Page 423 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

" why you came in there for... it was very dangerous. It like a
Mafia in Casino! "

" Yes, but nobody can break its rules, so it was very safe. They
were playing and enjoy their life with the big game, lost and won a
hundred thousand in about second. I played for fun and forgot the
empty time only. " He said.

Phuong was watching all of his actions, while he was talking
about game rules. She found that some things Nguyen does not want
to tell her,

she keeps silent, but questions rolled over in her mind,
questions she cannot solve or answer, her eyes grow moist.

" Do you go there every night? " She asked.

" No... Sometimes! I was not a gambling man, because I could
not stay home, and when I can not handle the empty time. I leave
home all night

sometimes if I have a friend to enjoy fun with. They bring me
home when I got too drunk. " Nguyen replied.

Phuong brushed away her tears, and toss her hair to her back.

" Do you know about sorrow, don't you? " Asked, Phuong.

" The hope in the darkness life came from the war, it like a weak
candlelight in the dark wild cave, the wind can blow it off anytime,
and our life was standing on the thin line between dead and living,
the sound exploded of the bombs, rockets, canons, and rifles such as
the call of the death for the people, and we do not know who will
get the call...! I was counting my life up day by day in the deadly
game of this dirty war. Tonight I talk with you, tomorrow I will die
like the residue of a firecracker in the air, so I must admire and
respect my life, even it is small as a candlelight in a wild cave. It will
have sorrow in happiness; it is poetical and flavor of our life...! The

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