broken sphere (standard:romance, 2608 words)
Author: Jasen	Added: Feb 19 2004	Views/Reads: 3400/2100	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Is love always peaceful? Think again…

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They reached the venue, John went to the ticketing booth to collect the
tickets while Peter when to park his vehicle at the buildings car park. 


Chapter 2: The Moments 

They met up minutes later outside the entrance of the theatre near the
snack bar. John decided to give Peter a treat for the movie. They each 
bought their favorite snack popcorn, hotdogs, coke and sprite. Minutes 
later, the usher opened the door to the theatre. All the moviegoers 
went in an orderly manner. Just as it was about to be their turn, John 
chance upon a young woman in the queue too, she resembles a split image 
of Jessica. Jessica is a slim, pretty and sprouts shoulder length hair. 
With hazel eyes that sparkle when you look into them. It was love at 
first sight for John. However, he was rejected many times during his 
secondary school days, and was only until secondary three that he 
managed to win her heart. He has never told anyone about it except his 
classmates who know about it. He whispered into Peter's ears. Peter 
turned his neck facing the back of the queue also some the young women 
as mentioned by John in a navy overall, wearing a necklace. She was 
talking to a man as tall as John, he too was wearing navy colored shirt 
and a jeans. 

She has not changed much over the years. He recalled how pretty she was,
and compared her looks to now. She is really a total resemblance of 
Jessica. Still, he dared not approach her. He was afraid that he might 
have found the wrong person. Without much thought, he decided to leave 
the lady alone with her boyfriend. 

They entered the theatre, and found their place and sat down. Just then,
a coincidence happened. The couple they saw earlier on was sitting next 
to them. As they sat down, they began talking. As John is a person who 
has sharp ears, he managed to convince himself that the lady's voice 
belongs to Jessica. So he took out his courage and approached her. He 
asked the lady if she was Jessica. 

Peter asked: “Erm, excuse me, are you Jessica?” 

She replied: “You are?” 

“I'm John remember me?” he said in a surprise tone. 

“Oh, you look familiar. Did we once exchange letters before?” she asked.


“Oh, yes we did. But that was long ago. So how have you been?” he asked.


“Erm, I'm getting along well with life, and this is my fiancé, Jerome.”
she said in pleasant tone. “I see. Hi Jerome, nice to meet you.” He 
said it while they exchange handshakes. 

After the exchange of some small talk, the movie was about to begin. It
was a comedy romance movie called “How to lose a guy in 10 days”. The 
story revolves around a regular ladies man who bets his friends that he 
can stay in a relationship for more than 10 days. Unluckily for him, 
however, the girl that he picks just happens to try to get rid of him 
almost immediately, as she was on an assignment to write on how to lose 
a guy in 10days. 

The movie was exhilarating, and had a good ending where the two lash out
their unhappiness at a diamond convention. It was there that they 
realize both were using one another. True love is not always blind. He 
look her up the next day, but she was leaving town to go to another 
place. She has also quit her current writing job. The guy managed chase 
her online her cab which was on its was to the airport, he managed to 
persuade her not to leave the place, and that he really love her. 

It took a runtime of an hour and fifty minutes. After the movie, John
and Jessica both exchanged cell phone numbers, and promised to meet 
again in future. 

His mood has suddenly brightened up. He is in cloud nine, having met his
dream girl is already something worth celebrating. Peter and John went 
shopping along Orchard Road down to Plaza Singapura. Along the way, 
they passed by many shopping centres and shops selling various 
merchandise catering to the different age groups. 

They went into Robinsons at Centrepoint to get some stuff which he
needed for his room. After which, they proceeded across the road to the 
nearby Orchard Point. And on to Plaza Singapura which was having some 
major renovation. The place was half filled with shops selling 
different items. He was particularly interested in a department store 
on Level 5 of the building, the Barang Barang store. It's a store that 
sells cheap and affordable home wares. They went in to have a look, and 
John bought a desk set which includes a table with a oak finish on the 
table top, drawers on the bottom left of the desk and also a moveable 
chair. Apart from that, he bought a desk lamp and a waste paper bin. 
The total bill amounted to less than $500, as the store is having a mid 
year sale. Next, they went to the Snoopy Place just next to the store 
to have dinner. 

Both were hungry by the time their ordered food was being served. Just
as they were tucking into savor the food, something caught his glimpse. 
It was not something pleasant to his eyes, he saw Jessica kissing her 
fiancé. He did not like the feeling, though they were just a few tables 
away from the couple. 

