~The following day Wednesday Night 29th June Sydney
Tang just got off the plan, from Hong Kong to Sydney. Tang is Chan’s brother. Chan was meant to pick up his brother from the airport today, but instead, he got stuck in Parliament at Canberra, debating to pass a new bill.
Emma ended up, been the one, going to the airport, to pick up Tang. Tang would be staying in Australia for a few months. Just like Emma, Tang is a doctor. He was here to attend a medical conference. He would also be lecturing in the University of NSW, this semester and has taken up a temporary position, in the hospital that Emma works in, mentoring some interns.
Emma parked the car in the airport’s parking lot and then walked into the airport to find Tang. Tang had already gone through custom and was waiting for Emma, near a MacDonald, within the airport. When Emma saw Tang, she started walking towards him.
“Hey, what’s up?” Tang smiled and said
“Hey, how is your flight?” Emma smiled.
“It’s Ok, I get to fly for free, so I get to fly business class, lucky, not as good as first class, but at least it is better than economic class, which I normally take. So, how are you doing” Tang said
“Not bad, how is Carol, is she here with you?” Emma asked
Carol is a white girl, which Tang met the last time he was in Australia, they started dating when they were in Australia and sometime later Carol got a job transfer to Hong Kong.
“Ah, things didn’t really work out.” Tang said
“Really, what happened?” Emma asked. She and Tang started walking towards Emma’s car.
“I think her dad is a racist. I mean, I met her father for the first time, the last time he was in Hong Kong. I mean, I don’t mind he doesn’t speak Cantonese considering the fact he is just a tourist, but when we met, he naturally assumes that the reason my family is Ok, for me been with a girl that is not of my race, is a western influence. That is really offensive and, in my opinion, I think her dad is a racist, because of that. I just don’t want to associate with a person like her father, so I ended it. I mean you don’t see me assuming white people think murder is wrong, due to an Eastern influence.” Tang said
“Oh, he is not a racist that is just ignorance, Tang. Just tolerate him, don’t throw away, what you got with Carol, over this. I think you guys got something good going on there.” Emma said
Tang smiled “Well, it doesn’t matter now. Carol met an American guy name Denny, who worked in the same company, as she does, in Hong Kong. They are already engaged. I am pretty happy for them” Tang said.
“That is nice” Emma said
“Yap” Tang replied
Tang and Emma reached, Emma’s car
“Look, I am sorry for coming late. You know how things are in the ER.” Emma said
“Apparently, I do.” Tang said “But you did have time to get change out of your scrubs.” Tang joked
Emma looked at her cloth. She was wearing an army green T shirt and dark blue jeans, she looked extremely sexy in it, but the fact is, Emma look sexy in anything. Emma’s three main beauty secret is firstly, she already has the genetic combination of a knock out sexy babe, secondly, stay fit and stay healthy, that is also why she is doing kick boxing and Tai-Kong Dow and thirdly, use good moisture cream to keep her skin pretty and healthy.
“Yah, I manage to get change in time.” Emma said
The two of them got into Emma’s car and Emma started driving
Tang insists on paying for the parking fee, within the airport, despite the fact that Emma continued telling him not to do so.
“Is that Chan in the radio?” Tang said when he heard the sound of the news report, coming out of the radio, of Emma’s car.
“Yeah, it is about that bill, that they want to pass, he and the Prime Minister are holding a press conference, right after they finish debating about it in parliament.” Emma said
“I’m turning it up, I want to hear it.” Tang said
“Ok.” Emma replied.
Tang turned the volume, of the car’s radio, up. After the short news report with Chan and the Prime Minister in it, is over, Tang turned the volume down again.
“Man, I can’t believe it. My baby brother is really handling himself, like a real politician.” Tang said
“Yes, I still can’t believe it either.” Emma said
A few minutes later, Emma’s cell phone rang. It was Chan. Emma put Chan on speaker and answered it.
“Hey babe, I heard you on the radio a minute ago, with that press conference.” Emma said
“It is in the news already? We just called that press conference five minutes ago.” Chan said
“Well, I just pick your brother up from the airport, I am driving right now. You want to speak with him?” Emma said
“Oh, cool.” Chan replied
“Chan, how are you doing bro?” Tang said. Tang and Chan started communicating in Cantonese.
“Not bad, how’s your flight.” Chan said
“Awesome, I flew Business class, way better the Economic class.” Tang replied “Oh yes, heard you on the radio, a minute ago.” Tang added
“Yeah, I know, I cannot believe how fast those journalists are. Anyway, are you sure, you won’t be staying with us?” Chan asked
“So what policy, were you guys passing, within the Parliament?” Tang asked
“Dud, I thought you were listening to the radio.” Chan said
“Yeah, but I am not exactly Australian. I do not know the politic of this country.” Tang said
Chan told Tang about the policy they were trying to pass through the parliament today.
