misty green and hazy dark eyes watched as their best friends dance in the middle of the dancefloor with their sappy smiles and their arms around each other.
in a little corner away from the crowd, they sipped their wine and their champagne and their regrets away.
"who would've thought, huh? after all those teasing, who would've thought those two idiots will end up together?"
sasuke turned his head to look at her, still beautiful under the expensive lighting of naruto and ino's wedding reception; still beautiful in his eyes, drunk as fuck or not. after 4 years since he had seen her, who would've thought?
who would've thought i'm still in love with you, sakura?
he didn't say anything but instead took another sip from his wineglass and grunted his response.
a humorless sound came from her and sasuke looked at her again. she was downing the remaining champagne from her flute. she turned to the table and slammed it down with a thud.
sasuke fought the urge to tug her down to him when she abruptly stood up. it was obvious she was drunk, too. his hand tingled to reach out, to touch her hand and intertwine his fingers with hers, but remembering her crying face when they parted ways prevented him from doing so.
he watched as sakura silently observe the happy couple with her dreary eyes. she took a deep breath and smiled sadly before whispering, "that could've been us too, you know?"
she looked down at him, loneliness written all over her pretty face, reflecting the same unhappiness on his.
words that sound like "i'm sorry" and "come back to me" and "i still love you" were lodged in his throat, suffocating the remaining life inside him. in the end, he watched as she slowly walks away from him.
just like before, sasuke let her go.
a pair of arms looped around him from the back, "are you okay, dear? you wanna go home?"
the voice of his wife woke him up from his daydream— his daydream of a life where his wife behind him has green eyes that glitter in the dark, and where he doesn't drink his regrets away like he was doing today.
he would go home later to a house where a sakura uchiha doesn't exist and he would sleep.
because sakura uchiha could only exist in his dreams.