"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You've been gone for so long, let's hang out, please."
Orm tossed the phone to her bedside table after reading Charlotte message and threw herself onto the bed. She's thinking about what she could do, she's getting bored at home, but at the same time, she doesn't feel like going out to accept her friend's invitation.
Her Friday class usually ends early and normally, she would hang out with her friends, drinking and passing time at the bar. She has a group of friends, all of whom are daughters of prestigious families in Thailand.
Her best friend is Charlotte, the half-Brit, who has been with her since Kindergarten and she considers her a twin. She has been with her through all of her mischief in life, even during her dark times when she was rebelling against her family like some teenager had.
Her mind wandered to the law student who often occupied her thoughts. Lingling Kwong works and studies tirelessly that sometimes she doesn't even know where she finds the time for rest and herself.
If the woman is not studying and has no job, she is surely just watching debates or reviewing landmark cases and comments on provisions of law while listening to Bread's discography. Ling have stated that the career that she chooses is her dream and it demands an insane amount of perseverance and patience as it is full of challenges and sacrifices. Becoming a lawyer in Thailand basically requires a graduate student to complete a 6 month internship at a law firm before taking the practical and theoretical exam and Orm's father have already recommended Lingling to his friend as an intern after she graduates next two month but Ling gratefully refused. The woman wanted to do a public internship for pro bono lawyers in Kalasin, her mother's home town and Orm sighed sadly again. That would mean half a year of being away from the person that she loves the most.
She dont know where these feelings started and it's been three years that she's having these. She's sure as hell that Lingling is not dumb to not recognized The love she boasts about, yet she still chooses to ignore her.
