He was caught in the middle. He never wanted this at all. He tried to make it work.....but it's all gone to hell. Now he's lost her.
It all started with that memorable evening when he met Alicia at the Library. He was in the business section, searching for a book called "The tales of an economic Assassin", the book he needed to study for his Economics assignment. He couldn't locate the book. So, the obvious thing to do was of course, ask the librarian.
At the Librarian's desk, (her name was Mrs Smythe by the way) he asked,
"Excuse me Mrs. Smythe, could I have a minute" he said in a low hushed voice
"Oh, its you Mr. Jones. Of course you may, how may I help you?" Mrs. Smythe answered with a smile.
" It's just that, I can't seem to locate a book called "The tales of an economic Assassin". I know the Library stocks it, I checked the online system before I came over." he said
"Oh, that book....the last copy just got checked out not half an hour ago. You just missed it, unlucky." she said
"Are you serious? I really needed that book for an assignment due in a week or so" he says in sad tone
"ummmm, I'm not supposed to do this, but seeing that I know you, I'll make an exception..." Mrs.Smythe replied
" Do what Mrs. Smythe?" he asked
"I'm gonna give you the name and ID of the student that just checked out the book, so you can look for her and maybe persuade her to give the book to you first...."
"That's huge Mrs. Smythe, thanks"
"You're a good kid, you deserve a break"
So, after getting the name and student ID , he immediately headed for Student services. He asked them for the students contact number, and when he got it, he proceeded to call her straight away.
The phone rang a few times, when someone picked up.
"Hello, Alicia...Alicia Daniels?" he asked
"Yes, this is she...who is this?" she asked curiously
"I'm sorry to bother you Alicia, I'm Will Jones, and I got your number from student services. I'm calling because I believe that you just checked out a book from the library called "The tales of an economic Assassin"?" he explained
"Yes, I did, is there something wrong? What's it got to do with you?" she replied rather firmly, still unsure about the call
"Well, its just that, I really need that book for my assignment, due next week. So, if its not any trouble to you, I would like to ask your permission to maybe have the book first, until I finish my assignment." he elaborated
" Well, its alright with me I guess, I won't be using the book until next month actually. I just like to read ahead." she was starting to sound pleasant
"Its settled then, when can we meet? are you still on campus?" he asked anxiously
"i'm not actually, i'm staying off campus. we can meet tonight if you want, maybe 9-ish, at Bonzo's ?" she suggested
"That's perfect, I'll see you there then, I'll try and get a table near Bonzo, so it'll be easier for us to find each other"
That night they met at Bonzo's the place where all the Uni students hung out. He sat near Bonzo. Bonzo is a statue of a Zebra, the restaurant mascot. There were only 3 tables near Bonzo, so, it was easier for them.
Will came 20 minutes early so that he made sure she could find him near Bonzo. He ordered a coke, and waited for her to come.
At 10 o'clock sharp, he spotted a woman come in, she was beautiful. She was a brunette with short hair, had just the right amount of curves he liked, and a face that looked beautiful even though, he could see she was not wearing too much make up. He hoped it was Alicia. To his amazement, the woman, walked towards Bonzo, and had that look of a woman that was obviously trying to find someone specific. So, he tried his luck and said
"Umm...Excuse me miss, but you wouldn't happen to be Alicia?"
She was startled, looked at him for a while, and answered " oh....uhuh....i'm Alicia.....you must be Will is it?"
Will, still not believing his luck, said " yeah, i'm Bill.....eh.....I mean Will"
She giggled and reached inside her sling bag to pull out the book and handed it to Will while saying "here Will, enjoy the book" and immediately started to turn to leave when Will opened his mouth to say
"uhm, wait.....do you need to leave already? I mean, if you don't have any plans, I was actually planning on buying you dinner, since you've been kind enough to let me use the book."
She paused for a while at his invitation, which made Will nervous. Finally, she said,
"Sure. I'm not doing anything, and i'm starving by the way"
He was relieved she said yes. So she sat down across from him at the table, and waited for the waiter to take thier orders. When that was done, they started talking.
