Love Began with the First Meeting

Shawn agreed reluctantly.

Brian gave Shawn a few last minute reminders before hanging up. That was only when Brian picked up his phone to call Molly back.

When Molly picked up the call, she didn't say a word. Brian asked in a low voice, "What's up?"

"Brian, go online. See it for yourself," Molly burst into tears before she could finish. She didn't really care about anything else - she was just feeling too harassed and dejected. While she partially didn't mind being called so many names by other people - she was already used to self-hatred - what bothered her were all the made-up rumors that people were believing to be true. They were saying she had an affair with Spark and that she had left him for Brian. She didn't sound like a very good person in that version of the story.

Brian frowned when he heard Molly's voice shaking and crying over the phone. He'd never heard Molly like this before even if she was always down. Brian went on his computer to look for what Molly was talking about. He skimmed through the post briefly after which he said coldly, "You are not the other woman."

He hung up the phone right away without another word.

Tony could see that Brian was furious. He had a dark and ominous look on his face. Tony tried to sneak a glance at his computer screen but it was too far away for him to see clearly. But one thing Tony was sure about was that this was definitely about Molly.

Still looking as menacing as before, Brian read through the comments - the same ones that Molly had just read. Even as Brian was reading, the comments and views were just getting higher and higher. Brian's face darkened and proceeded to type a few commands and codes. Once he pressed enter, the website had frozen and so had all the other websites that republished the story.

While his face looked calm, his eyes looked livid. Without turning to Tony, Brian said, "Choose a place and tell all of the presses in A City that I'm holding a press conference."

shocked, Tony opened his mouth as if to say something but decided against it. He immediately went on to do just as what Brian had ordered.

***

still

was fuming as looked through page after page. In his mind, he was cursing whoever was behind this. When Manny had just clicked on another page to go to, a website error occurred. He tried to click again but

his laptop closed. He turned his glance towards Spark

explode. Manny immediately stood up to get a cup of water for Spark. He went over to Spark and reached out

when his dry throat felt a bit better.

was about to give something away but he

ask any more questions as he stared at Manny with his

porridge for you or maybe some soup. The doctor

lightly but his eyes had just turned darker. If Molly was here, she would have known to make porridge or soup for him. He had gotten so used to that kind of life - the life that he had been living for the past four years - that he had forgotten that he had lived liked this his whole life. Much longer than the four years he had spent with Molly.

one last look at Spark, sighing before going to buy his

the window and watched the gloomy weather. It felt like he was watching his mind. He had been so

awake, all his mind could think of was Molly: Molly smiling, Molly angry, Molly crying, anything Molly. His mind wouldn't stop thinking of Molly so he had nowhere else to

to himself,

silence could be heard. A flash of pain and bitterness flashed across