Monday, May 21, 2007

1 Missed Call

3.15pm, 17th February
Ken's House

Cold water started trickling over his half-awaken body. His mind still at ease, and the sex was great. He knew that she would have left by the time he woked up. She is always like that every since they broked up. But she has always been good in bed, and a slight grin appeared at the side of his lips. She will call him again, most probably today or tomorrow. He thought to himself. Confident.

He closed the tap and headed out to the bedroom naked. Leaving trails of waters behind him. As he slowly towels himself dry he reached out for his handphone and checked for miss calls. 'Mandy, 1 missed call'. He calls her back.

Ken: "Hey baby, what are you doin?"
Mandy: "Oh ...nothin...just helpin Mom prepare for tonight's dinner. How was last night?"
Ken: "It was alright...boring"
Mandy:"Ic, I miss you dear"
Ken: "I miss you too, I'll see you later on tonight at dinner alright?"
Mandy:"Ok"

*click* and the conversation ended.

Welcome Back

7.30 pm, 18th February
Charlize's Apartment

"ANDEZZZZZ!!, I can't believe it!" Charlize ran across the carpark towards the taxi parked at the guardhouse outside her apartment. The moment, surreal. Matt stood steadily at the carpark elevator as his eyes and Andez greeted one another. Both of them gave a brotherly smile. Both of them knew that these few days will be like yester years.

As the three of them enters Charlize's apartment, the crowd looked at Andez momentarily with question marks on their heads. All of them shook their curiosity off quickly and welcomed him to the party. "Happy Chinese New Year...welcome back" the crowd introduced themselves one by one before they sat down on the dining table. All but one was not seated. Charlize was busy and frantically running in and out the kitchen to get utensils and photo albums from her room to show to the crowd. She misses him so much. As memories started to flood her willful self, tears are becomin' visible at the corner of her eyes. For some reason, her heart could not stop beating. This is so unlike her.

The food started to dissapear from the table, along with the bottle of wines. What a feast.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Fling to love

9.05 am, 17th February
Ken's house


Sophie tip toed to the washroom, and put her clothes back on. Ken's body still lied flat naked on the bed, and he was snoring so loud. It is sad that she had to leave like this but the awkwardness would be intolerable if he woke up. She knew there is nothing to gain from this, she knew him too well. Yet, the feelings never really left her.

Her head is still spinning from last night, and there is a huge bulge on her head. She didn't even thought of bathing and just quickly wash up herself. Presentable enought to drive and head back home to face her roommates. Although this has happened many times before but with Ken it is different. She was nervous and scared. She was in love again. It is a love hate relationship she have with this feeling. She took one last glance at him and at the watch and left silently

Monday, March 5, 2007

Festivities

7:15 pm, 18th February
Charlize's Penthouse


'Snap!' A picture of all of Charlize's colleagues and friends displays on Matt's new camera. "Hey Matt, come take with us !" Charlize cried out to him from the crowd. "Its okei la! Later later.." he smiled back. The crowd began to dispurse and sat accordingly on the long glass table that seems too fragile to hold the amount of food catered. "Gong hei fatt choi..Gong hei fatt choi...sek fan sek fan" Charlize took her chopsticks and everyone started eating. Matt ate quitely throughout the whole dinner and occasionally steered his head to Charlize whenever she started to joke around. He doesn't really know everyone, in fact other than Bernard whom he had seen once at Charlize's birthday party...he can barely remember the others.

"Hey Matt!, why so quiet...anyways... I haven't seen you in a long while...what happen to you la? Got a girlfriend already isit?" she laughed. "Hhuh?! No la! Been busy with work and the 'night shift'....no time to sleep also" he grins. Charlize always knows how to dig in and she remembers things very well. He can never hide a single thing from her. They were best friends for years. Yet, he can never tell what is on her mind. "What night shift? Entertain boss's clients isit? I know those Japanese can be 'hamsap' (horny)le" she glance at the crowd with a naughty grin and looks back at him. "Yea man, those buggers are crazy drinkers and my boss always needs me there to interpret for him" he tried to reply without showing any signs of shyness. The crowd laughed out loud.

Slightly after, Charlize phoned ranged. "OMG OMG!! Its Andez!!" she opened her eyes wide and stared straight at Matt. "Oh...I forgot to tell you....he is coming back for holidays" he laughed. She picks up her phone and shouted "ANDEZZZZZZZZZZZ.....you coming back!!!". The crowd kept quiet in anticipation for her next reply. "What!?!? ....you're outside my place?!" she stood up and ran straight to the security video installed next to her bedroom. "OMG!!" another scream is heard from a distance. The crowd laughed like mad and still don't know what is happening. Who is Andez?

Friday, March 2, 2007

In peace with the past

6.15 am, February 17th
Ken's House


Sophie's body lies bare naked against the soft waterbed. She could barely open her eyes. She tries to tilt a little but the streaks of joltin' pain from her head prevents her from doing so. She has been in this room before, she can tell from the smell of the room. Just about then she realize there is someone hugging her from behind. She glance down towards her body to see the hands that is over her. It was the same firm grip that has held her this way almost everynight for 2 years. It is Ken's hands. Even the watch that she bought for him is still on it.

She could barely remember what has happened yesterday. But somehow she is happy that she ended up in his arms. Funnily, the bitter feeling and resentment isn't there. Just peaceful solace of old memories mixed with the present moment. She couldn't care less if she was taken advantage of. She still loved him, that is for sure. She smiled, held his hand and closed her eyes.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Mummy's girl

10.30 am, 17th February,
at Mandy's Bedroom


Mandy took a look in the mirror and smiled. 'What a beautiful day' she thought. The sun is not too bright and the weather not too humid. Just the way she liked it. Plus today is Chinese New Year's eve! She put on some clothes and hurried down the stairs to greet everyone. Her father is on the couch reading newspaper and her mom praying. Her dog 'Floppy' seems to be the only one that is excited to see her. It ran straight up the stairs towards her leg. "awwwww.. good morning baby!" she embrace the Maltese in her arms.

"Girl, go eat your breakfast at the back then come help mummy wash the praying table" her Mom turned and smile. "Good morning Mom" she kissed her gently on the cheek. In that brief moment she noticed that her mom is actually growing older. There are more wrinkles on her face and white hair are visible. It is high time she started supporting her. She continued on into the kitchen and ate the chicken porridge her mom prepared. It was her favorite since young. She loved her so much.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Dropping pieces

3.45 am 17th February.
At Darrren's Poolside



Sophie slid opened the glass panel and escaped out to the poolside for some fresh air. Those 'morons' just can't keep their hands of her especially when they are so freakin intoxicated. The tequila in her body already started to kick in, and she knows she probably will be too drunk to walk in an hour or so. In this few minutes of consciousness, she slowly search her back for her pack of cigarettes. With much effort, she finally managed to lid one up.

She took a puff and closed her eyes. The nicotine and alcohol starts shooting random shots of what happened tonight. Ken as usual were busy with Samantha, his most recent fling bitch. 'What a bitch! She even threw her a stare before kissing that drunk bastard. Just the thought of it makes her so furious and want to go in and take another 5 seconds shot. How could she had become like this. This was suppose to be a game that she is good at, and Ken wasn't like this before. He was this nice and caring guy that she knew, whom always brought her sweets every morning when they were in highschool. Although alot of girls had crush on him, he was always ignorant bout it. She still remembered their first kiss back den and their last after they had sex in the car one and a half years back. That was also the night she found out that he was cheating on her. ..

Thumpppppppph! She fell flat on the concrete floor and lost her consciousness.