They started with the basics, where they were from, and then to what they studied, and when thier food arrived they were debating about...
"are you serious?...how can you like Half-Blood Prince rather than Order of the Phoenix? HBP was obviously written so that it would be easier for writers to turn it into a screenplay...." Matt says with enthusiasm, enthusiasm that someone 21 years old should not have regarding the topic of Harry Potter.
"But apart from that, HBP answers most of the questions that were left hanging, and it also adds to the conundrum of Snape, is he good or bad?" she answers calmly
They both pause and fiddle with thier fries for a few moments, and when they looked at each other, they started off smiling, then all of a sudden both of them laughed, probably at themselves, at why they were so passionate about a kids story.
They continued thier conversation while eating dinner, on until dessert and till closing time. They got the message from the waiter to leave when the waiter brought them the bill, when normally you were supposed to pay at the counter. They got the message and Will paid. They left Bonzo's and walked towards the parking lot.
They walked towards Alicia's car first and when they arrived, he said
" Alicia, do you think that maybe we could maybe do this again some time? maybe?..."
She looked at him with those sexy hazel eyes, leaned towards him, and gave him a small peck on his cheek, and whispered.....
" I'd love to...." moved away from him to enter the car, looked back towards him with a smile and said ..."if you stopped saying MAYBE......"
And that was that...... Well......not really
To be continued.....
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Not quite a triangle...
She was into him like a fan was into a movie star. She thought that he was an Adonis on earth. So intense was her admiration of him, that if she had seen him walking on the other side of the street, her kness would get week, and she had to hold on to something to avoid falling.
The thing about this scenario was that the so called Adonis, had the same kind of feelings, the whole week in the knees ( but as a guy, that would be un-macho to admit, so he settled for excessive heart pumping), kind of thing....for another girl.
The third character, was the most popular girl in the University. She was the standard, head of everything social, smart, obviously gorgeous, and athletic too, which was a rare thing. She was just swatting off love confessions from guys..(and girls) like a...ummmm.....fly swatter?
So let's recap, and give names to these people. First, the love sick girl, her name was Diane. Then, the love sick guy who was adored by Diane, his name was Matt, and the girl who the guy Diane adored named Matt liked, her name was Anna.
So, this was the love traingle.....but not really a triangle. If u look at it, a triangle has three lines ya? Diane loves Matt, one line. Matt loves Anna, one line. But Anna loves nobody. No line. So, it becomes like a capital "A" without the line in the middle...ahh...u know what I mean.
As fate was going to play it, there was a basketball tourney on campus. It was between the University faculties. Matt was playing for the Business Faculty, and was the star, as he was also on the University team as well. They were up against the Medic Faculty, which was Diane's faculty and she was also the support medical team, she came to support them. (She would have come anyway, for Matt of course). Anna (she was an engeneering student by the way) was on the organsing committee of the tournament, so she was running around, organising.
It was the 4th quarter, and the Business Fac was leading the Medic Fac by 2 points, with 40 seconds on the clock. Medic Fac had the ball, the point guard raising his arms, calling the play, and the team obliged by taking thier positions. 35 seconds to go. The ball was now in the Business Fac's half, the point guard passes the ball inside to the Center. He holds up the ball. 30 Seconds. The Business Fac Shooting Guard, left his mark, to double team the Medic Fac's Center. The Medic Fac's Center, saw this and immediately passed the ball out to the unmarked man outside. 25 Seconds. The ball now on the outside, with the Medic Fac's shooting guard setting up to shoot a three pointer. The ball left his hands, travelled as if in slow motion towards the hoop. And swoosh, the ball went in. The crowd went wild. Medic Fac leads by one.Matt, immediately called for time out. with 20 seconds on the clock.
The coach was furious on the bench. He especially gave a telling off to the guy who left the marker open. He immediately refocused, and took out his plasctic drawing board. He drew out a plan, a tactical plan. Few seconds after that, the ref blew his whistle, and it was time to see if the plan was a good one.
