love ultimatum

love and trust, it comes together and it cannot be separated...here is a story of the betrayal of both...

this young couple, shaun and michelle has dated each other since high school and eventually, as time goes by, they moved to college and then entered the working life...michelle is just an ordinary girl, working as a manager in a small restaurant and shaun is a chef in a 5 star hotel...all these while, they had been through so many hard times together and together they fought through so many crisis in terms of their relationship, family and friends...their love for each other has come to a state where an understanding occur between the both of them as there is no need for words or actions to tell that they love and need each other, they just know it in their hearts...no matter what hit them, their relationshis were unharmed, hearts so strongly bound together...

one day, as shaun fetches michelle home after dinner, he told her a news which he was very excited and happy about...he said, "i received an offer to go to france to move on further in my career and this is definately a golden oppurtunity where i just cannot miss"...michelle replied, "i...see...but wouldnt there be any room for further advancement of your career here?, are you really willing to leave everything behind?"...shaun quickly intercepts, "of course the outcome of it would be very different if i were to go to france and i was expecting you to come with me and besides you, basically theres nothing much that is holding me back"...michelle then said, " but...its so sudden...going to france with you means i would be leaving behind my job, family and friends here...and...i think i really need time to think about it...but its not that i does not want to go with you, its just, there is complications to it that needs meticulous consideration"... the conversation between that night ended there...

in the end, out of sudden change in plan, shaun need to leave next week or the deal will be off and michelle still couldnt make any solid decision yet and as time pushes in to the limit, shaun then decided to give michelle the remaining time to think about the decision carefully and he would be waiting for her in the airport on that dat and he was sure that michelle's decision was to go with him...as that awaited day came by...shaun was eagerly waiting for michelle...and here she is, tapping his his shoulder from his back...she was lost for words when he turned and looked at her... and all he sees is tears...she couldnt say anything buy crying, helding a glass bottle containing hundreds of cranes and each of it containing her wishes for him...in the end, as it is time for shaun to board the plane...all michelle said to shaun is, "best wishes from me to you, always..." and in shaun went after kissing her on her forehead...

after shaun reaches france, he was so into his work and carreer and he had almost no time to even contact her in any way except a few emails in a year...each day, michelle is missing shaun, hoping shaun would understand and wishes that he has everything he was after...true enough, shaun was a person who takes on his career seriously and love was secondary to him...

after 5 long years, michelle is still missing shaun dearly each day...re-reading his previous mails over and over again, it has been a whole year now that shaun did not send her a word at all...one day, she was walking around the mall and he saw a guy which looks like shaun from the back...she taught that it is impossible to be him...but curiosity drove her forward and have a better look....surprisingly, it was really shaun....and...he was not alone...he was with someone else...michelle asked him whether they can have a talk together....and shaun agreed...

after shaun told her what actually happened, michelle was once again lost with words...she stood up and walked away....tears rolling down her cheek, her heart was being pierced of thousand of needles...the truth is that before shaun left for france, he already had an affair with this girl...but then, all the thing he went through with michelle couldnt be forgotten therefore he made his decision to accept the offer to france just to give this relationship another chance to start all over again in the new environment...but as michelle did not agree to go with him...in the end, it was the girl that went with him and the fact that they had been together for 5 years now and this time the purpose of coming back here is that they are getting married...

so, this is where the story ends...from this story...all i can see is that love, relationship, memories all consists of lies...in this world, how many can actually find true love and true happiness?...how can we actually have faith in love as there is nothing there that is worth our faith and hope?...i would never know how my story would end and all i could do is just hope that it doesnt end this way...