Dreams

"Mr Qing, I really love you!!!" A woman's voice echoed in the very dim light. Her face was filled with all sought of emotions love, lust, pain and all the rest" She melted at the feet of the man standing in front of her

"What did you say?" He replied in a cold, intimidating voice. Kate sat still with her eyes glued to her television. The tone of the man sounded dangerous and husky with no trace of any kind of emotion within it. His face looked like that of a Grimm reaper's.

"I said I love you" She said again. What sounded like a confession at the beginning now looked like a misunderstanding between them. She went down on her knees in dismay in front of the man.

"What a bastard" Said Kate. How could anyone treat a woman like that. Sweat suddenly begun to run down her face in tiny rivulets at what she was watching.

"Is that all?" Said the young man. Kate gasped in disbelief.

"Is that all you wanted to say" The young man's face even became more intimidating to the point where an aura of darkness and evil could be felt around him. Kate held her breath waiting to see what would happen next.

"Tell me. What do you want" He asked

"I've always loved you from the first time we met. I've been you girl for a month and you still haven't said anything about how you feel about me."

"We're done." He said nonchalantly without a care in the world and then turned to leave. She begun to wail as if she was in a loved one's funeral. He stopped along the way and begun speaking again.

"Ben. Bring the contract and read it to her." He ordered. When he arrived with the contract, he opened it and read it to her from the beginning to the end.

"Now do you understand. According to the contract, you were supposed to be my girlfriend for six months. You could ask for anything or go any where in the word. The only catch was that, you are never to speak to me about love. I don't do love. Once love comes into the picture, the contract ends. Now if you would excuse me miss Chen, I have a place to be." Then he walked away without turning back leaving her in the ashes of pain and sorrow. Kate begun to cry silent tears. There was no one around so it was safe to shed a little tears. What kind of man would do this. Couldn't he even express the least bit of sympathy towards her. That was just too fiendous for anyone to do. This movie had really got into her soul. The topic of love itself was too complex for anyone too understand. Kate even traced back to a love quote she had had read online by a woman called Maya Angelou which read

"In all the world, there was no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine" Kate also did not blame Mr Qing. She too did not do love. Not because of an experience of any sought, but she didn't. From the beginning till date.

Kate was already twenty-two and still never had a boyfriend. She grew up in a peaceful and loving family and she had grown up into a a very good girl and was admired by all. Some even likened her into a fairy tail princess, kind, hardworking, well-mannered and pure but most people mocked her and gave her all sought of names like Miss goody two shoes or little girl.

As she was growing up, she had gotten used to other people mocking her and given her names but her parents always encouraged and gave her all the support she needed which was more than enough for her. She had been raised to always have a positive mindset so she decided she would not let those kinds of people drown her.

Kate had a reason why she had never had a boyfriend in her twenty two years of existence. When she was sixteen. She had developed a trauma. She was afraid of having someone fall in love with her. Kate witnessed how much her father suffered day by day over the death of his mother. It was unbearable to even watch him. Every close relative had given up on consoling him as it was of no use. She had seen just how painful it was to loose the person you love the most. It was nothing but torture. It was just by grace her father didn't commit suicide.

A few years after her mom's death, Kate was diagnosed of the same illness that killed her mother. It appeared that she had inherited the illness from her and since then had been battling with it. She was just sixteen at that time and she knew that just like her mother, she had only ten more years to live.

That was why she had always rejected boys who showed any interest in her. There were a few of them that she was interested in.But when anyone confessed to her. All she could say to them was 'sorry'. Due to to that, Kate avoided boys as much as she could. She even dressed unfashionably in order to become less attractive and drive boys away.

However as the years passed, Kate begun to question herself.

"Would I die like this?" The desires that she had been suppressing begun to go out of control. She had been dreaming and having visions of how it would be like to love someone, to have butterflies in one's stomach, to kiss and feel the embrace of a man around her. She begun to read a lot of romantic novels and watch a lot of movies which had to do with love. But Kate was torn, she didn't want have all that and later leave her partner behind to suffer the same fate of her father. Kate thought and thought and thought. What she needed was a man who would not love her in the slightest possible way. Someone who was ruthless and took advantage of the feelings of others. Someone like Mr Qing. All she had to do was find that kind of man. If she succeeded, she would finally be able to know how love feels like and even how it feels to have one's broken. At least that would be better than dying without having one of life's romantic adventures.

Kate hadn't even told any of her friends about her illness. Kate knew that her health would start to worsen in the last four years which was now. She visited the hospital every week and spoke with her father everyday and during weekends she would visit her father back at home.