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[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 15


“Shine! Com’on girl it was only a joke. It’s a television thing.” Alex tried catching up to Shine’s pace.

“A joke? Ha! I’d be a fool if I let you hang on that one! I’m not the riches nor the most beautiful so don’t waste your time.” Shine shouted back not stopping.

Alex stopped as Shine past right by him. “Well you know what, I meant it! Suit yourself then, you’re not any good for me anyways.”

“Good! I never needed you in the first place! I was right, d@mn right! You’re a player and you know what? If you ever thought I had a thing for you, then you’re wrong. Go on ahead, go find you’re riches and most beautiful since I’m not suitable for you. I only felt bad for you that's why I hung around you that's all.” Shine instantly turned around forcing her tears in as her anger flashed through her eyes.

Alex was stunned by what Shine had just said but as prideful and stubborn as he was, he stood his place and replied with a smirk. “Hell yeah, I can get any girl in the world I want. You just watch! You’re not the only girl!”

It was rather too far away for Shine to even hear his response. Out of anger, he had told her he didn’t need her but for some reason, he felt a slight tangle that strangled his heart when the word slipped. He wasn’t sure if he needed her or not. Maybe it was just like those other girls he’s dated before; it won’t be long until he gets over her. Which, he hoped so….

He watched Shine’s image disappear down the hill and his smart look slowly turned into a scowl. ‘D@mnit.’ He cursed himself and kicked the tire of his car. ‘It was only a joke.’ He thought.

Shortly, a red Bmw had rolled past and a whole bunch of girls shouted, “We love you Alex!” The shout caused Alex to look up and stare off to the direction the car was going. Alex raised his hand as to wave and nodded.

Screaming and screaming Alex’s name the girls disappeared down the hill also and he turned around. A smile crossed his face and he was satisfied. He had all the girls he wanted and he didn’t need a girl like Shine to take that away from him. As lifting his head up to think more a loud screech from down the hill caused him to wince. ‘What the h3ll was that?’ he thought.

Out of nowhere, he suddenly heard the voice of the girls screaming and screaming again but this time it was terrifying screams instead of cheerful screams.

Usually he didn’t care for things like that but he had a really bad feeling about it so he closed the door of his car and instantly rushed over to where the shouting and screaming came from.

Running and running Alex was much too concern to even take a breath. As approaching closer to the scene, it had looked like there had been an accident. With the same car that past him before. People were gathering around and he couldn’t identify whom it was that they were gathering around. When he finally got there, he pushed, shoved, screamed ‘get out of the way’ as making his way. His heart was pounding for some reason and he couldn’t understand why it did. Gasping for air, he soon came to a stop. The body that laid infront of him, full of blood and shattered pieces of glass all over her was Shine.

“OH MY GOD!” his voice trembled and he bit his lips. Clenching and unclenching, he gave the deadliest glare to whom ever caused this accident. Regardless of the broken glass pieces that could cut through him, he instantly dropped down to his knees and embraced her.

The girls in the car before were just at the point of coming out of their senses. “Ah! What the heck did we just do?” one girl cried as she saw the body aside of the car.

“Oh my god! Oh my god! Tell me I didn’t just kill someone!” The driver screamed with shock in her eyes. She had ran into a body and what consequences was she to face now?

“Call 911, we need an ambulance!” A person from the crowd shouted.

“Shine! Com’on girl wake up, please…..” Alex held Shine against his shivering body. The shock upon him had caused his body to weaken as if his strength had been drain out of him.

Not even a full two minute had past; Alex groaned aloud and lifted Shine up. He couldn’t wait any longer. He couldn’t bare to stand Shine in torture of the broken glasses all over her. “Forget the ambulance, I’ll take her.”

At full speed, he drove crazily. Every 5 seconds he would stare over to see if she was to open her eyes. For some reason, he didn’t feel as if he cared for her but he felt wetness all over his face. Therefore, he found that he was drowning himself in tears and the tears wouldn’t stop. “Com’on girl, please….can’t you hear me…I’m sorry…I’m sorry.” He was regretful to have left her go by herself. If he knew this was guna happened he would’ve kept at it walking aside of her and this would have never occurred.

They came to a red light stop, which made Alex even angrier. Right when he had to stop for the red light, he instantly punched the steering wheel. Thinking and thinking as quickly as he could he then made a right turn and decided to take another way. “Hang in there baby, you’re guna be alright.”

*Ring Ring* (Alex’s phone rang)

“What!” He yelled into the phone.

“Oh, is this Alex?” Ethon’s voice came on the line. Before Ethon could continue asking questions, Alex barged in. “Look Ethon, I have to go. I’ll call you later.”

“What? What’s gone into you?” Ethon couldn’t come to conclude why his friend was acting in that manner.

“……………..” Alex stared over to Shine and she still hadn’t woken up yet.

“Hey, what’s going on?” Ethon asked concerned. “Dude, there’s something wrong…”

“D@mnit Ethon!” The curse caused Ethon to wince. “What the H3ll am I to do?”

“Do what Alex? Calm down man. Tell me…what happened?”

“I don’t want her to die….” Alex’s voice trailed off.

“What! Who to die?” For a second there he thought it was Charleen. “Who? Who?” His voice became demanding to know who it was.

“Shine…she got into a car accident….a car hit her…”

“Alex, calm down. How did this happen, is she alright?”

“She’s all covered with blood and glass.”

“Sh!t, take her to the hospital and call me as soon as you get her there alright?”

Alex nodded and without even saying good-bye, he hung up. Staring over to Shine, he held out his right hand to brush off the glass and hair away from her face. “You’re guna be alright…I promise.” He whispered and controlled his breathing.