“So, you sure you won’t be staying with us?” Chan said, after he finished explain the policy to Tang
“Nan, man, they are paying for my hotel bill, I’ll be stupid not to take advantage of it. We are still going to hang out, I mean you live in the city and my hotel is in the city too. And do you know what the best thing about Australia is?” Tang said
“What is it?” Chan asked
“You know how mum is always going on about find a girl settle down, on a 24/7 basis. And you know how, we can never get into a causal relationship or one-night stands because of that in Hong Kong, because the second we do, mum will be like ‘you found a girl, well, take her home to dinner tomorrow.” Tang said
“I know that was freaky. That reminded me, you remember that time I was chatting with this random girl in Canada, on the internet and then totally out of the blue, she started saying she wanted to come to Hong Kong, so we can have a relationship and we totally freak out?” Chan said
“I remember that and mum’s idea wanting us to take a girl we just met for three days back to our family dinner is” Tang started
“That is just as freaky, as that Canada girl, in the exact same way.” Chan and Tang said together and laughed
“Any because we are in Australia now, I don’t have to worry about mum’s ‘find a girl and settle down’ routing, I am going to spend some of my free time here trying to get laid and have one-night stands, without having to worry about mum, wanting me to get serious with that girl. I even bought a book. It’s in my baggage. It is call 101 ways to pick up an Aussie girl.” Tang said
Emma giggled a little bit, Tang didn’t know about it, but Emma does know how to speak Cantonese.
“I understand you, you know?” Emma said in Cantonese
And I just found out your girlfriend speaks Cantonese and we just had a bunch of guys talk in front of her, very embarrassing.” Tang said to Chan over the phone.
~Two days later Tuesday night, 28th June, Gold Coast
“You are fucked kidding with me, right?” Nichole said
Nichole and her brothers Simon and Mike were in a bar together, sitting with them was Jeffery Smith, the private detective they hired, to dig up dirt on Rita.
“Everything I say here is true. Her real name is Ian Zhan one year ago she legally married her boyfriend up in China. They plan move up to Australia together, they both applied for oversea student, her boyfriend Chung applied for the US, where Ian applied for Australia. In the end, only Ian made it through. Ian’s family spent an entire fortune to get their daughter into this country. Their plans were to get one member of their family to Australia first and then drag out every relative they can, with that connection. Then when the government changed the immigration policy, everything changed. So, she moved to plan B, married some rich white guy. These are the evidences. It is a tape-recorded conversation between Ian and her family from China.” Jeffery said
Jeffery continued talking “Apparently, Ian’s family isn’t too happy, about her plan B either. They have been telling her on numerous occasions, to quit it. Chung and Ian got a divorce two weeks ago, so that Ian can married your father. This is a copy of that divorce paper.” Jeffery said, hanging Nichole, Simon and Mike an A4 size envelope, with a copy of the divorce paper, between Chung and Rita and marriage certificate between Chung and Rita inside.
“What have we done to her, why is she doing this to our family?” Simon said
“Look, I don’t pretend to understand why she is doing stuff like these, I don’t. All I know is that you guys are dealing with one a hell of a master piece of work and no offense, she may as well have put your father under an enchantment spell, because she surly have manipulate him enough to that effect.” Jeffery said
Simon, Nichole and Mike looked at each other, Jeffery is right. Rita had their father totally manipulated. Their father believes he is protecting a weak, innocent and helpless madam in distress, where in reality he is been manipulated by nothing more than a manipulative witch.
“I cannot fucked believe this.” Mike said “What do you think we should do now?”
” Well, for a start, we can’t let dad married that bitch. The chances are, the second she got an Australian citizenship, she would divorce dad and take half of everything he owns.” Nichole said
“Well, we have to do something. I vote that we show dad all of this.” Mike said
“I agree with Mike that is what we should do.” Nichole said
“I don’t know, dad believe in what he believes so much, he is just going to ignore everything else that suggest otherwise, he is not been a rational been. He is probably going to start say, oh, so now we know Rita is escaping from an abusive husband, we have even more reason to protect her and if we ask dad to show us the prove, he will probably say, I don’t need prove, I know her.” Simon said
“And what, so we just sit here and do nothing?” Nichole said
“I am not saying that, I am just saying we need to be more prepared that is all.” Simon replied
“We don’t have all the time in the world, dad and that bitch are getting married soon.” Mike said
“Maybe, we should get dad, to differ the wedding.” Nichole said
“Maybe we can try get dad to put his entire asset under our name.” Simon said
“If her family in China is against what Rita is doing, do you think we can strike a deal with them? We can agree that if they help us, to protect dad’s asset, we will give them that Australian citizenship.” Mike said
The truth is that Jeff’s behavior is a reflection of a situation, where he chosen to firmly believe in the existence of something that is not there, which is he is a knight in shinny armor protecting a weak, helpless and innocent madam in distress and that he is in a relationship where he is a masculine male capable of protecting his woman, who is a weak, helpless and innocent victim that is not capable of protecting herself and require his protecting and by believing in this, for the first time, Jeff is able to felt like a real man capable of protecting a woman. Sabrina might have been great, beautiful, wise and love him, but Sabrina is too much of a strong independent woman, she didn’t need Jeff. In fact, Jeff would be nothing without Sabrina. Jeff felt his masculinity as a male has been threatened in his relationship with Sabrina. He is not the masculine male that is capable of protecting his woman and his woman doesn’t need his protection. However, within his relationship with Rita, Rita created an illusion for Jeff to believe that he is that masculine male, capable of protecting his woman and that his woman needs his protection. Considering the fact Jeff is a conservative, Rita deliberately played right into the western stereotype of the west been a masculine male and the east to be a weak female, in her relationship with Jeff, a stereotype of western conservative culture. And Jeff is so in love with the idea that he is in a relationship, where he is finally that masculine male capable of protecting his woman and that his woman needs his protection, he became blinded to the truth and refuse to believe in anything else.
