Page 414 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorns in the Heart I

Phuong shook his shoulder and smile.

"I knew...But you were hiding me again...! It was the love...! I
don't care what is wrong between both of you, but I will correct
him..."

Hanh-Phuong looked at Phong.

"Thank you. I felt a little headache..."

Phong looked at his sister

"My-Loan. Please help me to take care of Hanh-Phuong; she felt
headache."

"Why me and not you?"

Phong smile and had a glance to Hanh-Phuong.

"I don't want Van's friend looking at me and think wrong about
her and me..."

"Okay...I will do what you said."

Hanh-Phuong tried to stay at a party. She was taking with My-
Loan and few ladies around her, dancing with some young men, but
her mind was always rolled up all of the situations of Nguyen's
wounded, her parent and the people, whose were injured and die at
Tet Lunar attack by Viet-Cong. Sometimes she walked into the
restroom to cry in silent, then walked out with her smile and painful
in her soul, and she doesn't understand why she felt in the sorrow
from Nguyen's situation.

At 11:30 PM, she was really tired and tried to dance with Hung,
her brother-in-law. She had stepped on his foot and leaned against
him a few times while dancing.

After the song, she looked at Hung and said:

"I want to go home."

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