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

increasingly familiar

Ten years later

We’re friends,

to say

kind

gives us a reason

turn

4900

tears suddenly streamed

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

you’ve cried it out, will you.

“Probably not.”

you wanna cry, just

“Who said I wanted

“What do you mean?”

at him in surprise, “You’re still

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

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

still had

we divorced, might not

and now we’re

Quite the irony.

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

“Why’s that?”