If Mike, Simon and Nichole could understand what is going on inside Jeff’s head right now, they might be able to finally help their father, but the truth is that, they don’t. “Look, I know it is none of my business, but I know a guy, he is a specialist. He might be able to help you.” Jeffery said, hanging Mike, Simon and Nichole a business card. “He is an old friend of mine.”
Nichole looked at the card. She is not sure how to pronounce the name. The name is not English. “Where is he from?” Nichole asked
“Native Australian, if you want to get stuff like this done, he is the best specialist you got.” Jeffery said
“He is that good?” Mike asked
” Hey, if you can survive the stolen generation, you can survive anything.” Jeffery said
“How much does he charge?” Simon asks
“I’ll give him your number and you can talk price with him, all of his businesses are referral only. So, tell him I introduced you.” Jeffery 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
“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, Saturday morning, Gold Coast
Fifty-six years old, Sir Jeff Stanmore was still in bed, sleeping next to him, was his nineteen years old mistress Rita Zhan, who had successfully conned a mansion and two BMW out of Jeff and once she got an Australian citizenship out of him, Rita would divorce Jeff, kick him out and marry her high school sweet heart.
It was a sunny day and the master bedroom, which Jeff and Rita were sleeping in, had been shined brightly by the sun shine. Everything in the room is white. The bed room is on the second floor of the mansion that Jeff bought for Rita. In two months, Jeff and Rita would be married and Rita would be officially known as Rita Stanmore rather than Rita Zhan. Jeff was such a clueless dumb ass, he had no idea what Rita has prepared for him, Jeff was so happy that he felt he is flying upon the clouds.
Jeff first met Rita when he and his late wife Sabrina decided to rent the spare room of their house to an oversea student, after their elder son Simon gotten married and moved out and Rita happens to be that oversea student who rented the room.
Sabrina was born from an extremely wealthy family, she has been one of the top students
in both primary and high school and after she graduated from University, she was accepted into Harvard and did a Master and PHD in Business there. Sabrina was also a model while she was studying in Harvard, she could have become as big as Megan Gail and Tyra Banks and she knows it, but she chooses to give up on that opportunity and return to Australia, to help Jeff, her struggling truck driver boyfriend, who is her high school sweet heart. Jeff is not a very smart person, he didn’t do well in school either, but his is a good, naïve and innocent man, he is honest and hardworking and that is why Sabrina loved him and was willing to stick by him and make him successful. Rita came to Australia as an oversea student, her plan for coming to this country is simply, to get an Australian citizenship, then move her entire family to this country, she originally plan to get her citizenship via the Uni degree she is doing in this country, but when the Federal government made changes to the immigration policy, the degree she was studying, is no longer allegeable, for her plan, so she moved to step B and stupid Sir Jeff Stanmore become her perfect victim.
Jeff might be a successful businessman who has his own trucking company, but the truth is that Jeff is really an incompetent and naïve fool, who owns all of his successful to his wife. Sabrina is the brain and muscle behind Jeff’s entire enterprise and if it isn’t for Sabrina, Jeff would still be the broke high school graduated truck driver that he was thirty-seven years ago. However, because of Sabrina’s help, Jeff became so successful that he could even afford to buy himself a title as a knight!
However, now in his mid-fifties, Jeff is still as naïve and innocent, as he is thirty years ago and Rita knows about it and she intends to take advantage of Jeff’s innocence, to suit her. Three months after moving into Jeff and Sabrina’s home, Rita started to seduce Jeff. Rita is not the most attractive looking girl on the block, if she is, she would not have to settle for a fifty years old man. Rita is lower average appearance, but still looks reasonably descent and she knows what turns Jeff on sexually and she used it to her advantage, including the way she dress in the house, she always dress and act in a manner that makes her look as if she is a weak, delicate and fragile flower, in front of Jeff and after a bit over half a year Rita’s plan of seducing Jeff worked.
Sabrina eventually did suspect something and hired a private detective to investigate and in return, it was the evidence that Sabrina didn’t want to see, Jeff and Rita making love in a hotel room.
When Sabrina confronted Jeff about it, he openly declared his love for Rita, to his entire family and with that Jeff bought a mansion, which he and Rita went to move in together, as a couple and a few months later Rita also convinced Jeff to put this mansion, under her name, which he did.
Well, after all she given up for Jeff, you can image how furious Sabrina is, she can’t stop
Jeff and Rita from moving in together, but she doesn’t plan to give them the satisfactory of getting married either and she refused to sign the divorce papers.
When it became obvious that Sabrina is not going to sign the divorce paper, Rita started looking for some other naïve rich man to date, behind Jeff’s back, something Jeff never found out about, however Sabrina got so angry, a few month later she died of a stroke, now six months after Sabrina’s death, Rita and Jeff were getting married.
Now, Jeff woke up from the mansion, which he and Rita moved in together as a couple, which is also where they still live, everything within the master bedroom is white, Jeff thinks this is Rita’s favor color.
