Chapter 179 - Savage Mothers (1/2)
There are always moments in our life that make us want to wish for the time to stop. And the same way, there are moments when we want to fast-forward everything. However, time never works like that. The way time work is very peculiar; when you wish for the time to stop, it fast-forwards. And when you want to fast-forward through, it slows down and passes slower than a tortoise.
However, that's not actually true. We believe it is but it isn't. The time moves at the same pace. It's our own feelings that change. For instance, a moment of joy is always shortlived because you're so engrossed in your happiness that you didn't even realize when the time passed. The same goes for moments of sadness. We become so involved with our sadness that time seems like it's slowed down.
This was certainly Xiu's condition these days. It had been days and Darren still didn't come back. She had never missed anyone this badly in her life ever before. And the more she missed him, the more her feelings for him grew. Since she was constantly in a bad mood these days, Nora brought her out for dinner and even called Dylan to join them.
Sitting around the table, Xiu's head was placed on the table while Nora and Dylan looked at her.
”What's up with her? She's always mad at everyone in the office. People are scared to even talk to her. And I have never seen my employees this scared even by me,” said Dylan looking at Xiu with a strange look.
”Cut her some slack. She's mad because she's missing Darren,” Nora defended her best friend and touched Xiu's head as she added, ”Xiu, cheer up. Darren's been texting you these days and even explained why he's suddenly so busy. Also, didn't he send you those red camellia flowers the other day?”
With her chin on the table, Xiu looked at Nora and said, ”I don't want his flowers. I want him. And I know he's been texting me but I want to hear his voice. Darn it! Why did his company have to go through some crisis during this time?” She looked around at the restaurant filled with lovely couples and sighed out, ”Look, autumn is right around the corner. Soon, it'll be cold nights. Imagine, cold night, long drives, my little king and me, 80's hit songs and no destination. What a beautiful night it'd be.”
”Well, at this point, you can only imagine,” said Dylan and Nora slapped him from over the table while Xiu glared at him but soon lost the interest to even argue with him. And when she put her head back down, he was shocked. Now, he really believed that she was missing Darren since she was nothing like her usual self.
But in Xiu's mind, she had dropped the idea of dropping a savage sarcastic comment because she felt like Dylan's small brain won't understand her elite humor. So, wasting her energy on him was worthless.
Seeing her not being co-operative, both Nora and Dylan decided to keep her out of the conversation. Dylan had actually thought about telling Nora that Xin Xiaosi was back but hesitated a little before saying, ”Nora, I read a very interesting post. It went like sometimes God sends an ex back into your life to see if you're still stupid. I felt that on a personal level. What're your thoughts about it?”
Nora took a deep breath, avoided looking at him and acted really cool as she said, ”I don't feel it at all. I've changed my life full circle. A 360-degree turn.”
”If you want to change your life around, you take a 180s turn, not 360s,” both of them heard a muffled voice coming from Xiu who went on, ”If you did a complete 360, it's like coming back to the same bullshit! Who would wanna do that?”
”Pfft!” While Nora thought about Xiu's reasoning, Dylan burst out laughing. ”I never thought I'd say this but I have to. Kiddo is right this time.” He purposely called Xiu kiddo but to no avail since the latter was a like log again. No movement whatsoever. Dylan was disappointed to learn that. However, from Nora's answer, he gathered one thing that he wasn't supposed to tell her about Xin Xiaosi.
If the girl had walked out of her past's shadow. He had no right to push her back in.