Callie has been through a lot, you may not know this but I was once in a relationship with Callie. We did nothing but kiss as we were young but the period of time it felt like love, and I was happy I was getting married to her. But she had an accident and went into coma, I had to marry Crystal instead of her, I hated the idea at first we never stayed together or even acted like a married couple. But then I got to know her and I fell in love with her, it was when I realised what I thought was love with Callie it was not love just something I had convinced myself but Crystal made me realise what love really was. By the time Callie woke up me and Crystal were head over in heels in love with each other and she accepted it. Her mother would find suitors for her to marry, and the man her mother introduced happened to be the man who had attempted to kill her in order to hurt me. The reason I am telling you this, is to tell you that Callie has been through shit. She had built up walls around her, her faith in men has gone and she wants to stay as much away from relationships, love and marriage." I completed, Angelos sat silently as if digesting what I had just told him. It was a story I rarely told anyone, it pained me to see what Callie had gone through and that I may have been one of the reasons to why she built a wall around herself.

"I love her, Ace. And I don't want her to be in pain, and if I am the cause of her pain then I will leave."