The doorbell of the mansion was ringing.
Jeff got off bed to answer the door, beside him Rita has been woken up by the ringing door bell.
“Go back to bed.” Jeff said to Rita softly and then he walked out of the room, went down stairs and answered the door.
Jeff opened the door. Standing outside the door, was Jeff’s daughter, Nichole. Now, you remember the rich girl who lives up in Gold Coast that Sam got married to? Well, Nichole is that girl. The truth is that, just like all of Jeff’s children, Nichole is furious at Jeff’s decision with Rita and the main reason she married Sam, is to intentionally make Jeff angry and unlike Hailey, Nichole doesn’t let Sam walk all over her and the second Sam treated Nichole in the wrong way, Nichole would make sure Sam would ended up living on the streets and sitting within the car that is on the side of the street, behind Nichole right now, is Nichole’s current boyfriend, Michael, but Nichole is not telling her father about Michael, because she wanted to piss her father off, with her marriage with Sam.
“Hey, sweet heart” Jeff said
“Hey Dad, I am just here to tell you that me, Simon and Mike are going to spread mum’s ashes tomorrow. I don’t think mum would want you to be there, but I figure I should tell you about it anyway.” Nichole said
Rita walked up to behind Jeff “Oh, hi Nichole.” Rita said
Nichole looked at Rita and smiled “Oh, hi slut.” Nichole said
“Look, I really wish you would be a little bit nicer to Rita, she is a very delicate girl…” Jeff didn’t have a chance to finish his sentence
“Delicate, you are kidding me, right?” Nicole cut right into Jeff’s sentence and said.
Jeff turned his head around to Rita, who was standing behind him “Why don’t you go into the house and grab yourself some breakfast.” Jeff said
“Alright” Rita said and then she walked back into the mansion and then into the kitchen, where she called for the servant to make her some breakfast.
“Look, I really wish you would be nicer to Rita…”Jeff’s sentence is cut off again
“You got to be kidding me, right?” Nichole said
Inside the kitchen Rita heard what Jeff was saying and almost laughed. “Stupid white people” Rita thought to herself.
What Jeff was saying right now, was one of the technique Rita used to seduce him. After spending two years, studying western culture in university, Rita tend to have a better understanding towards western conservative ideology then most westerns themselves. Rita know, as a result of the influence of western conservative culture and the effect of the nineteen century colonial culture, is that the western conservatives ideology constructed, a baseless assumption believe, about what none western worlds are like and because even today many people from a western country never been to the East and therefore have no factual information to contradict this set of garbage assumption that colonial culture and conservative culture has constructed about none western world, their effect still remains, to a certain extent, amount some people and Jeff is one of those people heavily affected by it.
Rita know for a fact that the influence of western conservative ideology’s believe for the west to be the parent and the none west to be the child, an ideology that can be dated back to the dark and middle ages, has led some westerners to have a tendency of thinking any form of modernization that took place, in none western country to be something that come into existence, due to western influence and as a result, a form of westernization, while having no prove to back it up. She still remembers once, when she told a white guy in Uni that in Asian culture, people believe everybody are rightfully equals and the white guy’s response was “So, today’s Asia must be very westernized because that is a western ideology.” In reality, Asian culture has believed in the concept of equality between all man, since thousands of years ago and a concept even spoken in Confusion ideology itself and the fact is that Asia’s believe in equality, has nothing to do with the west. Also, not to mention that in the west, the royal and none royal are still been refer to as “royal and commoners” even today, something a lot of Asians find highly
inappropriate, as they believe the concept of royalty, is a social constructed hierarchy, a social constructed ranking system, which put the people with a royal title at a higher rank and people without that title at a lower rank, but just because somebody rank higher within this social constructed hierarchy do not make then any less as a commoner then the one who rank lower. It is just like in the military, while the General would rank much higher than a private, it doesn’t change the fact they are both commoners still. And the fact that a person would be given the rank of been a royal within this social constructed ranking structure, do not change the fact he or she is still a commoner just like the rest of us. That white guy ended up getting bashed up by a group of very offended Chinese gangsters, a few days later that group of Chinese gangsters all went to jail for physical assault.
However, Rita chooses to use the ignorance of those influences by such western conservative ideology to her advantage, she knows for a fact that as a result of the nineteen century colonial culture and western conservative ideology, is that western conservative ideology believe for the west to be the parent and the none west to be the child and as a result, some westerner have a tendency of believing that all none western country to be sexist and any equality between men and women in the none western world come into existence due to westernization, despite the fact it is not true and western countries use to be sexist too, where women weren’t allow to go to university or to become a doctor. Rita also know for a fact that Australia conservative culture has the tendency of believing that a women is supposed to be a weak, helpless and innocent victim and those who fit the stereotype are real women, while those who doesn’t fit the stereotype are less as a woman, she also know that western conservative ideology’s stereotypical believe about Asia and about women, might be able to lead to some white guy having sexual fantasy about rescuing an Asian woman from her family forcing her into an unwanted arrange marriage or from an abusive relationship, from her husband and Rita intend to use these knowledge she got, in regards to western conservative culture to her advantage, to enchant a white guy and turn him into her lap dog/puppet. Rita knows such technique would never work on white person who lived in an Eastern country, because they know way too much about the Eastern world, but considering the fact Jeff never been to Asia and is a firm conservative that love the motto of “Return to the good old fashion conservative values.” And consider how naïve and innocent Jeff is, Rita believes such enchantment would be easy to apply to Jeff and such enchantment plays a big role, in how she is able to manipulate Jeff right now.
