A walk to remember

Gaining back her consciousness, her eyes got a shot of the knife buried deep in her lover's chest with the handle projecting outward. His blood trickled down the small portion of the exposed blade, gathering up in large volume and spreading to the floor under her feet.
She trembled and sagged against the wall with a gagging sound.

"Lord Jesus... Lord Jesus... What have I done?" the box of ring in his chest pocket fell as she watch her lover's mouth slowly close after gasping hard to keep his life.

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Earlier that week, he had promised to take her out on a weekend tour.
Eleko beach was his secrete finale at sunset where he would be
proposing to her.


When the first morning light broke, he remained lazily in bed, hugged the blanket more closely to his chest with one hand. As he extends the other across the bed trying to lay hold on her soft body, he met an empty space. Opening his eyes, he got a blank stare from her sitting at the edge of the bed. The demeanor which seems pregnant with the poser -- aren't we forgetting something?-- threw him from bed.
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His humble background embedded in him a great deal of love and care which he committed into their relationship. This endears her more to him, further strengthening the bond of the nine month relationship.
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Setting out wasn't much of a problem, but where to start from. They drove out as soon as he wipe-clean the car's wind guard.
The cooler in his boot was stocked with some cans of beer and fruit juice and a pack of her favorite grape berries.
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They had driven into the parking lot of the third mall with a plan to window-shop again as they did the first and the second when she felt a rumble in her stomach.
The eatery behind the mall was their next option.
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They cornered the long straight wall which gives way to the main door when the question was thrown at her out of nowhere.

"Do you think this too shall pass?"

She heard it long time ago when she was just 10 years old and shortly after, the death was announced of John, his childhood friend with whom she had series of childhood de facto matrimony.
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Looking from left to right, she panicked but was able to conceal it from him as they sat in one of the empty chair.
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She had excused herself into the rest room, but He tensed up
worryingly at the thirty-first minute of her absence.
Checking on her was his next move.
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He was momentarily stumped at the sight of her talking to an image akin to her's in the mirror.
His head got swollen; he felt numb, but his legs couldn't move him to the exit.
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They both blacked out, but her lover's path would be leading to an eternal bliss.

-END-

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