Rejected Love?
Perhaps the most tragic tales of them all are about rejection. This one is no exception. It begins with a boy aged fifteen. Throughout his whole life, he was unusually demure, and he seldom spoke a word. One day, he perceived a beautiful girl named Eniza, whom he fell deeply in love with, at first sight. In class with her, he could not concentrate; all his mind could endure was the sight of her loveliness. Her beauty was forever emblazoned in his memory, like a haunting photo taken by camera. To himself he thought: Oh, how I wish to feel the touch of her lips upon mine. How I wish I could hold her till the day I die! Every day, he was resolved in expressing his love towards Eniza. But every time the sun slowly hid behind the massive clouds, he knew he had failed. In what seemed like a day, the boy now man, would have to separate from Eniza. Oh the pain, the torture that he felt!
Every day was a year, every year was a century! It considerably aged him, and he knew he had to have her. The full-grown man abandoned his work, and proposed marriage to his love. But alas, he was destroyed upon her single answer. He would never recover. Aged 28, the man fell ill with a lethal disease. The silent assassin racked his body and deprived him of his spirit. He had no hope, he had no heart. And he invited death to consume his soul. After his demise, his tear-sodden parents opened his musty mailbox, to find a scarlet letter—a letter of marriage.
-Justin Yeo
Short Story
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