Rita used Jeff’s firm believe in the motto of “Return to the good old fashion conservative value.” to justify her action to her family in China, who are 100% against what Rita is doing to Jeff. Rita’s excuse to her family in China is “Western conservative values, equals the stolen generation in Australia. So, if Jeff would say Good old fashion conservative value, then, he is racist that support the inhuman action taken against the stolen generation.” And Rita makes sure her family knows what the stolen generation in Australia is all about, even so her family still disapprove what Rita is doing and has chosen rather not come to Australia, at the cost of their daughter breaking up some naïve old man’s marriage. To a certain extend Rita, do believe that Jeff is a man who support the Stolen Generation policy, because he is a firm believer in western conservative value, so she got no problem taking Jeff for all he got.
“Rita is a very delicate girl, she is shy and innocent, and she needs to be protected.” Jeff said to Nichole, he and Nichole were still standing at the door way of the mansion.
“Yeah and at the cost of mum’s death.” Nichole said she felt like throwing up.
“Any way, that is enough about me. How are things with you and your husband?” Jeff asked
“Sam is starting up his business. He is opening up his own new restaurant. I think the money you gave him, really help. But I don’t think he would succeed.” Nichole said
“I don’t know, what are you, still doing with that looser.” Jeff said
“Well, I don’t know what you are still doing with that slut…opps, I mean the Virgin Mary.” Nichole said sarcastically.
“Look, Rita really is a lovely girl. She is sweet, innocent and delicate. I just want to protect her. She got nobody in this country, you know? You would really like her, once you get to know her.” Jeff said
“Yeah, in the same time, mum is six feet under.” Nichole said, she sighs “Look Dad, I got to run, I’ll see you around, ok?” Nichole said
“Alright, sweet heart” Jeff said.
Nichole turned around and started walking away from Jeff’s house.
Jeff watched his daughter walk down the drive way, for a few seconds and then he went to join Rita in the kitchen.
Outside the house, Nichole walked into the front passenger seat of the car that Michael was sitting in.
“How is the conversation, with your Dad?” Michael asked
“Don’t ask me that, that man is dead to me, my father is dead.” Nichole said.
Michael drove the car away.
The car is forty-year-old Toyota, it is still in great shape, but its appearance still shows its age.
The car’s radio, was playing Shannon Noll’s song.
“I love this guy, he is so cool.” Nichole said, she started singing along with the radio.
“So, how long are you going to stay, with that looser?” Michael asked, Michael knows all about Sam.
“Until, my dad got a heart attack, after losing his temper.” Nichole said. “I am not going to let that gold digger get a single cent, you know, that right?” Nichole said
“I know.” Michael replied
“I haven’t thought of how yet, but I and my brothers would think of something.” Nichole said
“Well, the first thing you have to do, is to find a way, to get that house out of Rita’s name and that is going to be tough, she is a cleaver woman, she won’t be trick that easily.” Michael said
“I know” Nichole replied.
A minute later, Nichole’s mobile phone rang, Nichole looked at it, it was Sam. Nichole turned down the volume of the radio, so she could hear Sam over the phone.
“Oh, hi baby. How are you doing?” Nichole said to Sam, over the phone
“I am coming back on Sunday, is there anything you want me to get for you?” Sam asked
“Oh, can you get me one of those…what do you call it?” Nichole tried to think of something to get Sam to bring, but couldn’t think of anything, she started tapping on Michael and lip talk to him, telling Michael to help her think of something that is a pain in the butt to get.
“That thing, you saw on the internet the other day. That will take him a whole afternoon.” Michael whispered into Nichole’s ear, when they finally reached a red light.
“You know that thing I saw on the internet on Wednesday?” Nichole said
“What thing?” Sam asked
“What is the matter with you? You never pay attention to, anything I am interest in.” Nichole said
This got Sam worried “Alright, alright, it is those shoes, right? Those red high heels, right? I’ll find a pair for you.” Sam quickly said
Michael couldn’t help laughing.
“Yap those.” Nichole said
“Alright, I’ll find a pair. I promise.” Sam said
Michael was laughing hard.
“What is that noise?” Sam asked, Sam doesn’t know about Michael
“Oh nothing, I am just watching sitcom, on TV right now. Well, love you, bye.” Nichole said
“Bye.” Sam replied
Nichole turned off her cell phone and put it into her pocket.
“That pair of shoes will take him, at least an entire day to find.” Michael said
“That is the whole idea.” Nichole smiled.
Then Nichole and Michael kissed each other on the lips.
It was Friday night, Sam and Hailey were within their apartment, after Sam returns to Sydney today, after spending two weeks up in the Gold Coast.
Like quiet often, when Sam returned to Sydney, he’ll buy Hailey a small gift. This time, it is exactly the same.
