Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 78

1 patted him on the shoulder, steering the conversation elsewhere with a smile, “So, you’re into Eason’s music too? You never mentioned it before.”

Mark glanced towards the stage, his voice tinged with melancholy, “Just a case of liking. what she liked, I guess.”

“She’s a fan?”

“Yeah, back in college, she really was into his stuff.”

“Small world, huh?”

I grinned, “I got into Eason áround my college years too.”

He returned a meaningful smile, “That is quite the coincidence.”

We were seated with a perfect view of the stage, not a single bad angle in sight.

As the familiar intro played and the singer appeared, the whole venue came alive with screams and sing-alongs.

Mark and I, however, were more like two outliers, just quietly listening.

Memories from years past played in my mind like a movie, shifting scenes one after another.

“Ten years ago

I didn’t know you

You weren’t mine

Yet here we are

side by

down increasingly familiar streets

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to say

that kind

us a reason

eventually turn into

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tears suddenly

for what felt like an eternity, reaching for tissues to clean my tears when a pack

eyes shimmered with restrained emotion, “Once you’ve cried it out, will

“Probably not.”

his barely held back sorrow, I couldn’t help but encourage, “If you wanna cry, just let it out. Like me,

out a wry laugh, “Who said I wanted to

you

looked at him in surprise, “You’re still chasing

admitted, “Yeah.”

says you’re one of the good guys, truly loyal. Then go for it,

carrying a torch for that college girl till now. It’s almost akin to

he still had a

divorced, might not even be able

and now

Quite the irony.

amber eyes gleaming like a sky full of stars, “I can’t chase

“Why’s that?”

divorced

absentmindedly, then it suddenly hit me, and I blurted out