The Business Fac point guard passes the ball to the shooting guard. He in turn passes it back to the PG, at the same time Matt, the PF runs outside (with his marker following him) to the three point area to recieve the ball from the PG. 15 seconds. Matt with almost one touch, passes it back to the PG and immediately spins from his marker and towards the Hoop. His marker, trying to catch him slips, and Matt was open. The PG spots this and passes to Matt, who jumps to dunk the ball. He dunks it just on the buzzer, but not without falling awkwardly due to the Center bashing into him. At that point, Anna was watching Matt. She felt that feeling of amazement. How brave was this guy, putting his body on the line for the sake of his team and team mates. She now felt something for him now, as if cupid had shot one of his little arrows again.
Matt was fell hard on his ankle as well as unconscious caused by the Center banging into him. Diane immediately saw her oppurtunity. She hurried off to see to Matt. She took her out her medical kit, and did the standard operating procedures. She was actually getting worried now, as he was in worse condtion than expected. She called for the other volunteers to strecther him off to the ambulance already ready outside the gym. She followed him in the ambulance, up till the ER. The doctor checked Matt out with the usual tests, and at last asked the nurse to get Smelling Salts. He waved the smelling salts in front of Matt's nose, and in turn, Matt woke up. Diane was relieved.
When Matt was concscious after the smelling salts, he was still groggy, and as fate would have it again, he saw Diane first. He tried to focus, but couldn't so he went back to sleep. The Doc told Diane, it was allright. He's just tired and will be staying at the hospital for the night. Diane stayed with him that night like the loyal lover she was.
The next morning, Matt woke up with a headache, but mist definitely better than the night before. He turned his head, and saw a woman, he did not know, but swears he's seen in his dream, the woman who saved him. He sat up on his bed, and realised his ankle hurt and was bandaged. He slowly got out of bed, and went towards the Angel in his dreams and gently shook her shoulder to wake her up, and when she opened her eyes, he said " excuse me miss, who are you? and how come you're here?". Diane, who was shocked, seeing the love of her life, right in front of her eyes, was speechless. She wanted to kiss him, but no she can't, she had morning breath. So, she immediately closed her mouth with her hand so he wouldn't smell her breath. She spoke
" Umm, I'm Diane, I was on the Medic staff at the game.....you were unconscious.....I followed you on the ambulance.....you had to sleep here......I thought you shouldn't be alone..."
Matt felt the feeling of warmth in his heart. How caring was this woman? Taking care of a stranger like me. And she looked cute too. Then Matt said "No way.....you did that? thats really nice of you. You really didn't have to you know?", she immediately answered, "I wanted to". At that moment, they stared at each other for a whole ten minutes. They started going out after that.
Let's review this. Diane loved Matt, Matt loved Anna, Anna Loved nobody. Now, its Diane and Matt Loved each other. Anna wants to get to know the guy who dunked the winning dunk at the game.
Sometimes, the third party is irrelevant. When two people are meant to be together, fate will see to that. Even if takes some pain in the ankle.
Two weeks after Diane and Matt were dating, Anna worked her magic on Matt. Matt dumped Diane for Anna.
Sometimes, life's just a b***h
The thing about this scenario was that the so called Adonis, had the same kind of feelings, the whole week in the knees ( but as a guy, that would be un-macho to admit, so he settled for excessive heart pumping), kind of thing....for another girl.
The third character, was the most popular girl in the University. She was the standard, head of everything social, smart, obviously gorgeous, and athletic too, which was a rare thing. She was just swatting off love confessions from guys..(and girls) like a...ummmm.....fly swatter?
So let's recap, and give names to these people. First, the love sick girl, her name was Diane. Then, the love sick guy who was adored by Diane, his name was Matt, and the girl who the guy Diane adored named Matt liked, her name was Anna.
