Melancholy Romance

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

  Mr. Abraham, Claire’s Social Psychology’s lecturer, instead of good at teaching, he is rather good at “making students doze off”. To make things worse, this was the last lecture in that day. Undoubtedly, Claire was barely paid attention to the lecture and instead what she actually did was sleeping soundly as if she hasn’t slept for days. On the other hand, the guy sat next to her, Angus, went through the whole lecture with his eyes wide opened but staring at his Smartphone. Luckily, God was pretty kind as the time went unusually fast.

 “It’s time to wake up, dear” Angus whispered in Claire’s ear.

“Uh….thank God, one-hour torture is finally over” Claire said with her half-opened eyes and she realized the lecture hall was actually empty. Standing up, she yawned and stretched herself. “Let’s go” Claire beamed at Angus.

“Come over here, something to tell” Angus said as if he has a secret to tell Claire. Without thinking twice, Claire leaned over Angus who was still sitting on the chair. “You still sleep like a cute PIG.” Angus murmured. “You…”Claire said with her red face and hit Angus lightly. “Wait…wait…I haven’t finished my words…..but I love it…I love everything about you” Angus continued then pressing his lip against Claire’s lip. Grinning with red-faced, Claire held Angus’s hand strolling out the lecture hall and heading to car park where Angus’s Lamborghini Aventador was parked. At that moment, she thought that she was the happiest girl in the world.

Claire’s father passed way in car accident when she was little, so she grew up with her mother only and has a very good relationship with her mom. She always obeys her mom, Samantha, a fiction writer who tend to travel here and there to do researches for her books. For this reason, she has less communication with Claire and even lesser since Claire started her tertiary education and lived in dormitory.

On the contrary, Angus has a complete family with his mother, Jessie and his father, Edward. One thing that he has in common with Claire is being the only child of his parents. That’s why he owned Lamborghini as his mother spoiled him since he was tiny. Jessie is a classical housewife while Edward is a senior chemical engineer whose annual earnings are terribly high. In general, his family is rich. 

Claire and Angus knew each other since secondary school and fell in love after half year they had met. Although they fell in love with each other in only 6 months after they knew each other, they are in love for 5 years now.

“Sweetheart, are you okay?” Angus worriedly asked when he realized that Claire knelt down with her hand pressing on her abdomen after opening the car’s door.

“Fine, just a small ache” She lied as she didn’t want him to be worried about her. Instantly, she stood up as if she was just disguised just now.

“Hopefully” Angus prayed. Both entered the car then Angus ignited engine and they began their way to dormitory.

On the halfway, the car filled with silence out of the blue as Claire stopped talking abruptly and bent forward with her hand pressing on her abdomen. Again, stomachache hit her.

“Stomachache, isn’t it, babe?” He asked while facing Claire and moved his both hands away from steering to her shoulder to comfort her as if he forgot the fact that he was driving.   

Suddenly, intense “BEEP” sound filled the silence in car as Angus was kept moving the car when the traffic light turned from green to red. Firstly, Angus was shocked and he responded rapidly by stepping on the gas before the car bumped against his car from the right. Fortunately, he managed to ‘skip’ the accident.

“No matter what happened, you should concentrate on driving. It’s dangerous, you know” She slightly angry as she didn’t want him to be in hazard just because of her. She knew that the car will bump against Angus’s side if it really occurred.

“I don’t think that I did anything wrong as you are everything to me…nothing is important than you” He insisted.

“But I don’t want you in danger as I can’t live without you.”

“So do I...anyway, you take a small nap and I will drive to pharmacy and buy you some pills” He suggested.

“Well” She said then closed up her eyes.

After a while, the pink Lamborghini Aventador was stopped at the opposite of pharmacy. “Babe, bear for a while.” He said. “Uh” Claire replied with her eyes closed while her hand still placed on her belly. Sweat was all over her face. Besides, her face was terribly pale. With this proof, Angus knew that Claire was pain in agony. So, he was nervous again and hurriedly opened the car door and heading toward the shop. He was nervous enough to forget to check whether have cars passing or not before crossing the roads

In the next moment, a huge “crash” sound ran into Claire’s ears and her sixth sense told her that something was happened. While her curious eyes opened and watched outside the window to see what’s going on, she …..                                     

                                       ------To be Continued-----