Veronica, who always wore a not-too-easy smile in her face, was sitting in a grand dining room, trying to turn her smile to be more sincere and more natural. She was surrounded by her old friends from high school. But they were trying to sit as farthest as they could from her. Why? it was partly because of her strange personality, also her weird smell which always existed on her clothes. Now, they were sitting together and chilling, but in the deepest part of their evil hearts, they were not only wanting to have a natural chill with her, but to pull her down, press her to the bottom place, like the level of their grand shoes. 1
Veronica, where do you work? You know, just curious, I haven't been working like two years since I got married to Bruce. 2
Uh... I mainly work on some dead scenes. 3
What? Dead scene? What does it mean? 4
It means cleaning up the scenes where people died, like crime scenes. We are always called by police, also some people who have just lost their families too. Our job is to wipe out all the substances drained from the dead body, like blood and body fluid and to make sure people will not be affected by the substances and the smell. 5
Oh no, it must be really hard. Why do you want to do this job? It's too disgusting and too horrible. 6
Not really. Sometimes you don't really like something you dislike at first, but after a while you may change your mind, and find it meaningful. 7
For me, I will never do this type of jobs. All the stuff evolved in it make me sick! 8
All people fell into silence, they all knew they had been falling into an embarrassing pause. They peeked others and nobody knew what to do next. So Rex tried to say something and it simply just wanted to break the nasty silence. 9
Er..Veronica? Have you tried this cheese cake? It tastes really good. 10
One of her friends yawned pointedly. Repressing the strong urge to throw something at her friend, Veronica stood up and said, I think I need to go now. You guys carry on, don't let me spoil your fun! and picked up her purse from the ground. 11
Wait, Veronica. Rex said. 12
But she didn't answer, nor giving another word, she rushed to the main door and ran away. Rex looked at the rest of the people in the dining room angrily, then also ran out behind Veronica. 13
Veronica! Veronica! Wait! By the time she had already stormed into the night, He was running through the driveway. He kept going to the way he thought Veronica would have gone, then he stood still and silent, listening to her sobbing amongst the trees and walked toward her. 14
Don't ever listen to them, I know it's tiring but you need to be tough and strong. 15
You don't understand, Rex. Look at their faces and listen to what they said. It was like I am just a little pile of mud in the middle of the road and people came and stepped over it over and over again! I couldn't stay there any longer and I am sure I would be crying if I stayed there a second later. Don't you understand?16
I know, I know you feel really bad right now, but I will always be here for you. Look at...no look at me, Veronica. Just don't take their words and ignore them. That's the only thing you should do, don't let them make you down, okay? 17
Rex..I don't want you to go..why do you need to leave? I can't stay here alone, without you. 18
Sorry, Veronica, I don't want to leave either, but my dad was sent to the surgery yesterday, and I need to go there tomorrow and look after him and my mom. 19
But when will you come back? She started to cry. 20
I don't know, probably after my dad feels better. 21
But it can be a very long time. 22
Sorry, Veronica. But I promise, I will come back to you as soon as possible. Don't be sad, I am going to stay with you this whole night till sunrise, okay? Where do you want to go? You love Butterfly Sea, don't you? Let's go there now. 23
Veronica didn't say anything, but was forced walking by Rex. They spent their whole night together, trying to avoid noticing the time was slipping away every second. They looked at the sea, hugged and kissed each other. But still, good time is always shorter than bad times. And bad time is always gone by too slow even they are actually the same. Their night was too short just like one hour..
Sunrise was there, they said goodbye and gave each other a last kiss with tears under the yellow bright sun, but Veronica knew that her heart would be brightened no more, even dead. 24
She went home in the morning at the next day, and stormed into her bed, exhausted and depressed. Then she sat down on her working table, and grabbed her diary on the bottom shelf. 25
She opened a new page and wrote down:
First day without Rex 07-07-2008 rainy day 26
She stopped a while and decided what to write. Then she started... 27
The world is shaking.
I want to hug and hold you close.
The corner of the ocean is getting dried.
I just want to be loving you.
Tears flood in my eyes like billows.
Tears swallow up that little boat.
I want to hear you laughing and see that golden sunset together.
I never blamed it was too few to be kissing you only one second.
If love can be destroyed or convulsed by cruel tides,
I would use my whole life to save you from tears and doom. 28
God said we can't be living here after tomorrow.
We wait here for the last sunrise.
I look at my watch and wish it will never run.
When the light creeping out from behind the hills,
love is over.
And I hug you more tightly,
fear that the sky will drift us apart and flow you away from me.
But time starts to tear us apart,
I can't be sad because I need to use the last second to look at you, shake you, hold you,
to make sure if you were true.
Please take me back in time with you,
to a time when you were true. 29
She stopped, couldn't write anything else, then she hoped, childishly, that it had been a dream, that Rex was still there and had never left. But she knew that she shouldn't be like that anymore, because she got many people who needed her. She crossed out what she had just wrote, and wrote three words below it instead.30
New start today
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