Sorry for not answering your comments, my internet connection went down for some days and now it is almost working 24/7.
This started as a standalone but it grew into a mini series. Hope you enjoy it!
To cross or not to cross.
"What are you doing here on the bridge, Hephaestion? Admiring your own work?" asked Ptolemy to the brunette standing in the middle of his latest construction.
"No my friend, I am not that vain" answered Hephaestion with his head down casted.
"So what are you doing?" the blonde asked again.
"Taking a decision" the brunette murmured.
"And that is?" Ptolemy asked, trying to get an answer.
"To cross or not to cross" Hephaestion replied without giving much more information.
"Sometimes you speak like in riddles; this is one of those occasions" said Ptolemy desperately.
"The bridge, Ptolemy, to cross or not to cross the bridge" Hephaestion's voice was a bit harder.
"But in the way you are facing, it would imply going back to Macedon, wouldn't it?" he asked with fear.
"You are right" Hephaestion accompanied the words with an imperceptible nod.
"And why would you like to go back to Macedon, Hephaestion?"
"Because someone wise once told "If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it" I won't cry a river having such a nice water course here, I have already built my bridge, my lover had hurt me deadly so by crossing it, I'd be getting over it" said Hephaestion with a very tiny voice; nearly whispering his explanation.
"But why? What happened? What has he done?" asked Ptolemy with worry in his voice and face.
"Nothing than the usual, he is just being Alexander; but I am tired, Ptolemy. I believed that we would always be together, as when we were young, but he has changed and I haven't. I should have realized long ago that no one is ever meant to possess the sun. "
TBC