When Ethon hung up with Alex, he dialed Charleen’s number right away. Ringing and ringing there was no pick up. “D@mnit Charleen, what the heck is wrong with you? Why the H3ll aren’t you picking up?” He let it ring and ring until the message machine answered. “Charleen, pick up would ya? Shine’s at the hospital, Alex just took her there. A car hit her and I think you should head over there as soon as you get this. I’m not understanding why I could never get a hold of you any more but…” Ethon paused for a moment and finally finished, “I miss you….call me…bye...”

Ten minutes later Charleen walked into her room, noticing the blinking message button. After listening to the message, without even a moment of thought, she raced out the door.

An hour had past since they got to the hospital. Alex waited in the waiting room and the whole time he couldn’t sit. He walked back and forth biting in and out on his lips.

“Alex!” A familiar voice came through when the door swung open.

Quickly, Alex turned his attention to who had called his name.

“Charleen…..” His face was pale and hopeless. “I….I didn’t mean to let…” He lost the words when he saw the expression on Charleen’s face.

Waiting a full two seconds to see what else Alex had to say Charleen finally answered, “What did you do?”

“………..” Alex gazed at Charleen not knowing what to say. Since he had let Shine get into this situation, he knew Charleen was never ever guna forgive him. “I…”

“Tell me….what happened?” Charleen came forth into his face. “You caused this didn’t you?”

“What? I caused this?” At first Alex thought Charleen was not guna forgive him for not watching after her best friend but now she’s accusing him of hurting her? “No, you’re getting it wrong. I’m not the one who hit her if that’s what you’re thinking.”

“Oh yeah? Then who did?”

“Why are you accusing me?”

“Either way, even if you didn’t hurt her physically…you put her through h3ll. Is this enough for you now? Huh?” With that, Charleen left Alex shaking in anger. He was angry that she had accused him of hurting Shine and the other half, hated himself for hurting Shine’s feelings and causing her pain.

They never really gone through the state of DATING but they were fairly close enough to be. Since the day the met, everything went fine. Only fine until that one day with the interview about his love life. He had said the wrong thing and he truly regretted it. Why did he say that? To look good or feel good? What on earth was he thinking? He should’ve thought twice about responding to the question, he hadn’t realized Shine would be watching him on television.

Charleen, on the other hand, didn’t mean to accuse Alex but she was disappointed in him for hurting her best friend. She had experienced what she assumed Ethon had caused her and by seeing how Alex treats her best friend, made her even angrier. At not thinking twice, she assumed Ethon was exactly like Alex. Full of girls, fame, and wealth who had no awareness of anyone. Doing what ever they want and in whichever way the felt.

On television, Charleen had experience lots of Alex’s girlfriends that hung all over him. She knew her best friend loved Alex for all that her heart could give but in return, she received tortured. Alex even said himself on television when he was interviewed about his love life, that a girl that could be his girlfriend would be the riches and the most beautiful and he didn’t care for anyone who’s at a lower class. Shine was the beautiful, but not the riches. Therefore, was that the reason why she was being treated so poorly? She practically has to clean his shoes for G@d sake! The thought skipped through Charleen’s mind and as thinking about it, it made her grind her teeth. Men, they were full of Sh!t. They lie to make a girl love them and in return…a broken heart gets kicked back into their face.


End of Chapter 15

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Dec 20 2005, 12:13 AM

[StarWish]

Woowwww. Make me wanna read the ending now. Hihi
Anyways, how many chapter is it left?
U finish with chapter 16?

[AzNgIrL]

Awwh..Poor Shine..And daym you Charleen Pick up the daym phone!!

[Syco_chinka]

Woowwww.  Make me wanna read the ending now. Hihi
Anyways, how many chapter is it left?
U finish with chapter 16?

hehe thanx for the response. Welps I'm only almost done with the story so I'm not sure how many chapters I'm guna end up with. Right now I'm writting chapter 20 so you guys are really catching up to me hehehehe I haven't got the time to think of my ending yet. What kinda ending would you like? HAHAHHAHA I'll take some opinions hehehe. The upcomming chapters will mostly focus back on the main characters again; Charleen and Ethon. Some obsticles here and there but I'll try my best to make it romantic. Any ways, sorry but (to all my readers) How do you think this story had come along? Do you have any suggestions of changing any thing? or is there any thing you wana complain about? I mean it'll just give me a better idea on what to focus on writting. Please do reply me I'm guna be waiting to hear from yahs alright. Love yahs! Keep comming ta visit alright.

I'll get chapter 16 and 17 posted soon

[AzNgIrL]

There's nothing to complain about!! >:] You're a great writer. In the ending, I'd like to see Ethon come back and Charleen "forgive" Ethon..Haha..All I have to say is..Don't end it so soon =] And let it have a good ending. Marriage!!

This post has been edited by AzNgIrL: Dec 20 2005, 09:25 PM

[dreydle]

IT'S STILL AWEESOME!!!! love it!!! ROFL!!! azngirl...marriage?? come on!!! maybe tragedy?? hehehe, o wellz...u're the writer syco_chineseA!!! it's ur story! i'm sure we'll love watever ending u give it!!!
keep it up!!! go go!!! awesome sotyr!!! neways!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! =)

[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 16

“Shine….” Charleen entered the room and saw her best friend. “Girl, you alright?” she rushed herself to Shine’s side and held her hands.

“Charleen…how did I get here?” Shine struggled out of her blurry senses and managed to answer. “Where am I?”

“You’re at the hospital….you’ll be fine…”

“What? Who took me here?”

“……….” Pausing to take a breath, Charleen sighed and answered as squeezing Shine’s hand. “Alex….”

“Alex? You mean….Alex Kei?”

