~During the exact same time at Sydney
Fatima was in the recording studio, recording her new album. Ever since winning Australia Idol three years ago, Fatima is now one of the most popular pop stars in Australia.
Five minutes later, Chan walked in. Chan didn’t make a sound. He stood at the back of the studio and waited.
Fatima did not saw Chan, she kept recording for another fifteen minutes, until she finished.
“Ok, great work Fatima.” The producer said
“Thanks Bart.” Fatima replied
That was all the recording they were doing for that day, they have finished, and everybody were starting to pack up their stuff and leave, including Fatima. It was only now Fatima saw Chan standing at the back of the room.
“Chan!” Fatima yelled happily
“Hey, Fatima, how are you?” Chan smiled, he started to walk forward.
Chan and Fatima knew each other from Uni. After Fatima became a pop star, she used her influence to assist Chan, to get him reelected for MP, for a second term.
“What are you doing here?” Fatima asked
“What, I’ve only been here for a little while and you want to get rid of me already?” Chan joked
“No.” Fatima laughed “Anyway how’s Emma?” Fatima asked
“She is alright.” Chan asked
“You love that Turkish restaurant me and my husband bring you guys to last week? It is good, isn’t it?” Fatima smiled
“It is lovely. Emma is keep going on about, how she wants that Chicken recipe.” Chan said
“I’ll Email her a copy of it, tonight.” Fatima said
“You know?” Chan asked
“Sure, I’m Turkish.” Fatima said “I’ll Email it to her, tonight.” Fatima said
“So, Fatima what have you been up to lately?” Chan asked
“Nothing much, recording this new album and have to start filming the MTV for its first single on Monday and oh yeah, guess what, I am going to have a concert in the opera house.” Fatima said
“Wow that is so cool, I will go for sure, if I got the time and can afford the tickets.” Chan said
“Thanks bro, so what have you been doing lately?” Fatima asked
“Well, I am here talking to you, so I missed today’s episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers rerun.” Chan said
“I swear to god, you are a thirty-two years old and you are still watching Power Rangers?” Fatima said
“It is a classic.” Chan said
“Oh, my god, I can’t believe I help you get into power. Yeah, I feel really comfortable with you running the country.” Fatima said
Chan laughed
“So, Fatima are you still working as a psychologist?” Chan asked
“I still do some counseling work with youth on Thursdays, why?” Fatima asked
Chan hanged Fatima an A4 size envelope.
“What is it?” Fatima asked
“Look at it.” Chan replied
Fatima opened the envelope and had a look at the material inside.
“And you want me to get involve with this?” Fatima asked
“The Senate is blocking our government’s bill. They do not see the important of it, so we have to do it via another form of method, one that doesn’t require passing through Senate. The last thing we need is another Konara riot on our hand, but some of those youth with a gangster tendency both Muslims and none Muslims…well go without saying, they got problems. The Konara riot made it into international news, some people living in other countries, thought Australia was about to break into civil war, when they saw the news. We made it into the international news section that time, but not in a good way.” Chan said
“I know, the drummer of my band, her brother lives in Japan and she was calling back to Australia asking, ‘what is going on in Australia, is Australia break into civil war?’ real story” Fatima said
“I know, anyway, as a Muslim, a successful celebrity and a psychologist, it makes you perfect, to be the face of this campaign.” Chan said
Fatima put the document into her purse. “I’ll think about it.” She said “I’ll give you my response on Monday.” She added
“Thanks” Chan said
“You want to go grab lunch?” Fatima asked
“Oh, thank god, I thought you never ask. I am starving. I haven’t eaten anything since last night.” Chan said
“Why” Fatima asked
“I got too much work to do, so I didn’t eat any. It is a mountain of documents from a bunch of unions and reports from education and financial experts, to be more precise. I need to form a decision based on those documents quickly, argggg my head hurts” Chan said
“What decision?” Fatima asked
“You will read all about it in the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, we still have to debate about it in parliament. I bet the opposition party is going to give us hell of a hard time on this.” Chan said
Fatima and Chan started walking out of the recording studio and started walking onto the street.
“There is a MacDonald across the street.” Fatima said
“Mmm...MacDonald” Chan smiled and started imitating Homer Simpson’s action while thinking about food.
Fatima and Chan started walking towards the direction of the MacDonald restaurant.
