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

down increasingly familiar streets

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to

that kind of

gives us a reason

eventually turn into

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that last lyric, tears suddenly streamed

silently cried for what felt like an eternity, reaching for tissues to clean my tears

eyes shimmered with restrained emotion, “Once you’ve cried it out, will you. return to him?”

“Probably not.”

help but encourage, “If you wanna cry, just let it out. Like me, maybe

out a wry laugh, “Who said

do you

him in surprise, “You’re still chasing after that

openly admitted,

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

torch for that college girl till now. It’s almost akin to how I felt about.

a

I, if we divorced, might not even be able to

years of love, and now we’re just strangers.

Quite the irony.

like a sky full of stars, “I can’t chase her

“Why’s that?”

not divorced yet.”

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