“Yep, he took you here alright. He’s still in the waiting room. I think he feels terrible.”

With all the strength, Shine forced herself to get out of bed.

“No..no..no..” Charleen grabbed a hold of Shine to stop her knowing she was too weak to even get up. “You can’t go any where yet. You’re too weak…”

“No, I wana see Alex. I just wana say thank you to him…please let me go…” Shine begged.

“Shine, I’m telling you…you can’t…the doctors aren’t guna let you trust me.”

“I don’t care, I wana see Alex…please Charleen…..please…” Her eyes never begged before but when Charleen stared into those eyes of her best friend, it was love….she wasn’t guna let anything get in her way…

Before Shine could get to the door, tottering over, one of the nurses walked in. “Oh my, where do you wana go? You do understand that you’re not supposed to be outa bed right?”

“I wana go to the waiting room.” Shine demanded.

The nurse stared at her weirdly wondering and soon she snapped out of it. “Alright, um…why, is there someone waiting for you?”

Shine nodded, her face pale and her dried lips made her look so drained out. As if, the living soul in here was washed out of her. She made her move, and at just a step, she lost her balance and held onto the open door and the nurse’s arm. “Ma’am, I’m sorry but you can’t leave this room. Not like this…”

“I don’t care! Alex…let me go to Alex…” She tried to yell but her voice faded hurting her throat. “I just wana say thank you…that’s all….please…”

“No, you can’t…Ma’am I’m sorry…” the nurse blocked the door way and soon after two more nurses came in.

“Ma’am as Nurse Riko told you, you can’t leave you’re room. You need to get more rest.” One of the other nurses took a hold of Shine’s arms.

“No! Let me go! Get off of me!” Instantly, Shine snapped and she started struggling wildly. D@mn!t, what the heck is so hard about letting me go to the waiting room. I said...LET ME GO!”

Charleen stood there watching; too shock to know what to do. She watched Shine as she went crazy and started kicking and pushing. Charleen’s hand slowly rose up to cover her mouth and she couldn’t help but started crying. It was her friend; she had to help her. With the quick thought, Charleen leaped over and pushed the two nurses aside. “Get the h3ck off of her! If she wants to go the waiting room let her go, G0dd@mit!” The nurse stopped and glared over to Charleen.

“Look lady, if any thing happens, we’re guna get in trouble from this.”

“Nothing’s guna happen. Please…let her go…”

“No, we can’t Ma’am you gota understand…” The nurse got cut off when she noticed Shine had already gone out of their sight. “Sh!t, she’s gone!”

Running and running Shine had already made it down the second floor and now she was trying to find her way to the first floor where the waiting room was.

“Com’on…com’on…..” She hustled as looking back and forth, making sure no one was following her.

“There she is!” One of the nurses turned a corner infront of her and charged directly her way.

“Sh!t!” Shine cursed aloud. As attempting to turn back, she spotted a figure behind the nurse, which had appeared to be the person she urged to see. “Alex.” Her eyes grew wider by the minute. “Alex!” she screamed using all her strength but it seemed as if it wasn’t loud enough. He didn’t hear her. She felt her throat hurting painfully and her vision was beginning to blur.

“Alex!” Shine finally took a big breath and before loosing her conscious, she shouted one last time as loud as she could.

This time Alex heard her. He was actually on his way to go up to see her but when he heard her scream his name, by the time he turned to face her, she had already collapsed to the ground.

“Shine!” He raced his heart to her and grabbed her into his arms. “Who the heck let her out of her room?” Alex yelled aloud to the nurses around them. “Com’on we needa get her back up to her room,” he demanded.

Gasping for air, Charleen made her slide around the corner and finally spotted the figure that looked as if he was caring Shine. She ran quickly to his side and asked, “Alex, did she black out?”

Alex nodded and kept his head high. “We’re getting her back in her room. How did she get out?”

“She kinda….” Charleen sighed and soon answered. “She just kinda escaped.”

“Why? Why would she do that, how stupid.”

“You wana know why? And it wasn’t’ stupid actually if you knew the reason.”

“I’ll listen to the reason later.” They finally approached the room and Alex let the doctors get at it with their job. He stepped a few step back and watched helplessly.

“Mr. Kei, Miss Fuduwoo is going to need plenty of rest. Her body is too weak to even walk a step. I suggest next time, if she wanted some fresh air, to assist her with a wheel chair please.” The doctor came out to speak.

“How long is she going to be unconscious?”

“When I say plenty of rest that usually means a full 12 hours of sleep.”

“Alright then.” Alex answered and stared over to Charleen with concern slapped all over his face. “It’s all my fault….” He shoved himself back against the wall and ran his fingers through his hair. “I’m sorry Charleen. I’m the worst person ever…..if only I could disappear forever…”

“No, don’t say that….she past out because she must’ve used all her strength to come find you…” Charleen finally told.

“What?” Alex forced himself from the leaning and scowled over to Charleen. He just hada hear it one more time. He thought she hated him and never wanted to see him again.

“She wanted to say thank you….” Charleen managed a slight smile and placed her hands on his shoulders. “That just tells you how far she’s willing go, just for you. You saved her life so in return; she wanted to thank you…”


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Chapter 17

The whole night Alex sat aside of Shine and gazed at her, unwillingly to let go of her hands. Alex squeezed her hands and rubbed it when he felt the coldness among it. Her face was colorless, and the shattered glasses scared her chapped lips. Yet, her gorgeous face stayed the same. Maybe a few cuts on the cheekbones and a few scars on the chin but to Alex, she was still as beautiful.

