The breakfast of no return

Ansgar woke up and walked towars the window. He looked outside and saw a woman and child on a bycicle. He watched them turning around the corner, dissapearing. It seemed like a nice day, a typical spring day. Ansgar went to his bathroom, washed his face, brushed his teeth, shaved himself and combed his hair. He then walked towars his closet, picked out his grey pants and a blue shirt. He put them on, searched for a black pair of socks and his shoes. After tying his shoe-laces Ansgar stepped out the door and went looking for some breakfast. It was too nice a day to eat at home. He would be out all day, enjoying the sunshine.

While enjoying his breakfast in a small café, a man asked Ansgar to join him. And why refuse a nice offer on a sunny day? The stranger, named Wilfred, told Ansgar how he loved to come here for breakfast. And everytime he came here, he would invite someone to join him. 'As I don't like to eat alone, you see?'. Ansgar asked him why then, he didn't eat at home with his family.

'Well, as you see I am not that young no more. I have been eating at home for over fifty years. And I have learned that having breakfast everyday with your family is a burden.' -

Why is that?

 Wilfred smiled; you will find out yourself someday. Or maybe you already know, since you are here alone? Ansgar looked down, towards his cup of coffee. "I have no family yet to eat with sir, right now I'm just with myself."

'I see, don't be with yourself alone too long boy. Nothing is as beautiful as having a woman that loves you, you know that?'

What happened after saying this words never happened to Wilfred before. Did he say something wrong? He would wonder about that the rest of the day as Ansgar stood up from the table, ran home, closed his curtains and hid from the sun, that damn sun. Mocking him, seducing him to go out, to run into this situation, to meet this old man talking about the love of a woman. All he had was a ghost, oh Cassiopeia, why can't I let you go? Why can't you let me be?

The day after this silly incident Ansgar decided to look Cassiopeia up. It seemed the only solution to this uncontrolable haunting situation that had been going on for five years. But where to start?