“Fatima can you sign our autograph please?” two girls in their early teens, walked up to Fatima and said
“Sure” Fatima quickly replied and quickly signed the girls’ CD and took a photo with them and then the girls left.
“Well, that never happens to me before.” Chan said
“Yes, well, that’s life.” Fatima said “So have you been in contact with Hailey?”
” Way too often, she and Emma are like BFF.” Chan said
“I haven’t seen Hailey in ages, how is she?” Fatima asked
“Well, according to her information, Hailey is still going out with Sam. You know how I told you, Hailey once told me that Sam told her that he is going to married somebody else, who is rich someday and still keep on seen Hailey afterwards and Hailey agree to it? Well, he did it. He married a rich girl call Nichole one year ago, for the money, after only know her for a few months.” Chan said
“And Hailey is ok with that?” Fatima asked
“Why do you think, I say she is in denial? If I don’t know about, she and Sam’s past, I would have guessed, they are most likely to be one of those gold digger couple.” Chan said
“But they are not.” Fatima said
“I never say anything in definite, not unless I can be 100% sure. But no, I think gold digger couple is very unlikely.” Chan said
“I can’t believe she would put up with that shit. I won’t.” Fatima said
“I think she is in denial. I told her since ages ago, if she goes through with this shit, she would be fucked downgraded from girl friend to mistress. But she is like, ‘No it isn’t, I am here first.’ I asked you to talk to her, but you never did, you’re a shrink, man.” Chan said
“I tried. But it is extremely hard to get her to talk about that sort of stuff, if she is not willing to talk to you about it.” Fatima said
“Well, she told me about it.” Chan said
“That is because she feels comfortable with you and trust you.” Fatima said
“Sometime that is not enough. I notice that Hailey is always wears pink, never anything else. I read from somewhere, the two main types of girls that wear so much pink, are the ones who hate men and the ones who are far too romanticize about love. If that is the case, I think she is somebody that is far too romanticized about love and if that is the case, I bet that is why she is still in a relationship with Sam. Based on what I know, Sam seems to be pretty good at sweeping a girl off her feet.” Chan said.
“It could be possible. The Australia Bureau Statistic did a research into this. The research suggests that there is a good chance over 40% of women in this country been in some form of physical or emotional abusive relationship. Some psychologist a few years ago, suggest what might cause such high rate, might be because, chasing after unrealistic fairytale romance or some firm believe that having a doggy man in their life, is better than having no man.” Fatima said
“Sound kind of like my mum, she believes the concept of finding a girl and settles down, is sooooooooo important.” Chan said
“Is that why you ended up with Emma?” Fatima asked
“Nan man, I don’t give a crap about my mum’s none sense conservative crap, about the important of find a girl and settle down and I won’t let her none sense nagging get to me either, but I am not going to rebel against it either. Whenever she talks about this none sense, I just let her words, go in from my left ear and go out from the right ear. I just go with the flow and this is just where the flow has taken me. You should understand, there is not a formula in life, especially when it comes to conservative value, you are a shrink. Getting married is good for some people, bad for others, depends on who they get married to for other people, for some other people it depends on the circumstances, etc. You are a shrink, you out of all people should understand.” Chan said
“I do, so what about Emma, good choice for you?” Fatima asked
“Bloody hell man, stop trying to shrink me. You are always trying to shrink me.” Chan said
“I am not trying to shrink you. I am asking you as a friend.” Fatima said
“Yeah right, well, I am glad I didn’t ask Hailey out. Can you imagine what will happen if I did?” Chan said
“You’ll be heartbroken now.” Fatima replied
“Worse, I’ll have a wife who screws around with some jerk name Sam, who treats her like crap, behind my back. That is ten times worse than having your heart broken.” Chan said
Fatima and Chan walked into the MacDonald restaurant and looked at the Menu.
“What are you getting?” Chan asked
“I probably get a salad. You?” Fatima said
“Big Mac” Chan replied
“You still don’t trust Hailey, do you?” Fatima asked
“I never fully trust anybody. Sometime, you can be wrong about a person.” Chan said
“You know what I mean.” Fatima said
“She can’t even be honest about the way she looks. I only saw her without make up twice. Look, I honestly don’t know, ok?” Chan said
“Alright” Fatima replied
“Oh yeah, guess who just bought the full first, second and third season of Power Rangers on DVD.” Chan said
“Oh, please don’t tell me” Fatima started
“Yap” Chan laughed
“Yes, I feel really confident with you running the country.” Fatima said
~The following day 25th June Sunday afternoon, Sydney
Hailey drove the car back into the garage of her apartment. She has just been to the Supermarket to buy grocery. On Monday, Sam would be going back to the Gold Coast and Hailey was planning to make Sam’s favor dinner again, tonight. After last time’s failure, Hailey wanted to make the night special for Sam. Hailey turned off the car’s engine, took the grocery out of the boot of the car and started walking up the stairs to get to her apartment.
