Ice and Fire

After he left home, John had no idea about where he should go next. He thought for a while, and then decided that he should go to the bar, because Jean would never come after him there.

Inside the bar, Emily was on the early shift, and had just started work. She was surprised at first when she saw him, and she knew that he had broken up with Cherry, but when she thought more about it, she decided to treat him as any other person that she had already met before.

When he saw Emily, John walked towards her.

John stood in front of the bar, and stared at her.

Emily got a bit strained with his gaze fixed on her, and asked, "What are you doing here at this hour? If you want to have fun, come at night, there's nothing happening now."

John slightly began to speak, and said, "Arrange a quiet VIP room for me; I want to sleep."

Emily was astonished by what he said, and replied, "If you want to sleep, you can go home. Why did you come here?"

John then turned his head away from her, and said, "I don't want to see Jean's horrible face."

and couldn't believe that John could describe Jean's face with the word "horrible". It seemed that

she saw the lingering fatigue on John's

one of her colleagues that was standing

afternoon, and after he came out of it, he noticed

random seat in a corner, summoned

the people in

He remembered of their first encounter at the university, and of his complete sacrifice to chase her and make her happy. The period that he had been together with her had been a

Cherry because of his confusion and imprudence for the moment, not to mention that, somehow, she had eventually become his aunt. Every time he saw Cherry and his uncle together, and every time he saw the affection between them, his heart would ache with pain. Cherry should have belonged to him, not to his uncle, and he wondered how she could even stand

too well when he thought about these things. How much had he and Cherry really love each other before? He had even sacrificed anything for

and broken, and the only thing that he could do was to poison himself with plenty of alcohol. Glasses of strong drinks went into his mouth, but alas, they still couldn't help him release his distress. Eventually, his head dropped onto the table, and his mind was filled with shadows of Cherry's memory.

Cherry might haven't forgotten about him so soon, and that she might still love him in her heart and cherish the happy memories that they had together.

that's it, Cherry must still love

decided to ask her if she still loved him face to face. If her answer was yes, he would be together with her, despite his position of state governor. He couldn't lose Cherry

seat, and intended to get out of