Are They Together?
Guilt crept into Charles’ heart when he realized that Sonia had visited so many places and made so
many calls just to get to him. He lowered his head and pouted for a while before he spoke. “I’m sorry,
darling. I…”
“Well, tell me—what’s going on?” Sonia raised her hand to stop him as she didn’t want to hear an
apology. Charles’ gaze flickered for a moment before he sat back down on the swing and hooked his
arms around the metal chains. “It’s nothing much,” he uttered in a dejected tone. “I just think that I’m a
really useless person. I’m a grown man now, but I don’t think I’m acting like one. I just wanted to take a
stroll because I was troubled by these thoughts.”
“Is that all?” Sonia narrowed her gaze. It was evident that she didn’t trust his words. Her suspicions
made complete sense—Charles had only told her part of the truth, after all. Sonia wanted to
understand his abrupt change of emotions, yet he didn’t manage to provide her with a direct answer.
He merely brushed her question off by saying that he was a useless man.
But… He’s not telling me why he feels like a useless man, Sonia thought. This is giving me a
headache, but I know that he’s not doing it on purpose. He probably has his reasons for talking in
circles.
Indeed, Charles avoided her gaze as he let out a casual yawn. “Of course that’s all…” His voice grew
softer toward the end of his sentence, and he eventually lowered his head and pressed his lips
together.
Sonia let out a sigh before she sat down on the swing beside him. She had checked to ensure that the
swings were clean, so she wasn’t worried about dirtying her clothes. Once she sat down, she held the
metal chains and kicked her feet against the floor to send her swing backward. With her head leaning
against the metal chain, she said softly, “This place hasn’t changed at all. It’s just the way it used to
be.”
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