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

down increasingly familiar

Ten years later

We’re friends,

able to say

kind

us a reason to

turn into

4900

lyric, tears suddenly

like an eternity, reaching for tissues

restrained emotion, “Once you’ve

“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 out. Like me, maybe you’ll get over this hurdle.

“Who said I wanted

“What do you mean?”

realized what he meant, and looked at him in

He openly admitted, “Yeah.”

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

that college girl till now. It’s almost akin to how I

still had a

I, if we divorced, might not even be

of love, and

Quite the irony.

amber eyes gleaming like a sky full of stars, “I

“Why’s that?”