So, this was the love traingle.....but not really a triangle. If u look at it, a triangle has three lines ya? Diane loves Matt, one line. Matt loves Anna, one line. But Anna loves nobody. No line. So, it becomes like a capital "A" without the line in the middle...ahh...u know what I mean.
As fate was going to play it, there was a basketball tourney on campus. It was between the University faculties. Matt was playing for the Business Faculty, and was the star, as he was also on the University team as well. They were up against the Medic Faculty, which was Diane's faculty and she was also the support medical team, she came to support them. (She would have come anyway, for Matt of course). Anna (she was an engeneering student by the way) was on the organsing committee of the tournament, so she was running around, organising.
It was the 4th quarter, and the Business Fac was leading the Medic Fac by 2 points, with 40 seconds on the clock. Medic Fac had the ball, the point guard raising his arms, calling the play, and the team obliged by taking thier positions. 35 seconds to go. The ball was now in the Business Fac's half, the point guard passes the ball inside to the Center. He holds up the ball. 30 Seconds. The Business Fac Shooting Guard, left his mark, to double team the Medic Fac's Center. The Medic Fac's Center, saw this and immediately passed the ball out to the unmarked man outside. 25 Seconds. The ball now on the outside, with the Medic Fac's shooting guard setting up to shoot a three pointer. The ball left his hands, travelled as if in slow motion towards the hoop. And swoosh, the ball went in. The crowd went wild. Medic Fac leads by one.Matt, immediately called for time out. with 20 seconds on the clock.
The coach was furious on the bench. He especially gave a telling off to the guy who left the marker open. He immediately refocused, and took out his plasctic drawing board. He drew out a plan, a tactical plan. Few seconds after that, the ref blew his whistle, and it was time to see if the plan was a good one.
The Business Fac point guard passes the ball to the shooting guard. He in turn passes it back to the PG, at the same time Matt, the PF runs outside (with his marker following him) to the three point area to recieve the ball from the PG. 15 seconds. Matt with almost one touch, passes it back to the PG and immediately spins from his marker and towards the Hoop. His marker, trying to catch him slips, and Matt was open. The PG spots this and passes to Matt, who jumps to dunk the ball. He dunks it just on the buzzer, but not without falling awkwardly due to the Center bashing into him. At that point, Anna was watching Matt. She felt that feeling of amazement. How brave was this guy, putting his body on the line for the sake of his team and team mates. She now felt something for him now, as if cupid had shot one of his little arrows again.
Matt was fell hard on his ankle as well as unconscious caused by the Center banging into him. Diane immediately saw her oppurtunity. She hurried off to see to Matt. She took her out her medical kit, and did the standard operating procedures. She was actually getting worried now, as he was in worse condtion than expected. She called for the other volunteers to strecther him off to the ambulance already ready outside the gym. She followed him in the ambulance, up till the ER. The doctor checked Matt out with the usual tests, and at last asked the nurse to get Smelling Salts. He waved the smelling salts in front of Matt's nose, and in turn, Matt woke up. Diane was relieved.
When Matt was concscious after the smelling salts, he was still groggy, and as fate would have it again, he saw Diane first. He tried to focus, but couldn't so he went back to sleep. The Doc told Diane, it was allright. He's just tired and will be staying at the hospital for the night. Diane stayed with him that night like the loyal lover she was.
The next morning, Matt woke up with a headache, but mist definitely better than the night before. He turned his head, and saw a woman, he did not know, but swears he's seen in his dream, the woman who saved him. He sat up on his bed, and realised his ankle hurt and was bandaged. He slowly got out of bed, and went towards the Angel in his dreams and gently shook her shoulder to wake her up, and when she opened her eyes, he said " excuse me miss, who are you? and how come you're here?". Diane, who was shocked, seeing the love of her life, right in front of her eyes, was speechless. She wanted to kiss him, but no she can't, she had morning breath. So, she immediately closed her mouth with her hand so he wouldn't smell her breath. She spoke
" Umm, I'm Diane, I was on the Medic staff at the game.....you were unconscious.....I followed you on the ambulance.....you had to sleep here......I thought you shouldn't be alone..."
