Didactic Magazine

My </3 December

She kisses him passionately as her body leans against his chest. The both of them against her wall of her dimmed bedroom.

“Heh, I see that you're enjoying yourself.” he said.

“So what if I am?” she said poking his chest.

“Four years...don't even feel that long huh?” he said.

She kisses him again. “Nope...that's because our love lasts forever...”

“Forever huh...?”

Christmas Eve, 10:00P.M., bustling crowds of frantic shoppers below. Cold teardrops fall upon a picture as my friend remembers the last time they were alone together.

“Welp! That should do it!” I said as Thomas and I was walking out of 69 music store and stood next to Rame who was on the rail.

“The best soundtrack ever, finally completed!” I said.

“What is up with you two and music?” Thomas said.

“It's life. Without it, I'd go insane.” Rame and I said at the same time.

”Hey you guys?” Rame said.

“What's Supp?” I said.

Rame pulls out a engagement ring. I slowly back away.

“No homo dude...” I said.

“Not for you retard!” Rame snaps back.

Then who? Don't tell me...” Thomas said. Rame nods.

“I'm going to ask her to marry me anyway. It was gonna be a surprise after graduation but...” Rame said.

“Yeah...We know...” we said.

“Hey have you guys seen her?” Rame asks.

I look around and then I gasped, shaking my head.

“I see Amai, but I don't think you want to see her.”

I said while pointing at Rame's ex.

As the others look, they stare in disbelief.

“She's with Kim!?” Rame and Thomas Exclaimed.

I look at Rame's dark face, and for the first time, his face grew pale and lifeless. I quickly yanked out my cellphone and sent a text message to my best friend Skye, who has had a crush on Rame for years.

“So that's why?” Rame said.

“Uh-Uhn...We're getting to the bottom of this...” Thomas and I goes up the elevator from the second floor to the third to catch up to Kim and Amai. Meanwhile, Rame is pacing back and forward in between the crowds, infuriated and disappointed in what he just saw.

“She separated with me and hooked up with him? My supposedly best friend? I can't believe them! How could they? It's not right!” Rame holds his head as the flashbacks of his friendship with Kim and his relationship with Amai rushes back with lies, pain, and deceit behind them. Thomas and me finally caught up with Kim and Amai across the vast mall. When we approached them, all four of us was quiet for a second because they knew why we were there.

“Why are you guys here?” Amai asks folding her arms.

“.....why did you dump Rame for Kim?” I Replied.

“And you, why are you with her?” Thomas points out to Kim.

“What does it matter to you?” Kim asked.

“Because he's our best friend...he used to be yours too...” I said slowly walking past them.

“...you broke his heart...” I mumbled under my breath.

“What the hell you just say?” Kim asked as he forced me to turn around.

“It doesn't matter to you...so why you wanna know?” I try to turn around again and then Kim grabs me by my shoulder and punches me in the face. I shove Kim backwards before Thomas got involved, afterwards, Kim grabs me and shoves me against the rail as he clotheslines me right over it. Rame looks in the distance seeing what's happening to me.

“SHI!!!” He screams as my body makes a loud thud on the ground level floor. Paramedics quickly rushes over to my lifeless body and carries me off in a strecher, for it was a clear fact, I was hurt! Now with a blank expression on his face, Rame heads to the gun store and purchases a .44 pistol. Skye sees him walking into the store but she is too far across the over populated mall to really know if it's him. Amai and Kim are at the fountain in the middle of the mall leaving a jewelry shop when they see Rame walking directly towards them. For only a second, to Rame it only felt like it was just him and Amai within this entire building.

“....Rame...” Amai said with a saddened look on her face. Rame, not caring what anyone told him, not caring about Kim, not caring about anything, gets down on one knee and pulls out his engagement ring.

“Amai Risuka...marry me...? Rame gives her a ultimatum. “If you truly meant what you said, about us being together forever...please...you never even told me why it was over please...”

Amai grows completely silent as the crowd glares at her for a answer.

“.................Rame........” Amai could only utter his name.

“................” Rame gets up and slowly walks past Amai. Amai looks down at Rame's jacket pocket as he was reaching in it and notices the gun.

“She doesn't love me...no one does...” Rame slowly pulls out the .44 and puts it in his mouth.

Amai turns around. “RAME NO!!!”

The whole crowd is now in a panic as Skye struggles to get to the fountain through the frightened crowd.

“RAME!!!” Skye screams. At the same time, Thomas sees Rame from the second floor but knows he's too far away to stop him.

“Forever huh...? All I got was the “F”...” Rame said with his eyes closed crying while everyone screams for him to stop. He pulls the trigger.....

“Click.....”

By : Edward (a.k.a. Shi)