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[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 10

"Charleen? where did she go?" Ethon questioned with wobbly eyes.

Alex and Shine looked at each other and then to Ethon "Iono...she was just right here?" they replied at the same time and shrugged.

"Urg, gosh, why does she always have to run away like that." Ethon groaned. Before Ethon could move a voice stopped him.

"Son, have you seen Naree yet? She is awfully beautiful tonight. I want you to meet her." Mr. Sangwa stated blocking Ethon's way.

"Father, sorry but I have to go. Maybe some other time alright."

"But son, It's Miss Kashiki's daughter. I thought you wanted to meet her?"

Ethon rolled his eyes as if irritated and answered "Father, please I need to get going. I needa go find someone. Now, out of my way." With that Ethon pushed his way through the crowd.

"but, but.." Mr. Sangwa stared away as the image of Ethon disappears into the crowd and he let out a loud sigh. "Owell, I'm just trying to find myself a daughter-in-law" he frowned and looked up finding Alex and Shine staring at him.

"Mr. Sangwa, Good evening." Alex came forth an shook his hand.

"Hello Alex" Mr. Sangwa glanced from Alex to Shine and his frown faded. "My, My and who are you miss?" he asked Shine.

"Hello, My name is Shine Fuduwoo. Alex's friend."

"Ah-hem, Girlfriend..." Alex interrupted and gave Shine a unsatisfied look.

Shine looked surprisingly to Alex and blushed as she glanced back to Ethon's father.

"oh, ha-ha. Either way, pleasure to meet you Miss. Fuduwoo.

Mr. Sangwa then glanced around the room and finally down to the ground. "Leah? what on earth are you doing down there?" his eyes grew wider by the minute. He crept over to where Leah was and held her by the arm as if to assist her.

Leah came to her senses, ignoring Mr. Sangwa. "Urg!! Ethon!" Leah screamed angrily. "You are not! absolutely not! going to leave me like that you hear me!" she brushed her dress and fixed her hair. "Excuse me, I have to go." With that, she walked off and steadied her anger, making herself to the bathroom. Leah left Alex, Shine and Mr. Sangwa arching their eyebrows, including the crowd around the scene.

Mr. Sangwa shook his head back and forth in disapproval. "What was that all about? What did Ethon do now? By the way, how come Everyone's acting weird tonight? First Ethon, then Leah?"

"Oh, it's nothing you should be worrying about Mr. Sangwa. I guess Leah just lost Ethon to someone else." Alex replied.

"Ohyeah? That's good. I preferred someone else any ways. So who's the lucky girl this time?" Ethon's father couldn't help but asked.

"You'll see her soon. Ethon actually wanted her to meet you but you were in a meeting so that's why he didn't come."

Mr. Sangwa nodded. "Alright then. I'll just have to wait and see who my daughter-in-law is guna be." A bright happy face brushed upon him and he excused himself from Alex and Shine.

"Charleen! Charleen! where are you?" Ethon shouted when he got outside. All in response was just his echoing voice. He ran his fingers through his thin black hair and sighed. "Charleen, I'm sorry.....what are you guna think now?...that I brought you here to torture again?..." Ethon asked himself sarcastically and frowned. He gazed down to the high steps of his company and sat down by the stairs. Tears hung along the lines of his bottom eye-lid and for some reason it just wasn't falling out....he was confused. Confused of what he was doing wrong that always made Charleen upset. Why can't he make her happy? Was he not protecting her in the way the he should? Was she not satisfied with his presence? What in the world was it that caused her discomfort almost every time he looks at her? Ethon looked up into the star and stared off. The stars were as bright as can be. Suddenly Ethon caught his eyes chasing after a shooting star. He smiled a little and gazed back down to the ground. *sniff*sniff* he bit the side of his bottom lip and inhaled deeply. "Charleen....." exhaling softly...

"Ethon......" the most expected voice caused Ethon wince.

"Charleen?..." he asked searching around as he stood up. "Where are you?..." he squinted to get a better view.

"Come over here..."

"Where? I can't see you...do something so I see you.." Ethon turned around, back and forth.

Soon after a figure came out from the shadows of the trees, next to the building. Ethon peered over to make sure it was Charleen. Instead he saw a figure dressed in all white. In her hands, she held a beautiful white dove. The dove sat calmly in her hands and as she walked forward out of the shadows it was Charleen.

Ethon's face lifted in happiness and he walked slowly towards her. "Charleen, I...."

"shh....Ethon...look...it's a Dove. Isn't it so beautiful?" Charleen beamed sweetly up to Ethon.

He smiled in relief, knowing that she was okay and she didn't just run off like last time. Ethon stared at the dove and caressed it. "It's hurt..."

"Yeah, I know. That's why I picked it up when I came out here."

"And I thought you ran away like last time.." Ethon managed to lighten up now.

Charleen gave him a weird look and grinned back. "Silly, naw I was glad I gave her what she wanted. Felt good..." she chuckled "I came out here because I just thought I needed some fresh air and to lighten my mood."

"Here, take it. You wana see if it can fly now?"

Ethon gave an uncertain look but held the dove in his hands.

"No..wait wait...come over here" Charleen insisted as she jumps up into the higher steps of the building. "I think you can make it fly from a higher height" she pointed aside of her.

"Alright.." Ethon nodded and took a few steps up to where Charleen was.

"Okay, here we go....1...2...3..FLY!" They said in unison. Yes, it flew. Charleen and Ethon smiled happily watching the dove fly away. As the dove flew off, a feather was left behind, arching back and forth and into Charleen's hand.

Charleen inhaled deeply as the feather slowly rests itself in her palm. "Ethon, look. A feather" her face lit with joy.

Ethon gazed at Charleen when she caught the feather and he sighed with a smile. "My angel...." he whispered. Before he could think any more he found himself letting Charleen listen to his heart. His arms were wrapped around her tightly and she struggled at first but then she became still. "Just let my hold you like this....just for a little while...." he whispers into her ear.

"Ethon...." Charleen trailed off. She listened to his heart and it thumped faster and faster as he held her tighter.

"You're my angel...." he said once more rubbing his cheek against her hair and a tear streamed across his face.


End of Chapter 10

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Dec 4 2005, 12:26 AM

[AzNgIrL]

Awww...Charleen's gonna love Ethon in the end..I KNOW IT!! 2

[dreydle]

but ethons going back. >< poor charleen

[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 11

The night past by fairly quick and Ethon decided to drop Charleen off home, let her change and take her to go visit her mom at the hospital again.

They soon came to a stop infront of Charleen's house and she quickly got out of the car. She bent down by the passenger window and smiled at Ethon. "Hold on alright...I'll be right back."

"Alright, make it quick." Ethon replied without blinking away, watching her hustle to her steps, then into her house.

Ethon watched a distance away and when Charleen closed the door, the lights had flicked on. It was a bit too far away to hear anything going on in the house but he waited and waited. 15 minutes had past and Charleen still hadn't come out of the house yet. Ethon turned off his engine and decided to wait just a few more minutes more. 'What's taking her so long?' he thought. 5 minutes...6 minutes...'uhg! what the heck? why isn't she coming out?' he thought again. Ethon peered to the window, he saw the window curtains moving all sudden, and at that point, he figured something was wrong. Instantly, got right out of his car and, not even taking a breath, he ran directly towards the house.

"CHARLEEN! OPEN UP!” he shouted and pounded hard on the door.

He could hear the glass shatters and the furniture being thrown around. Ethon's heart tripled the beat and he didn't know what to do. "CHARLEEN! LET ME IN! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?" Soon after he heard a man's voice yelling.

"G@d@mn B!tches! What did I tell you about leaving this house! I made it loud and clear that no one leaves this house around the time I'm home!"

Ethon's eyes grew larger than ever and he started kicking and pounding on the door all over again. "Sh!T! F*ck'n B@stard!" He ran to the window and started pounding. He clenched his fist along with his teeth and anger fled through him entirely.

!@#$%^&*CRACK!! ~!@#$%^& The glass on the door shattered immediately causing the man in the house to startle into that direction.

"ETHON!!" Charleen's voice cried out. "Please! leave here! I beg you!"

