When We Were Perfect

"Amy I know you have suffered but try to move on with your life, try to move on with Daniel and Ozan!" Silas said now in a somewhat calm tone.

"How can I move on with them huh when I never wanted any of them in the first place." Amy cried out stepping closer to Silas.

"Daniel is just an obligation which I never wanted. I just had to marry him for mom and my career." Amy said bluntly, the truth slipping from her tongue. Silas looked at her petrified.

"What do you mean? Obligation, career!"

Amy gazed at him, tears dripping from her eyes.

"The board of lawyers didn't agree on giving me Ayla's case because of my past of being hot-headed and imprudence. At that time I had to marry someone to show some sense of responsibility and Daniel was the perfect candidate, I had to marry someone with influence and power!" Amy revealed a streak of guilt washing over her face. Silas gaped, thunderstruck at her revelation. A sudden fury taking over his usually grinning face.

"OH MY GOD! How can you be so selfish Amy! You married him just to get that case and his name. You practically used him!!" Silas yelled not caring about anything at the moment. His insides were burning after getting to know about her selfishness, 

"I had to Silas!" Amy replied back, edging closer to him, placing her hands on his chest. Silas eyeing her movements with an incredulous expression.

"I hated you when you left me Silas but now I want to forget about everything, lets just get away from this, get away from this life and build our own just you and me!" Amy muttered, smoothing his shirt, her eyes fixed on his face. This seems to completely throw Silas in an unbelievable stance. Was she real! Like someone burnt him, he yanked her hands away stepping back.

"Are you even listening to yourself, how can you be so ungrateful Amy. You have a son, a husband who lo…."

"Do you think I fucking care, do you know how it feels to see the person you considered as your best friend standing beside you as your husband and father of your child. His touch burns me, Silas, I feel ridiculous whenever I am with him!" She cried out.

Silas shook his head feeling terrible.

"Amy you…." But before he could complete his sentence, Amy stepped forward, reducing the distance between them, grabbing his face and crashing her lips against him. Silas went numb at the moment, the shock took over his body as he stood there with wide eyes. Her lips roughly moved against him like she was letting go of all her pent up anger and frustration. Her tongue licked against his lips and like a bucket of cold water thrown at him, he pushed her back roughly, wiping his lips angrily not caring that she stumbled and almost fell on the ground.

"Get out of here Amy before I lose my sanity and forget that you were even my friend once." Silas gritted out in a raised voice even surprising Amy who composed herself.

"Silas, listen.." 

"I said just get…" the words ceased in his throat as his eyes fell on a certain reflection on the bronze vase. He turned his face to his right in a whiplash only to see the pale and broken face of his friend standing at the edge of the door frame.

"Daniel.." Silas mumbled, his face turning white afraid of what he heard and saw. This seemed to get Amy's attention too as she looked in Silas direction only to get her eyes widened. There he was, lips clipped together but she didn't miss the disappointment in his eyes.

Right now it would be a lie to say that he didn't feel anything. Every word of Amy sliced through his heart. The reality, the situation he dreaded was in front of him. His body felt numb at the moment but he knew the deep sensation inside his chest, repeatedly poking him without any mercy like an unknown force was stabbing him. It almost numbed his whole body, making him oblivious to everything around him followed by a heavy sensation in his chest that barred him from breathing normally. He wanted to grab his chest to stop the pounding or reduce the ache but right now he wanted more to run away from this scene. For the first time ever, he wanted to run away from something and he did. He walked away or more like took long strides ignoring the pleas of Silas who followed him.

"Daniel listen to me!" Silas tried to catch his lead but it went futile when he saw him sliding in his car and drifting away on the road. 

Silas stood there trying to catch his breath looking at the road until his car was no longer to be seen. His own heartfelt heavy thinking about how much he must be suffering now that a bitter reality unfolded in front of him. He didn't miss the broken look on the face of his all-time strong friend. The disappointment, the hurt and the betrayal. At this, he remembered the cause of all this misery making his nostrils flare. He rushed past the doors to the living room

Amy sat on the loveseat frozen, her heart pounding so loudly that she felt it would jump out of her ribcage. Every nerve of her body was tensed, a sudden guilt took over her as she pondered over her actions and words. But didn't she love Silas then why did the look on Daniel's face push her into an abyss of guilt and grim feeling. She turned around at the sound of footsteps and saw that Silas had returned, a furious expression plastered on his face.

"How can you be so evil Amy!!" His words were laced with venom making her look at him surprised as she had never seen Silas like that.

"How can you be so blind to not see his love for you!" He hissed making her flinch.

"Wh-what are you tal-talking about?" Amy stuttered blinking rapidly.

"Oh! I forget that you have a habit of overlooking everything, you just see what you want to see the rest can go to hell right!" He mocked giving her a bitter smile but Amy's eyes only showed confusion, her lips parted in surprise. Seeing this Silas' face went grim, how oblivious and selfish this woman is.

"He loved you, Amy, since the day you came into his life, he loved you and made you his world. He struggled to become something for you, on the day of our graduation he was going to propose to you but you already chose me. For your happiness, just to see you live your life to the fullest, he pushed his feelings back Amy." Silas muttered in an unsteady voice remembering the day he read Daniel's scrapbook. 

"No, no he doesn't love me that way!" Amy said or more like reassured herself.

"He did Amy but we all were oblivious to his feelings, especially you. Can't you see the way he looks at you, cares for you despite your rude behaviour in the past two years? Don't you see that he knows every single thing about you, your likes, your dislikes? Weren't you the person who always ran to him whenever you were troubled? No one can ever love you the way Daniel Saritas does and I pity him that out of all the choices and people he loved you!" Silas spat the words at her. Amy was frozen, the world was spinning around her now it was her turn to be thunderstruck. Was it real? The emotions she saw in his eyes when he rubbed his belly to feel their child kicking. No, no she can't be that oblivious all these years.

"Tell me, it's not the truth!" Amy said, trying to regain her senses. Her breathing was shallow as she stared thunderstruck at Silas who mockingly shook his head.

"I wish it was, I wish that he never loved a woman like you! But alas it's true Amy, you know that I never loved you and I tried to tell you that a lot of times but your stubbornness was an obstacle. Many times when I forget your birthday, he was the one to remind me, whenever we went on a date he was the one to choose the location and setting for me, he was the one to constantly remind me of what you liked Amy because I would be so busy trying to get rid of that hollow relation we had. " Silas let out his words, taking a sigh before continuing.

"You know I felt guilty leaving you like that but now I think I made the right decision Amy, I left you to realise that what you are overlooking in your life because I got to know that how much he loves you since the time we were kids but you destroyed him, Amy, you fucking abandoned your son and the person who loved you to death but even then he cared for you," Silas said, his voice thick with emotions for his friend.