The Dare

Disclaimer : Meteor Garden is not my creation but the plot in here is mine. Candy Wong and other crazy names are also mine.

She sits silently on the chair, watching with a jealousy look how intimate Lei and Jing are right now. She quickly looks away when he looks at her, not wanting him to know how hurt she is watching him so happy.

At first she doesn’t want to follow them, joining them in the vacation but Shan Cai pleads her to. She hopes that Lei will announce their secret relationship but it seems like he only cares about Jing, not her. She closes her eyes, holding her tears desperately.

“Are you alright?” Mei Zhuo asks and she opens her eyes immediately and smiles weakly at him.

“Yeah. Excuse me. I’ve lost my appetite,” she says slowly and stands up, heading to the elevator to go to her room.

She runs out from the elevator with tears rolling down to her cheeks. She sniffs, trying to open the door of her room but her emotion makes her sight quite blur. At last, she kneels on her knees, covering her face with her palms and cries.

“Why?” she chocks out before she feels something on her shoulder.

She turns around and sees a man looking at her. She quickly wipes the tears from her face and keeps her expression straight.

“Are you alright, miss?” he asks.

“Yeah…” she lies but he doesn’t believe her word.

“Are you sure?” he asks, frowning at her.

“Yes,” she says before adds, “... just can’t open this damn door.”

He looks at the door and chuckles. He reaches out his hand and takes the card from her before slid it to the card hole at the door.

“Here,” he says and she quickly takes the card from his hand.

“Thank you,” she says and opens the door and steps into the room.

“Can I see you again? For dinner?” he asks but she already slams the door in front of his face.

She slams herself on the bed and continues her weep. For hours she tries to convince herself that he has his own reason for not announcing their relationship. He loves her, right? He cares for her, right? She does give everything she can for him, right?

She doesn’t know how much tears she shed and how long she has been weeping for him but when she wakes up, she finds that everything is dark. She sighs, pulling the thick blanket to cover her whole body until her head. She does not have any mood to wake up at all, wishing that these all just a nightmare for her.

Suddenly the phone rings. She tries to ignore it, too sad to even speak to anyone. Few minutes later, someone knocks the door.

“Candy… Candy… open the door.”

Candy pulls the pillow to cover her head, ignoring the call, the knock, everything. She wants to be alone. She wants to stay alone.

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“Is she alright?” Shan Cai asks Dao Ming Si when there is still not response from Candy.

“How do I know?” Dao Ming Si shrugs.

“I’m hungry. Can we go now?” Dao Ming Si says, giving puppy eyes and Shan Cai sighs.

“What about Candy?” she asks her boyfriend and he scowls a bit.

“She’s big enough to take care of herself. Come on,” he says, pulling her to him and begins to walk to the elevator.

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Around 11.45 p.m., Candy finally walks out from her room with puffy eyes and wet face. She pushes her feet to move, bringing her to his room. She wants to beg him to be with her. She cannot hold it anymore. She loves him so much, she cannot live without him.

She reaches in front of his door and is about to knock it when she hear some giggle coming from inside. Her hand froze, recognizing the voice very much. Swallowing her tears, she turns back and runs to the nearest door, the emergency door and sits on the stairs, crying. She does not know how long she has been crying but her tiredness adding with her empty stomach make her eyes very heavy and pretty soon, her body rolling down the stairs until she lies on the bottom of the stairs, unconscious. Pool of blood begins to gather from between her legs but nobody even notice it.