Enough is Enough
“If you touch her again, I’ll rip you apart,” Joe was lost in his anger. He wanted to put a stop.
“Bastard!” Joe’s step-father snapped. He rubbed his left jaw marked with Joe’s punch. He was so furious, kicking the door on the way out. So, he had left the house. Joe hoped this was permanent. The sound of his step-dad’s Chevy slowly being swallowed by the silence of dark starry night.
Joe’s mom was sobbing and her crying grew heavily. And that was another incident of blackened eye and torn lips.
“How could you let him do this to you, Mom?” Joe hugged his mother as if they could withstand any whirlpool or tornado.
Horizon
During the last semester break, Joe and I had gone snorkeling in Pangkor Island. Mary and Imran came along. The 2 wooden sea-facing chalets had a great view. In the morning, we jogged on the beach and in the afternoon we went jungle trekking. Besides that we bought some souvenirs.
“You know what? I’ve always wanted to play in a band..”Joe said it, grinning.
“Oh, yeah..” I did not know that Joe could sing or play any musical instruments.
“My late Mom used to send us for piano lessons. My real Dad bought me a classical guitar when I was about 10,” Joe started flipping his pageful memories.
“With your looks, you’ll kick butt..” I commented before continuing, “I’m sure you’ll be great, Joe.”
Favorite Subject
“This is always about me, isn’t it?” Joe demanded an answer.
“What am I? Am I the subject for your thesis or assignment?” I felt so ashamed. I was partly using Joe for my research.
Savior of Love
“I want to be loved….and you want to be saved,” I would say that the combination has made me and Joe to be in love.
Joe has fair complexion with very thick arched eyebrows and pitch black silky hair which made many girls longing to be in his arms. He is very well-mannered; the sort of boy-next-door that your father would approve for his daughter’s prom date.
Despite his cool, calm and collected, Joe’s wishful is to have his step dad dead. He could not bear the tortures how his step dad hits his mom and let her sleep at night with another bruise or cut. Joe’s mom also has suffered enough betrayal and and verbal abuse.
Joe
“I’ve kissed Joe” Emilia confessed and she was assuming her statement was faintly audible.
“What have you done?” Sarah has tried to put my senses together but I know she vaguely understood what I was going through inside.
Yesterday
While driving, my mind drifted away with the My Chemical Romance’s I Don’t Love You. There are links to the youtube that I go to once in a while. Weird feelings turned my guts haywire. There was partly love and partly agony, all at once. To whom shall I dedicate the song? Maybe no one. Do I need hocus pocus in my life right now? No black magic shall recover some missing links in one’s life. Or shall I say discover?
I have loved. I have lost love.
Here I am facing another turn in my life. I have thought of so many things. I have done a few things that may haunt me later in my life.
I have kissed. I have eloped.
Splash!
“Ms. Emilia, here’s my form,” the cute 5-year old Adelina.
“Darling, you may call me Mia,” Emilia corrected of her new batch of young swimmers as she is so used to her new nickname. Emilia has been giving swimming lessons at a recreational club nearby her apartment.
Conflict
“’You knew I wanted to call you last night so you switched off your hand-phone,”
“It wasn’t my idea to go karaoke,” Joe defended himself.
“And that hickie is not your idea as well,” Mia pointed the love bite on Joe’s neck.
“I had whiskey and I remembered being so sleepy. Randy paid for the girls. I guess I dozed off.
“You can’t fool me. I’m not stupid, you know,”
“I can take it if you want to get rid off me..”
“Baby, I’m so sorry okay,”
999
Ambulance finally arrived. Joe has been long gone. His mother was left behind with step-dad in a pool of blood. It was his mother’s idea for him to flee.
Joe felt guilty for running away. Obviously his mom would take the blame for stabbing the step-dad.
