They finished their lunch and Matthew offered to pay for their food. Although Dominic declined his offer but Matthew told him he just want to thank him for being by his side and Dominic just let him do it.
After they stepped out from the restaurant, Dominic turned to him. "I just want to ask if you're free tonight? Maybe we can hit some club or something."
"Thank you though but you know how I hate clubs. It's just, no thanks. Sorry, man." Matthew apologized to his bestfriend. Clubs weren't his thing anymore after some specific incident that made he vowed to himself to never step into any clubs anymore unless he really need to or if Harry was with him.
Because why?
Because he's with Harry. He would never say no to Harry.
And that reminded him of the very first day or he would rather say night, he met with Harry.
"Matthew, you're here? Sorry, I shouldn't ask you that but I just thought-"
"Hey, it's okay, Dom. It was just nothing. Thank you though for the invitation but I think I would rather just stay home for tonight." He replied to him, a smile on his face.
"Okay then, I guess we see other soon. Call me if you need anything." He said suddenly protective of him. For some reason, he has some uneasy feeling, something, he couldn't interpret that feeling.
"Of course. See ya later, Dom." They bid each other good bye and parted to their own ways. Even though they worked at different places, the restaurant was their meeting place because it was near to their working places, or Dominic would just crash at Matthew's house, hanging out with him during their off days but now things were just different from before but Dominic still trying to give some time and space for him.
As Dominic was walking toward his car, Matthew's word kept playing inside his head. He knew he was upset. Harry meant so much to him and he knew how Matthew was so attached to Harry. He's been with them ever since the beginning.
From Matthew's first heartbreak, he helped him to go through his bad day. He knew Harry longer than Matthew cause they used to play soccer together and then, Harry moved from his old workplace to his company which surprised Dominic quite a bit, and worked there as an interior designer and helped Dominic to create amazing, fresh design for houses, apartments and even restaurants.
It was one night when Dominic and Harry went to a club to celebrate Harry's promotion and Matthew was there coincidentally. Dominic introduced Harry to Matthew and ever since that, they were together. Well, he actually didn't know Harry was together with Matthew until he walked in just to catch them kissing cause he's being the typical Dominic to just walked into someone's house leisurely.
He could see Matthew was happy and moved on from his terrible past relationship. He was totally head over heels with Harry and Dominic was happy for his friend but now, once again, Matthew was broken and it was a lot more worse than before. It's not only Matthew felt the lost of his love life, but he too, lost his bestfriend.
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Matthew entered his car immediately. His hand was searching aimlessly in the dark for the glove compartment and once he found it, he quickly opened it and reached for a rectangular box. He pulled it out and ripped the plastic that was wrapped around the box. His finger picked one of the cigarette and he brought it to his lips. His hands were shaking as the dark memories started to spin inside his mind.
The guilt.
The guilt was too much for him to handle.
As he was about to ignite the cigarette with a lighter that was in his other hand, he suddenly heard Harry's voice.
