Jack showed up from nowhere,interrupting them. Danny stand up from his kneeling position and looked straight to the strange man walking closer towards them. More shockingly, the stranger grabbed Rania's hand and pulled her closed to him. Danny became furious and quickly grabbed the other hand of Rania.
"Who are you???!!!" Danny asked with anger as he was not pleased to see stranger unmannerly touched his woman. His woman??? But Rania never say yes, yet..
" it should be me who should be asking that question. I'm her husband!!" The man told Danny while pointing out to Rania.
Danny turned to face Rania whose eyes locked on the white snow on her shoes. Danny strengthen his grip which was holding her hand, and calls out her name gently.
"Rania, can you explain?? Is it true that this man is your husband??" Danny asked but to no avail as Rania burst out into tears instead of answering his questions.
"I'm sorry Danny." Her short answer somehow broke Danny's heart into thousand pieces . Obviously he knew what's the meaning behind her short answer.
"But i don't love him anymore. NEVER AGAIN!" Rania escaped from Jack's grip and take a glance at Danny who's standing there with a shocking face,as well as Jack who unknowingly had loosen up his grip after hearing the first sentence of her painful words. Just now, it's about divorce, and Rania cut his heart once again with the fact that his love is unrequited.
Both of the men in-front of her freeze like a tree for a moment. Realising the fact that she has killed two birds with one stone, formed a gigantic mountain of guilt inside of her. She has broke two hearts of the person that she loves. Rania had the thought that she would never can love anybody as she will just ended up hurting them. The pond in her eyes now overflowed and transformed into a waterfall of salted water running down her cheeks.
She scared to face the confusing situation right now. Something that she could never win fighting with has attacked her this time, that is ... dilemma.
She don't want to hurt Jack, the one she loves since high school and even ended up marrying him but the happy marriage that she long for collapsed after the fatal accident happened to his parents. But she can't understand why her husband could be really mean towards her by leaving her freezing alone in the snowstorm . Jack also didn't voice out any single word when she caught him with another girl at the apartment. Rania do force herself to forget about Jack and not going to think about her husband anymore. But something has been bothering her, the titled 'husband and wife'.
In the middle of her misery, she found Danny. A man that has saved her from entering the world of depression. Danny has helped her a lot. And somehow, the period of working and befriend with him also has created a love in between her. The true love that she don't feel much after Jack formed a cool war against her. Yes, she admit that she do loves Danny. But she realises that she still belongs to someone else.
Dilemma is torturing her.
Rania put her hoodie on to hide her crying face(even though both Jack and Danny already know it), and quickly she ran away from the park, heading to her home(at the cafe).
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Jack and Danny stared to each other for a couple of moments and Danny broke the silence.
" Do you really loves her??" Danny ask with the first humble question.
" of course i do love my wife so much!" Jack asked one note higher than Danny's humble voice.
"Then tell me why I found her lying ,freezing in the snow alone!!!Where have you been 2 years ago??!!!" Danny also has reached his limit and yell at Jack with all of his heart.
"And why you have to show up when Rania just about to feel the happiness of her life??!!!"
"I.. i try to find her ..i tried ....but I can't ...i regret that i leave her.....i..i.regret that i wasted her love.i..i can't forgive myself if... ..." Jack's shoulder fell a bit and he struggled with his own words. His muscled thigh also can't support his body now. He quickly sat on a bench near them and link his fingers together........and about to cry.
Danny still stand there, breathing heavily,holding his anger.
"Yeah, you should regret that. Cause I'm gonna do anything to protect my woman from a beast like you!!!!" Danny finished his words by landing a hard punch on Jack's left cheek.
With that, he leaves Jack crying all alone in the snow and ran to catch up with Rania. Even though Rania is nowhere to be seen, Danny knew where she's gonna be.
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Jack rub her cheek slightly and his hand slide slowly to his chest. There is more pain inside of his chest than his cheeks. Something is stabbing his heart .
And he knew the reason why...
The park was silenced except for the sound of his sobbed. He admit that he was wrong and responsible for all the situation. Rania turns out to be the old sad Rania because of him. Rania became confused of her feelings also because of him. His presences only brought out the tragic memory to Rania. And he was the reason why Rania has gone through a lot of hardships in her life. He tortured Rania's life once before and now he realised that he might did it again if he kept being around her.
The best way he can think right now is........to move far away from Rania. So that she can find her peace,living without him.
Even though he knows that adapting to live his life without his lovely wife is hard for him, he must try to get used to it as Rania will never loves him back.
It's a sad fact but this is what he had to admit. They were not destined to be together.
Jack lift his head up looking at the stars high above.
You're like a star,Rania and i am the sun. I am the one who chased you out but selfishly want you to shine by my side too even though i know we can't be together as you,star will never shine the way you always do. I'm sorry cause I can't be like the moon. Who always accompany you whether you are there or not. The moon will always be there waiting for you.
And the moon is..........Danny.
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Lonely Winter
RomanceHoping to have a lovely married life with her husband completely vanished in just a blink of eye when her father and mother-in-laws involved in a tragic accident that took away their lives. Her husband blamed Rania as the caused of their death. Sin...