Ethon heard it loud and clear but he ignored it. Through the glass window, he reached his hand to the doorknob. Ethon made himself half way through the hallway and stopped when he saw the man that was standing infront of him. This man was about the same size as Ethon. Maybe just a little bit shorter. He had long hair to his neck and his eyes were pink as if he's never slept his whole life.

"What tha? what the F*ck are you doing here? Who the H3ll are you?" the man glared at Ethon dangerously.

Ethon didn't answer at all and not even a bit he was scared of this man. He wasn't guna let any one hurt Charleen. "Where is she? Where's Charleen?" he burst out angrily, trying to make his way past the man. Before Ethon could pass him, the man brought his chest up against him and blocked his way.

"Where do you think you're going punk?"

"Punk?” Ethon gave in a deadly stare followed by an evil smile and at full force, swung a fist directly at the man's nose.

"AH! M0th3r F*ck'r!! You-" Before the man could start cussing Ethon grabbed his shirt, slammed him to the wall, and pined him by the neck "Now, I'm guna ask you one more time. Where...is...Charleen?"

"Oh, so you're the rich b@stard that took my slave and that piece of sh!t? I hada go all the way to that G0d@mn hospital down town to drag that B!tch back home!" He gave Ethon a nasty look up and down, "and you think you're guna take them again ey? "

"Yes I am and you know what? This time when I'm guna make sure you NEVER see them again. Because you wana know why?" Ethon's looks were to kill as he assured the man, "Because your a$$ is guna go to jail after this!"

"ETHON! I'm up here!" Charleen cried again, which seemed like it was coming from upstairs.

Ethon heard her voice and got distracted. Before he knew it, the man got out of his grip and instantly punched him back. Ethon fell backwards and hit the wall behind him. At not even a second, the man charged directly towards Ethon for another hit but Ethon won the speed and ducked. He slipped himself behind the man and pinned him by the neck again. "If you hurt her, if you even touch her, I WILL KILL YOU!" he fired out.

"Peeh!" The man spat directly in Ethon's face causing him to turn away. Not even a bit Ethon had let go of his tight grip at the man's neck. "B@STARD!" Ethon swung a fist back at the man again. And this time, Ethon made sure he was knocked out for a while. Breathing heavily, he then remembered Charleen's voice from upstairs. "Hold'on Charleen, I'm coming girl" he then raced upstairs and continuously screamed out Charleen's name.

When he got closer to the room, he thought Charleen was in, not only did he hear her cries but he also heard someone else's. "Mrs. Vophaski!" he broke the door open and his face struck black when he saw them both.

Mrs. Vophaski's clothes were all ripped up into pieces and bruises appeared all over her face. Her eyes were all swollen up and purple. He glanced to Charleen, she was horrified, and she shook intensively. She still had on the same dress he bought her a while ago, but now, it was all marked with blood. "0h my G@d! ETHON!" Charleen reached out her arms for Ethon.

"Charleen..OH G0D!" Ethon jumped over the broken lamp and hurried himself to embrace the both of them. "Did that B@stard hurt you? DID HE HURT YOU?!" His expressions were in demand to hear the truth.

Charleen and her mother both shook their heads together and they just kept on bawling their eyes out. "I didn't know Ethon, I really didn't know he was guna be home."

"Ethon, my dear, thank you...thank you..."

"shhh...shhh....shhh....it's guna be alright...I'm guna get you two outa here.." he carefully assisted both of them up but Charleen could barely get up.

"Oww....Ethon I can't..." her voice trembled and she limped a little.

"What? what's wrong?" Ethon looked down to her feet noticed the line of blood that streamed down her feet. His eyes lit with anger and he narrowed his eyes to the spot. "Alright, here." He lifted her into his arms and Mrs. Vophaski followed quickly.

Down the steps all three of them went and before they went out the door Ethon looked back and glared at them man for a second. "I don't care who the h3ll you are, but you're never guna see these beautiful faces again. I assure you." With that Ethon carried Charleen and carefully placed her in his back seats.

"Alright, Mrs. Vophaski, sit in the front please." Ethon commanded.

Mrs. Vophaski nodded and got in the car.

Driving crazily, their first stop was guna be back to the hospital. Ethon had to take Charleen to cure her bleeding ankle, which looked like something had smashed on it and her mother wasn't heal yet from the other incident.

"So who the heck was that man back there?" Ethon finally spoke as he calmed himself down.

Mrs. Vophaski sighed and hesitated. "My husband."

"Your husband? First husband?" he asked just to make sure.

"Charleen's step-father."

Ethon nodded because his intuition was correct. "I figured. Charleen had talked about her father before but I'm sure her real father wasn't like that prick back there. I'm not letting you or Charleen go back. I'm going to find you two a different place, tonight."

"......................." With no answer at all, Charleen's mother turned to Ethon with gladness in her eyes and she was absolutely thankful Ethon had come to their rescue. Otherwise, she wouldn't have known what could've happend that night. Could she have been dead? possibly. Could she have been extremely beaten up? no doubt.

Ethon saw that he hadn't received a reply but he knew exactly what Mrs. Vophaski was thinking just by glancing at the looks of her face. He was glad she felt that way and he wasn't guna let her live like that ever again.

"Don't worry. I'll take care of you two. I promise." Ethon added and beamed over to Mrs. Vophaski. After that, he glanced into his rear view mirror and Charleen's eyes were closed. She looked as if the soul was knocked out of her. Her lips were fairly dried and her face pale as ever. Ethon swerved to park at the front entrance of the hospital and quickly lifted Charleen out of the back seats.

"Com'on help me!" he shouted to the nurse who were running out from the hospital. "Her ankle, it hasn't stop bleeding yet" Ethon told one of the nurses. He placed her one of the bed and they rolled her off. "I need you to check her scars on her head too." Ethon commanded one of the other nurses to take Mrs. Vophaski.

He waited anxiously by the door of the waiting room. Soon after, one of the doctors opened the door.

"Ethon Sangwa?"

Ethon turned around and replied, "Yes, that's me. How are they?"

"Oh, they'll be fine. We've already sewed up the bleeding ankle and her mother, we've already re-wrapped her scars and put some medicine on it which would help it heal faster." The doctor answered handing Ethon a sheet of paper to sign.

"Alright, that's good." The responses actually lighten up his mood a little to hear that they were going to be okay. "So, I didn't get the chance to find out what really happend. Did you happend to find out?"

"Yeah, as a matter fact, in Charleen's case, she explained that she was pushed down to the ground while trying to stop her mother from getting strangled. When she fell down she knocked over the lamp table and the lamp, including the lamp table had smashed onto her ankle. I would assume, she was cut deeply by the ankle when the lamp hit it." The doctor explained briefly and sighed.

Ethon sighed also and glanced away. "All I know is that, they'll never see the person who hurt them again" he trailed off.

"Alright, you can go see them in about 20 minutes."

"Sounds good, thank you." Ethon nodded and then let the doctor get back to his job. "If there's any thing you need, my cell number is on the documents. I'm going to go and get some food."

"Alright, Mr. Sangwa."



A while had past and Charleen finally came to her senses. She was still weak but she couldn't close her eyes again without knowing where Ethon was.

"Excuses me ma'am, Ethon...Ethon Sangwa? is he still here?" she struggled the breath to ask.

The nurse came over and stood by the side of the bed. She smiled and caressed Charleen's hands. "Ethon? Ethon um...." the nurse thought confusedly for a moment and finally answered "Oh, yeah Mr. Sangwa brought you here. Well, I heard before he went somewhere. I'm actually not sure when he will be coming back. Did you need something?"

Charleen frowned and her eyes lowered out of hope. She was urging to see Ethon's face and she couldn't go back to rest, though she was so weak, until she saw his face. "No, I....I don't need anything. Thank you though" she forced a slight smile and rested her head back on the pillow.

The nurse looked at Charleen weirdly and then smiled as if understanding. "Alright, the red button on top of your right hand side, above your head, is the button you press if you need anything alright. In the mean time, I'm guna go check up on the other patients and I'll be right back okay."

Charleen nodded weakly and she went back into her thoughts of wondering when Ethon was guna come back. If only she could see his lovely face now, she wouldn't have to feel so dizzy and helpless. He would totally make her pain go away. By seeing him would make her forget on the concentration of the pain that's going through her body.

