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

two strangers side by

down increasingly familiar streets

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to say hello

kind of tenderness

longer gives us a reason

eventually turn into

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tears suddenly streamed

an eternity, reaching for tissues to clean my

cried it out, will you. return to

“Probably not.”

back sorrow, I couldn’t help but encourage, “If you wanna cry, just let it out. Like me, maybe you’ll get over this hurdle.

a wry laugh, “Who said I wanted to get over

you mean?”

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

admitted, “Yeah.”

wonder Christine always says you’re one of the good guys, truly loyal. Then

till now. It’s almost akin to how I felt about. Bryant.

a

we divorced, might not even be

love, and now we’re

Quite the irony.

gleaming like a sky full of stars,

“Why’s that?”

divorced yet.”

absentmindedly, then it suddenly hit me, and I blurted out in disbelief, “What?!”