Happiness 2

‘Hello?’

‘Tom.. It’s me.. He…’ the voice of Carolyn came through the sound of crying.

‘Oh? Can you stop crying? I can’t understand what are you trying to say.’ an exasperated Thomas replied, yet his voice was filled with the ever so minute traces of worry and concern.

However the crying did not stop, and Thomas could only wait patiently for Carolyn to make sense of what she was trying to say. Time passed and eventually the cries died down to sniffles, suddenly a tiny voice cracked through the phone. ‘He rejected me.’

Upon hearing this, Thomas heart skipped a beat. On one hand he was glad, for Carolyn was still single but on the other he was feeling sad for Carolyn, for the plight that she is in now.

--to be continued--