Morning Sunset - Daniela D. I. (novels to read .TXT) 📗

to us,
- How do you get here? - He asked me.
- Slowly - I smiled.
- We have already thought that you won't come...
- How could I miss the birthday of my best friend - I said, looking at Amanda, who embraced John - By the way - I went on - You made a great gift to Amanda.
- I tried - with pride, John said.
- Well, what you'll give to John for his birthday? After all, it's very soon - Lucas asked Amanda.
- I know the perfect gift for both of you - I continued - It’s time for you to make a little John or a little Amanda.
- I also thought about it - Lucas has supported me - You've been married for 5 years, it's time to have children.
- And for you, it's time to take up the mind and make up your own families - John has immediately shifted the direction of the conversation.
- It is high time - has agreed Amanda - Emma you are 27 years old. What are you waiting for? And don’t look at me with your big ... brown eyes - she said angrily, feeling my gaze on herself.
- You tell me, also, that I'm already old - I have outraged - and generally, why do you run into me? Lucas will soon be 31 and he’s still not married...
- Well, thank you - I have heard Lucas' a little dissatisfied, voice, but I haven’t had time to tell him anything, because Amanda wouldn't let him to get into our conversation.
- Not old - she said as if she hadn't heard what I just have said about Lucas - Simply it's time to find a good guy and get married? And please, let him be not such a jerk as your ex – André!
I looked at Lucas, begging him with my eyes that he stood up for me and supported me.
- What? - He asked surprised, like he didn't hear what Amanda has just said. - What are you looking at me? I agree with Amanda, he's a jerk...
- That's it! Enough is enough! - I interrupted them - Let's finish this conversation. This refers to all of you. And you - I said angrily to Lucas - You're still calling yourself a friend. You said that you will protect me...
- That's right. I protect you ... from him.
I felt how Lucas began to get angry, as the muscles on his arm, which he hugged me, strained, and in his eyes there was anger. There was a feeling that if André was at that moment in front of him, then he was ready to kill him. "It's good that he's not here", I thought.
- It's ok ... Calm down - I said quietly and covered his hand with mine.
- Yes, let's close this topic. Besides, everything is already in the past - calmly said Amanda.
- Sweetheart - John has told to Amanda - let's go and talk with other guests while they haven't run up. And you have fun, will talk later - he has told to us, and then they with Amanda have left.
I slowly lowered a hand of Lucas. Having released from his embrace, I have turned to him to say that I don't like how he gets angry every time he hears the name of André. But, I didn't have time to say anything because I saw as the girl with whom he has spoken earlier, was approaching to us.
-Your friend is coming to us - I whispered.
- What? - Asked Lucas blankly, but I didn’t have time to answer because the next moment she already stood near Lucas.
- Hi. I am Brittani - she presented and gave me her hand.
- Nice to meet you, I'm Emma - I said, shaking her hand.
- Brittani's a nurse, she works with me and John – explained Lucas, who was a bit surprised by what was happening. However, his words were more like an excuse.
- Yes, I have recently transferred to the surgery department, where I met such good doctors as Lucas and John - she said with a broad smile, patting Lucas on the arm, which caused my smile. But only Lucas wasn’t smiling, it seemed that the whole conversation irritated him.
- I understand - I said - Well ... then I will not bother you and I'll leave you...
Lucas looked at me with a gaze that said something like "you'll regret about this ." I knew that he wasn't pleased with what I said and that I was going to leave, but it was necessary for me. I wanted rather to run away there where wouldn’t be so many people and that girl was a very good reason to do it. Besides, I was right. I saw how Brittani wanted to remain alone with Lucas and I was a great hindrance for her at that time.
Lucas wanted to object, but I was saved by a call of my mobile phone,
- Sorry, I must answer - I said and quickly headed to the exit of the apartment. I so hastened to leave that, even, didn’t look who was calling and I immediately responded.
- Hi honey - I heard a familiar voice.
- Hi, André - I said, without even specifying who was calling.
- Where are you? Still at Amanda?
- Yes, why?
- Simply, I thought that you have already freed and we could celebrate our reconciliation.
- It's very tempting but today it won't work. I can't leave from holiday, I just have recently came...
