Page 383 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

"Yes, I called you... Because you had flown far away from me, I
think someday you will get lost in the colorful clouds, or one day I
will leave you behind."
Thu-Thao always doesn't want to hear the bad words. She often
covers Nguyen's mouth by her lips, and she knew that it was the time
she must leave Nguyen, even she doesn't want to do it. Both of them
laugh after they gave each other the deep kissing then Thu-Thao asks
Nguyen to take her back home with the one or other reason.

Love was not easy like Thu-Thu-Thao wishes to be, and not
simple like she was thinking of her lover! Because Thu-Thu-Thao was
married Pham-Duc-Nhan, who was a businessman and old more than
her about 30 years. She never loved him before and after to be his
wife, but she accepted to live with him, not because of his money,
but because her mother thought about her safety.
Thu-Thu-Thao mother: Mrs. Tran-Thi-Hoang-Mai, she doesn't
want her daughter to be a young widow of a young soldier as she
was afraid to be alone with the painful suffering all her life. She cried
a lot at the long midnights after her husband dies on the battlefield.
She was living in the hardship and poor to care of Thu-Thu-Thao until
she died.

Mrs. Hoang-Mai was dying slowly on the bed, while Thu-Thu-
Thao nodded her head to promise her mother that she will marry
Nhan, then her mother died with a happy smile.
Nguyen remembered one afternoon weekend. He took Thu-Thu-
Thao to the Oceanographic Institute nearby the Stone Bridge, where
had so many different kins of the sea lives, which lived in the water
of the different glass tank and its label to indicate the kind of the
fish. Thu-Thu-Thao always had a happy smile beside Nguyen; they
walked around into every room to see and learn about the sea lives
from one to another tank. Suddenly, Thu-Thao's face was a stream of
sad, she looked a little fish in the water tank with tearful, and sighed.
"Thu-Thao, what is wrong for you?" After Nguyen took Thu-
Thao out from the Oceanographic Institute and looked at her, he
asked.

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