Momentarily, Charleen heard loud footsteps that sounded louder and louder as she listened carefully. Before she could think of who it was, the door swung open. It was ETHON! Right when she wanted him to be there most, he was and she was glad.

"Ethon." Charleen struggled to get up from her rest. Forcing herself up so she could get a better look at Ethon. She saw that he was breathing heavily and therefore, she figured out who's foot step it was that was running in the hall way. He had come back for her and her face lit with joy. "I thought you left."

Ethon's breathing finally calmed and he steadied his breathing. He gulped and took another breath. "Nope, I wouldn't leave you. I just went to go grab some food for you and your mom. I already dropped off the other bag in your mom's room." He then pulled out bag of food from his back. "Yum, Yum, and it's all for you."

"aww, Ethon, you didn't have to."

"No, I had to. You need to eat. At least I'm not making you eat fries and celeries right?" he said playfully.

Charleen blushed and lightly slapped him on the arm as he sat next to her. "Hey, stop that."

"haha, well I brought you something you might love" he set the bag of food by the lamp table.

"And what might that be?"

"Guess."

"Huh? You want me to guess?"

"Yeah, of course. Why not? hehe it's what you like only." Ethon gave her a sexy wink and beamed her way.

Charleen gave Ethon a sharp look and glanced from the bag and back to Ethon. "Alright, Tofu?"

"And? what else?"

"huMMm?...CHICKEN!"

Ethon's smile got even wider, "yeah, and...and???"

"um..curry? stir-fry? soup?" Charleen arched an eyebrow and chuckled.

Ethon noticed he got Charleen to finally smile and he was glad. He reached into the brown bag and pulled out a warm plate of fried rice with chicken stir-fry. He even brought her a warm container of tofu soup with a bowl.

"Ta-dah! what you love the most."

"How yummy!" Charleen clapped her hands and smiled happily. "aww, Ethon how sweet. How did you know I liked tofu?"

Ethon suddenly gave her a weird look and arched his eyebrow. "Um, you told me you liked tofu?"

Charleen's smile faded and she thought for a moment. "Yes, I forgot. hehe silly me."

"Here, you're guna have you're soup first." Ethon lift the spoon full of tofu a distance away from Charleen's mouth. Attempting to feed her.

"uh...You?" she pointed to him, "are guna feed me?" and pointed back to herself.

Ethon nodded, "yeah dah, you're too weak right now. That means I should be feeding you...now Ahhhh" he brought the spoon just about an inch away from her lips now.

Charleen blushed and after a moment she sighed and gave in. "Fine, fine...ahhhh..." the tofu soup went straight into her open mouth and she gulped it down. "MmMmm..that was good" then she smiled.

Out of no where Charleen caught herself gazing into Ethon's eyes and she found that he was also doing the same thing. She wondered what were those looks telling her and what in the world was going on in that little mind of his. Ethon on the other hand, wondered the same exact thing.

"Hold still.." Ethon finally broke the silence and he reached over to Charleen's face.

"oh, um..what is it?" Charleen attempted to pull back but Ethon had already palmed her cheeks. She had strands of hair that was covering her pretty hazel eyes so Ethon couldn't help but brushed it out of the way so he could look deeper into those eyes. He came forth slowly. Closer and closer he came and she knew what was guna happend next. Charleen slowly closed her eyes and suddenly she heard Ethon scream.

"OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!! HOT HOT HOT!!!!"

Charleen instantly open her eyes and found Ethon jumping up and down and his face was burnt up in redness! He shook his hand at the speed of lightening.

"Ahh! Ethon what happend?" Charleen was still very weak but she managed to get up to see what happend. She faced Ethon and just by reading his expression he needed something which was the opposite, yes correct opposite! "COLD! um.." she looked around and around and finally, she saw the cold glass of water that the nurse had brought in for her earlier. She quickly grabbed it and splashed it all over Ethon's hand, the spot that he held out before. "Ethon, what happend?"

"Ahhh...relief....uhg..that's what I get when trying to bust my move you know." Ethon laughed out loud "that hurted.." he then looked up to Charleen and chuckled to himself.

Charleen's face went puzzled and she couldn't understand why he was suddenly chuckling when he had just made a painfull scene. "So um, what did you do?"

Ethon looked at her and chuckled again. Then a second later he finally pointed to the spilt soup that was all over the bed. Charleen glanced over and glanced back to Ethon. Out of no where she started laughing with him too. She then gave him a dumb-founded glare and shook her head.

"Ethon, you should've watch what you were doing."

"It's all you're fault." Ethon blamed her.

"All my fault? what did I ever do?" she crossed her arms.

"You're making me go CRAZY!!!" he admitted loudly and gazed down to the floor and blushed. Charleen didn't receive a smile from Ethon as how she would always expected, so she had to believe it. He was being serious. She slowly released her folded arms and before she could try to go forth to him she lost her balance. Dizziness came upon her and she was starting to loose her strength again.

"Charleen!" he rushed over to her and caught her just in time before she kneeled down to the ground. "I'm sorry, I didn't-"

"No, it's not your fault." She stared up at him an smiled weakly. When her vision was a bit clearer again she studied Ethon's face once more. Now she realized that at the corner of Ethon's bottom lip was a mark of dried blood. She reached slowly to his lips and gently touched it. "Ethon, I'm sorry you were hurt by my step father..." tears sparkled along her eye lid. "I'm sorry for causing so much trouble...especially getting you into all this trouble....forgive me..."

Ethon shook his head slowly and replied. "Fool, I was meant to be your Hero remember?" he gave in a quiet laugh and lifted her up into his arms. He then laid her down back onto the bed and tucked her in. "Do you wana eat any more? You only had one bite of your tofu."

"Naw, I'll eat more when I feel hungry. Thank you...."

**Knock Knock***

"Can I come in?" a small voice asked behind the door.

"Come in please." Ethon answered.

The same nurse that was taking care of Charleen walked through. She smiled sweetly when she saw Ethon and she glanced over to Charleen. "So is this the man you asked me about earlier?"

Ethon stared at Charleen surprisingly and a bright smile crossed his face. She thought about him? And all this time, he thought he was the only one who showed that he cared for her. Guess she doesn't like to express her feelings. He knows better now how she is.

"A-hem, um..yeah..." Charleen struggled smile and looked up to Ethon. Of course, as she expected, he beamed at her with a big smile and she as usual, blushed and blushed. What the heck, what was there to hide when she knew her love for Ethon was growing and growing. But was it guna stop growing once Ethon leaves? What was guna happen to their growing love for each other? Charleen's smile slowly turned into a sad frown when the thought skipped through her mind, reminding her. Why does time have to fly by so fast? and now she's left with so little time to be with him....how was she guna live knowing Ethon wasn't guna be by her side for the next 365 days?

End of Chapter 11

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Dec 4 2005, 12:25 AM

[AzNgIrL]

Awww...Ethon's so sweeett..They *would* make such a kyute couple!!

[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 12

It was the night before Ethon had to leave back to Korea and he tried his best to spend as much time as he could with Charleen. While he was going to be away, he had insisted that Charleen and her mother stayed in the place that he had specially reserved for them. It was a nice luxurious apartment, big, wide and from the balcony, they could see the beautiful lights of Tokyo. Ethon was happy to have Charleen and her mother in safe hands. Nothing, nothing at all was going to harm them now.

“Ethon, something the matter?” Charleen placed her hands on his shoulders.

“Just getting some fresh air.” Ethon decided to stare off into his train of thoughts from the balcony. Just to let out his worries and frustration.

After a moment of silence, Ethon stared over to Charleen because she was so quiet. “What’s on you’re mind?” he asked.

“Nothing, just hoping you’ll have a safe trip tomorrow.”

“Tee-hee, I’ll be fine.” Ethon gave a smile that didn’t quite wrinkle his eyes and slipped his hands into Charleen’s. “You know, I’ve been thinking…” he stared off again.

Charleen turned to face him and gave him her full attention.

“I want you to go with me. How does that sound?”

