One Meet By Chance

Teresa took the pill, smiling silently. 'The man really was thoughtful. He even noticed my diarrhea.'

After taking the pill, her stomach had calmed down once the medicine kicked in.

She took her neck pillow out of her bag and leaned on it comfortably. She slept comfortably after that, probably one of the pill's aftereffects.

She had a dream that hour, a dream that she never had.

There were ghosts surrounding her with bright ugly faces, looking as if they were about to eat her alive. They had talons for fingernails and fangs for teeth, and they neared, about to tear her to pieces.

It was so terrible that their screams echoed in her eardrums.

Jerome Gu's body popped out of thin air. His body was peppered with scars and cuts, white shirt stained with blood. He looked like a zombie that just popped out of film.

He looked at her, holding back his tears as his voice cracked. "Abby, just go..."

She couldn't leave, couldn't bring it in herself to. This was her home. She just couldn't.

Her heart clenched at the sight of Jerome Gu, covered in cuts and bruises.

But even if she wanted to, she couldn't bring it in herself to help him.

Jerome Gu had accepted the family punishment. He did everything to shied her from their family's cruelty. All he ever wanted was for her to live the ordinary life she deserved.

How could she do this? After everything that he'd done for her?

"Brother, no!" Teresa screamed, jolting herself awake. This time, she was back in the airplane, a thousand feet above her home.

The man sitting next to her made an annoyed sound, giving her a look.

'It was just a dream, just a dream.' She calmed herself.

It was one she didn't have since three years.

her, flushing in embarrassment. "It was...I just had a bad

man merely nodded, turning back to the

moment, the pilot had finally

That dream...

returning back to

that were hard to forget,

landed, Teresa came out of the passageway. No more was the silence that she appreciated in the plane. Instead, it was replaced by chatter and noise from different types of people. There were some holding up their signs as they waited for the passengers to come for them, while

walked alone, dragging her luggage. Many drivers of unlicensed taxis waved her way, but

years, and she was finally

to participate in

she was abroad all these years, she majored in jewelry design. She had become very

to take part in behalf of her

long as she got a place, she'd be able to graduate easily and get a job

determined to win

a taxi at the airport gate, Teresa turned her head at a group of

and gentle were hard to miss, even when he mingled with the crowd. This must also be due to the suited men that surrounded

many bodyguards with him, he must

had seen her, started to walk

She furrowed her eyebrows.

to obsess over looks, she couldn't help but appreciate the man's angular jaw line.

just too hot for

to what happened on the plane, Teresa winced

They started to say, only to pause

can say it first," he

just thought that it's a coincidence to see

nice to

man, this one,' she

Gu," she introduced

'Gu?'

but it was too