Hailey opened the apartment door and walked in. There were a few empty beers can, on the living room’s table. The radio was playing a Rock n’ Roll CD on top volume.
“Sam, are you home?” Hailey asked
There was no response. Hailey quickly put the grocery into the kitchen.
“Sam, are you home?” Hailey asked again.
There was still no response.
“Sam?” Hailey called again.
Hailey slowly started to walk to the other rooms of the house to search for Sam. She turned down the volume of the radio.
The second Hailey turned down the volume of the radio she heard the sound of a Sam and a woman giggling in her and Sam’s master bedroom.
Hailey walked towards the master bedroom. The bedroom door was closed. Hailey opened the door to the room. Inside it, Hailey saw Sam in bed, with another woman, in Hailey and Sam’s bed. Hailey stood there for a second and froze.
Sam took a look at Hailey “Jesus, don’t you knock?” Sam said
Hailey stood there, she didn’t respond.
“Sweetie, this is Samantha. Go grab me another beer, would you? This bottle ran out and I am having too much fun here, to want to stop.” Sam said to Hailey
Samantha giggled, “You are so wicked.”
Hailey, looked at the table, there were another two empty beer bottles on the small table beside the bed.
“I thought you said you are not going to do this anymore.” Hailey said she looked extremely upset.
“Oh Jesus, go get my beer would you, don’t make me wait.” Sam said
Hailey still didn’t response “I…”
“Jesus, what the fuck is the fucked problem with you, I am paying her by the hour you know? Do you know, how much do a fucked hooker cost, in this country?” Sam finally lost his temper.
This is not the first time Sam slept with a prostitute after Hailey and Sam been together and this is not the first time Sam brought a prostitute home and has sex with her in the bed that he and Hailey share, after they moved in together. Hailey thought she would be used to it by now, but the truth is that she still finds it hard to swallow.
“True happiness required sacrifice.” Hailey told herself in her mind.
Hailey swallow hard
“Alright sweetie, I’ll get your beer.” Hailey said
Hailey started turning around to the kitchen, to go grab Sam a beer. There were tears in Hailey’s eyes and by the time she finally reached the kitchen, Hailey was already crying.
A few seconds later, Hailey pulled herself back together, wipe away her tears, grabbed Sam’s beer from the refrigerator, went back to the master bedroom and gave it to Sam.
“There’s your beer.” Hailey said, the second she walked into the room, Hailey saw Sam having sex with Samantha. Hailey swallowed hard. The second she saw that scene, Hailey felt like crying and she fought hard to swallow her tears, but it was slowly emerging out.
“Thanks sweetie.” Sam smiled and said
“I have to go out, to take a walk.” Hailey quickly said, she walked out of the room, close the door behind her and then she ran out of the house. Tears was floating down the side of ?Hailey’s cheek, she ran all the way into her car and started crying out loudly.
Hailey drove her car away from the apartment and to another suburb nearby and parked the car beside the street and she just stayed there and kept crying for another two hours.
Then, Hailey pulled herself back together
“I am going to go home and pretend none of this ever happened. True happiness requires sacrifice.” Hailey told herself.
Hailey, wiped her tears away from her face, sighed heavily, turned on the car engine and started driving home again, to make dinner. Ten minutes later, her car reached her apartment.
Hailey sighed heavily. She really didn’t want to go into the house, think that Sam and Samantha were still in bed together. Hailey didn’t know how much more of this can her heart take, she took a look at the Barbie doll Sam bought her a few days ago. Hailey knows if she go upstairs and end this relationship right now, all of these romantic gesture would end, once she cut Sam out of her life, Sam would never send her flowers on valentine days, tell her how beautiful she is, sweep her off her feet and she will no longer have a man in her life and she honestly believe, this is what true happiness is and what true love is and she believes in the important of been in a committed relationship with a man.