“………………..” Charleen just couldn’t move her mouth to answer Ethon. Part of her was happy because he actually considered that option and the other part; she couldn’t because she was still trying to finish her last year of school. She absolutely didn’t want to miss any of her exams and fail. Soon she cleared her throat and gave him her answer. “I wish I could Ethon, but I have school that I still have to finish. I’m sorry...” She knew it would hurt him and he might take it the wrong way, yet it was the truth and she only had a few months left. School was rather important to her…or was being with her love more important? For a moment there, she was content of what she just said but why wasn’t it making the pain in her heart beat any calmer? God she was scared…scared of loosing Ethon. What if he changes his mind when he comes back? What will she do then?

Ethon chuckled and tighten his grip on Charleen’s hands. “I understand, but you’ll wait for me right?” He forced himself to understand that she had to finish school but half of him wanted her to go so badly. Facing the fact that he was not going to get to see her lovely face for one full year, he couldn’t bare to let her see his sadness of how her response had made his legs weak. He knew he was going to be sad, worried, and lonesome without her but he did it for the sake of the company and still, he couldn’t let his father down too.

“I’ll wait, that’s only if you’re coming back.” Charleen answered and smiled.

“Why wouldn’t I? Of course I will but I’m scared…”

Charleen arched both her eyebrows not comprehending, “and what was there to be scared about huh?” He was scared too she thought. Guess she wasn’t the only one, he felt the same way.

“I’m afraid you might have a change of heart when I come back and you might forget about me.”

Charleen managed a grin and tried making herself look like it wasn’t a big deal. “Don’t think that way. If you promise to come back, I’ll promise to stay right here and wait until the day you come back.”

Ethon beamed and took Charleen into his arms, “I’m very happy…I’m already wanting to come back…”

Charleen chuckled and pinched Ethon a bit on the side, “silly, you haven’t even gone yet why are you already wining.”

“Tsk-he-he, I know….God I’m going to miss you…” Ethon squeezed Charleen just a bit tighter, not wanting to let her go at all. It felt too good to have her in his arms and if he could demand for the time to stop ticking, he’ll do so yet, he wasn’t able to and that was what made him sadder as each second past.

Charleen nodded with hope in her eyes. She gazed into her own thoughts while being held in Ethon’s arms. It was sad, sad to see that after tomorrow she was going to miss Ethon, and she knew that it was going to cause her misery living without him. Charleen tried to imagine how life was going to be like without having him there to company her. Ever since she met him, her thoughts and feelings were well considered and there hadn’t been a moment where she was sad, because she had him. It felt as if he’s snatched her heart away from her and he took care of it unconditionally.

“Sweethearts, dinner is ready.” Mrs. Vophaski’s voice came through from the kitchen.

Charleen and Ethon glanced back and then to each other. “Come on lets go eat.” Ethon smiled.

The three of them sat in silence as they ate there food. No one was able to speak a word knowing how emotional it was going to be the next day.

“Mmm, this is very good.” Ethon broke the silence and took a bite of the vegetables from his plate.

Mrs. Vophaski beamed over to Ethon and replied, “Why thank you Ethon. Charleen, did you like it?”

Charleen looked up from her plate of food and hesitated, “Um, yeah…” she stared down to her food and realized the whole time she was just poking at it.

“Honey, what’s the matter? You haven’t even tried it. Go on, eat.” Her mother insisted.

“You got to eat. You can’t let your self starve like that.” Ethon stated and soon saw Charleen not even able to look at him. His smile slowly disappeared as he studied her and it seemed as if there was nothing in the world that could make her frown even more.

Charleen glanced from her mom and to Ethon. She had already seen that Ethon caught her expression and she instantly forced a smile to hide it. Quickly, she shoved spoon after spoon full of food into her mouth and chewed hastily. “Mmm, very good” she complimented and started coughing. Ethon and her mother stared off and looked at each other weirdly.

“Charleen! Fool slow down.” Ethon gasped, giving Charleen his glass of water. “Take your time, no one’s fighting with you” he patted her gently on the back.

“Thank you…” she finally answered.

“Dear, dear, what were you thinking eating so fast like that. When I say eat, I don’t mean shove it all at once in your mouth sweetie.”

“Yeah, what were you thinking darling?” Ethon remarked, smiling at her, although his heart was aching and his eyes were teary. His angel was in deep pain and there was nothing that he could do to change it. Disappointed in himself….not any one else but him.

Hearing the word darling brought tears into Charleen’s eyes. It squeezed her heart and she couldn’t help it any longer so she burst out crying out of no where. This had caused Ethon and her mom to stare at each other again. She was just smiling and talking before and now…now she was crying as if there was never going to be a tomorrow and no one was able to feel her pain. Charleen’s mother had felt guilt suddenly for not noticing her daughter’s pain and she was speechless. Ethon on the other hand, stared at Charleen and he was in shock having to replay her sudden cry and his heart ached even more as he watched each tear gliding down her face.

“I hate you Ethon….I really hate you…why is it that you have to leave….” Her cries became harder and she couldn’t help suffering from the fact any more, that he was going to be gone, away, and far from her. In addition, also for all those times she had thought she was tough and strong….well….now she was the weakest. She was bawling like a sick fool but she could care less. She didn’t’ want Ethon to leave and she hated him for leaving….

“Charleen….I….I’m—,”

“No, please stop. I don’t want to hear you apologize. It won’t make me feel any better.” She demanded and held out her hand signing to not come any further. Charleen got dizzy from all the crying she was starting to get a head ache from thinking so much. “Don’t….”

“Charleen!” Ethon cried out and in a heart beat, caught her before she collapsed to the floor. He had noticed her ankle was not well yet and she was still having difficulties. “You’re not feeling well either…” He felt her wrist for her heart beat. “Come on, I’ll get you in bed,” Ethon attempted to lift her up but she refused.

“No! Stop it!” Suddenly, Charleen found her self hitting and punching Ethon on the chest. As hard as she could, wanting to express how much she hated him and angry that she couldn’t go with him. Her hits were with all her strength and soon after, it became calmer and Ethon could care less about the pain among his chest. He knew he was guilty and he was going to take the pain and feel the pain she was feeling too.

Ethon sighed and stroke Charleen’s hair gently. He smiled and whispered softly, “then just go with me….”

“No! No! I will not sacrifice my education to go with you! It’s not worth it!” she yelled but immediately regretted it. Was that what she really wanted to say?

The response totally hit Ethon and he was shattered completely. ‘It wasn’t worth it?’ he thought. ‘Where was she getting at now? She hadn’t felt the same way?’ In Ethon’s world, every thing was worth it when it came to Charleen. He gave her his heart and now it wasn’t worth it? Times before Ethon never wanted Charleen to see his disappointment, but then again, he was so hurt that it just slipped. He loosens his grip and soon after, he gave in to letting his hands glide down to her side.

“I guess it wasn’t worth it huh?” the tone of his voice became bitterly cold. All this time and to only realize that in the end, it was worthless? She didn’t mean it he knew it, but why? Why let his ears hear the things that will carry on pain and if not forever, for a long long time. Should he calm his beating heart and listen more to her hurt or should he act according to his pain? “I’m sorry if I ever did you wrong…..” Ethon tried controlling his pain that grew stronger and stronger but this time, his mind wasn’t with him and therefore, he had listened to the temper among his heart. He couldn’t say a word….was he just being too emotional? No, he was stabbed straight in the heart and by whom? By Charleen…the love of his life…

Charleen looked up and saw that Ethon refused to look at her. He kept his gaze in to his thoughts and moments later, he finally faced up to look at her. He smiled, but Charleen knew that behind that smile was a frown, a kind of frown she’ll never see nor understand. The wrong thing had slipped because she was angry at Ethon, angry that he had to leave her behind and she was going to be left alone, angry that he made her fall in love with him so quickly and then having to go away. There was so much left she had to tell him, express to him, and show him but it was the last night and nothing was going to turn back the hands of time. Charleen wished that if she could, she wouldn’t have ever wanted to meet Ethon so she wouldn’t have to face what she’s facing now.

Charleen was speechless, knowing that she just said something that she should’ve never said. She stared at him as he gave her his cold, never before seen, scowl mixed with a hesitant smile. Ethon clenched his teeth and continued. “Well, be happy then. I may just decide not to come back!” With that, he grabbed his jacket, and stumped out the door, slamming it shut.