“Shine….I can’t believe I was so stupid…. Dumb to let you out of my sight…” His voice trailed off. “This would’ve never happened….I’m sorry to let you down….I’m sorry for hurting you…and I’m sorry for that God gave you to me…and all I did was put you through H3ll. You know, maybe Charleen was right. I’ve put you through h3ll, I don’t deserve you….especially a love like yours.” Tears started forming in his eyes and he could feel his whole body going out of control. It started shaking intensively, and by the time he knew, he was already drowning himself in tears.

“Here, have some food…” Charleen was soon at his side and she handed him a cup of noodles. “How’s she doing?...”

“……..” Alex nodded slowly as if hope was gone for him. He knew Shine was guna come back to her senses but it already felt to him as if it was eternity because he couldn’t hear her sweet voice. “The doctor said she needs 12 hours of sleep, it’s only been 7 hours.” He stared over to the time. Unfortunately, Alex had been keeping track of the time since the doctor told him that.

Charleen studied Alex’s face and hoped it wasn’t fake. Nevertheless, it was rather difficult to indicate the true intentions of a man. They may look as if they mean the world to a girl but it’s a completely different story when it comes down to showing it. For some reason, as staring off into the eyes of Alex, it seemed as if he let a whole big part of him down. The pride he had in himself had out of nowhere disappeared and she could now clearly see the true side of him. Charleen was sure Alex was in no condition to fake his sympathy for her best friend. It was just too hard to believe he was playing. By the time he ignored all his business calls by turning off his cell phone and not willing to eat for a whole 7 hours was way off the hook. Maybe he never seemed like the kind to admit his love to her but when it comes down to the point of loosing her, he’d take the chance to let everything go, just for her.

‘I guess this is love….love makes you do the things you never think you’d do.’ Charleen thought deep into her own state. ‘Love can fill a person’s heart with happiness but love makes a person sick….sick to the point of suffering…..especially when it came to the person who snatched your heart away.’ Gazing away in her own train of thoughts, she gave in a chuckle and stared to the ceiling. How she misses Ethon’s presence around her. To feel his warmth and to feel his touch. Now, she felt left behind and alone. Why did he have to leave her in such a short time, when she was just about to fall in love with him? Wait, she must’ve already fallen in love with him. It must be the reason why her heart fluttered every time she thought about him. Him and his attractive smile, that caused her heart to drop to the bottom of her tummy. The way he never wanted to part from her when they were close and he’d never let go of her hands. Replaying her thoughts and feelings, her thoughts disappeared suddenly when she heard Shine’s voice.

“Shine!” Charleen’s eyes went round and she quickly crouched down to give a hug. “Oh gosh girl, I’m so happy to see that you’re finally awake.”

“Rest….please you’re still too weak.” Alex suggested. He still hadn’t let go of Shine’s hand yet.

“No, I’m alright now. I think I’ve slept too long. My headache went away so I’m all better now.”

Alex nodded but the expression on his face was uncertain. He was afraid that she was only pretending and she wasn’t well yet. For some reason he just couldn’t put a happy smile on his face. Instead, out of nowhere, while Shine was still talking with Charleen, he instantly pulled Shine into his arms and stood there in silence. Shine too, just stood there speechless. She wasn’t sure what had gone into him, but she’s never felt his heart beat the way it did as she listened to it thump. The beat of his heart seemed to have tripled and her heart tangled leaving her to tighten her grip on his shirt.

Charleen on the other hand, went shocked for a moment and soon after, she beamed over to the two and took a sigh. “I’ll leave you two alone.” She winked at Shine and excused herself out.

While just at the point of closing the door behind her, the doorknob was unexpectedly pulled from her grasp and Alex stood there facing her.

Charleen stared at him in confusion and her eyebrows lifted. “Is there something the matter?” She soon caught Shine in back giving her a look, telling her to look at his hand.

“Someone’s on the phone for you….”

“Who?”

“Just take it. I’m sure you know who it is. You’ve been dodging his calls for the past few weeks now.” Alex smirked.

‘Ethon…’ Charleen finally came to her senses. Staring back at Shine again to see what Shine’s suggestion should be, she nodded and put two thumbs up. With a frown that flushed upon her face, she scowled to herself as if to decided whether she wanted to hear Ethon’s voice or not. By this time, her heart was already aching wildly for him but a part of her didn’t wana hear from him at all. She was almost over the assumption that he was never coming back to her and he must’ve found somebody else so why waste her time. One side of her told her Ethon must’ve just felt pity for her that’s why he just wanted to play around with her but a tiny bit of her told her she missed Ethon to death and she was longing for his call but for some reason why was she really avoiding him? Debating and debating, Charleen was interrupted by the voice in the phone. She didn’t hear it too well but she knew it was Ethon.

“Charleen...Charleen! Just take the phone!” He screamed.

Charleen winced and placed her helpless gaze up to Alex. “Um, here…take it…he really wants to speak with you….” Alex took Charleen’s hand and forced her to take the phone.

After a few seconds, Charleen finally opened her mouth to start speaking but for some reason she was having quite a difficult time finding her words. She opened her mouth and before she could say anything, a voice from the other line caused her to hold her breath.

“Ethon? You in here?.....Gosh I was looking all over for you. I thought we were suppose to be catching dinner tonight?”

“Naree, look I’m busy tonight it’s not the night. Please, I’m still on the phone.”

As listening closely, Charleen just had to assume what was going on. It was obviously at least. “Um…you can go on to dinner with her. I knew for a fact you’d forget me Ethon.”

Stunned by what Charleen had just stated Ethon forced the phone against his ear and defended, “No, Charleen, it’s not what you think. Naree and I are—,”

“I don’t give what the heck you two are. All I care about is that you’re happy. Living a happy life and smiling like you always do. I’m glad you found someone that loves you an cares for you. You and I were just in the past. We were just friends weren’t we?”

