chapter one

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chapter one
*new heights*

Four years later, I did not expect the news I have heard. I found it funny too that you and her suddenly gone after you both graduated in college. I wanted to know the real reason and I kind of want to hear it from you. But my friends as resident gossip gurus, they immediately got information and made it exclusive only to our group.

My friends had shared the reason you two broke up was because you micro-cheated. I never imagined you could do that. But why though? I expected you to be the better person... to your girlfriend. Another outside news I heard that had been speculating just around our common friends and a few colleagues is that you two broke up or parted ways because you both outgrew each other.

Really? After your legality posting and soft-launching of you and your ex-girlfriends' graduation picture? And the fact that I also saw her post a sweet video about your adventures together in college years ago? That doesn't seem right. It really made me believe that the two of you are gonna make it but didn't.

All the more valid reason for me to not risk love at any cost. I just felt like from that perspective, it's going to drain my energy.

I heard from others too that you and her both pursued medical school but the difference is the fact that you left the city and studied back in your hometown. Surprised the hell of me as I only see you on some common friends' instagram stories.

Fast forward to now, you finally graduated in medical school. I wanted to congratulate you personally but chose not to as I have outgrown that past version of me being delusional of the possibility that we could happen.

But since I am the type of person who is always late at occasions and appointments, I'm already too late to have a spot in your heart. You've got a new girlfriend now. Pretty alright. Described as rich too by some of my high-school friends because she had traveled in Europe.

Then after contemplating all this, I looked at myself in the mirror. This is not who you truly are, Lia. I put on my sweet smile and uttered the words, "You are a part of my past. Whether you'd be a significant person in my present or not, it will not matter. As I am already thriving too in another country."

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