“I’m….sorry Ethon….” Replaying of what just happened, it felt as if Ethon had just walked right out of her life and he was definitely going to be gone forever. ‘Now he’s never coming back, you’re a fool Charleen, a d@mn fool’ she thought. Charleen’s weak legs couldn’t stand the pain anymore and before she knew it she fell to her knees.

Mrs. Vophaski gasped and rushed over to catch Charleen. “Honey, you didn’t mean that did you?” she shook Charleen, trying to get her to open her eyes.

Charleen soon opened her eyes and replied weakly, “I said the wrong thing mom. I’m so
stupid. I didn’t mean it mom….” Her voice trailed off and she cried silently to herself.


The next morning

beep~ beep (Ethon’s alarm)

Ethon woke up heavy-hearted. He only got 4 hours a sleep since he couldn’t sleep last night. After what happened the night before, when he got home he gulped down a whole bottle of liquor and knocked himself out. Now he had a horrible hang over and his head was killing him. He grunted as making his way to the bathroom, turned on the shower, and faced himself in the mirror. Staring away, he then remembered he left Charleen last night without saying good-bye and he felt bad. Thinking back and forth, it finally hit him. The pain that poked his heart came back alive. He remembered of how she told him it wasn’t worth it to be with him and sacrifice her education for him. This had caused him to frown and his heart suffered again. He ran his fingers through his thin hair and sighed aloud.

“Charleen…..I didn’t mean it….” He whispered.

Ethon’s flight was schedule to leave at in a few hours but he wasn’t going to leave without having one last moment with Charleen. After the shower, he quickly dressed himself and proceeded out the door. His luggage and everything was already packed for him so he dragged that out too.


~Ding ~Dong (doorbell)

Ethon waited patiently for someone to come to the door. He had bought a big bouquet of red roses for Charleen as an apology. Moments later, he heard footsteps that he thought was Charleen’s and a slight smile appeared upon his face.

“Oh hello darling, how are you today?” Mrs. Vophaski stated when she opened the door.

Ethon nodded and forced a smile. He was hoping Charleen’s mother wasn’t mad at him for reacting the way he did the day before. “Good morning” he greeted.

“Come on in Honey.” Mrs. Vophaski let the door open wider and let Ethon in. Ethon searched around wondering where Charleen was. He sat down handed Mrs. Vophaski the roses.

“Here, this is for Charleen, I wanted to apologize of what happened yesterday.”

“Oh no, that is quite alright, Charleen actually went for an interview. She was called out this morning to go in at bout 8:30, so I’m really not sure when she’ll be home.” Mrs. Vophaski handed Ethon a cup of coffee.

“Thank you.”

“So when does your flight leave?”

“In about 2 hours. I really should’ve been there by now but I thought I come by and say good-bye to Charleen before I leave. I’ll wait just a bit but if she doesn’t come back in time, would you tell her I’m sorry and let her know I’ll call her when I reach Seoul?” Ethon took a sip of his coffee.

“Sure, sure I will. I do hope she comes back in time. She’s been gone a while now too.” Charleen’s mom sighed aloud.

Ethon stared at her and managed a slight smile. “Thank you.”

“For what dear?”

“For being a good Mother to Charleen. You know what’s best for her because you are her mother, and I really appreciate you being so patient with her. She’s a very sensitive person you know.”

“Tee-hee that is what a mother’s got to do right? As a matter fact, Charleen used to be a very strong girl. After her father’s deceased, she just changed. Her father meant everything to her. I do feel horrible that I wasn’t able to give her the same type of love her father had given her, but I do try my best to be both mother and father to her.” Mrs. Vophaski dazed off into her thoughts.

Ethon’s smiled once more and replied, “Either way, you’re her mother. I’m sure she’s happy to have you as a part of her life too. Even if she’s living without her real father, she has you to guide her just like her father would if he was still alive. I lost my mother not too long ago too, but I managed my ways and believed I could move on because she’s always in my heart. Not only that, meeting Charleen was so far, the best thing that happened to me and I’m thankful.”

By hearing Ethon’s touching words Mrs. Vophaski caressed Ethon’s hand and gave him a warm smile. “Thank you, thank you for being such a good person to Charleen and me. Our happiness was all because of you. We lived in misery and we didn’t know a way to get out of it. You came along and unknotted everything. We have much to repay you.”

“It was really nothing.” Ethon grinned and his phone rang. “Hello, Ethon speaking…..yeah I know, I’m coming.” He closed his phone and hugged Charleen’s mother. “Good-bye. I’ll be seeing you when I come back then.”

Ethon lift his eyes to see if Charleen could possibly be in sight, yet only to find that the coast was clear. She was no where to be found and as soon as he broke the hug he sighed out loud and smiled.

“Please tell Charleen what I said before. It’ll mean a lot to me.”

“I sure will sweetheart don’t you worry.” Charleen’s mother took a hold of one of Ethon’s hands and patted it.

“Thank you.” Ethon nodded, really hoping for the best as he glanced around just one more time.

“Have a safe trip dear. Please call if you need anything.”

“Alright.” Ethon waved and when he turned around he slowly frowned. He was disappointed he wasn’t able to see Charleen’s beautiful face one last time. Taking the elevator down, he gazed into his own thoughts and hoped for Charleen to just appear when the elevator door open.

‘Come on…Come on…..’ his mind spoke. Finally, the elevator door beeped and opened. Ethon’s heart instantly dropped to the bottom of his tummy when he saw that his wish had not come true.

Sadly, he walked out scowling to himself and before he got into the car, he paused to wait just a tiny bit longer. Maybe she might just appear and he could run o her and give her a nice long, big hug…God he missed her already. He looked around, searching desperately and just hoping that he’ll get to see Charleen. Even if he doesn’t get to talk to her, at least if he could see her face then he’ll be happy. A moment had gone by, which felt like forever, there was no sign of her. Unwillingly, he went into the back seat and instructed the driver to go. As the driver proceeded, he gazed out the window until he couldn’t see the top of Charleen’s apartment any more. “Good-bye, Charleen….” He blinked away and a tear escaped from his eyes.


04-08-06 hehe I made this chapter a bit more emotional! hehe
End of Chapter 12

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Apr 8 2006, 11:36 PM

[AzNgIrL]

Aww..Poor Ethon..=|..When they were arguing, I was like "NOOOO!! DON'T BELIEVE IT ETHON.." Gosh..It got to me..XDDD

[dreydle]

OMGOSH!!!!! NOOO! DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING!!! WAT HAPPENS? ><

[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 13


Beep Beep Beep (Answering machine tone)

Charleen heard the answering machine and pressed blinking red button. “You have one new message, receive today, 12:51 p.m.” Her heart raced by the second, she obviously knew who it was. “Charleen, hey you….welps, I um..dropped by just a few minutes ago. I guess you don’t want to see me any more huh? That’s alright. I’m sorry about what happened last night. I didn’t mean to leave like that. I’ll make it up to you okay. *sniff* Charleen, aren’t you going to pick up?...God, I’m such a bad person, Charleen I love you…” (beeeeeep) End of Message, to save press 1, to return the call press 2, to delete press 3, to repeat press 4.

“I can’t believe you made me lie to Ethon!” Mrs. Vophaski walked into Charleen’s room and scowled. “Now, he willingly came back for you. Why Charleen? Why do you refuse to see him, I mean haven’t you consider you might not ever see him again or at least not any time soon?”

“……………………..” There was no answer at all. Charleen just sat there replaying Ethon’s message that he left her.

Mrs. Vophaski noticed her daughter’s sadness so she calmed her anger and caressed Charleen’s hands. “Honey, are you sure you’re making the right decision?”

“Mom……” Charleen’s voice trailed off and her body was a bit shaky but she still managed to contain herself. “I don’t know. Why shouldn’t I be making the right decision? By all means, I don’t even love him” she lied.

“Good gracious dear, you got to be kidding me? You don’t love him? What does those tears in your eyes mean then?” Mrs. Vophaski pointed out, crossing her arms.

“Tears? What tears mom?” Charleen quickly blinked away the tears and smiled. “Mom, you’re just seeing things.”

“You know, sometimes I just don’t understand my own daughter any more.”

“What do you mean?” Charleen scowled, knowing exactly what her mom was going to say next.