“Charleen….I—,”

“We had nothing….we…we were just friends.”

“No! You’re wrong Charleen! I never wanted to be your friend!”

“You what?”

“I said I never wanted to be your friend.” Ethon calmed his voice. It was rather hard for him to tell her the truth, his true intentions. He wanted to be the love of her life and her protector. To love and adore her no matter what the situation was. He felt the tension rising and he knew exactly what Charleen was thinking. So before Charleen could say a word, he barged in quickly to finish his lines. “Because you’re the one I love. If I was to let you be my friend it would be like throwing away everything we had…..”

Charleen tried very hard to take in all the information Ethon had just said and tried pushing her previous thoughts away. Before, she opened her mouth wanting to tell him she never wanted to be friends too but he already wiped away her words. On second thought, she also wanted to tell him she loved him with her whole heart and is still each and every day waiting for the day he’ll be back but her pride was there and she didn’t want to make her self played as a fool again. He must’ve pity her knowing she had to watch him on television, enjoying the fun he’s been having.

“Shut up! You’re a liar and you’re just covering up for yourself since you know what you’ve put me through.” Without a moment of thought, she yelled into the phone and closed it shut.

“What? Charleen? Charleen? CHARLEEN!” Ethon yelled also into the phone but it was dead air and soon the dialer tone come on. ‘Sh!t’ Ethon cursed beneath his breath. Instantly, as quickly as he could he speed dialed back to Alex’s phone hoping that Charleen would pick up. “Charleen? Why did you hang up on me?” He demanded but then found out Alex’s voice had came on the line again.

“Ethon? Sorry man, she’s already gone.”

“Alex, where did she go?”

“No idea dude. I think you disappointed her.”

“Go find her! You just guna stay there?” At this point, Ethon was angry as ever. He was upset Charleen hadn’t let him speak a single word and she didn’t even give him a chance to speak his heart. She had to jump to conclusion and left him heavy hearted.

“Iono man, but all sudden I heard her screaming in the hallway and when I came to check up on her she just threw me the phone and stumped out. Who the heck knows what got into her or what you did to her.” Alex couldn’t help but chuckled.

Ethon groaned aloud and soon after tried calming his anger. “Fine. I’ll come and settle things down myself. I’ll see you in a few days.”

“Whoa, you for serious man? Just make sure you don’t do anything else stupid.”

“Yeah, whatever.” With that, Ethon shut the phone and let out a frustrating sigh. He ran his fingers through his thin hair and rubbed his face. Why does he feel like a piece of his heart is missing and what did he do to make her so mad? Talking about being on television, yeah he had his arms around his models but that didn’t mean anything. It was only for the cameras. Deep inside he was as sick as a dying plant that had neither light nor any water to live on. The happiness inside of him had been kept away from him and he longed for it again. The day he was going to feel that happiness again was the day he holds Charleen in his arms again.

Naree went speechless after witnessing the flame across Ethon’s face. “Did I cause you trouble?”

“No, just give me some space please.” His fingers rested among his chin as he sat thinking hard into his thoughts, refusing to face his attention towards anyone.

“Alright. I’m sorry if I did anything wrong Mr. Sangwa.” Naree bowed and stepped out, closing the door behind her. It was true that they were suppose to go out to dinner that evening but now it felt as if the night was off. The dinner was just suppose to be a friendly like dinner. Naree had made the suggestion because since she felt they’ve been working pretty hard that whole week, they should go out on a dinner at the end of the week. Ethon had seemed to be fine with it a while ago but something must’ve gone wrong and therefore, he changed his mind. Naree took a big sigh and shook the thought out of her head. Before turning the corner she then heard Ethon’s voice.

“Naree! Hey wait up.” Ethon hustle directly towards her through his office and swung his business jacket around him. Wrapping one of his arms around both her shoulders, he caught his breath and walked with her. “Let’s go out to dinner. I’m hungry.”

Naree went surprised and kept her gaze at Ethon. She had noticed that right after he placed his arms around her his smile faded. “Are you sure this is a good time?”

Ethon forced a fake smile again and beamed down to Naree. “Of course, why wouldn’t it be huh?”

“Well, I’m not too sure.” Naree shrugged and kept at it walking aside of Ethon.


End of Chapter 17

This post has been edited by Syco_chinka: Dec 29 2005, 08:59 AM

[AzNgIrL]

NOO!! Ethon...You better not dare do anything..Grrr...I will b!tch slap Naree if I have to..

~ I'm so happy for Alex and Shine though..I see many good things in the future

[Siks]

I love the story so far. I stumbled onto this site (and this thread) accidently... I'm glad I did. Can't wait to read the rest

-Khoa

[StarWish]

U finish with the next chapter. Sorry for asking all the time. hihi

[AzNgIrL]

^ It's okay. I really want her to be done 2 But take your time =]

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HeHhe awww it's so sweet of you all to come and let me know you waiting HEHEHE sowwies I'm taking a while I'll get the next chapter typd up and posted by tomorrow. I've just been working and with christmas break and everything, I was rather busy so don't mind. I'll getcha all the updates I have. I'm actually very happy you all keepen up wid me. Makes me wana finish the story quick too lol. Welps just to letcha know, I thought about the ending and of course it would be more catchy if it was a sad ending...but I'm thinking of something else...Iono...that's for me to know..and yals the find out!!! LOL I'll keep yals posted aites Muajks! thanx for supporting me; really appreciate it. :P

[AzNgIrL]

Don't end it so soon! It's such a good story. Keep it going!!! xD

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U finish with the next chapter. Sorry for asking all the time. hihi 

no don't be sorry sweetie hEhehe I actually love it that you're keeping up with me; you and all my readers!!! heheh *winks* I love having feedbacks and even replies like this makes me wana make my story even more exciting hehehe

[Syco_chinka]

Don't end it so soon! It's such a good story. Keep it going!!! xD

Sweetcheeks, if you think I'm ending it soon, I'm really only a littlebit more than halfway LOL HAHAHAHHA I haven't even got my other chapters typed up yet! hahaha. There's lots more that'll be updated soon. I have some drama comming ya way so watch for it hehehe

[AzNgIrL]

Yay!! I can't wait!! Hehe..*holds onto seat*

[Syco_chinka]

Chapter 18



“Charleen honey, Ethon called before.” Mrs. Vophaski’s voice came about as Charleen made her entrance through the apartment.