“True happiness requires sacrifice. Remember what Amelia said when her boyfriend accidentally set the kitchen on fire and Chris asked why she hasn’t dumped him for that, she said ‘sometime there is a need to make compromise.’” Hailey told herself
With that Hailey decided maybe she should go back into the house. She turned off the car engine and decided to get off the car, but then she freezes.
“Unless I want this relationship to end, then maybe I should not go up there. I don’t think I am ready to face Sam yet, even if Samantha is gone. Plus, I am not even sure whether Samantha is still there. But I can’t keep avoiding Sam, that would just finish everything”
Hailey thought to herself. Hailey felt like crying again.
Hailey’s cell phone was still in the car.
She dialed Chan’s number again.
In Chan’s office in the Parliament, he received Hailey’s call. Chan looked at his mobile, he had been spending his entire Sunday working and right now he was still stuck behind his desk, within his office. Chan took a look at his mobile and realized it is Hailey’s number.
“This is why they got caller ID.” Chan said to himself and turned his cell phone off. “To avoid, unwelcoming calls, like this one.” He said to himself
“The number you have dialed is switched off. Please try again later.” The voice came out of Hailey’s cell phone.
Hailey hanged up her cell phone. She doesn’t know why Chan want nothing to do with her anymore. There was a time, when if something like this happens, Chan will pick up the phone and Hailey could tell Chan everything and after talking to Chan, Hailey would be able to face her relationship with Sam again, but now, Chan would hang up on her the first second he hears her voice.
Hailey sighed “Why must everything be so complicated.” She thought to herself.
Hailey got out of her car, locked the door and started preparing herself to walk back into the apartment, in the same time she bumped into Samantha who just walked out of Hailey’s apartment and was moving back to her car.
It was a little bit less confronting for Hailey to see Samantha here.
“Look, I know I am just a prostitute, but you know you can do better than that jack ass, right?” Samantha walked up to Hailey and said
“My partner is your client, do you think…” Hailey’s sentence was cut off
“Guys like that is a onetime client for me only. I won’t take his business again. You deserve better.” Samantha said
“I am happy here. Sam is good to me.” Hailey said, at this stage Hailey thought about that Barbie doll Sam got her on Friday, exactly the same, as the one from her childhood.
“You are kidding me, right?” Samantha frowned and said
“No, I’m not, Sam is great.” Hailey said
Samantha sighed, “If you ever change your mind, this is my business card, so you know where to contact me.” Samantha said, hanging Hailey her card.
Hailey took a look at it.
“Take care.” Samantha said and then she walked away and left.
Hailey looked at the card again, and then she threw it into the bin and walked back into her apartment.
Fatima was in the recording studio, recording her new album. Ever since winning Australia Idol three years ago, Fatima is now one of the most popular pop stars in Australia.
Five minutes later, Chan walked in. Chan didn’t make a sound. He stood at the back of the studio and waited.
Fatima did not saw Chan, she kept recording for another fifteen minutes, until she finished.
“Ok, great work Fatima.” The producer said
“Thanks Bart.” Fatima replied
That was all the recording they were doing for that day, they have finished, and everybody were starting to pack up their stuff and leave, including Fatima. It was only now Fatima saw Chan standing at the back of the room.
“Chan!” Fatima yelled happily
“Hey, Fatima, how are you?” Chan smiled, he started to walk forward.
Chan and Fatima knew each other from Uni. After Fatima became a pop star, she used her influence to assist Chan, to get him reelected for MP, for a second term.
“What are you doing here?” Fatima asked
“What, I’ve only been here for a little while and you want to get rid of me already?” Chan joked
“No.” Fatima laughed “Anyway how’s Emma?” Fatima asked
“She is alright.” Chan asked
“You love that Turkish restaurant me and my husband bring you guys to last week? It is good, isn’t it?” Fatima smiled
“It is lovely. Emma is keep going on about, how she wants that Chicken recipe.” Chan said
“I’ll Email her a copy of it, tonight.” Fatima said
“You know?” Chan asked
“Sure, I’m Turkish.” Fatima said “I’ll Email it to her, tonight.” Fatima said
“So, Fatima what have you been up to lately?” Chan asked
“Nothing much, recording this new album and have to start filming the MTV for its first single on Monday and oh yeah, guess what, I am going to have a concert in the opera house.” Fatima said
“Wow that is so cool, I will go for sure, if I got the time and can afford the tickets.” Chan said
“Thanks bro, so what have you been doing lately?” Fatima asked
“Well, I am here talking to you, so I missed today’s episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers rerun.” Chan said
“I swear to god, you are a thirty-two years old and you are still watching Power Rangers?” Fatima said
“It is a classic.” Chan said
Chan laughed
“So, Fatima are you still working as a psychologist?” Chan asked
“I still do some counseling work with youth on Thursdays, why?” Fatima asked
Chan hanged Fatima an A4 size envelope.