Matt felt the feeling of warmth in his heart. How caring was this woman? Taking care of a stranger like me. And she looked cute too. Then Matt said "No way.....you did that? thats really nice of you. You really didn't have to you know?", she immediately answered, "I wanted to". At that moment, they stared at each other for a whole ten minutes. They started going out after that.
Let's review this. Diane loved Matt, Matt loved Anna, Anna Loved nobody. Now, its Diane and Matt Loved each other. Anna wants to get to know the guy who dunked the winning dunk at the game.
Sometimes, the third party is irrelevant. When two people are meant to be together, fate will see to that. Even if takes some pain in the ankle.
Two weeks after Diane and Matt were dating, Anna worked her magic on Matt. Matt dumped Diane for Anna.
Sometimes, life's just a b***h
Monday, August 21, 2006
Cheers to the future
"Are you serious about this?"
Prior to this auspicious occasion of momentary madness, he was the most defensive minded person in the known world. He never wanted to make the first move, never wanted to put his pride on the line. The reason for this was something that was unexpected.
Out of the blue, he had this desire in him, the desire to reinvent himself totally, and he knew deep down, his biggest flaw as a human being was his inability to express his feelings.
He figures, the only way to do that, is to face one of his biggest fears in life, and thats confessing his feelings of "love" to Anna.
In his mind, Anna was the one, the only one worth being vulnerable for. You know the girl that each man has constructed in his mind, the girl perfect to the tee, that met the guy's every fantasy, well for him, it was always Anna.
He met her in college. Anna was a friend of a friends cousin by way of marriage. In short, they didn't meet directly. He remembered that day, the day he found serenity in a world of chaos. That sounded over the top, but that was what he felt whe he saw Anna for the first time.
He and his friend Shah (the friend who had the friend who was cousins with Anna by way of marriage) , were walking through the cafeteria that day, like any other routine filled day in college, when someone called out Shah's name. It was some chick who he's seen Shah talk to a few times before. Her name was Tasha. She was always scantily dressed and a bit too "gedik" for his taste, so he never bothered to make too much conversation with her. While waiting for Shah to finish his conversation with Tasha, he was fiddling with his phone, trying to look busy. At one moment, when he looked up, he caught the eye of a girl walking gracefully towards him. She was amazingly gorgeous. He couldn't take his eyes off of her, and she's still walking towards him.....and whats this?....now she's waving at him. At that moment in time, he was thinking what possible reason would a girl that perfectly catered to his taste, a girl that beautiful, wave to him?......
Of course she didn't wave to him
Turns out, she was waving to Tasha. He felt a familiar feeling, the feeling he gets when a girl ignores him which he didn't mind before but did at that moment because it was her. She walked past him, (she smelt amazing by the way), and proceeded to kiss Tasha's cheeks, like the Arabs do. Still feeling annoyed, he gave Shah a look that translated to "introduce me...now!", and he obliged. So, Shah immediately asked Tasha to introduce the girl to us. So it was, "Oh yeah, how rude of me, Shah, this is Anna, Anna this is Shah,....." and proceeded to him, where he shook her hand and said hello nervously. Tasha continued by explaining that Anna is actually her cousin. And that wasn't full stop yet. Anna is Tasha's first cousin's wife's cousin. So they're second cousins by marriage. But, they were already friends before that because they were classmates in high school. Wouldn't that have been easier to describe?...
He and Shah were late for class at that moment when he didn't really feel like going, but they were tardy too many times, and had to get to class. So they said goodbye to Tasha and Anna, but not before Tasha said "eyh Shah, we're still on for tonight yeah?", Shah said yes and they hurried off to class. When they got to class, he asked Shah what's he up to with Tasha tonight, and Shah explained that Tasha and her friends were going to watch the new movie that was premiering tonight, and she asked Shah to tag along. Shah immediately asked him to follow tonight, because Tasha said to bring a friend. He said no at first, but then Shah brought up the right incentive...Shah said, "Anna will be there tonight". He said OK!
