You don't really experience life until you go through the entire roller coaster of ups and downs. And after a while, you start to become numb. You're just a robot mourning yesterday's losses, defeats, and heartaches.
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The sun rose and the morning came.
Molly got up and went downstairs. She saw Brian and Weston talking to each other at the table. Wing sat next to them, and she sometimes piped in their conversation with a smile on her face. Molly stopped walking and looked at Brian. She felt paralyzed. She couldn't bear to look at Brian—she felt as if a knife was stabbing through her heart every time she did. And this rendered her unable to move.
"Molly," Wing said when she saw Molly standing by the stair case. She looked up and said to her, "Come here and have some breakfast. I'm gonna go to Sasha Music Troupe later, you can come with me."
Molly looked at Brian, and found that he was also looking at her. They just looked at each other without a word. It made things awkward.
Wing looked at them. She could feel something was amiss. She sighed slightly, then winked at Weston.
Weston felt the weight of her eyes on him as she winked at him. He furrowed his black brows and said, "I'll give you a ride. Is that okay?"
Step by step, Molly walked down the stairs and her eyes didn't move from Brian at all. When Molly saw Brian, everything that happened last night instantly flashed in her mind. Last night, they were at the hotel where they first met, where they made love and she liked those days and that made her miss him. But when she left, she found out that Brian had slept with another woman. She was so angry—Brian did it again, he broke her heart again. She knew Brian was always like that and this time, he proved himself right. Gritting her teeth, Molly tried to suppress her anger.
She only found out because she went back to the hotel room but had she not returned, she never would've known. Now she was thinking whether this was the first time Brian's done this or not.
She swallowed and took a deep breath. Then she walked towards Wing and sat down next to her. She didn't say anything; she just ate silently and enjoyed her breakfast in peace. But deep inside, she was furious and she could feel her body burning.
'Brian, this is the end. It's over, we're done, ' Molly thought to herself.
Molly looked out of the window as she sat in the car. In her mind, she was still recalling last night. She couldn't believe that Brian had cheated on her—she felt so broken.
"Molly," Wing called out to her. She snapped out of her daze when she heard Wing's voice. "What happened between you and Brian?" Wing asked. They were obviously fighting the other day. But when Molly fell ill, Brian stayed by her side and took care of her—something which he wanted to keep secret even from Molly. So even though things were pretty intense, Wing still knew that they loved and cared for one another. But this morning, she could immediately tell that something was wrong. She didn't know what happened between them—something was just very different. "Did Brian get mad at you because you went with Spark to the cocktail party?" She asked Molly.
Wing thought maybe that was what angered Brian. She knew that Brian and Molly still loved one another but there was such a wide and continuously growing distance between them. They always seemed to be in conflict mostly because they don't talk about things. Even Shirley wanted to help Molly and Brian fix their communication problems.
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