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It’s a Saturday on a rainy day in Fontane. Today I have no work, no duties. Just one. I pick up the red and blue flowers from the table next to my bed. He would like them. I stand up and get dressed in a white button up and black loose pants. I go brush my teeth and wash my face. I look at myself in the mirror and think ‘it's time to head out’. I pick up the flowers from the counter of the sink, went to the corridor, put on my ‘classy shoes’ as he would say, took my umbrella and headed out.
The rain is getting heavier, I wonder why. I arrived at the place. I place down the flowers and sit next to him. ‘How have you been my love? I got you these. I thought, no, I knew you would like them. You do, right?’ I look up at the sky. ‘Well you probably do. Too bad I can't hear it.’ I look back at the grave. ‘It's been a few years my love, I miss you, I hope you are doing well. Furina and I have been having fun at work these days. She has taken up music as an interest and I started teaching her the violin. Do you remember when I would play for you? Those nights that you’d look at me like I was the whole universe. I miss those nights, my love. I wish we could experience them once again. Maybe next time I could bring my violin and I can play your favourite song?’
Suddenly I see a figure in the distance approaching. He’s getting closer and closer. He’s in front of me. ‘Ah, Monsieur Neuvilette. What a surprise to see you here. Are you alright?’ I wipe down the water that is spilling from my eyes like wild waterfalls. ‘Ah, Mister Zhongli. I’m alright, thanks. What brings you here?’ I look up at him. He’s got that sad yet sweet and loving look on his face like me. ‘My lover. He died last year. I’m here to visit him.’ Oh, he’s here for the same reason. ‘Then I won't keep you here Mister Zhongli, you can go ahead. Me too, I’m visiting my lover.’ ‘Ah, yes I guessed. Sorry for interrupting.’ ‘No, no it's alright.’ He gets along to his lover’s grave. Us both, we are the same. Immortals who fell in love with humans. And now we bear the sorrows of our loved ones missing.
I sat back down next to his grave. ‘Wrio, I really wish I can hug you and hold you in my arms again. Sometimes when I wake up I feel like I can turn around and you would be right there, sleeping next to me. I wish you were. But you aren't, sadly.’ I lean against the gravestone. ‘Thank you for being there. I love you.’
I stand up and go sit at a bench nearby. I wish I could but I can't hold my tears back. ‘You alright?’ That deep voice. ‘No, no I don't think so, Mister Zhongli. I always act like I'm fine but I miss him uncontrollably.’ ‘I understand, I really do. It’s alright. He’s in a better place now.’ I wipe my tears away. ‘Mister Zhongli, If you had one wish that could be granted on the spot, what would it be?’ He looks into the distance and smiles sadly. ‘I would like to be a mortal. Not be Morax or a god. Just an ordinary human being. So me and him would get old together. But I will never get old. I’ve lived for so long I forgot what love felt like. But he reminded me, reminded me of it all. I will never find someone like him and honestly I wish not to. I will love him as long as I exist and no one could change that. What about you?’ ‘I would want him to be immortal like us. So we never get old and go around the world, do everything we want to do.There was so much stuff i wanted to do with him still, but my time ran out faster than i imagined. There is so much stuff I want to do with him now, but I can't. But I guess its alright. I know he’s watching me, from somewhere. and reminding me that he loves me every day. I just don’t hear it.’ It’s fine. Everything is fine. I’m fine, he’s fine. I will see you one day. Someday I will. I know it. Wait for me, please, my love.