“What?”

Her mother had to repeat herself once more; she cleared her throat. “Ethon, he just called a few minutes ago. I told him you were out.”

“Oh….” Charleen replied dully. “Next time if he calls, make sure you tell him not to ever call again.”

“What? Why would I tell him that? Wouldn’t that just be too mean?”

“No, that’s not mean at all mom. I told you, I don’t wana ever talk to him again. I’m sure I made it clear enough. He’s just full of headaches. I’ve got too much happening in my life right now. I don’t got anytime to stress about him.” Charleen helped set the table.

“Honey—,”

“Mom, please….”

Mrs. Vophaski stared off attempting to say something but she was interrupted by Charleen’s sharp glare. She knew that when it came to anything dealing with Ethon, her mom always wanted to talk her into forgiving him but it wasn’t that she didn’t forgive Ethon. She just wanted to do what was best for her. To forget about him and let the past lay behind. Thinking about it was just rather too hard for her. Every time she thought about Ethon, it made her heart heavy as if a sharp hook had pierced through the bottom of it, causing her go weak. At times, she missed Ethon so much that she’d cry herself to sleep.

Hearing Ethon’s voice made her day. However, she purposely jumped to conclusion so she could hang up on him. Charleen didn’t care much about the voice behind Ethon. For some reason, her intuition tells her Ethon only loves her but her stubbornness was keeping her from believing that he only loves her. She knew that if she dares to even talk more with Ethon, she‘d burst out crying; telling him how much she misses and loved him. Her pride always won her over and the day she was guna tell him she loved and miss him was guna be the day he comes back for her. Which felt like, never? Therefore, since it felt like never to her, mine as well forget the past and go on with life. Charleen has always kept her father’s words. “Life was too short to waste anytime. Leave the past in the past and look forward because you just might miss out on what’s ahead of you.”

“Honey? Aren’t you guna eat?” Charleen’s mother’s voice interfered with her thoughts.

“Huh?” She looked down to her plate of food. “Yeah, mMmm yum” She took a few spoons of her tofu soup.

Mrs. Vophaski stared into those eyes of Charleen’s and saw the glassiness in them. She heard a few sniffles that were beneath the breath and paused her eating.

“Charleen sweetie? What’s the matter?”

Charleen looked up from her plate of food and forced a smile. “What mom? (sniffs) What are you staring at? Tee-hee.” She took a bite of her green beans.

Her mother sighed and just kept on staring at her. “Nothing, but is there something you wana talk about huh?”

“……nothing…”

“Nothing? You sure about that?”

“Yeah mom, haha why? Do I look like I’m getting sick?”

Mrs. Vophaski stared concerned. “Um…I guess so…are you?”

“Yeah, I should be getting to bed now. I’m done eating. If I sleep, I’ll get better in the morning,” she frowned. It wasn’t that she was sick. She was entirely LOVE SICK! That’s what it was. Charleen got up from her seat, walked over to the sink, and rinsed her plate. Soon after, she came back out and put on an inward sigh. “Mom, sometimes you gota leave things to the past right?”

Her mother was clueless but nodded. She did have a brief idea of what Charleen meant though. “Yep, it depends on what it is though. I will tell you now that if it’s love, you can’t necessarily put it in the past because even if you do, when you come upon that person once again, it’s guna rise back into the presence. Love isn’t something you can control sometimes. It creeps up on you and makes you sick.”

‘GOOD POINT!’ A voice inside of Charleen just had to shout. A big smile crossed her face again and she hugged her mom. “Mom, thank you for always being there for me. Love you,” gives her mom a kiss, “Good night and sweet dreams see you tomorrow.”

“I love you too.” Before breaking the hug Charleen’s mother finally remembered. “Honey, a letter came through the mail for you this morning. Take a look at it. I think it’s from Beauxotic.”

“Oh yeah? Where is it?” Charleen excitedly broke the hug and searched around.

“Over there,” her mother pointed towards the shelves.

Charleen rushed over, eager to find out what the letter was going to say. Hastily, she ripped the envelope open and took out the letter.

As reading the letter, her eyes grew round with excitement. “Oh my gosh mom!”

“What? What Charleen, what does it say?” Her mother rushed over already enjoying the same excitement.

“It says gatherings for all selected contestant are invited to a banquet on June 10th and from there on they will go over the scheduling for all rehearsal dates and practices for the fashion show. Dress code is formal and they will also go over the information on dates leaving to Korea. Mom! This is going to be the best experience ever! I’m so excited!”

“That’s so great Charleen! Boy, am I so proud of you. My daughter.” Mrs. Vophaski gave Charleen a cheerful hug and kissed her on the forehead. “I knew you could do it.”

“I’m guna sleep well tonight.” Charleen stated before entering her room.

When Charleen closed the door behind her, she sat in silence and only happy thoughts crossed her mind. Out of nowhere, the thought of Ethon skipped in her mind. He was in Korea, and she knew that but hadn’t realize where she was going was where Ethon was. This made her even happier but at the same time brought butterflies in her tummy. It would definitely be a miracle if fate ever brought them to meet up in Korea. Who ever said fate couldn’t decide that?

