Love Life At School (Chapter Twenty Seven)

Arron walked in the restaurant. He didn’t seem to have noticed his friends there because he just walked on to a table for two and sat down. His friends looked at each other, exchanging glances. They wondered why was he there and who was he meeting. Arron continued sitting there. A waiter came to take his order. He said something and the waiter nodded before walking away. He looked around, looking bored. His friends got tired staring at him. Suddenly, he looked up, with a disappointed look. In came a girl with a flowing flowery dress. She smiled and sat in front of him. She started chatting long-windedly. But Arron just sat there with a bored expression. Jiro got up and walked towards him before anyone could stop him. His face wore a weird expression that looked like a mixture of many different feelings.

Jiro: Arron.

Arron: (look up) Jiro! What are you doing here? (realize his other friends were there also)

Jiro: Eat of course. What else. What about you? (turn to the girl)

Arron: Oh.. er.. eat.. er.. hehe..

Girl: Honey, aren’t you going to introduce me to your friend? (batter her eyelids)

Arron: Huh? Oh.. this is Rainie. Er.. she is..

Rainie: His girlfriend. (smiling)

Arron: (suddenly saw Hebe and got a shock)

Jiro: Girlfriend?! Arron, how can you?

Wu Chun got up and walked to them.

Wu Chun: Yeah. How can you?

Jiro: Don’t you love Hebe anymore? Don’t you care about her feelings?

Arron: I..I..

Wu Chun: Disgraceful. A failure to the men race.

Jiro: I thought I knew you Arron, actually, I don’t.

Ella stood up. She turned to Hebe and pulled her towards everyone.

Ella: Arron, do you have anything to say for yourself?

Arron: I..I.. (not daring to face any of his friends)

Hebe shook her hand free from Ella’s clutch and ran off. Arron moved a little. He wanted badly to go after her but he couldn’t. Rainie continued smiling, not caring for anything. Ella went after Hebe. At the same time giving Arron a disappointed look. Jiro used both his hands to pull Arron’s collar, dragging him to stand up. Suddenly, Arron felt a punch across his face.

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His phone rang. He picked up the phone. Calvin was still with Angela in the hospital. He secretly went out to answer his phone while she took a shower.

Calvin: Yes? Do you have any information?

Speaker: Young master, after investigations, we found out that your brother is still alive.

Calvin: Are you sure? Where is he now?

Speaker: We are still investigating on that. I just thought I could inform you about him being alive.

Calvin: Okay, Keep me posted.

They hung up. Calvin went back into the ward, thinking hard.

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Hebe ran across the road. Ella followed. Rain started to fall but Hebe didn’t care. All she wanted was to get away, as far as possible, from Arron and the girl. She now hated herself. Hated herself for loving him so deeply. Until now, she still could not accept being dump by him. She still loved him so.

She continued running, till she reached a park where she fell and hurt herself. Ella quickly went to her to help her up. They were both wet. Rain was falling heavier than ever. Tears streamed down Hebe’s face. Ella didn’t know what to do. So she just hugged Hebe as Hebe hugged her back. Her feelings were getting more and more confusing and she didn’t know what to do.

They stayed in that position for a long time. Hebe just didn’t know what to do. She felt helpless and all she felt like doing was crying. Her heart was shattered into a million pieces. She would not have believed Arron would do such a thing unless she saw with her own eyes which she had. She now felt her heart would never mend from the hurt she was going through.

She had loved him from the bottom of her heart and still couldn’t accept what he had done to her. Hebe turned to Ella.

Hebe: Am I a failure at love?

Ella: Not at all. You’re just going through one of the difficulties in life. It happens to everyone.

Hebe: But it hasn’t happen to you or Selina.

Ella: (nothing to say)

Hebe: Why me?

Ella: Hebe, you never know. Arron might regret what he did and come back to you.
Hebe: Impossible. That girl is prettier than me. He should like her more than me since he’s with her now. He doesn’t love me anymore.

Ella: You know what Hebe, I somehow got the feeling that Arron’s being forced to have that relationship with that girl.

Hebe: Why?

Ella: Didn’t you realize his expression when she came? It looked so disappointing. Like he was actually hoping that she wouldn’t come.

Hebe: Really?

Ella: Positive. See, you still have a chance.

Hebe: No. I don’t want break their relationship. I would be seen as a third party if I did.

Ella: No you wouldn’t. She was the one who broke your relationship. She...

Hebe: Enough Ella. I don’t want to think about this anymore. I really want to be alone.

Hebe loosened her arms around Ella and stood up. She looked up into the sky with the rain pelting down onto her face. She smiled at Ella and walked away. Ella sat on the ground, watching Hebe fade away in the darkness. Ella sighed. She didn’t know what was happening to everyone. Why do people change? Why do feelings change? Suddenly she felt insecure about her relationship with Wu Chun. What if he also stopped loving her and left her? What would she do?

Ella tortured herself with these thoughts, thinking about all the possibilities of Wu Chun leaving her. She too loved him a lot and was afraid the same thing that happened to Hebe would happen to her. She looked into the darkness ahead and saw a figure.

-brenda, co-written with ratana-