Here is the translation into English, capturing the raw, melancholic, and contemplative tone of the original prose:
“Do you want to sleep with me?”
She looked straight into his eyes—the man of those long, waiting days; the one who had once decided to stay in the mountain town while she wanted to head to strange cities to explore to her heart's content. He sat before her now, with a smile unlike the one from before.
The young man stared at her, wide-eyed. His goofy grin vanished instantly after a session of half-joking, half-serious banter about how he was a loyal soul, waiting all this time just as the mountains remain passionate for the stream for a lifetime.
“Fine then. Let’s sleep together,” she said, almost in a monologue, not waiting for his answer. The cafe was empty; no one heard. Even if they did, it wouldn't matter, for the day of return was nothing like the day of departure. Both body and soul. Decaying.
The wind was cool and fresh—winter had officially set in. She sat behind him on the old road. Uphill and downhill. Old and new sensations intertwined; it felt as though every street and every corner was rejecting her, treating her with indifference as she passed by, as if she had never been born or raised there. Rugged. The anxiety that once made her cling to his back had vanished; now she sat with legs crossed beside him, hands gripping the seat, her eyes searching the aimless clouds in the sky.
“Love me then—I’m a single mother, you know?” She looked at him with a half-smile. The wind slapped her face a few times, and her heart bled slightly, recalling the time she had wanted to satisfy that desperate craving for motherhood, even though, with that man, she still didn’t know even now if it was ever love. The mountain town, having heard enough sadness, began to cry with the drifting rain.
Green buds began to sprout, and a few birds that had been hiding somewhere started to sing out loud, signaling that winter was fading and spring was preparing to arrive. The wind brushed against her belly. Restless.

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