“Open it.” Sam said
Hailey slowly unwrap the gift-wrapping paper. Inside it, there was a Barbie doll. Hailey had a Barbie doll just like this when she was a child, it was a doll Hailey had, as far as she could remember and it was her favor toy as a child, as a child Hailey would brush its hair and make pretty new cloth for it, constantly and that was until one night when his father was a
bit short on cash to buy beer and Hailey was standing in front of the liquor store with her father, with her favor Barbie doll, in one of her hands, when her father snatched it out of her hand and sold it to some random guy for twelve dollars, to buy beer. Hailey cried and as a result, when she got home, she got one of the worse beatings in her life. With her father yelling at her “You little spoil brat, after everything I have been doing for you!” and stuff alike the entire time.
Hailey looked at the Barbie doll that Sam bought for her, it looked exactly the same as the one she had while she was a child.
“I got it off a garage sale on my way back to Sydney. I know this doll cannot replace the one you had as a child, but at least it…it is…” Sam tried think of the right words to say
Hailey smiled “It is perfect.” There was a bit of tear in her eyes “How did you know?” Hailey asked
“You told me about it before, remember?” Sam said
“Thank you.” Hailey said.
Hailey and Sam kissed on the lips and then they made love.
Hailey walked into the school.
“Good morning” said Angela, while bumping into Hailey in the school hallway
“Good morning.” Hailey replied
“Jesus! What happened to your eye?” Angela asked, when she saw Hailey’s black eye
“I tripped over the bath tub last night.” Hailey lied. Hailey never told anybody at work, anything about her situation with Sam, as far as they know is that she is in a committed relationship with her boyfriend and that is all.
At lunch time, Hailey walked towards the school’s stuff room to grab her lunch, upon her desk there was a big basket, inside it, there was a dozen of roses, a huge teddy bear and a box of chocolate. There was a card inside the basket too. Hailey took a look at the card, it is from Sam.
“Oh, how sweat, you see my husband would never do something like this for me. He can’t even remember our wedding anniversary. He comes home on the night of our wedding anniversary after work, had dinner and then goes balling with his mates from high school.” Angela said, as she walked up from behind.
Hailey smiled. “Yeah, I really am lucky.” Hailey said softly.
“How many men still remember to send his girl flowers like this after all these years? Angela’s husband can’t even remember their wedding anniversary. I really am lucky.” Hailey thought to herself, ignoring all the physical and emotional abuse Sam do to her, including the fact that one year ago, Sam legally married the daughter of a rich man, who live up in the Gold Coast, for the money, after he only know the rich girl for two months.
Hailey smiled.
School finished around three thirty in the afternoon, by four o’clock, all children in Hailey’s class, have gone home. Hailey quickly packed up her stuff, walked out of the school and started walking towards the train station to go home.
“Hi” A familiar voice stopped Hailey’s footstep. It was Sam.
Hailey turned around. Sam was standing next to his car.
“Hi” Hailey said
“Did you get the basket I gave you?” Sam asked
“Yes, it is nice, thank you.” Hailey replied
“I know you like Lilly, but they only have Roses, but here is a Lilly.” Sam smiled, hanging the one Lilly that he got upon his hands to Hailey.
Hailey took the flower. She smelled it and smiled “Thanks. I love it.”
“I am sorry for losing my temper yesterday I…”Sam’s sentence is cut off.
“It’s Ok.” Hailey said
Sam smiled “I don’t know what I did, to deserve you. You are such a great girl.” Sam said “Come on, let’s go home.” Sam continued
“Ok,” Hailey replied.
“Hey, Hailey!” Emma’s voice, burst into existence, from behind.
Emma noticed Hailey, left her cell phone at her and Chan’s apartment and decided to drive by Hailey’s school, to give it to her.
Sam turned his head around and the second he saw Emma, everything became like a mafia standoff.
“Emma Simpson” Sam looked seriously and said
“Sam Brown” Emma replied
Emma and Sam met twice before, both times Emma saved Hailey from been bash up by Sam.
“What do you want?” Sam asked Emma
“None of your business” Emma replied and then she turned to Hailey. “You left your cell phone.” Emma said
“You stay the FUCK away from my girlfriend, you fucked lesbian!!!” Sam finally lost his temper again. He waved his fist towards Emma, ignoring the fact Emma, is a girl.
Emma made a swift move to the left and kicked Sam in the stomach, her two years of Kick boxing training, was paying off.
Sam felled to the ground. Emma moved back and waited for Sam to make his move.
Sam grabbed a metal bar that was on the ground next to him. He stood up and waved it towards Emma. Emma jumped backwards, and then she kicked Sam twice, once in the stomach and once on his face.
Sam fell to the ground. Emma went to take Sam’s metal bar, away from him and throw it into the river, across the road. Sam was in too much pain to refuse. Emma grabbed the metal bar away from Sam, when she did that Hailey thought Emma, was going to use that metal bar to hit Sam and she quickly ran to Sam’s defense.
“No, Emma, don’t do it.” Hailey quickly said
Emma took a quick look at Hailey and threw the metal bar into the river, as she originally planned and then return to Hailey.
“Come on, you are coming to stay at our place tonight.” Emma said
“I’ll be fine. I’ll go home.” Hailey said
“You sure?” Emma frowned
Hailey nodded.
Emma took a look at Sam, who was still on the ground. “You better don’t let me down punk.” Emma said, and then she walked back to her car and drove away.
