So You Do Care About Me?

Brian had never anticipated the excruciating pain that would accompany his words. Each word felt like a mermaid treading on a razor's edge, piercing his heart.

However, the girl beside him did not remain silent as he had expected.

"So what? What does that change?" Marigold protested, "Is that the reason you silently got engaged to another woman?"

"For all these days, I've been worrying about you. Worried about what Ethan might do to you, afraid of retaliation and abuse when you returned, anxious that you wouldn't know if I was alive... I tried so hard to reach out to you. I wanted to tell you first thing, that I'm alive, that I'm waiting for you, waiting for you to call me back to work, waiting for you... to appear before me. But how have you treated me?"

No phone calls answered, no replies on social media. All the efforts she made to contact him resulted in a mere one-minute video clip.