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

two strangers side by

increasingly

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to

kind of

longer gives us

eventually turn

4900

lyric, tears suddenly streamed down

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

you’ve cried it out,

“Probably not.”

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

laugh, “Who said I wanted

“What do you mean?”

and looked at him

He openly admitted, “Yeah.”

truly loyal. Then go for it, we’re all waiting

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

had a

we divorced, might not even be able to

of love, and now we’re

Quite the irony.

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

“Why’s that?”