Charleen then thought back to watching Ethon on television the other day and he mention something about Beauxotic’s fashion show too. This made her a bit confuse because Ethon never really explained to her what position he held. It was mostly that he just appeared on television all the time as people bragged about his fashion show that was coming up. Beauxotic was the agency that she was going to be modeling for but she remembered newscasts mentioning about a joint with Tokyo’s company and Seoul’s. ‘Could this be the same place?’ Charleen thought deeply as shiver’s crawled up her spine causing expression to go uncertain. There was absolutely no way! How could this be?

Instantly Charleen grabbed the phone to call Shine.

“Hello Fudowoo resident, good evening.” A pleasant voice answered.

“Hi Mrs. Fudawoo, it’s Charleen..um is Shine there?”

“Yes hi Charleen, how you doing this evening?”

“Oh, I’m doing good.”

“Hold on lemmeh go find her alright.”

“Alright.”

“Hello?” Shine came on the line.

“Shine! Alright, well um I’m totally confused.” Charleen caught her breath from breathing so fast.

“Um…okay…what’s the question? Go on I’m listening?”

“Okay, well you know the Beauxotic agency that I’m suppose to be modeling for this summer?” Charleen steadied her breathing. “Do they have the same agency in Seoul, Korea?”

“I….I um…not sure. I hear it all the time on television but that was only here in Tokyo. I’m sure there’s only one place. As far as I know, there used to be one with the same name in Korean but they recently changed it.”

“Really? To what? Do you know?”

“I really don’t’ know but something similar though why?”

“Well, remember when we saw the news the other day on television?”

“Uh..yeah and?”

“Didn’t they mention a joint with his company and Beauxotic?”

“I really don’t recall but possibly. Why you scared?” Shine couldn’t help but ask amusingly.

“NO! Not that.” Charleen denied quickly. Of course she was SCARED! Scared to face Ethon. What is it that fate had waiting for her? It’s not playing with her is it? If it is, it was working. She was excited and scared all at the same time. Excited to see Ethon again and scared to face him all at once. Boy was she mixed up!

“Yeah yea what ever girl.” Shine laughed out loud.

Charleen scowled hearing her friend’s laughter. “Any ways, could you do me a favor and find out from Alex. I mean they’re practically best friends” she quoted.

“Yeah sure thing. No problem.”

“Okay. Call me ASAP!”

“Yes Ma’am.”

With that, the girls hung up. Shine was excited to have a reason to call Alex. She quickly dialed his number and waited patiently.

On the last ring, Alex’s answering machine came on and just before she was going to leave a message for him, he picked up. “Hello, Alex speaking.”

“Alex!”

“Yeah? Shine?”

“Yeah, hi…h..h…” She just couldn’t find her way to say honey since they had broken up. She was used to calling Alex her honey and now she couldn’t any more. Quickly, she gather her thoughts together again and skipped that part. “Um Alex, question.”

“Yeah?” He was just about happy that she was going to call him honey but when she refused to, he frowned.

“Charleen wanted me to call and ask you a question.”

“I’m listening.” He tried keeping his voice calm but his heart thumped intensively. Just by hearing her voice made him tangle.

“About Ethon….”

“Yeah, of course he misses and loves her.” Alex rolled his eyes.

“No, not that.”

“Okay…then what?”

“What company does he work for?”

“Work for?” Alex couldn’t help but laughed aloud. “You kidding me? He doesn’t work for any one. People work for him.”

“Okay fine! What company does he own?”

“A fashion company why?”

“Well what’s the name in Korea?” Shine was starting to get irritated by the response to her questions. It was short and that annoyed her.

“Ethon’s Fashion Company of course.” Alex grinned knowing he was already getting her upset.

Shine groaned angrily and grinded her teeth. “Alex, I’m serious.”

“Well, I’m serious too.”

Shine calmed the tone of her voice and managed to reply. “Oh…so that’s what it’s called, Ethon’s Fashion Company? I mean the new one?”

“Yeah, EFC.”

“Okay then. Thanks.” Shine went silent for a moment.

Alex took a big sigh and explained. “EFC and Beauxotic is the same thing.”

“Oh my gosh? So does that mean Charleen will be seeing Ethon in Korea?”

“Really? She is. How?”

“You don’ know she’s going to be a part of it?”

“No, since SOMEONE didn’t keep me inform.” Alex emphasized.

“Yeah, she’s pursuing her dreams.”

Both Alex and Shine continued talking into their lovable ways as if nothing ever happened between them. They debated whether to tell Ethon and Charleen the situation or not. Soon to be, they decided to keep it a secret and make it a surprise. If they were to tell Charleen, she would back out and refuse to go. As with Ethon, it was just better of as a surprise since Charleen dodged him like forever now, it would be exciting to see the expression on his face.

It was rather unbelievable that Charleen still hadn’t figure out Ethon was the owner of EFC/Beauxotic in Korea. His father ran the company in Tokyo while Ethon ran the one in Seoul. Maybe because when he plots on television, newscasts only say EFC because it’s more known there than Beauxotic. Charleen really had no idea that Ethon’s father was President of both leading fashion industries though she already met him and she kept on convincing herself it was two different places, though she always saw Ethon on the news. Guess she just haven’t got the time to really pay close attention and didn’t catch the part that the company had changed its representation.


June 10th the day of the banquet gathering


Charleen attended the banquet as formally dressed up. She had bought a beautiful gown that made her look splendid. It was white; and she really had no idea why she picked the color white. It happened to remind her of Ethon but it made her feel at least beautiful. Her hair was professionally put in a high up-do with curls that dangled aside of her rosy cheeks. Of course, just like Cinderella, she had glass slippers. Well really, it was made out of plastic but it still looked like glass and she felt like a princess.