“What is it?” Fatima asked
“Look at it.” Chan replied
Fatima opened the envelope and had a look at the material inside.
“And you want me to get involve with this?” Fatima asked
“The Senate is blocking our government’s bill. They do not see the important of it, so we have to do it via another form of method, one that doesn’t require passing through Senate. The last thing we need is another Konara riot on our hand, but some of those youth with a gangster tendency both Muslims and none Muslims…well go without saying, they got problems. The Konara riot made it into international news, some people living in other countries, thought Australia was about to break into civil war, when they saw the news. We made it into the international news section that time, but not in a good way.” Chan said
“I know, the drummer of my band, her brother lives in Japan and she was calling back to Australia asking, ‘what is going on in Australia, is Australia break into civil war?’ real story” Fatima said
“I know, anyway, as a Muslim, a successful celebrity and a psychologist, it makes you perfect, to be the face of this campaign.” Chan said
Fatima put the document into her purse. “I’ll think about it.” She said “I’ll give you my response on Monday.” She added
“Thanks” Chan said
“You want to go grab lunch?” Fatima asked
“Oh, thank god, I thought you never ask. I am starving. I haven’t eaten anything since last night.” Chan said
“Why” Fatima asked
“I got too much work to do, so I didn’t eat any. It is a mountain of documents from a bunch of unions and reports from education and financial experts, to be more precise. I need to form a decision based on those documents quickly, argggg my head hurts” Chan said
“What decision?” Fatima asked
“You will read all about it in the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, we still have to debate about it in parliament. I bet the opposition party is going to give us hell of a hard time on this.” Chan said
Fatima and Chan started walking out of the recording studio and started walking onto the street.
“There is a MacDonald across the street.” Fatima said
“Mmm...MacDonald” Chan smiled and started imitating Homer Simpson’s action while thinking about food.
Fatima and Chan started walking towards the direction of the MacDonald restaurant.
“Fatima can you sign our autograph please?” two girls in their early teens, walked up to Fatima and said
“Sure” Fatima quickly replied and quickly signed the girls’ CD and took a photo with them and then the girls left.
“Well, that never happens to me before.” Chan said
“Yes, well, that’s life.” Fatima said “So have you been in contact with Hailey?”
” Way too often, she and Emma are like BFF.” Chan said
“I haven’t seen Hailey in ages, how is she?” Fatima asked
“Well, according to her information, Hailey is still going out with Sam. You know how I told you, Hailey once told me that Sam told her that he is going to married somebody else, who is rich someday and still keep on seen Hailey afterwards and Hailey agree to it? Well, he did it. He married a rich girl call Nichole one year ago, for the money, after only know her for a few months.” Chan said
“And Hailey is ok with that?” Fatima asked
“Why do you think, I say she is in denial? If I don’t know about, she and Sam’s past, I would have guessed, they are most likely to be one of those gold digger couple.” Chan said
“But they are not.” Fatima said
“I never say anything in definite, not unless I can be 100% sure. But no, I think gold digger couple is very unlikely.” Chan said
“I can’t believe she would put up with that shit. I won’t.” Fatima said
“I think she is in denial. I told her since ages ago, if she goes through with this shit, she would be fucked downgraded from girl friend to mistress. But she is like, ‘No it isn’t, I am here first.’ I asked you to talk to her, but you never did, you’re a shrink, man.” Chan said
“I tried. But it is extremely hard to get her to talk about that sort of stuff, if she is not willing to talk to you about it.” Fatima said
“Well, she told me about it.” Chan said
“That is because she feels comfortable with you and trust you.” Fatima said
“Sometime that is not enough. I notice that Hailey is always wears pink, never anything else. I read from somewhere, the two main types of girls that wear so much pink, are the ones who hate men and the ones who are far too romanticize about love. If that is the case, I think she is somebody that is far too romanticized about love and if that is the case, I bet that is why she is still in a relationship with Sam. Based on what I know, Sam seems to be pretty good at sweeping a girl off her feet.” Chan said.