That night, he would be categorised as someone who was trying too hard to impress someone he didn't even know. He trimmed his beard, put on double doses of deodorant, and wore his 3rd best looking shirt, all that for sitting in a cinema for 2 and a half hours. But he didn't care about that, he was focused on Anna, and how good an impression he would make. So, Shah picked him up, and they were off to the cinema. They arrived 10 minutes before the movie started, and thought they were late, but in actuality, the girls were late. Girls.....go figure. They came running in 20 minutes late. He didn't really care about that at all, he cared however, that Anna was nowhere to be seen in that group of "gedikness". Now he was upset. He gave Shah a look of murder. He asked Shah, and he said, "I told you that so you would come tonight dude....my bad". He was pissed. Now he has to sit through 2 and a half hours of movie, with those girls.....and not Anna.
Back to the future, and back to the story today. Despite that non-meeting way back then, they had a more than a few encounters up till today, which is mainly because, his close buddy Shah, ended up with Tasha, so when he tagged along with Shah, it was prolly a good bet that Anna was tagging along with Tasha. So they were aquainted and he thought he made a good impression through the years, up till the time when he went off to study in
It was
It started ringing. After the third ring, she picked up. He could have swore, it was the sexiest hello he's ever heard in his life.Immediately he started talking....
"Hello? Anna....umm ...its actually me, ******** from
Just when she started to talk.....he cut her off
"Wait, wait wait, before you say anything, I'd like to explain why i'm calling you"...and he did explain. He explained the sudden burst of courage and all of the above.
Again when she wanted to say something, he cut her off
"I was thinking, maybe when both of us finish our studies, maybe we could go out?...on a date?..." he continued by confessing his love.....whatever his heart felt, he expressed it, and finally he said...."So how's about it Anna? Shall we cheers to the future?" he paused feeling relieved and free for the first time in a long time.
She finally spoke and said.....
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?"
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE FUCKING TIME IT IS HERE? AND WHO IS THIS AGAIN? BUGGER OFF YOU FREAK"
She hung up.
-end-
Clash
He takes a puff of his cigarrette, and blows away the smoke with a restless vibe. " So.....how now?" he says with a relaxed tone. They were standing in a carpark beside an abandoned building in the center of PJ town. The night was quiet but still there was something in the air that night that made you feel as if a storm would strike.
The two men stood face to face in the center of the carpark each with a cigarrette in hand. Everything seemed alright for the time being, but that can change.
Its funny how history always seem to have a way to repeat itself. This situation has happened time and time again, from the time of troy, up till this moment here in this abandoned carpark, a confrontation between to adults because of a woman. If history really repeats itself, this situation always ends with one or both sides bloodied up.
This meeting has been the product of 3 months of taunts, unwanted phone calls, and uncalled for name calling. It has boiled up to this, a one on one meeting ( meaning one guy with backup againts one guy with his backup) It all started when Harry met Sally at a mutual friends party. Both of them just off a serious relationship. Both of them single, and both of them looking. Harry, being the sweet talker that he is, has always made courting women easy. Its probably a blessing, but in this relationship, it has been a curse for him. A few weeks gone by and what started out from being a hopeful "rebound" relationship, bloomed into something bigger, something special. Of course there is always a antagonist in these kind of love stories.
Enter Seth, Sally's ex-boyfriend. Seth is the kind of guy who gets what he wants, everytime, anytime he wants since he was born. He was probably the kid who never got slapped or severely scolded by his parents for anything wrong he's done. In other words, a spoilt rich brat who lives off his daddy's fortune all his life. So true to his nature, not getting Sally was not an option for him. In his mind, if he can't have her, then no one can. Doing what he does best, which is being a coward, he starts hassling Harry and Sally everyday. Starts off by calling Harry and telling him that Sally is not worth Harry's time and that he should just leave her. Harry being the "i'm a lover , not a fighter" kind of guy, rubbished Seth's claims and ignores Seth's taunts.
