Chapter 180 - Your Boyfriend (1/2)
Xiu silently watched as Dylan and Nora shared the stories about their mothers. Xiu laughed to the point of tears that's how funny their stories were. However, those weren't tears of joy, those were tears of sadness instead. She was envious of both of them for having amazing mothers.
Even though both their mothers nagged them all the time, for Xiu, that was a very special thing. She wiped the corner of her eyes discreetly. She didn't know what kind of a relationship Destiny had with her own mother but hers wasn't anything special.
”Since both of your mothers have the same hobby of insulting you, why don't you both start dating?” suggested Xiu, languidly looking around. Dylan scoffed while Nora dropped her knife. Seeing their reaction, Xiu added, ”It will keep your mothers busy with each other and they will let you off the hook.”
Dylan and Nora looked at each other for a minute before both of them shook their heads in sync and said, ”Nah.”
Xiu found their response quite funny. She never thought she'd suggest something like that. But she had seen the way Nora and Dylan interacted. They understood each other very well and that's why she thought they'd make a good pair. However, they didn't agree with her at all.
”Why won't you date my best friend? What's wrong with her? Don't tell me that you're looking down on her just because she dates around a lot.” Xiu's strike was directed towards Dylan who felt like he was being wrongly accused yet again.
Dylan snorted in reply, ”Please, I can't possibly judge her for that. We live in the 21st century. Besides, if I had to judge someone I'd do that with my own best friend. Darren's dating history is no joke.”
Xiu's face fell again as he said that she looked like she was on the verge of tears as she said, ”Are you trying to indirectly tell me that my boyfriend found someone else there and now, he's abandoning me?”
”Huh?” Dylan was dumbfounded more so with her intonation than her words as he said, ”How did you come to that conclusion? Hold it, Darren might have dated a lot in his teenage years but he had never been the kind of person who would keep a girl guessing where she stands in his life.”
Xiu believed his words without a single doubt but came back to the original point, ”Then what's your issue with Nora?”
Nora propped her face on her hand and stared at Dylan asking, ”Yes, Hedi. Do tell us. What's wrong with me?”
Seeing Nora's amused expression, he was really irked but he still replied, ”Honestly, nothing is wrong with Nora but she and I can never work out. It's just that... Sometimes, first love leaves no desire for a second one.”
”Ah, you're one of those people,” said Xiu with a hint of sympathy in her voice.
”What kind of people?” The one to question that was Nora but the question had been at the tip of Dylan's tongue as well.
”You still dream about the ones lost in your memory, fabricated by your nostalgia and romanticized by your broken heart,” she scoffed to herself and went on, ”Didi, I suddenly find you very miserable. Stuck in an old love that's no longer yours, doesn't that hurt?”