UNTOLD LIE: LOVE AND HATRED.

Death:Birth

"R-Ricky what are you talking about?" I asked him.

He started into my eyes a little longer before he talked again. "Never mind, I must be out of my mind." He said. He was still holding my hands and I didn't mind.

I knew I was falling for the person I hated the person I thought I hated most in this world, but I didn't know it was this bad. If he did this 2 months ago, I would've probably beat him up. It's funny how time works, isn't.

"Can I ask you something?" I said.

"Shoot"

"Why didn't you marry the girl that your parents arranged you to. Now that your dad passed away, it's not really a choice, is it?" I said. The flashing images of Ricky going up to his room at the dinner table flashed through my mind, the conversations, everything."

"Because my whole life, I knew I was taking over the company at some point. My parents have been planning the ceremony ever since I was born. And taking over the company meant no fucking around and having my life planed out by someone who is not me. I didn't want my parents to plan the person I was going to marry as well. I mean I'll have to spend my life with her, don't I have a say in that at least?" He said.

I smiled a bit "So do you have anyone in mind?" I asked him.

I asked that as a joke and he knew that, but instead of laughing, he looked at me with a smirk that and his eyes dropped to my lips. "Yeah," he said. He eyes finally came up to my eyes "But I don't think the universe wants us to be together." He spoke.

What does he mean by that?

"Well who's the unlucky woman?" I asked him. I didn't expect him to answer that, so I walked to the fridge.

I heard a scoff coming from behind me. As I was closing the fridge his footsteps approached me. I turned around and almost kissed him. He was so close to me I felt hid breath. He looked deep into my eyes before he spoke "I'm looking at her beautiful eyes right now."

My heart dropped. At first, I thought he was teasing me or something, but he wasn't I knew him too well. Wehn Ricky lies, he doesn't hold eyes contact for more than 5 seconds. And I knew it's been well over 5 seconds since he was staring at my eyes.

I walked away and went straight to bed. I didn't even bother to change my cloths. I just tucked myself in bed and closed my eyes. I didn't say anything to him, and he didn't say anything to me.

After he came out of the bathroom, he said to me "I'm not going to school tomorrow. The funeral is going to be around 11:00 AM."

"Then let's go together." I said. Mr. Shen was like a father that I never had. He paid my school fees, he put a roof over my head and made me realize that life goes on and that I still have a lot waiting for me.

I couldn't go to bed that night. Partly because Mr. Shen died but mostly because of what Ricky said. What did he mean when he said 'I don't think that the universe wants us to be together'? Those words kept replying in my head.

What's going on with me.

I heard Ricky sniffing, but I just thought that he wasn't fully recovered from the cold.

I finally fell asleep a while later. I had a million thoughts crossing my mind but I somehow got 3 hours of sleep which was good enough for me.