Traces

Perhaps it was fate playing a cruel joke.

They were destined to lose themselves in each other.

But they were both too rational, too rational in analyzing their feelings and anticipating the future.

Their parting wasn’t the end, but it was the only choice they could make at the time.

Years later, when they met again,

he had a wife. Though their marriage was a product of a business arrangement, he still treated her well. Only sometimes, he would mistake his wife for another, utterly ordinary woman.

She was still single. She had been in a few relationships, but whenever her boyfriends broke up with her, they all said, “There’s someone else in your heart. You’re always unconsciously comparing me to him. You never say it, but I can tell.”

The author has decided that seven years later, their paths will cross again.