“It could be possible. The Australia Bureau Statistic did a research into this. The research suggests that there is a good chance over 40% of women in this country been in some form of physical or emotional abusive relationship. Some psychologist a few years ago, suggest what might cause such high rate, might be because, chasing after unrealistic fairytale romance or some firm believe that having a doggy man in their life, is better than having no man.” Fatima said
“Sound kind of like my mum, she believes the concept of finding a girl and settles down, is sooooooooo important.” Chan said
“Is that why you ended up with Emma?” Fatima asked
“Nan man, I don’t give a crap about my mum’s none sense conservative crap, about the important of find a girl and settle down and I won’t let her none sense nagging get to me either, but I am not going to rebel against it either. Whenever she talks about this none sense, I just let her words, go in from my left ear and go out from the right ear. I just go with the flow and this is just where the flow has taken me. You should understand, there is not a formula in life, especially when it comes to conservative value, you are a shrink. Getting married is good for some people, bad for others, depends on who they get married to for other people, for some other people it depends on the circumstances, etc. You are a shrink, you out of all people should understand.” Chan said
“I do, so what about Emma, good choice for you?” Fatima asked
“Bloody hell man, stop trying to shrink me. You are always trying to shrink me.” Chan said
“I am not trying to shrink you. I am asking you as a friend.” Fatima said
“Yeah right, well, I am glad I didn’t ask Hailey out. Can you imagine what will happen if I did?” Chan said
“You’ll be heartbroken now.” Fatima replied
“Worse, I’ll have a wife who screws around with some jerk name Sam, who treats her like crap, behind my back. That is ten times worse than having your heart broken.” Chan said
Fatima and Chan walked into the MacDonald restaurant and looked at the Menu.
“What are you getting?” Chan asked
“I probably get a salad. You?” Fatima said
“Big Mac” Chan replied
“You still don’t trust Hailey, do you?” Fatima asked
“I never fully trust anybody. Sometime, you can be wrong about a person.” Chan said
“You know what I mean.” Fatima said
“She can’t even be honest about the way she looks. I only saw her without make up twice. Look, I honestly don’t know, ok?” Chan said
“Alright” Fatima replied
“Oh yeah, guess who just bought the full first, second and third season of Power Rangers on DVD.” Chan said
“Oh, please don’t tell me” Fatima started
“Yap” Chan laughed
“Yes, I feel really confident with you running the country.” Fatima said
~The following day 25th June Sunday afternoon, Sydney
Hailey drove the car back into the garage of her apartment. She has just been to the Supermarket to buy grocery. On Monday, Sam would be going back to the Gold Coast and Hailey was planning to make Sam’s favor dinner again, tonight. After last time’s failure, Hailey wanted to make the night special for Sam. Hailey turned off the car’s engine, took the grocery out of the boot of the car and started walking up the stairs to get to her apartment.
Hailey opened the apartment door and walked in. There were a few empty beers can, on the living room’s table. The radio was playing a Rock n’ Roll CD on top volume.
“Sam, are you home?” Hailey asked
There was no response. Hailey quickly put the grocery into the kitchen.
“Sam, are you home?” Hailey asked again.
There was still no response.
“Sam?” Hailey called again.
Hailey slowly started to walk to the other rooms of the house to search for Sam. She turned down the volume of the radio.
The second Hailey turned down the volume of the radio she heard the sound of a Sam and a woman giggling in her and Sam’s master bedroom.
Sam took a look at Hailey “Jesus, don’t you knock?” Sam said
Hailey stood there, she didn’t respond.
“Sweetie, this is Samantha. Go grab me another beer, would you? This bottle ran out and I am having too much fun here, to want to stop.” Sam said to Hailey
Samantha giggled, “You are so wicked.”
Hailey, looked at the table, there were another two empty beer bottles on the small table beside the bed.
“I thought you said you are not going to do this anymore.” Hailey said she looked extremely upset.
“Oh Jesus, go get my beer would you, don’t make me wait.” Sam said
Hailey still didn’t response “I…”
“Jesus, what the fuck is the fucked problem with you, I am paying her by the hour you know? Do you know, how much do a fucked hooker cost, in this country?” Sam finally lost his temper.
This is not the first time Sam slept with a prostitute after Hailey and Sam been together and this is not the first time Sam brought a prostitute home and has sex with her in the bed that he and Hailey share, after they moved in together. Hailey thought she would be used to it by now, but the truth is that she still finds it hard to swallow.