The step-dad was rushed to the Emergency Room and his chance to survive is minimal. His blood of AB rhesus positive is nothing peculiar but Joe’s mom had to reveal to the medical staff and her husband is HIV positive. Does it never enough for him to cause sufferings to Joe’s mother?
Devil’s Advocate
“I’m scared..”
“Don’t worry, I’ll get you. Just stay there at the 7-Eleven,”
At Mia’s apartment, Joe changes his clothes and shaves. Luckily, he was wearing a jacket when he left the house hurriedly. Blood splatters have stained his white t-shirt.
Joe was shirtless in the living room as Mia put the t-shirt and the jacket into the washing machine.
“Can I get you a Coke?”
“I could use cans of beer right now, honey,”
“I love you” is all he was muttering when he started kissing her ears. Mia’s hair smells so good and it drives Joe crazy. Shivers came across her spine.
“Joe, I’m not ready for this” Mia begs.
“Don’t you love me? I know I messed up. Can you forgive me?
“Joe, it’s not that..” despite her resistance, her hands are now exploring Joe’s chest. Next, Mia was touching Joe’s tousled hair. ‘He badly needs another shave tomorrow’ thinks Mia.
Joe kissed her lips which are parted slightly. She tastes so sweet..Joe is a great kisser. No doubt about it and Mia is now in cloud nine. She needs to land on her feet. She can’t. Her body is betraying her.
Fate
“I’m pregnant…6 weeks”
“What should we do about it?”
“Do you wanna keep the baby? Joe dared to ask.
“If you do, we’ll get married or something,” that seems logical.
“I don’t know. Oh my God, what should I do?”
Mia vomits in the evening and starts to cause suspicion amongst her roommates. She tries to convince them that she is taking new diet pills and that makes her feeling nausea and throws up after meals. As a part-time model, Mia must look great. Her slender body has been trained to lift weights and do crunches. One modelling agency is talking into making her tryout for television commercials or even reading scripts for soap operas.
“Mia, I need you.”
“I can’t. I’ll come after I am finished with my study group,”
Joe is half sober when Mia reached his apartment.
“I miss you so much,”
Heaven
“What’s going on?”
“I’ve got cramps. Hell!” Mia screamed as she saw fresh blood on her underwear.
“It’s a missed abortion, nevertheless you need a D & C. Why don’t you rest now and we’ll do the procedure at 10:00am tomorrow,” Dr Andrea, Gynaecologist & Obstretitian at the Pearl Group Medical Centre comforts Mia.
Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven…
Would it be the same, if I saw you in heaven…
Eric Clapton the famous singer and his guitar had lost a son. Mia was about to be in the same boat. A son or a girl, nah sex is no longer relevant. She’s 26 and that about when her mummy was heavily pregnant with her.
Mia, the unwed young girl is changing into the hospital gown. There’s no husband. There’s no family. She’s on her own. She didn’t expect losing what supposed to be half of her is difficult. Joe’s mobile phone is outside coverage as he is climbing up Mount Kinabalu this weekend.
“I’m so sorry I wasn’t there for you, baby”
Paris Hilton?
Mia wants to believe that ‘money is not everything’ is this world.
Her red Suzuki Swift was parked at the basement. Mia even bought a Neo which she had paid in cash for Joe.
When her parents passed away, Mia inherited quite a hefty amount of money. After all the raucous battle about the assets including properties, BMW, Porsche and so forth, Mia has decided that she will make it her way. The lawyers gave her share of wealth. She also has given ultimatum to her siblings. ‘A bunch of blood sucking morons! ….I don’t know why I am related to them!” Mia said disgusted.
Brand New
Mia began teaching at a private school in Ampang. She also attached to a few clubs and continued conducting private lessons. Water phobia, water confidence, etc..
Brand New
“I wont let you do time, my son,” Joe’s mother consoled him.
“..but mom…”
“He deserved it. Go to hell with him. You are free now and that what matters”
Maggie walked away. The prison warden came to get her and put her bac
