King of My Heart

"CAN I tell you a secret?" She looks at him enthusiastically. Her eyes glitter when moonlight hits her eyes. She's obviously drunk because of her eyes and energy that only shows when she is drunk. And when she is drunk, she doesn't even know what she is doing nor whom she is talking to. She just wanna talk and let out all her thoughts all at once. And the stranger beside her is just attentively listening to her. They can only see each other's eyes and lips because their faces are half-covered with masks— just following the party's theme. He is now hating this kind of theme because he can't identify new faces if it was covered. And by the way she talks and the way she looks, he doesn't know if he already meet her before. "Hey, I am asking if I can tell you a secret." She repeated. Seems like he didn't answer right away. He obviously got carried away in her eyes and thoughts. "I don't mind. I'm good at keeping secrets." He smiled and shrugged his shoulders. She sips the last drop in her wine before continuing. "I am actually not invited here." She drunkenly giggles before looking at him in her side. Her hair dance in the rhythm of cold breeze that passes through them. He's mesmerize in her beauty. He knows she's beautiful behind that mask. "I don't even know why am I even talking to a stranger. It seems like it is very comforting talking to someone you don't know and will never meet again. And you are just listening and seems like you don't care which is good because at least you will not judge me. I can feel it that you are not judging me, are you?" "Hmm-mm." He shake his head. If she could just know how glad he is that he found her in this corner of the yacht while everyone are partying and getting wasted inside the yacht. She was already drunk when he saw her. But not drunk enough to fall asleep because she still talks a lot. He saw her looking above the moon while sitting on the floor, wine bottle beside her, wine glass in her hand, and legs outside the railings of the yacht. She was swaying her legs and looks like a drunk kid for him. He find her interesting at first glance that's why he chose to sit beside her and start talking to her which obviously turns out otherwise. It became her talking to him. And he likes how she talks a lot about her life and thoughts. He never saw a woman before who talks so deep and can cry and laugh at the same time. "My friend... It was my friend who was invited in this yacht party. She was the lawyer who won the case of the uhmm... I forgot the case. I know the case but seems like my brain can't think of it right now... So going back... She just pushed me to come with her. Her reason is actually funny. She thought I will get crazy coz you know I've been saying this stuff to her and she. is. absolutely. utterly. disagree about it." She slightly laugh while talking and giving stress in each word she said. He is just listening to her while looking intently in her eyes. "Did you already experience something like one morning you wake up and suddenly you want this to happen? And it feels like you are really ready for it? Because why not? I am already thirty years old. Not exactly but you know, I am already at the end of my twenties. And it feels like I am already in the right age of—" "Getting married?" He trailed her off. He is confused to what she is trying to say. "No. No. No. I am not going to marry to someone. Geez. I hate getting married. I hate that thought. I still don't see myself getting married. And geez, did you count how many times did I say married???" He is now lost to her words. He suddenly can't understand what she is trying to say. "Then, what are yoy trying to say? You are in the right age of what?" She beams a smile at him. Very wide. His heart skipped a beat when she smile before she answer him. "I think I am ready to have a kid! A kid! That's what I was saying. I want a kid of my own. I want to bear a child in my womb. I suddenly feel I am already ready to become a mother and raised my own child." She put her chin above her palm that's been laying in the railing. He almost dropped his jaw. She's unreadable. He is still confused. Very much. "You don't want to get married, but you want to have a kid? On your own?" He asked confused. "Yes." She smiled even wider while not looking at him. "How is that even possible?" "Are you not familiar with insemination? Com' on. America is a very advance country. How you don't know that? Geez." She looks at him with dismay. "How come you rather choose to undergo that, than to do it naturally? Why not find a boyfriend, fall in love, get married and build a family?" She looks at him as if he said something funny. Her smile is like a pressing laugh. "Don't look at me like that." "Did you already fall in love?" He didn't answer. He moves his lips in one thin line. "See. You still don't." She said then looked away. Just because I didn't answer, doesn't mean I still don't. He thought. "Did you?" Throwing back the question at her. She smiled when she looks at him. "Falling in love is like a gamble, you know? Having and raising a kid on your own nowadays is much easier than falling in love." She answered indirectly. He knows that she'll not answer him directly. The tension between them heats up. He doesn't want to end their conversation but seems like she already have nothing to say. And he has only one idea to not end things between them easily. "Do you want to drink another bottle again?" Her eyes lit up. It seems like a good idea for her. "Can you grab many bottles inside for us? Cause I can't." Then she show her feet which is not wearing her pumps anymore. He chuckles while looking at her childish expression. "Wait me here. Don't let anyone sit beside you aside from me." He reminded her before going back inside to get them bottles of wine. And they drink the night away until they lost control and end up sleeping in one room and God knows what happened more which she really regret the moment she realized what happened when sunlight wake her up.