- And of course for you, friends are on the first place - added André, and I just couldn’t believe that he has said it.
- What, I'm sorry? - I asked astonished, but in response, I heard only silence. Apparently, he realized what he said and that I was hurt. - But don’t you think that you have no right to speak in that tone of my friends? I love my friends, and you know it perfectly, and they will always support me in difficult times...
- Unlike me ... Is that what you meant to say?
- No ... you said it - I answered though I thought about the same. His was never been there, when I needed it and he knew it. That's probably why he was so angry.
- Then I'll pick you up and I'll drive you home - he said quietly, thus changing the subject.
- It's no need - I said quickly, remembering the reaction of Lucas when we talked about André. And André himself began to get angry and was clenching his fists just at the mention of Lucas. I don't know how it happened, but my best friend and my boyfriend just couldn't stand each other.
- And even that, you do not want! Lucas certainly is there too and he will take you home, because he doesn’t leave you on a step - as in the proof of what I thought, André almost shouted to me in the phone.
- Enough! I can get home on my own, without someone's help, and maybe you will not hold me scenes of jealousy, you do not have this right...
- Okay, okay. Take it easy. Let’s not look back ... we have just made it up. Let's not quarrel - tried to calm me André.
- You started it - I mumbled.
- Sorry ... I didn’t want. Stay with your friends ... have fun, and we will meet tomorrow - he said and, without waiting for some response from me, has interrupted the connection, leaving me in utter confusion.
I was standing near the railing, staring somewhere to the bottom, in the space between the floors, though, all I could see was a huge black hole. Suddenly, I felt great fatigue, not physical but emotional, and it was so strong that I just wasn't able to stand. I took a few steps from the railing and sat on the steps.
André's words rang in my head mingled with words of Lucas, on how they felt about each other. And, my doubts about the correctness of my recent decisions had begun to torment me again. Then to all of this were added Amanda's words about André and I had finally remembered the familiar to me feeling when I was torn between friends and André, though it wasn’t always like that.
When our relationship with André, had just started, everything was different - then we all were friends. It seemed that it was an eternity ago, but since that time had passed only a little over a year. How much can happen in one year...
Suddenly I remembered how we met with André. I always knew I shouldn’t meet with the guys on the street, that nothing good will come out. But he was so cheerful, and last but not least, handsome that I couldn't resist our acquaintance. Besides, his green eyes have captivated me at the very moment when I first looked into them.
Everything was so beautiful - flowers, romantic dinners, night walks under the moon, beautiful words and promises, in short, everything was like a fairy tale. And what girl doesn’t dream about a fairy tale? He wasn’t like other guys I have met. However, prior to the meeting with André, generally, all the guys seemed to me uninteresting and even boring. My relationship didn’t last beyond one date. For me, all dates were a waste of time - where you have to sit with a stranger and talk to some topics that you are not interested in and during which, you curse yourself for not having stayed at home.
But when I have met André, it was all so sudden and fun that I haven't even felt as time was passing by. I didn't know what was happening to me and where I was ... until the moment when it was over as suddenly as it began. How can it be that one day, the person just disappears? Simply, he doesn't come, doesn't call, doesn't write anything ... as if he never existed in your life, as if all those four months of your relationship were just a dream - a beautiful dream that has passed and you woke up, returning to the reality.
At first, I was worried about him, I thought that something was wrong with him or his family until ... one day, a few weeks after his disappearance, I saw him in the park ... with a girl. Of course, one would have thought that it was his sister or friend, if they weren’t holding hands, hugging and kissing.
I perfectly remembered the piercing pain that I felt when I saw them. The pain from which the earth shook under my feet and everything became gray, as if someone tore out your heart and trampled it right before your eyes - it was the pain of betrayal and treachery.
I couldn’t understand - didn't I deserve some sort of explanation or farewell, at least something. What was I for him? Just a toy?
I was completely crushed and exhausted due to lack of sleep and nights in tears. It seemed that it would never end, that I won't survive all that, but ... I had Lucas. All that time he was there for me ... I don’t know how I would survived that time without his help. You can tell that he fixed me and taught me to smile again. He had never seen me so broken, and probably that's why he couldn’t stand André and didn’t want to see or even hear