These things always have a way of escalating into something no one wants....especially over something mindless like this. 3 months into the relationship, Seth ups the ante. He calls up Harry and without any greetings says " I'll give you RM 15,000 to fuck the hell off and tell Sally that you don't love her anymore". Harry was obviously shocked to hear that statement. A dilemma arises. Is his love for a woman with obvious baggage enough to pass up the chance to get more money that he has ever had? I would personally take the money and fuck off.
Apparently, to Harry, love is more important. Well, to each his own. Anyways, Harry, being offended by the notion that Seth thinks that he can be bought off, finally had the courage to call Seth out.....initially to settle this problem once and for all....but...not without consulting Amir.
Amir was the high school senior that we hung out with. He was maybe 4 years older than us. He hangs out with us, maybe because he likes to feel young, or we're just fun to be with. In high school he was always in trouble for fighting and built up a reputation for this. After school, he hung out with the wrong crowd, not because he couldn't take care of himself among those crowds, but because the crowd was wrong. They were called forty4, self proclaimed saviours of Malaysian youth.....what a joke. Although thier resolution were bollocks, they were genuinely the real deal gang bangers. They were though as nails. Amir wasn't a part of this, he just hung out with them.
The reason Harry is consulting Amir is that Sally says that Seth is a very influential man. Hey, its
Amir heard Harry's story, and immediately in front of all of us, said "mamat tuh kote ah!" which made us laugh. He told Harry what I told Harry, which was, "Harry, you have to meet this guy face to face, and give him one tight slap", no one laughed...go figure. Anyways, Harry re-explained the fact that Seth was influential blah, blah, blah. Amir sat still for a while and then finally said to Harry, "you have two choices, one, you keep taking his crap, and ignore this fucker for god knows how long, or two, you meet this guy, and confront him politely, and hope for the best. Either way, we're here.", everyone nodded, even Izad and Chap, the two smallest guys in our group. I acctually had a third option, but in the spirit of brotherhood, never brought it up. Harry sat there, dazed and confused, thinking and said "I'm gonna meet him".
This brings us back to the present. Two men with respective backups, meeting in a carpark beside an abandoned building in the center of PJ town. Cigarrettes in hand, seriousness in both set of faces. Seth starts " So how now?" he says with a relaxed tone. "Well, its never been me who has a problem with this, its you who is the one who can end this." Harry responds nicely. That statement automatically changes Seth's facial expression, from calm, to cross. "I told you before, If I can't have her, then no one can. This can only end when you fuck off out of her life!".
Harry squares up to him, (even though Harry is short, Seth is shorter) and tells him, " Look, this decision should be Sally's decision, not ours. So now, Sally has picked me, not you, so you can Fuck Off!". After that last statement, the storm has come.
Both set of backups are ready to Clash. Me personally, am scared shitless, as I have never been in a fight before.....I hope that none of them use weapons. It was now up to the two main characters in this drama to throw the first punch. We agreed that was the signal.
Harry and Seth look ready to explode. Just when fists start clenching, both of thier phones ring at the same time. Normally, at situations like these, no one will bother with thier phones, but somehow, like fate, they both check thier phones. We were standing a few paces behind them, are obviously confused, are they throwing a punch, or not?. Suddenly after both checked thier phone, and read the SMS, both look at each other, and gave each other and acknowledging look. Both shook hands and both turned and walked toward thier own group.
When Harry joined us, everyone was obviously curious and asked him hastily what happened. He didn't say anything. He just gave his phone to us as if to read. I took the phone, everyone grouped behind me to read the message. The message read
"2 my belovd lovers. I hope dis msg reached u in time. I'm sowwy 4 d trouble i cozed u 2. both of u fighting 4 my love is very romantic, but I have fallen out of love with both of you. I met someone else, and I luv him dearly. His name is Tengku John, he's 28 and is kerabat Pahang. This is my true love. Thank you guys for the great times. We can still be friends right? love Sally xoxoxoxo"
Immediately, the song Goldigger played in my head.
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