“True happiness required sacrifice.” Hailey told herself in her mind.
Hailey swallow hard
“Alright sweetie, I’ll get your beer.” Hailey said
Hailey started turning around to the kitchen, to go grab Sam a beer. There were tears in Hailey’s eyes and by the time she finally reached the kitchen, Hailey was already crying.
A few seconds later, Hailey pulled herself back together, wipe away her tears, grabbed Sam’s beer from the refrigerator, went back to the master bedroom and gave it to Sam.
“There’s your beer.” Hailey said, the second she walked into the room, Hailey saw Sam having sex with Samantha. Hailey swallowed hard. The second she saw that scene, Hailey felt like crying and she fought hard to swallow her tears, but it was slowly emerging out.
“Thanks sweetie.” Sam smiled and said
“I have to go out, to take a walk.” Hailey quickly said, she walked out of the room, close the door behind her and then she ran out of the house. Tears was floating down the side of ?Hailey’s cheek, she ran all the way into her car and started crying out loudly.
Hailey drove her car away from the apartment and to another suburb nearby and parked the car beside the street and she just stayed there and kept crying for another two hours.
Then, Hailey pulled herself back together
“I am going to go home and pretend none of this ever happened. True happiness requires sacrifice.” Hailey told herself.
Hailey, wiped her tears away from her face, sighed heavily, turned on the car engine and started driving home again, to make dinner. Ten minutes later, her car reached her apartment.
Hailey sighed heavily. She really didn’t want to go into the house, think that Sam and Samantha were still in bed together. Hailey didn’t know how much more of this can her heart take, she took a look at the Barbie doll Sam bought her a few days ago. Hailey knows if she go upstairs and end this relationship right now, all of these romantic gesture would end, once she cut Sam out of her life, Sam would never send her flowers on valentine days, tell her how beautiful she is, sweep her off her feet and she will no longer have a man in her life and she honestly believe, this is what true happiness is and what true love is and she believes in the important of been in a committed relationship with a man.
With that Hailey decided maybe she should go back into the house. She turned off the car engine and decided to get off the car, but then she freezes.
“Unless I want this relationship to end, then maybe I should not go up there. I don’t think I am ready to face Sam yet, even if Samantha is gone. Plus, I am not even sure whether Samantha is still there. But I can’t keep avoiding Sam, that would just finish everything”
Hailey thought to herself. Hailey felt like crying again.
Hailey’s cell phone was still in the car.
She dialed Chan’s number again.
In Chan’s office in the Parliament, he received Hailey’s call. Chan looked at his mobile, he had been spending his entire Sunday working and right now he was still stuck behind his desk, within his office. Chan took a look at his mobile and realized it is Hailey’s number.
“This is why they got caller ID.” Chan said to himself and turned his cell phone off. “To avoid, unwelcoming calls, like this one.” He said to himself
“The number you have dialed is switched off. Please try again later.” The voice came out of Hailey’s cell phone.
Hailey hanged up her cell phone. She doesn’t know why Chan want nothing to do with her anymore. There was a time, when if something like this happens, Chan will pick up the phone and Hailey could tell Chan everything and after talking to Chan, Hailey would be able to face her relationship with Sam again, but now, Chan would hang up on her the first second he hears her voice.
Hailey sighed “Why must everything be so complicated.” She thought to herself.
Hailey got out of her car, locked the door and started preparing herself to walk back into the apartment, in the same time she bumped into Samantha who just walked out of Hailey’s apartment and was moving back to her car.
It was a little bit less confronting for Hailey to see Samantha here.
“Look, I know I am just a prostitute, but you know you can do better than that jack ass, right?” Samantha walked up to Hailey and said
“My partner is your client, do you think…” Hailey’s sentence was cut off
“Guys like that is a onetime client for me only. I won’t take his business again. You deserve better.” Samantha said
“I am happy here. Sam is good to me.” Hailey said, at this stage Hailey thought about that Barbie doll Sam got her on Friday, exactly the same, as the one from her childhood.
“No, I’m not, Sam is great.” Hailey said
Samantha sighed, “If you ever change your mind, this is my business card, so you know where to contact me.” Samantha said, hanging Hailey her card.
Hailey took a look at it.
“Take care.” Samantha said and then she walked away and left.
Hailey looked at the card again, and then she threw it into the bin and walked back into her apartment.
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