Suicidal Love Story Vol 6: Red Camillia Chptr 20

The next day I go to Tom's house to see how he was doing but he was not in, Mei answered the door still in her pyjamas. "Since you're already here... I think its best you stay for a while, want some tea? I'll mix some honey in it" I could not resist. We sat down at the table and spoke about literature than about scary stories. I told her one particularly scary story and I could sense she was afraid or it seemed like it, she came closer to me. her slender hand, soflty touching the prominent nuckles on my lightly clenched fist. Her face looking worried. "What happened next?" she spoke with brown shaking eyes. "Did he see the ghost?" I went closer to her, tenderly putting my lips against her ear. "Boom!" I suddenly yelled! She jumped!

"Don't do that!" She screamed at me as she repeatedly hit me. We laughed it off but I realised that she was actually easily scared. She put on a horror film about ghosts. "I thought you were afraid of this?" I asked her but she said even though it's scary, it's only a film and the experience would be fun. She also mentioned that if something were to happen I would protect her. I smiled "Yeah, I'm not going to let anyone hurt you".  We watched the film on the sofa as she nestled beside me, hugging me with her arms in a calm embrace. She didn't notice but I looked at her, did this mean something? No, she's just a girl afraid of horror movies, that was all. I could feel the warm heat resonating on her body as she rested her head on my chest, her eyes gazing at the TV, always burying face deep into my chest, covering her eyes when something scary was happening. We were fully enjoying the moment.

Eventually her friend came in and we continued to chill out. When the film ended, I made my leave and told Mei that despite that I did not see Tom because he was doing a shift at work, I enjoyed the day I spent with her.

The days went by and I kept thinking of Jia-Li. She was not ringing me so I thought maybe she did not actually care but one day I rang her and become brutally honest. I tell her that in high school I had the biggest crush on her for the longest time and so I asked her out on a date, telling her to go out with me sometime. This was true, despite I looked up to her and admired her, back then I was obsessed in trying to not to be with her, why ruin now? If she still fancied me or thought of something about me, why give me her number, clearly she wanted me to speak to her again. "I'm too busy right now but I'll think about it" She said. That was it.

Two days later after band practice, I ring her up again to hear a message.

"The number you have dialled is unavailable. Please try again".

Okay, she was busy on the phone, that's what I thought but I tried again later on… the same voice message… and again later… and later… It was still the same message.  This was the right number. It didn't take long until I noticed that she blocked my number or perhaps she changed her phone. How can this be? To block me like that, I ask for her number, she gives it me; I ask for a date she cuts me off! It's as if she planned it just to toy with me, seeing what I would do if I had her number. I learned a lesson. Never ask a woman out by phone, also don't dump her by giving her a phone call or text, that's cowardly and mean. It was her loss; anyway this is no fairy tale. This is life and life sometimes brings pain yet funny enough this did not hurt me, I felt just a sprinkle of disappointment but that was all. I didn't blame her, I was happy that it went that far. It was nice that I shared those moments with her. My high school crush was not meant to last and I didn't blame her, I'm sure she had good intentions and reasons to cut me off and jilt me, after all I was messing her about.

I'm guessing that you are thinking this thing with Jia-Li is the end. If you think that was the last I heard of her, you are sorely mistaken. I mentioned that she was a tsundere kind of girl, she'll pretend to be ignorant and cold hearted but when I'm not looking she'll give me a longing look. Jia-Li was a weird person, strange to her own friends that tried to understand her. Who was I to Jia-Li? I still did not truly know. Stay with this story and you'll see the dark side.

I spent more time with friends like Kevin and Tom, Tom's sister Mei was becoming curious, I thought of it as simple curiosity as she asked me about if I had a girlfriend yet or my romantic issues. I laughed it off. "What?! She was chinese?" she blurted out at me. Although I told her I only succeded in getting her number and that day out at the art museum could be considered a date but a date is only when two people both like each other.

As the days went past I had a burning hunger, something I could never escape from. Foolish I was not to know that a certain someone also wanted my thorbbing and finally awakened lust!