Task 1a: Boy found love. Friend stole it.

Sorrowful memories flashed in my mind as I saw a familiar face during my birthday party. As I got closer, I realised it was Donavan, my love rival two years ago when I was in secondary two.

I could still remember very well, on the seventh of march 2006, I got to know a decent girl named Lai Hong. She was a very quiet girl and had rosy cheeks. However she had no right leg but she had a fake leg attached. Soon, I found myself infatuated by her beauty and at the same time sympathised with her and soon felled in love with her. We were in the same batch and the same class so we spent a lot of our time together, even during recess. I just felt that she needed someone to care for her as she looked very pitiful and I was just the right person for her.

I spent time every schooling day, waiting for her outside her house to accompany her to school and back home as I was afraid that if she were to met with any harm, I would blame myself for not protecting her. She also often invites me up to her house to have dinner before going back home and her cooking skills were good indeed. We did not rush things and we let nature take it's course, soon we were very close and I told myself I was very lucky to have such a girlfriend.

However one day, in school, I overheard a group of my friends talking, saying that they saw Lai Hong last Sunday at Tampines Mall shopping mall with another guy, who looked rowdy and was big-size behaving intmately. I did not believed what I had just heard and confronted my best friend there, Alan and before walking away, I threw him a punch.

Days passed and I could not get over and accept the fact that Lai Hong was cheating on me. On one of another Sunday, I decided to stalk Lai hong from her house to get my thoughts right and I was very sure that she would not cheat my feelings after we have gone through so much together. It was then I saw it with my own eyes, Lai Hong hugging the big-sized and rowdy guy Alan described outside her apartment. I could not bear what I had just saw and went straight up to Lai Hong to confront her, asking why is she doing this to me after going through so much thick and thin together? It was then I realised that that big and rowdy guy was my primary school friend, Donavan who was involved in an accident during my primary school days and had not met him till today. It was only then I realised that Donavan also had a fake right leg which I guessed was because of the accident he was involved in. It was then Lai Hong told me, " Raymond, I only want to hear the truth. Do you really loved me or were you only loving me because you sympathised me?" I knew the answer in my heart but I could not bear to say it out. Having to see that Lai hong and Donavan were fated to be together, I gave them my best regards and left.

On the next day, I went to school and saw Alan. I apologised sincerely for what I have done and he forgive me with a treat during recess. I learnt not to jump to conclusions upon hearing or seeing things but to get the facts right before doing anything.