“You Ok, sweetie?” Hailey went to Sam’s side and said
Normally, Sam would slap Hailey right across the face, under this sort of circumstances, putting out the anger he gains from such embarrassment on Hailey, but consider what happened yesterday, Sam decided to restrain himself, from hitting Hailey, today.
“I’m fine.” Sam replied as Hailey helped him to his feet.
“Look I really don’t want you to hang out with that Emma girl any more Ok?” Sam said
Hailey nodded “Ok.” She replied.
Hailey helped Sam into the car’s passenger seat, and then she went to sit in the driver seat and drove the car home.
Hailey and Sam live in an apartment within the suburbs. It is actually kind of funny to refer to this place as Hailey and Sam’s apartment, this especially considering the fact Sam only spend one or two days living here, every one or two weeks. Sam worked up in the Gold Coast and that was where he spent most of his time.
Sam and Hailey got off the car.
“Go take a bath, dinner will be ready soon.” Sam said
Hailey nodded.
Hailey walked into the bathroom, inside the bathroom, the bath tub was been filled by steaming hot bubble bath.
“Nobody ever does anything like this for me. I really am a lucky girl.” Hailey thought to herself.
Hailey took off her pink sweater and navy-blue jean and laid it against the chair next to the bathroom’s door. There were a few bruises on her back, she got those from the yesterday, when Sam hit her, there was also a scar mark of been wiped by a belt, she got that from Sam six months ago.
Hailey slowly walked into the water and sat down and relax.
A few minutes later, Sam walked in, with a glass of champagne and gave it to Hailey.
“Dinner would be ready soon.” Sam said
“Thanks” Hailey said
In the same time in Chan and Emma’s apartment
“I heard you went to see Hailey after work today.” Chan said to Emma, they just finished dinner and were washing the dishes in the kitchen.
“She forgot her mobile at our house. I swine by the place she works, to give it to her.” Emma said
“Was Sam there?” Chan asked
“Yes, how did you know?” Emma asked
“I’m psychic. I know everything.” Chan joked “Just a lucky guess. I figure he would show up at the place she works, under this sort of circumstances, just in case Hailey have some good friend that is starting to talk some sense into her.” Chan said
“He showed up, but I am not certain about intention.” Emma said
“I am never certain about his intention either. It is just a guess, assuming Hailey is speaking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, when it comes to her relationship with Sam.” Chan replied
“What do you mean?” Emma asked
“Maybe she is telling the truth when it come to her relationship with Sam, maybe she is not, maybe she is not telling the whole truth, maybe she is telling the whole truth, maybe she is telling some truth and some lie. I don’t know.” Chan replied
“You don’t trust her?” Emma asked
“No” Chan replied
“Well, I believe her. Sam tried to attack me today.” Emma said. It is not something she wants to tell Chan, it just accidentally slipped out of her mouth.
“He what?!” Chan frowned and said
“But it’s Ok, my two years of Tai-Kong Dow and Kick Boxing training paid off. I knocked him down.” Emma quickly said
“Well, are you alright? Are you hurt?” Chan asked
“Yes, I’m fine. I was so good that he didn’t even have an opportunity to touch me.” Emma said.
“Were the kids there?” Chan asked
“No, they weren’t” Emma said
“Look, I don’t want you to have anything to do with them anymore. This has gone way too far. I mean that is attempt physical assault. I mean, I don’t mind giving Hailey a place to crash, when she says she is getting bash up by her guy, assuming she is telling the truth, but that is under the circumstances where I know you and the kids would remain safe. I really don’t want you to have anything to do with her anymore, Ok?” Chan said
“I can look after myself and as for the kids. I won’t let anything happen to them.” Emma said
“You got lucky this time, but what if he brings muscle the next time or a knife?” Chan said
“Look, Hailey is one of my best friends, I can’t just abandon her.” Emma said
“This is not a laughing matter…” Chan’s sentence was been cut off
“I’ll be fine.” Emma said
Chan knows that nothing he say, could stop her, not unless he ties her up in the house and won’t let her leave and he is not intending to do something like that.
Chan sighed “Fine, just promise me one thing. Make sure the kids would remain safe in this Ok?” Chan said
“Of course,” Emma smiled. She kissed Chan on the chick.
“We are out of milk, I am going to the super market down stair to buy some and by the way check out that new music store they got. You want anything?” Chan asked
“Yap, some shampoo too, would you, the brand I normally use.” Emma said
~The next morning, Thursday morning, 9th June, Sydney
Hailey woke up around 7:30 AM in the morning.
Chan and Emma and their children Long and Ming had already woken up and were having breakfast.
Chan was wearing a suit and he had his suitcase, sitting in the chair, right next to him. Emma was wearing scrubs. She is a surgeon, within a hospital. Long, the older of the children, was in school uniform, he was in the first grade. After finishing breakfast Chan would take Long to school and Ming to daycare and then go to work, Emma on the other hand, who only worked part time, would pick the kids up after work.
“Good morning” Emma said after seen Hailey walked out of the room
“Hey” Hailey smiled weakly.
Chan took a look at Hailey and then turn back to his food. He couldn’t be bothered to pay any attention to Hailey.
“Hi” Hailey smiled at Chan weakly
“Mmm” Chan gave Hailey a slight acknowledgment, without even raising his head.
