Page 503 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

" Nguyen, what is happening to you while you drove a truck
toward Binh-Minh restaurant? " Phuong asked:

" Nothing happened to me ... " Nguyen replied.

Phuong looked fix to Nguyen's face.

" Excuse me...I saw your emotion in your eyes, and you like a
drunk driver while you drove a truck to the Binh-Minh restaurant,
but I kept quiet... " She said.

" Why you don't correct me? "

" Because I respect your thinking. If the accident has happened,
both of us will die and I always happy to follow you. "

Nguyen looked at Phuong and lent his back to the sofa, sighed.

" After I saw the Long letter, I thought of my friends, who took a
turn to die in the war. Maybe, it was Long's turn in this time...! " He
said.

Phuong was a wonder to open wide her eyes as she asked :

" You didn't read his letter ... Why did you think about that? Do
you know it was the bad wish for him...? " then she shook her head
and

looked at Nguyen, she said:

" I do not understand you; always you had a negative think! "

Nguyen looked up to the ceiling.

" Long was in his habit to write a letter and sent it to me when
he gets ready going to the battlefield or the dead zone. I never get
his letter when he was living in the safety area. " Nguyen replied in a
low voice.

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