She shrugs her shoulders. “I’ve got enough circles.”
“What? 9,999 circles?”
“Yep. I’m the best.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I finished my last circle when you were sleeping.”
“I was sleeping? Troy narrows his eyes. “You didn’t sleep for the circles?”
“Yes, but I slept late at night.”
She doesn’t tell him she has stayed up for three whole nights to draw the circles.
“Now I see.”
“What?”
“I see it that you don’t care about me now because you’ve known for certain that you’ve got me in your pal, don’t you?”
She smiles. “I wish I could do so.”
“Don’t you? I won’t be so angry if you can love me harder.”
“Come on, Troie, you know how much I love you. She circles her arms around his neck and looks at him affectionately, saying, “Every time I visited a temple on my trip in India, I prayed to the Buddha that I wish I’d marry you in all my reburns.”
“What if you only have this life?”
“I’ll marry you in this life.”
She’d appreciate it if she could spend her lifetime with him for once.
Troy kisses her. “You know what? I’m touched by the way you look at me at the moment. I’m drown in your eyes.”
Her tears begin to well up as she buries herself into his hug, silently looking at the moon.
Troy breaks the silence first and asks her, “Can you tell me the stories you heard in India?”
She apologizes, “Sorry, but I’ve forgotten them all.”
“What?”
“As soon as I see your face, I forget them all.”
“You mean I’m more charming than the monks?”
“Maybe.”
Troy is rendered speechless. “Guess it’s time to go to bed.”
“Wait for a while.”
Troy closes his eyes. “Fine.”
Karin nudges him. “Are you sleeping?”
“No, what’s the matter?”
“I want to tell you something I met on the trip.”
“Okay.”
“I met a woman of my age, and she loves her boyfriend very much but she cheated on him by accident. She wanted to tell her boyfriend the truth, but she was afraid that her boyfriend would break up with her. If you were her boyfriend, would you forgive her?”
Troy sighs, “Has she slept with another man?”
“Maybe…”
“I don’t know. I’m not her boyfriend.”
“What if you were her boyfriend, would you forgive her?”
Karin looks at him with anticipation. Her heart beats faster than it when Troy first kissed her.
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