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

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to say

kind

gives us a reason

eventually turn

4900

that last lyric, tears

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

with restrained emotion, “Once you’ve cried it

“Probably not.”

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

a wry laugh, “Who said I wanted to get

“What do you mean?”

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

He openly admitted, “Yeah.”

one of the good guys, truly loyal. Then

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

still had

divorced, might

love, and now

Quite the irony.

gleaming like a

“Why’s that?”