Leap OF Fate

Mary paced back-and-forth in Serene’s living room. “What do you plan to do now?” She looked at Serene, who sat at the couch. “I don’t know yet. I might just go back home and start over.”

“Have you told auntie and uncle already?” Serene never gave her family details on the reason she and Bryan broke up. They adored him and actually treated him as their son-in-law. It devastated them when they learned about their breakup.

She did not want to hurt her parents, and she was not sure how they would take the reason for their breakup considering that they hold very conservative perspectives. She just shook her head to answer Mary’s question, looking very dejected.

Mary let out a deep sigh and sat beside Serene. She hugged Serene from her back and said, “Why do these things happen to you?”

Serene simply bowed her head. She asked the same question herself. Why do these things happen to her? Did she do something bad? Did she offend anyone?

After a while she said, “Let’s both go back home. My parents wanted me to manage the shop. Why don’t you help me out? I’ll focus on the design while you handle the messy business part, hmmm?”

Although Mary was a CPA, she never practiced. She was really into designing clothes, swimsuits specifically, but her family insisted for her to take up accountancy in order to help in the family business.

After a while, Serene patted Mary’s arm, which overlapped on her stomach. “Thank you, I will think about it, okay?”

city for six years, she’s finally going back to Coast City after accepting Mary’s offer. She just packed the last box of her stuff which she labelled donate when her cellphone rang. It was an unknown

“Hello?”

ask who was calling her. She’ll never

do you want?” she rudely

know you’re still angry with me, but can we

not know what possessed her to agree in meeting him. It was one of the upscale fusion restaurants in Hyacinth City. The server ushered

Chester arrived. Both casually dressed in

a hard time looking for a parking space” he explained while taking his seat. Bryan also sat, all the while

her

to take their orders. Chester ordered for the two of them while she only asked for juice. Once again, it was Chester who broke the awkward silence. “Serene, I know I already said I’m sorry to you but I would like to let you know again how I deeply regret hurting you back then.” She did not reply and just gave a curt

me out for?”

a deep breath before looking at her again. “I know that you and Bryan deeply care for each other. I know that

talk. Her face blank as she tried to guess what all these preludes

speak. “We cannot think of any other person to ask this huge favor from other