When Love Breaks by Jack

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

strangers side by

down increasingly familiar

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to

that kind

longer gives us a reason to

eventually turn into

4900

last lyric, tears

reaching for tissues to clean my tears when a pack was handed to

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

“Probably not.”

dried my tears, looking at his barely held back sorrow, I couldn’t help but encourage, “If you wanna cry, just

out a wry laugh, “Who said I wanted

“What do you mean?”

him in surprise, “You’re

He openly admitted, “Yeah.”

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

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

still had

might not even be

love, and now

Quite the irony.

a sky full of stars, “I can’t chase

“Why’s that?”