“Well, why do you choose to hide your feelings for Ethon? He’s such a generous young man and I give you my approval. You don’t find a lot a men like that. Denying your true feelings can come back and hurt you. If you didn’t love Ethon too, then I highly doubt you be acting that way. I know you hate being told the truth, as your mother I’m just trying prevent you from regretting in the future that’s all.”

Mrs. Vophaski sat down on the bed next to her daughter.

Charleen’s face frowned. She refused to face her mother because she knew it was true. Nevertheless, Charleen being the prideful person she is still refuses to give in.

“Mom, I don’t want to talk about it alright. I never loved him, so stop talking about him.”

“Okay then, you’ll miss him”

“Mom, please…”

“You’ll just keep on hurting….”

“Mom! Urg, what did I just say?”

“I heard you, but don’t say I didn’t tell you.” With that, Charleen’s mom went out the door before Charleen got even more emotional. She knew her daughter well enough not to bother her when she is frustrated. Especially, when it came to a love relationship. Charleen hated it when any one was able to pin point her weakness and she hated being told the truth. Mainly, by her own mother.


(Beep) “Message one, deleted.”

After Charleen deleted Ethon’s voice message she gave in a big sigh. Every time she forced her self to smile, her face would just crumple into sadness and the smile would slowly fade away. Tears began to form in her eyes again and the pain in her heart just kept on growing. Quietly, so that only she could hear, she sniveled. “Ethon, I hate you….” As much as she loves him, she was disappointed in herself for denying all truth of her love for Ethon. Sure, there was nothing to hide at all, but why did she do it? Why was she stupid enough to let him out of her life like that?

*************

“You what!!!” Shine almost shouted. “Wait a minute, let me get something straight. So he left yesterday and you begged your mom to lie to him that you were out when he tried to come see you for the last time?”

Charleen nodded in shame. “Yeah….”

“Charleen! You idiot! That was the dumbest thing to do! Why didn’t you want to see him? Why?”

“Because…..”

Shine slapped her forehead and continued, “okay okay, let me guess, you didn’t want to hurt because of him…” she looked over to Charleen and saw that she nodded as if to answer yes. “Okay and you thought that if you hadn’t seen him for the last time, it wouldn’t hurt you as much right?”

Charleen nodded again.

“But that was stupid! Charleen, I’m telling you girl, you got to tell him the truth. Why do you think he was upset yesterday because you said the wrong thing, DAH!”

“I know I know…..but...”

“But what? You’re a fool that’s what you are! You just lost the love of your life without even saying good-bye! What if he never comes back?” Shine scowled at Charleen expecting an answer.

Charleen blinked away from Shine’s sharp eyes and finally answered, “well, I don’t love him. It was just a friendly thing. We had nothing.”

“Nothing?” Shine let out a sarcastic laugh. “I don’t know but I think you must be blind or something. I’ve seen the way you look at him and the way he adores you. Consider that, then come back and tell me if it was nothing.”

With that phrase, Charleen’s head instantly turned and she narrowed her eyes directly at Shine. She opened her mouth to say something but she couldn’t seem to find the correct words, so she just shut it and held her anger.

Shine scowled annoyingly and her face was in demand for Charleen to admit that she loves Ethon and what she said was a lie. “So am I right?”

“………………..” Charleen sat in silence with her arms crossed on top of her desk. Soon after, she blinked into her own thoughts and kept her gaze at nothing particular.

“Any ways, sorry but I got to get to class. I’ll see you later, I know you love Ethon already. You don’t even have to deny it.” Shine left for about a half a second and before Charleen could get another thought in her head, Shine popped back to the door way and said, “Oh and one more thing, sometimes saying good bye is not a good word in a relationship because you may never get to see each other again. So my opinion, it was good you two couldn’t say goodbye to each other because it was never meant to be good bye in the first place right?”

Charleen nodded with rounded eyes and she could’ve sworn a smile had almost formed. Boy she loved Shine for always being there for her. She was blissful the moment Shine said it was never meant to be good bye in the first place. Charleen went smiling high and satisfied suddenly.

Shine put on a big grin when she received the nod in acknowledgement and gave thumbs up. “Good! So it’s not over yet!” Then she was gone in a heart beat and Charleen went back into her thoughts.

‘D@mn right! I love him, and heck no it wasn’t good bye yet,’ Charleen thought.

Even though she had caused Ethon to get upset she knew she didn’t mean it. She also knew that Ethon would get over it knowing he could’ve reacted a different way to prevent their little quarrel. At the same time, she assumed that Ethon was going to forget about her easily. Especially if he was millions of miles away from her. It was as simple as that to get her to fall in love with him, why wouldn’t it work on others? The thought caused Charleen discomfort but before she could think more about it the hurt was already gone. Knowing she had a lovely mom to live with and a life to fulfill, she was to be strong and move on with life. Charleen knew she shouldn’t doubt Ethon, but it was for the better of them, or really the better of her.

A week later

“You girls want something to munch on? How about cup cakes huh?” Mrs. Vophaski questioned from the kitchen.

“Shine, you want some cupcakes? My mom makes great cupcakes.”

“Yea, that’ll be great! I love cupcakes.”

“Okay, yeah mom. Thanks.”

“Hey, why don’t you girls turn on Channel 8 I want to see the weather. I heard a hurricane is coming.”

“Hurricane?” Charleen and shine said in unison. They stared at each other wondering how serious this storm was going to be so they quickly switched the channel.

“This is Yumi Ajushiko reporting live this evening. As you all heard of Hurricane Gwein, this would hit at about 10 o’clock this evening so make sure that you do stay among your homes. Until further notice, we will alert you if there is any evacuation needed. Therefore, stay inside and keep safe. Now Akuda, back to you.”

Shine, Charleen, and her mother watched with fright upon their faces. Neither of them dared to move.

“Mom, what are we going to do? I didn’t even know about this hurricane, I need to pay more attention to the news.” It was just too scary, especially when she pictured of how bad the hurricane was going to be. Chills ran through her spine and she gazed over to Shine. Shine looked at Charleen to and they both knew eachother felt the same way. They struggled smiles together.

“We’ll be fine. At least, I hope we’ll be fine.”

“Yeah, we’ll be fine right mom?”

“Yeah, I hope so too.”

Out of nowhere Shine soon placed her gaze back to the television, her face struck black. She inhaled deeply as if to suffocate her self.

“What?” Charleen’s eyes grew fairly large too and she dared to look at the T.V. also. What was this, her heart was thumping faster and faster by the minute. Her face felt flushed with darkness all sudden and it seemed like she couldn’t hear her heart beat any more…why were her legs weak and why couldn’t she blink away from the face she was seeing, smiling, and laughing in the television? Was it really Ethon, the one she thought wouldn’t be happy without her?

Charleen inhaled deeply and held it. Scowling as questions filled her head. Why did he look so happy as if he wasn’t even thinking about her? Lies, Charleen thought. He had fooled her into believing she was the only one that would make him happy but no, there were many others that could satisfy him more than her. How foolish of her.

“Ethon...that….that…Bastard!” Anger flushed throughout her body and her body trembled. Charleen bit her lips and she could not stop looking at the face.

“Mr. Sangwa, so we heard your fashion show will be held in Seoul this summer. Could you tell us a little bit more about what we all are to expect?”

“What to expect? Well, these beautiful young ladies will be helping me. So expect them.” Ethon smiled at the camera and put his arms around the two girls. The models giggled and posed for the cameras that were flashing back and forth.

“What the heck does he think he’s doing? That looser.” Shine asked putting her hands at her hips.

“What about your new designs, tell us more about it?”

“It’s going to be a surprise, wait and see.”

“How come this year’s fashion show is not going to be held in Tokyo as how it was every year?”

“Because, Seoul needs a taste of Tokyo style.” With that, the crowds and camera crews started laughing. “This summer’s fashion show event will be one of the biggest, most exciting, and exotic fashion show ever. We’ve managed to come up with many source of designs this year so we’re all looking forward in your support. So come and join us, it will be held on July 18th of this year.”

