It took me long time to come out.
What? “A long time to come out”, continued his friend full
of bantering tone in the voice. Are u talking about the other day’s orgasm?
“I wish you grow wise, I don’t have the carnal appetite no
more”, said captain with stern expression.
After what seems to be serious, ST stops joking. Captain had
never been serious to ST before. Poor St was baffled but never dug further. The
air became swollen with silence.
To the west, sun was hanging low. Its rays were fading away
from the strings of mountains. Cool breeze fine-tuned the setting of the
evening. The mood was perfect for date but either had none.
The silence is interrupted shortly. ST insist to go home
and get ready for the party tonight. Unheard, his voice disappears into the
evening air.
“It took four years to open up for her”, cried captain.
Something was blunt in his tone. ST didn’t take it light. He sensed something.
This time ST gathered guts and enquired the entire story.
Yongba and yongmin, they named each other when they first
fell in love.
In school, yongba and yongmin continued the legacy of
Romeo and Juliet. Dating whenever chance favored them. Even their relationship
was consented by parents. They talked of their future and of having beautiful children.
It was future wife and husband in the making.
The day she accepted his proposal, yongba stopped smoking
and occasional drinking and promised sobriety for eternity.
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“Addiction to love can let go nicotine addiction”, jokingly
whispered captain taking a break from his narration. ST responds not bad, “nicotine
free love?”
Long before he knew how to wipe out his own ass, he fell
for her. In one of his card, captain recalls how he wrote “I lof u” instead of “I
love u”.
Many parts of his high school love story was a triumph and
their relationship stood the force of time but not the man force condom.
In the college, who knew what would happen? Should it be
that same high school yongba and yongmin? Or god has one standby yongba to substitute
original yongba?
"Faith" will test me”. Settled captain.
They rented a house and shared the expenses. But the
special space they had for each other in heart didn’t require any expense. It
was free and always hoped it to be. Flawless, their love perpetuated even in
foreign soil. We became immediate neighbors then.
“Give me a fag, give a fag”, a familiar voice rung in my
deep sleep one early morning. However, I would not be impulsive to the gentle pat
as it had been only a short length of time since I last fell asleep.
“Bro, bro give me a cigarette” was the same voice which
irritates me next. Not caring who it was, I handed some with a warning to not
annoy me any further and resumed the sleep.
Morning had never been the same after that, not for me but
for whom I knew as yongba since his pair up with yongmin. I could not believe
five years of well nurtured relationship splitting in tragic ends. But I
believed through his eyes that it made every strong men on earth to at least
gulp a bottle of whisky after the disastrous end and put world’s expert
psychiatrist to confusion.
Insane yongba gradually became sane and suffered the destruction
to the extent of returning home without a degree.
“ST you know what”, said captain smilingly, “anything
happens in romance that’s why love is blind”, leaving all his nightmares behind.
“Lof”, teased back ST.
