HEARTBROKEN MEIXIU
673 Words
"Hey you are not talking to me. Are you sure you're alright?", Chaoxiang asked his wife.
She is sitting on the couch and is not sounding anything. She's just playing with her fingers. "I never thought it'll hurt me triple times after I saw him.", she said to herself, hating the man in front of her.
"I'll take a shower. Call me if you need anything.", the man said and headed upstairs.
The tears she was keeping inside her finally found a way to get out. "Why is he getting along with her? Can't he just accept that we're married now? After all that woman left her!", her thoughts are clear but whenever she speaks them out, it'll turn out to an endless blabber.
"I thought I should be happy about him driving me to the office but I guess he is just doing that for his guilt. He wrote Suyin a song and wrote nothing for me. He kissed her cheek, he held her hands, he represented her to the whole country and he denies me.", she can't stop herself from being jealous.
Her hands are raised forward, as if she is explaining the pain to someone in front of her although she is alone sitting on the couch. "I may look like a crazy woman here but my reaction with what Chaoxiang did is beyond my control. It's tearing me apart.", she thought.
Clearly, Meixiu had adjusted herself enough for Chaoxiang, to be a good wife for him. She wakes up early just to prepare his breakfast and still arrives at work on time. She goes to his concerts but still arrives early to prepare his dinner. She washes his clothes, clean their house and dispose the garbage yet he is still betraying her. "I guess it's the happiness after all. Because I can't give him that, he'll find it somewhere else."
"You said that you're lost you need to find yourself. Can't do that with me but with somebody else. You said that you're here, but you found a new home.", she sang the lyrics of Wildfire and chuckled on how the lyrics are really true to their situation. "Marianas trench, stop hitting me with your lyrics!", she exclaimed.
She turned her phone off and laid on the couch. "After all, I am now feeling better. My pancreas are not killing me anymore so I'll sleep in this small couch again.", she said and closed her eyes.
[•••]
"Ruomei! I'm taking a shower!", Chaoxiang exclaimed after picking up Ruomei's call.
"Really? Have you fetched your wife?"
"She is with me."
"In the shower? Oh my... Wait I'll end up!"
"No! She's downstairs you green!", Ruomei laughed.
"How is she?"
"Do you seriously think I can't take care of her?"
"No, I just can't contact her. She is never turning her phone off but I think she just did. You two had a fight?"
"No Ruomei, we're fine!"
"Her mom pressured her again?"
"I don't know. She is not opening up."
"Ask her i***t!"
"She told me her day's like her car."
"What does she mean by that? Her car overheated right?"
"Yes and what am I going to do again?"
"Check on her. Tell her to open up about her problems. I don't want her to commit suicide again."
"She what?"
"Wait, Liwei's family is already here. I'll call you tomorrow."
Chaoxiang rushed outside the bathroom with a bathrobe wrapped around his body. He went to the couch and saw Meixiu sleeping. She looks exhausted, there's a sudden aura in her face that made Chaoxiang conclude her day was completely messed up.
"You may have come a long way but we'll be living until the end now. You can tell me all your fears.", he said and kissed her forehead.
So afraid to wake her up, instead of carrying her to his bedroom, he carried his pillows downstairs and he brought himself a mattress and slept on the floor, beside the couch where Meixiu is sleeping.
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