“Looks like he’s on the red carpet with two beautiful models. He seems happy.” Mrs. Vophaski blurted, faced her daughter, and yes, she was shock, hurt and this may be forever. Mrs. Vophaski regretted exactly what she had told Charleen before. She cursed herself and wished she never made any comments about Ethon. She too was shock, just as much as Charleen was. She had mistaken Ethon for someone else; someone who she thought would only love her daughter. Guess the fame and the wealthiest do come in two faces.

Shattered and angry Charleen dropped back on to the couch and slapped her forehead. ‘Oh my god, Charleen, you’ve been played for a fool!’ a voice shouted inside her. And all this time she thought he loves her and only her. She was right, right that she was no match for him. Look at him with those beautiful models, how can she ever compare to them. She was stupid, stupid to have ever thought he loved her. ‘I hate you!’ the voice shouted again.

“I HATE YOU ETHON! I HATE YOU! I hate you….I hate you….” Charleen’s voice faded and tears streamed down her face non-stop.

10 minutes of crying had gone by and Charleen had finally calmed her emotion.

“You alright now?” Shine came forth into her room and tried to comfort her.

Charleen stared up to face Shine and forced a smile. “I don’t love him, remember what I told you,” then out of no where she laughed. “I would be a fool believe he loved me, he’s a liar…A LIAR…I tell you.”

“Now now, calm down. Yes, he’s a liar and you don’t love him.” Shine agreed partly but the other half of her knew Charleen did love Ethon. “You know Charleen, what if he’s just walking down the aisle of the red carpet just too look good with those models? I mean, think about it, he’s with them just for the cameras, but his heart is always with you and only thinking about you.”

“No! That’s not true. He was happy, happy to be with someone else. You know, the worst thing about it is, watching the one you love be with someone else and letting you sit back and hurt, like me.”

Shine managed the slight, satisfied smile, she caught Charleen slipping. "So you do love him?"

"No, I don't."

"Yes you do, you just gave me an example silly."

Charleen thought back quickly and of course now she couldn't deny anything. She shrugged and replied, "I do....I do...I DO I DO I DO love him...and he's A JERK! A Damn JERK, PLAYER! LIAR!"

“No, sometimes you can’t just jump into conclusion. What if you’re wrong?” Shine stated on the second thought.

This caused Charleen to gaze up slowly to Shine. She had a big frown which made her face pale and sad. Shine beamed at her warmly and embraced her. “Girl, if it hurts you that much then I have no more comments and no more opinions. I’m sorry for giving you second thoughts that caused you even more pain. If you believe so, that he doesn’t love you then move on. You still have so much in life to enjoy. Don’t let something like this hurt you for the rest of your life alright”

With that, Charleen was wordless. She didn’t mean to make her friend feel at guilt. At the same time, she was happy her friend respected her feelings and accepts the fact that it was okay to move on. How was she to start moving on? Of course not by being with someone else, she wouldn’t know how to start it all over again. It wasn’t worth it she thought while thinking to herself again. The day she was going to believe Ethon loved her is the day he comes back looking for her, telling her what she longs to hear and comfort her again. To her now, seemed like he was too comforted to come back to her….how sad was that…


End of Chapter 13

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Apr 8 2006, 11:39 PM

[Romain@LY]

TOO much reading for me can't keep up with it.....

[StarWish]

Woahh. Goood story keep up the good work

[StarWish]

Are u finish with Chapter 14???!!!!!

[AzNgIrL]

Ethon's not playing her. I will not believe it!!

[Syco_chinka]

Are u finish with Chapter 14???!!!!!

awww thanq for taking the time to read my story. I really do appreciate it :P. Welps actually to tell you the truth I'm actually, in writting, almost done with the story. I just haven't got the chance to type it and post it. But i'll get chapter 14 started so you can come back and start reading again heheheh please do and read often i'll be having lots more updates. I have my other story here too "Piecing a broken heart" if you wana read that while i'm trying to type chapter 14 hehehehhe. Still thankq very much for supporting me. It'll get me ta update faster hehe. I'm glad ta have you as another reader and hope that you'll come to support me too along with my other few readers I'm so happy!!!!


Note to Azgirl girl----)> Thanx girl for comming up ta check up on updates. Ur sucha sweetheart. You're actually the one who comes upon my story most of the time and you're actually what keeps me writting posting the story too. Gosta love yah for that heheheh I"ll have chapter 14 posted up soon be patients *smiles*

[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 14


It’s been two full weeks and Charleen kept her sprit high and refused to let any of her feelings slip. Otherwise, it would lead her deeper into sorrow. She suffered time after time when no one was around; she cried at times when the pain got out of control and she became weak. However, Charleen wasn’t going to let this puny little affection take over her. It was rather unnecessary to let her best friend and her mother watch her hurt like that. Hiding it away was the way to tell them they shouldn’t worry and she pretended she didn’t care.

“Honey, how have you been? You haven’t been talking for the longest time. You really got to start talking again sweet heart.”

Charleen beamed over to her mother, who was standing by her doorway to her room. “Mom, you’re so silly. Please, don’t worry about me. I’ve just been quiet because I’ve been concentrating on my future, that’s all.”

Mrs. Vophaski smiled hesitantly and walked into Charleen’s room. She made herself comfortable in the loveseat in front of Charleen. “Well, that’s good to hear that you’re trying hard and concentrating on your future. What do you see yourself as huh?”

“An inspiring model for a huge agency. That’s why I’m trying to get into Beauxotic. They are actually scouting for models. I went to audition the other day, seemed pretty interesting. A girl told me that I should really consider myself to become a model and I really am going take the chance and consider that. I mean, I actually think I’ll do a good job at it don’t you think? I mean I’m experienced.”

“Yes of course dear. No matter what you do, your mother is at full support.” Her mother’s expression went soft and supporting, yet there was still that uncertain look on her face like something was still concerning her.

Charleen nodded and a happy smile crossed her face. She had figured what her mother’s real concern is so she just had to blurt it out. “Mom, if you think I’m not talking because of Ethon then you’re wrong. I’m over it. I guess it was just a like-like thing you know. It’s not a big deal, really.”

“Alright dear. I believe you. At least you’re starting to make sense. Anyways, breakfast is ready. Come and eat.”

“Yup, I’ll be out in just a moment.” Charleen’s smile soon faded as she watched her mother’s back fading away from her sight. Slowly, she looked down to the spot her mother had sat and found a feather. Just as soon as Charleen saw the soft-like white feather just lying freely on the loveseat, she got up and she picked it up. Studying it, it had been the feather that fell from the dove when she was outside with Ethon the night before he left. She wondered why her mother had a hold of it or how did it got there?

“Mother, where did you find this?” Charleen stated as she walks out of her room and to the kitchen.

“Oh I actually found it when I was doing your laundry yesterday. I was going to throw it away but I thought it looked so beautiful that I just couldn’t. Why, where did it come from do you know?” Mrs. Vophaski arched one of her eyebrows, confusedly.

Charleen dazed off into her train of thoughts and didn’t reply. She thought about that one sweet night with Ethon. Watching the dove fly so freely into the sky from Ethon’s palms and how wonderful she felt at just having his presence around her. The hurt she was now feeling was like a brush of love that filled her heart again from all the darkness. Shortly, the dark side of Charleen had pushed itself through and she was convinced once more that Ethon was a liar and he didn’t love her. So then her face darkened into a scowl and she fisted the feather in her grip.

“Honey? Did you hear me?”

“Oh mom. Sorry, um…well….it’s really nothing.”

Mrs. Vophaski squinted and came forth from the kitchen. Before she could get any closer, Charleen stepped a few step back and changed the subject. “A-hem, mom, lets eat alright.” She quickly tucked the feather into her back jean pocket and took her mother’s arm. Mrs. Vophaski smiled and ignored it. She wasn’t too worried because she knew if there were anything her daughter would at least tell her. Must not have been that important.

“Whoa, good thing that hurricane didn’t come directly to us. Or else we would’ve been screwed pretty bad.”

“Yeah I know. I’m glad we just had a wild storm.”

The hurricane did cross Tokyo but just enough to cause some damages to the houses, cause some power outage, yet not enough to cause any major disaster. Tokyo was actually blessed that hurricane Gwein had made its way past them and everyone was all right.

A gap of silence came between the two and out of nowhere Mrs. Vophaski asked, “Honey, I’ve been wondering why haven’t the phone rang. We haven’t gotten a call since we’ve live here. Could there be something wrong with our phone?”

