The Romance After Marriage
3.8 | B : Delvin's Heartless Request

Ines -

"W-there's something else you want to talk about, huh? Te-about what??" Because my heart involuntarily made my way of speaking become stammered. A smile I painstakingly developed on these lips. I asked myself to look into his eyes, although maybe then he would realize the concerns of the heart that had been printed very clearly there.

"Neez,"

Hearing him call my name I sayup, made the rumbling in my heart even more unbearable. I'm fucked! But I still want to try to survive and not show my vulnerability to him.

My heart's messed up. Keep chanting the same sentence over and over. "I beg Delvin... Please break my bad premonition, we'll continue together right?!"

I let out a huffed breath. My pupils grew bigger as my heart grew more and more. While he was still looking at me with his inner gaze, without a word. It's a very unusual thing, and it scares me terribly!

"It's really my intention today..."

Even now the name for itself to me has changed drastically. He threw himself far away from me...

"...there are some things I want to say for the clarity of our relationship, which maybe after yesterday's incident there is no meaningful certainty,"

My tongue. I could only fall silent listening while looking at him with a heart that kept getting hurt.

"Here, now, I want to clarify our respective positions." Stem cold. "Gue know, maybe eight years is not a short time, even I myself never imagined it would end like this before... Maybe we are the ones who are not fools. Now, for the two of us, maybe no longer a couple, but we can still be－"

"Friends?" Tukanku, snatch the last word he was about to say. "Do you think it's possible? An ex-girlfriend who almost got married and didn't, and then made friends??" I snorted, then shook weakly. "There won't be anything funny like that in this world let alone one of them already feeling hurt!"

"Hey, hey, wait a minute!" Delvin interrupted. "Who is hurt here? I'm not even the first to break in, am I," she said. I understand he definitely wouldn't have accepted my words just now. Because I started this distance, I know, I admit it.

"I realize it was me. But you know exactly why I asked us to break it for what?!" I looked at her with teary eyes. "If it wasn't for that ridiculous matchmaking I wouldn't break it with you, Vin, either" I said, lamenting the grievance that had been lodged in my heart, to let him know the truth that is in my heart without exception. "But why is it that when the problem has been successfully solved I am well, you even continue to stay away from me, while closing your eyes and ears as if you do not know what the break really means!"

"But let's remember again, who can I tell? Is it directly from your own lips or even from someone else?" Delvin laughed cynically. "Even you can not believe in your partner and prefer to make a unilateral decision, which you may never think if it can hurt me as a couple at that time??"

He grunts. "Good relationships are built on trust. Enough with mutual trust so that the couple who build the commitment can still lean on each other, strengthen each other..." His face turned hard, at first glance he threw his face away from me before finally looking back at me with his already teary eyes. "If the foundation does not exist? How can we continue a relationship that has no mutual trust like that?!"

"Sacrificing myself is not the concept of the relationship I want. Do you still not know even after eight years of our relationship??" The question made me silent.

"Don't you know exactly how my family's condition is not intact anymore?!"

Again I can only be silent. My insensitivity all this time turned out to be a big boomerang for myself.

"This cave never wants the same ill-fated events from my parents to happen again to me and my partner later," Delvin sighed, heavily. "I've always been careful with our relationships, first."

I was impaled by his words. The word "formerly" sounded very sharp to my listener's senses.

"We used to break up often, and I never had a problem even though you always ask to break up first and I always ask us to come back again. But for the last time yesterday it was fatal, and it finally made me think that we're not a match."

I threw my face away from him. Again my tears fell which this time was followed by regret for what he said even though I knew it was too late, it was meaningless now.

"Although, I still say thank you very much to you, Nes, because you are willing to join enliven my empty life." This time he smiled. A sincere smile but so painful when I saw it.

I folded my lips, making them not tremble because of my weeping which grew louder. I tried to wipe away the trace of tears on the cheek with a tissue over and over again, afraid that others in this place would realize and see my sadness.

"In addition, I want this, too,"

Unexpectedly he suddenly thrust a folding paper coated with clear plastic onto me.

My eyes are still glazed and then narrowed, trying to examine the writing listed on it. The curiosity that enveloped me subconsciously accepted it immediately.

In an instant my eyes were wide. Realize that the paper is not an ordinary folding paper but a wedding invitation paper!

A wedding invitation! And, I can't believe what my own eyes see.

My hands even shook my heart rumbled violently when reading the writing with the gold ink scratches. Because there are written a pair of names that are very familiar to me; Delvin & Kyra.

I'm tergugu. Hot hearts. It felt like it was burning with a terrible fire. Makes me irresistible.

"Delvin and Kyra?" My voice choked. My heart beat harder as I realized who owned both names. He is someone who is currently sitting right in front of me, and of course I know well who the owner of that name, Shakyra, is, the girl he always claims to be his friend from a long time ago and who I always deny.