Natalia glimpsed at the padlock and seeing his serious and neat writing, her eyelashes trembled a little.
Archie noticed romantic words were written on other padlocks after finished writing the names. He then asked Natalia for her opinion, "Shall we write something on it?"
Natalia asked him in return, "What do you think we should write?"
Archie felt troubled.
He was not the mushy type and he would only say something heartwarming and sappy when he faced her and was brimmed with emotions.
Yet he truly could not think of any romantic words when they were in the middle of nowhere.
Since he had said that, he did not want to give up. After pondering for a while, he took the pen and wrote swiftly on the padlock.
Natalia approached him to take a look, and the words written on top was – I want to sleep her forever!
Natalia was speechless.
'Are you kidding me, Mister McCarthy?'
Archie hung the padlock on the bridge with great satisfaction. Natalia still had a descendant's padlock. Archie snatched it from her and wrote two names on top. He then hung it on the same spot too.
Natalia asked him, "What did you write?"
"Names."
"Names?" She widened her eyes in a daze. "Whose names?"
"Our children's."
"..."
Without thinking further, she thought he meant their future children.
Archie locked the padlocks, held her hand and turned back. He ignored Natalia when she looked a bit weird.
They returned to the place that they had had their meals just now and they only knew the meteor shower said by rumors online was true after inquiring.
The observatory had indeed said there would be a meteor shower tonight, and many people had climbed the hill earlier and set up tents for it.
It was no longer the first time Natalia had seen a meteor shower with Archie together. He had brought her to see it once not long ago.
Since they had come, and coincidentally, the meteor shower only appeared today. They did not have any reason not to see it.
Natalia's despondence vanished and she ran to the hilltop to see the meteor.
The meteor still had not showed up, but quite many people had been sitting on the grass. Many of them were couples.
Some came in families. The atmosphere was warm and peaceful as they gathered together.
"It would be nice if we have a telescope. We could see better." Natalia sighed.
Archie raised his eyebrow and pointed at a stall nearby. "Someone seems to be selling it there."
"Oh really? Shall we go there and have a look?"
Archie nodded and both of them went to the stall. They noticed the telescopes sold were all inferior and outdated.
The stall owner tried hard to persuade them to purchase one when he saw them. After all, they looked young and wealthy, and had elegant temperament.
He promised that there would definitely be a meteor shower tonight and the view would be clearer and more beautiful with the telescopes.
Natalia did not know how to make a decision since she didn't know about it, so she let Archie choose.
Archie picked some telescopes and without asking the price, he disassembled them, chose the parts deftly and combined them.
His movement was quick and smooth and before the stall owner could react, he had already disassembled four telescopes. He instantly panicked.
"Hey, mister, don't destroy it if you don't want to buy it. How could I sell these anymore?"
Archie was expressionless. "It's fine if you don't sell these outdated junk to others."
The stall owner became apprehensive and as he wanted to argue with him, Archie had already combined the parts he took off and tried to look through the telescope.
Although he was dissatisfied with the outcome, that was the best he could do since the parts were limited. At least the telescope looked much better than the ones before.
He took a stack of cash from his wallet and tossed it to the stall owner. He took the telescope and a soft mat from the stall, holding Natalia's hand and left.
They came to a empty place. Archie laid the mat on the ground and both of them sat down.
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