Charleen froze for a moment as she gathered her thoughts quickly. She tittered and shoved more food into her mouth. After a few seconds of chewing, she swallowed it and smiled. “I really don’t know mom. Maybe the service was never opened.”

“No honey, I don’t think that’s right. How come Ethon was able to leave that message for you the day he left?”

“I don’t know mom. Maybe it was magic.” She hesitated and drank her glass of water.

“Honey, come on what’s going on?” Mrs. Vophaski’s intuition was telling her that Charleen had disconnected the phone line because she didn’t want to hear from Ethon. “Are you hiding something from me?” she crossed her arms, “I hope not,” glaring at Charleen.

“We don’t need a phone mom.” Charleen ignored the glare from her mother.

“Well we can use it for emergency you see…”

“Mom, please. I don’t want a phone and did I just say we didn’t need one?”

“Charleen, what if we miss someone’s very important phone calls?”

“Yeah, like who?”

“Like…Like…” Mrs. Vophaski just had to think for a moment. “Like your calls from the model agencies. Yeah that’s it.”

Instantly that hit Charleen and she looked up immediately. “Oh yeah mom, you’re right! Oh my gosh I should’ve remembered. Urg, fine I’ll connect it.”

“Honey, you’ve got to learn to think before you do anything okay.”

Charleen rolled her eyes and she had a real hard time trying to connect the phone line. For some reason, she had this feeling that right when she plugs it in; she was going to get a phone call. At not even guessing who it was, she could already predict.

“Charleen, come on already plug it in would yah.” Her mom waited aside of her impatiently.

In…in….in….and she plugged it and winced, hoping the phone wouldn’t ring.

“And how bad was that?” Charleen’s mother asked and rolled her eyes.

Charleen let out a sigh of relief and got up from her knee. “Mom….”

“Yeah?”

“If E—,”

“Yeah I know honey. If Ethon calls tell him you’re working.”

Blinking a few times as she watched her mom cleaned the table. She chuckled to herself and placed her gaze in nothing particular. Soon after, she was scowling to herself. While scowling, out of nowhere and unprepared, Charleen was knocked out of her thoughts.

*Ring *Ring (The phone finally rang)

Just as Charleen thought before, she was right! The phone had ringed. Her mother tilted her head towards Charleen and both of them just froze there staring at each other.

“Ring *Ring *Ring *Ring (Phone just kept on ringing.)

“Sweetheart, aren’t you going to pick that up?”

Charleen just stood there not being able to move. She was tempted so badly to go and pick it up but at the same time what if it was ETHON. What in the heck was she going to say and what was going to be her excuse why he couldn’t get a hold of her for a whole 2 weeks?

Walking over slowly and nervously.

*Ring *Ring *Ring *Ring

She stopped to think. ‘Yes, caller I.D dah!’ she thought. With that, she made her move faster and glanced over to the I.D. “Sh!t! PRIVATE?” she cursed. Oh what to do. What to do?

“Come on sweetie pick up!”

She sighed. “Okay mom.”

*Ring R—* “Heh…Hel..lo?

“Hello, This is Ms. Fuji calling from Beauxotic Model Search. Is Charleen Vophaski in please?”

Yes! And it wasn’t Ethon. Quickly Charleen got her acts put together at once and answered. “Yes ma’am, this is Charleen speaking can I help you?”

“Yes Ms. Vophaski. I was calling you today on behalf of Beauxotic. We had a model scout several weeks ago and remember when you came in for an audition?”

A month ago Charleen saw an ad in the newspaper and saw that Beauxotic was doing a model search. She went in the first time for an audition and it had taken them several weeks to get back to her. The day Ethon left, she was called early that morning to go at about 3pm for the first interview and now must’ve been the final interview of acceptance.

“Um, Yes I do actually.” Charleen gulped.

“Well, I’m calling because the president had asked for a personal interview today. We feel that you've got what it takes to accomplish our work this summer so we are hoping you would be able to attend. I made reviews on your modeling history and I am quite splendid with your type of work. Does three o’clock this afternoon work for you again?”

Charleen was SHOCKED! She was selected for a personal interview with the President of Beauxotic! How exciting is that!

“Yeah, that sounds great. I’ll be there then.”

“Alright. Thank you for the time and we are looking forward in having you as a part of us then. See you later on this afternoon then Ms. Vophaski.”

“Alright thank you. Good-bye.” *click phone hung up*

“Oh my gosh MOM!!!! I LOVE YOU! This is going to be so fun!” Charleen exclaimed as she jumped up and down and hugged her mom back and forth.

“Whoa, honey honey, you haven’t even told me the news yet dear.”

Gulping and catching her breath. “Mom, you wouldn’t believe it! They’ve selected me to be one of Beauxotic’s models for this summers hottest fashion show. How cool is that?”

“Oh my gosh honey! I’m so happy for you! Congratulations!”

“Thank you mom, thank you so much! If you hadn’t told me to pick up that phone, I wouldn’t be as lucky as right now mom! THANK YOU!”


Shine inhaled deeply and she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “Get out of here! They selected you?”

Charleen nodded and twirled around. Shine giggled with Charleen and enjoyed the same excitement.

Shine caught her breath and asked, “So when will this be held?”

“I’m not sure. I’m going in for a person interview with the president of Beauxotic at 3 today. Therefore, I am sure they will go over that with me. I’ll tell you all about it when I get back.”

“Wow, so only a year of experience had got you all into this, how amazing.” Shine commented excitedly.

“Yeah, I modeled last year for this luxurious clothing store in the mall and got lots of compliments. I just never really thought I could get myself any where with it so that was part of the reason why I stopped modeling for them. Anyways, I am back into the field so I’m going to do what ever it takes to satisfy my desire.

“That’s the spirit girl!” Shine agreed joyfully. The girls both grabbed their books from their lockers and proceeded their own ways to class.

“See you at lunch alright.” Charleen waved.

“Good luck on the exams.”

“Thanks, I need that.”



-------------------------While in Seoul with Ethon

“Naree, please I need time alone.” Ethon demanded.

“Ethon, I was told you weren’t feeling well. I just thought I bring you some food that’s all.” Naree answered.

“Yes, that’s right. Why do you think I need to be alone?” he glared, trying hard not to yell.

Naree saw Ethon’s angry glare and finally let the phrase register in her brain. “Oh um, okay fine. Call me when you need me then.”

Ethon let out a frustrating sigh and turned around, facing his big office window. Looking down into the view of downtown Seoul, Ethon had a big frown across his face. The thought of Charleen in the back of his head was starting to bother him again. He had left Charleen back in Tokyo without saying good-bye and when he left his message, it was never returned. Since then, he called and called but it kept on ringing and ringing. Ethon was tempted many times to just fly back to Tokyo so he could go find out for himself what seemed to be the problem. He was worried, frustrated, and disappointed at the same time. Knowing that the hurricane had crossed a bit by Tokyo, he was even more concern. He wasn't sure if she was ignoring him intentionally or if the hurricane had caused the lines to go out. Hoping for the best, he was soon going to find out one way or the other.

Naree on the other hand, knew much about Charleen because Ethon had always talked about her. At times, she felt bad because he had to leave her. Sometimes she envies the girl; for how Ethon misses and adore her. Naree and Ethon had been friends ever since small when they were growing up in Seoul. Soon after, she worked for his mother at the company while Ethon was away in Tokyo. When Ethon came to take charge for the time being, she was saved from the lost of her job but at the same time, she had felt a bit attracted to him and wished he never met Charleen.


End of Chapter 14

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Apr 9 2006, 12:14 AM

[dreydle]

wahh!!! so good!!! continue continue =D

[AzNgIrL]

Aww..Poor Ethon.. =|

[StarWish]

Woahhhh. Chapter 15. Woahhh Fastttt. 2 hihihih

[tofuG]

this is one of the best stories ever! so touching.... with beautiful portrayal of emotions, keep up the good work Syco_chinesea!

(you just received your 1st fan )

This post has been edited by tofuG: Dec 17 2005, 12:59 PM

[StarWish]

Woahh, can`t wait any longer, u finish with chapter 15!!

Hihihi