As content as she was that evening, the night went by quickly. She met many new faces and enjoyed the entire time she was there. It was rather more like an introduction of what the whole journey of her career was going to be like. Yes, and she was excited. More than anything else.

“We will be leaving next week on June 16th, make sure that you bring all belongings because it will be a while until we return to Tokyo. Good luck to each and every one of you beautiful women out there who will be attending this fascinating event. Our faith is with you all and we are looking forward in all of you succeeding in this expedition.” The speech person finished his last few words and finally dismissed the group. The fashion show was consisting of 17 models from Tokyo and supposedly, 15 more from Seoul. It was going to be a great experience for Charleen. She was already excessively excited to have met so many faces in one night and now she’s going to meet more new faces in Seoul.

As walking out the door Charleen felt her heels hurting painfully so she limped a few steps and found the wall. “Ouch…pretty but not so pretty after all.” She mumbled to herself as a few girls passed her. She then peaked down to her heals and found that it was bleeding. “Crap” she cursed beneath her breath. Looking straight up ahead, she saw the women restroom sign. A blister had formed on the side of her left foot too so she didn’t put her shoes back on. Little hops at a time she finally made it. She kept on looking down at her bleeding heel and didn’t realize where she was going.

“Hey! Hey! Where do you think you’re going girl?” A male’s voice knocked her out of her concentrating thoughts.

“Excuse me, but I need to go to the bathroom. You’re in my way.” Charleen almost shouted back not noticing she had pushed the door of the men’s restroom.

“What? No, you’re not supposed to come in here.”

“Huh? Okay,” Charleen stared up and placed her hands on her hips. “Now, who in the heck told you to tell me where to go and where not to go?” She finally found herself staring into the deep brown eyes of a young handsome male. He too seemed to widen his eyes when he saw her too.

“I’m telling you girl, you can’t go in there. You’ll regret it for the rest of your life.” The male suggested crossing his arms. For a second there Charleen thought she almost caught a smile crossing his face but he quickly hid it by giving her a sharp glare.

“Okay, I don’t know who the heck you are and you don’t know me so out of my way!” Charleen pushed herself through and stopped instantly as half of her body was inside of the men’s restroom. At last, she saw the men’s restroom sign and paused there blushing heavily. Slowly, after a moment of facing the embarrassment of her life, she slowly turned her head to meet eyes again with the man she pushed. This whole time he didn’t tell her it was the men’s restroom and as tall as he was, he was blocking it for god sake!

Charleen’s cheeks grew even hotter, especially infront of this young man. He was right; this was something that she was guna regret for the rest of her life. The most horrible thing to her was going into the men’s restroom. Thank god, it was only he that saw her embarrass herself, what if it was a whole crowd! Where was she to hide her face then?

Charleen tittered as she gathers her thoughts quickly. “A-hem, um….sorry.” With that she quickly backed herself out but before she knew it she fell backwards not realizing her shoe was stuck between the gap of the door. The door closed and her shoe was inside.

“Whoa! Careful!”

Inhaling deeply, Charleen opened her eyes and found herself inches away from the man’s face. He breathed heavily too as she stared into his eyes. A moment had past, which felt a little too long, the man finally pulled her forward and helped her with her balance.

“Um…Thank you. Sir.”

He scratched his neck and chuckled. “You’re quite welcome. Next time, consider looking at the signs before entering alright.” With that, he picked up one of her shoes that she dropped a side of her and handed to her. Charleen soon was left alone staring at the back of this stranger.

Afterwards, she shook the scene out of her head and looked at her shoe. ‘Crap!’ she cursed aloud. Her other pair of shoe was left inside the men’s restroom. ‘Oh what to do? What to do?’ Charleen bit her lips and mumbled back and forth. Was she guna try to get into the men’s room again and grab her shoe? Or was she just guna leave it and save herself from embarrassment again. Who knows whose guna be the next person to be coming out of the rest room. ‘Uhg, what ever!’ She finally came to decided that she‘d just leave the shoe and go home. It wasn’t as if she was going to wear the shoe all the time. She’ll just buy another one.

Charleen walked barefooted past the person she met at the bathroom hallway and shrugged, giving him an uncertain look. He did rather not comprehend what the look meant but he was one of the company’s executives so it wasn’t going to be polite to walk away from people who were trying to shake his hand in greetings. He stood his ground, ignored the looks on Charleen’s face, and thought he would go find her afterwards.

Later on after the people cleared out, he then made his way to where he thought he saw Charleen. When he got there, she was out of sight and nowhere to be found. Soon after, he thought back to the expression on Charleen’s face and paused a moment. Then he went to thinking about her bare foot, which made him sneer at her frantically.

Shaking the thought into its place, he thought she left back to the bathroom so he made himself back to the place where he first saw her. When he got there, she wasn’t there too. ‘Where could she have gone? Maybe into the men’s bathroom?’ He couldn’t help but amused himself by thinking that. Peeking into the restroom, he didn’t see anything but before he could close it, a shine caught his eyes. He gazed down and found what looked like a glass slipper that was at his toe. Slowly, he picked it up and studied it. He didn’t even have to think twice of whose shoe it was, but how was he to find her now? To give it back to her.


End of Chapter 18

[AzNgIrL]

Uh oh..Will this be another guy in Charleen's life?? xD

[StarWish]

Another young man NOOOO

Typicall that when cahrlene goes, Ethen comes home again.
Hmmm I want charlene to meet Ethen again

[AzNgIrL]

She probably will when she goes to Korea on the trip thingy.