Page 25 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

flowers blooming, Nguyen always picks a beautiful, sensitive
flower with his careful, brought it into the literature class, and
placed on the Nguyen-Thi-Dung’s table while she was not there.
Most the time he was pleasure in quiet to watch her wonderful
eyes which opened wide to look at the sensitive flower. She
always smiled after she had pinned a purple flower on her hairs
and took an around look at her investigation at her classmates,
then she sat down in silence.

Nguyen felt in love with her attracted smile, soft voices
and she was a beautiful young lady in class with the long dark
hairs that were running on her shoulders and covered her curve
narrow.

Nguyen paid attention to her in silent to watch her as he
loved to look at the purple color of the sensitive flowers and do
not want to touch it. Cause, if he picks a sensitive flower without
careful, he will make the petals drop out of its ball. Also, the
sensitive leaves around a flower will close, and the thorns will
bite on his fingers with a little blood.

Nguyen thought Nguyen-Thi-Dung might have the same
emotions of the sensitive flowers. Therefore he does not want to
lose her and does not want to touch, because either way his
feeling will get hurt, and will be the widely empty soul. So he
kept the silent love for the friendship and closed with his
dreaming hope for the time become happiness in watching and
waiting.

Nguyen-Thi-Dung was not back to Ban-Me-Thuot high
school after summer 1958 like the autumn started in Nguyen’s
heart with the first fading leave sliding through his soul, which
brought the sorrow in his eyes.

The flamboyant branches still carried few red flowers in the
Ban-Me-Thuot high school front yard as Nguyen hopes Nguyen-
Thi-Dung will be back the school to make the time running fast

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