He mind raced fast and was thinking of hiding his head away from the
fact that he is going to lose her. He said to himself, please don't let 
her know that I am here. Lady luck was by his side, he told Peter that 
he wish to fish up the dinner quickly and get out of this place. So as 
quickly as he could, he finished up his food. Peter also did the same, 
since the bill will be paid by John too out of being happy that day. 

They then took the lift down to the ground level where they sat down for
coffee at the nearby Starbucks. Both drank ice blended mocha, and 
chatted until about ten before strolling back to the Cathay Cineplex to 
retrieve the car. 

Chapter 3: The Nightmare 

The trip back was silent, and only the breathing and music produced by
the car could be heard. John decided to shelve his thoughts aside. No 
matter how hard he tried, these thoughts kept resurfacing. 

The night, he kept having dreams of his past. The various events that
happened from the time he knew the girl to the time he managed to win 
her heart to the days when they were together until the time they 
stopped their communication fully. It spelt like an end to their 
relationship. It took a long time for him to overcome this loss. It 
wasn't easy to forget someone whom you love unless you find a 
replacements and slowly devote your love to that person wholly. 

These events recurred ample of times during his course of sleep. The
next morning when he woke up, he felt his head feeling giddy. When he 
took a thermometer to take his temperature, it was 37.9 degree Celsius. 
He called the ambulance service and was send to the hospital 
immediately. 

After spending half an hour waiting in an isolated ward, he was finally
attended to.  He was not diagnosed of Sars, but needs to be put under 
drip for loss of glucose due to his high fever. 

He was warded immediately into a B class ward. There, he was accessed by
the nurses on duty for his personal particulars. After which, he 
changed into the pajamas provided by the hospital. 

He was kept under the care of Jessica who happened to be on duty that
day. She kept him companied and he managed to tell her how he had love 
her. But to no avail, after all she regarded him as a patient and did 
not wish to talk about relationship. In the end, he gave up after 
listening to her views about starting a fresh. It would not be possible 
for her to do so too since she has been dating her fiancé for over 2 
years and had kept it away from him that long so as not to make him 
sad. Now that the incident has come to light, she has to tell him that 
they were engaged the day before they met in the Cineplex. 

Their relationship has ended here, he wasn't happy but could not do
anything. It all lies with fate, nothing can alter that. A few days 
later he was discharged. He went back to work. 

Chapter 4: The Beginning 

The office was full of good looking ladies. All looked very appealing to
John, but none could replace the good of his once beloved Jessica. His 
live goals have also been altered. He would like to focus on his work 
for the first year and slowly turn to taking short traveling trips 
around the world on sight seeing tours. It is his way of living, at 
least love is no longer a subject he would be interested in looking at. 


Till the day he find someone whom he can trust will be ever want to get
married, or even to start a relationship. Live is no longer the same. 
Its about survival in a place where true friends are rare, and 
backstabbers are ever where. Communication is important to maintain a 
good strong relationship. 

A year later, John took his first ever trip overseas alone to Perth,
Western Australia. On the second day of his trip in Perth, while doing 
some shopping in the city area, he went into a local Spotlight store 
and saw Jessica there. There was a feeling of reunion which he could 
not really explain in words. She was serving a customer with her usual 
sparking eyes and a smile on her face. He grabbed some fabrics and 
decided to try his luck on being served by her. 

He dream came true, he was served by her and he had a long talk with her
while she was cutting the fabrics he wanted to purchase. Upon 
completing the transaction, he has also come to know that she broke off 
with her fiancé, and is now living alone with her one year old daughter 
in the suburb. She won the custody of the children, as the husband was 
not loving and had an affair with another women. 

Though, John felt that it was time to woo her back. But decided not to
as he did not want to sadden her anymore with her broken marriage which 
has left her to decide on migrating to Australia. Being a single mother 
is already a big challenge on her. 

Afterword 

Not every story in the world will have a happy ending. No matter how far
relationships travel, there will always be an end. The end may be soon 
or far. No one will ever know, just like what a friend once told me, 
everything in this world will end. A marriage for example will end when 
a couple decides to divorce or when one is left a widow. How sad these 
incidents are... I hope that you have enjoyed this story I have 
written. 

Regards, Zhengdao 

Written: Oct 25 - 26, 2003 Edited: Oct 26, 2003 


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