I Will Wait For You 100 Years - Hmong Sad Love Story

Chapter 9: My Life In The U.S

After we moved to the U.S, I started looking for a job and bought myself a house to live in with Huab. Me and Huab aren't actually married since we never plan a marriage yet but we are a lovely couple. Sadly we aren't married yet so that means she can't live with me forever. She will have to go back to Thailand and stay with her other family again unless I marry her but as for now, I don't feel like getting married. I am still busy with my job and still have to take care of myself. This wasn't like in Thailand where you can freely marry anyone and will still get a good life because over here in the U.S, it wouldn't be easy having a lot of kids when you're only starting your new adult life. After 5 months of moving here, Huab told me that she has to go back and help her family in Thailand so I told her to come to visit me again once she's free. It's been about 7 years since we moved here. I also lived by myself alone in a single-story bungalow house. The best part of living by yourself is you can invite friends over and party for as long as you want. Good thing I've made some friends from my job and my friends from Thailand have also moved to the U.S where I'm currently living right now. As an adult like me, it was still very fun to go out fishing and exercising with friends as long as I have no children to take care of. That's what I do whenever I am off from work. On Sunday, me and my friends went fishing. We stayed up all night roasting the fish that we've caught. It was now 1 AM and we are still fishing. Some of my friends already fell asleep while some already went home. I got very tired and sleepy so I told my friends that maybe I will go home and they told me to stay just a little longer because they will be packing up and leaving too. So then I stayed a bit more before we all started packing up and driving home in our own cars. While driving on the dark road, my vision started to get blurry so I thought I must've been too tired so I grabbed my energy drink and took a gulp of it. Just then, I saw what seems to be a figure standing straight ahead facing my car. I panicked and stopped my car as fast as I could, taking my eyes off the figure. As I looked back on the road, there was nothing there. "I must be seeing things since I'm so tired." I thought to myself as I shrugged it off and continued making my way back home. I got home, went to take a shower, and ate some food before going to bed. Just then, I heard a noise coming from right outside my window.