Hailey’s hair was a mess, but she still looked like an angel, she is one of the hottest girls most guys would probably have ever met, in their life.
Hailey came from a family with a drunk and unemployed father, who bashes her and her mother up on a daily basis. Hailey’s mother worked as a maid, to sustain the family income. When Hailey was ten years old, Hailey’s mother died of bow cancer. A few months, after her mother’s death, Hailey eventually got bashed up by her father so badly, she ended up in hospital, she was finally been send away, to a foster home. First, she was been send to live with her long-lost older brother, Johansson, who ran away from home, when he was around Hailey’s age. But a year later, Johansson, who was a Sergeant in the army Commando died, in a training exercise. Since then, Hailey moved from one foster home to another, until she was sixteen, where she worked as a night time checkout girl in a Woolworth Supermarket, to support herself, to finished high school and got into Uni.
Hailey believed there is a formula of life and there is a need to act according to it, as if it is a law and if you don’t act according to it, you will be thrown in jail for the rest of your life and it is probably because of her past, Hailey has become a bit of a dreamer, she started to dream of those fairytale romance and started to believe that is what true love and true happiness is and it became what she want and search for. Hailey loves the story of Cinderella, with the prince charming, coming to Cinderella, sweeping her off her feet and they would live happily ever after. Becoming a fairy tale princess, was what Hailey wanted and searched for. Hailey forgot that fairytales, including Cinderella are just stories, not reality, they are fiction, not none fiction, just like a soap opera, which are fictions, constructed by a group of writers, sitting in a big meeting room, rushing to make up a story line, to fill the audiences’ desires, in next week’s episode. Plus, Cinderella’s story, only say she and the Prince, live happily ever after, but never give a justifiable excuse of, why that is the case.
During her first year in university, when she was eighteen years old, Hailey met Sam, a guy that was studying Hospitality in TAFE, it turns out Sam is the type of guy that would bash up his girlfriend, he has an explosive temper and he has no way or interest in controlling it. If you are walking on the street and you look at Sam the wrong way, he would come up to you and want to bash you up and he has little respect for Hailey or care for Hailey.
But in the same time, Sam is also the type of guy, who would sweep a girl off her feet and since the very first day they started dating, Sam would tell Hailey how beautiful she is, how special she is, take her to romantic restaurant on her birthday, valentine day, Christmas and sometime just for no particular reason and he did everything in his power, to portray himself, as a character that will make Hailey fell safe with him, as a protector and it is probably because of that and her own long search for Cinderella romance, which Hailey wanted and believes in so badly, that Hailey unconsciously trapped herself in this relationship, due to these romantic gestures, which Sam offers. It is just like a loving mother, who put up with a bad relationship, just to be with her kids or a woman, who might put up with a bad relationship, just to stay married, to a rich man, there are some forms of conscious or unconscious pay off, for them to stay in those relationships.
As silly, as this might sound, to some people, Hailey was far too much in the mist of things, to see things clearly. Plus, how would she accept the fact, the fairytale and Cinderella romance, which she believes so much, are just stories?
In relationship to the abusive nature of Sam, Hailey choose to believe that this is merely a “no pain, no gain” situation and choose to believe that, true happiness require sacrifice.
Chan actually liked Hailey, when they first met, but Hailey had been dating Sam, for about a month by then, so Chan moved onto other girls.
Chan noticed there was something a bit off about Sam, right from the beginning, but because he liked Hailey during that time, he believed his judgment might be compromised and therefore decided to keep his silence.
For some odd reason, nobody really understands, Chan became the person, Hailey started to turn to, whenever she has relationship problem with Sam. Despite the fact that Chan moved onto other girls, he originally, still treated Hailey like a friend and as a result, listened to her, wining emotional problem, in the beginning.
However, as time passed, Chan eventually started to lose patient with Hailey, especially considering the fact, Hailey would defend Sam at all cost, when Chan speak ill of him. Plus, Chan never trusted Hailey 100%, he always kept in mind, there might be a slim possibility, with a plot twist and Hailey might turn out to be the one that really have a problem.
Chan is not a mind reader, but his instinct tells him, Hailey is in denial and is lying to herself, but he did not know why and the only advise he could give Hailey is that nobody could help her, other than herself and she need to, admit she got a problem, whatever that is and talk to a psychologist about it. An advice, Hailey was not willing to take up.
Eventually, Chan lost patient with Hailey and no longer want anything to do with her and after Hailey and Sam dated for around one year, Chan cut Hailey off completely and if it wasn’t for Emma, Chan still wouldn’t want anything to do with Hailey.
Emma and Chan met in a bar. When they first met, Chan was looking for nothing more, then a booty call and he got one out of Emma, but one week later, his mother came to visit from Hong Kong and to try to get his mother to stop nagging him, to find a girl and settle down, on a constant basis, he called Emma up and asked her out. Chan only asked Emma out, because he wanted to get his mum, to stop nagging him.
Unlike most people, Chan and his brothers Tang and Wang and his sister Mulan, doesn’t see the important of finding a girl, getting married, starting a family and have kids, as far as they consider, they can live with or without it. So, they are not eager to find a soul mate, in fact, they don’t care whether they find one or not and that worried the hell out of their conservative mother.
Chan was originally planning to dump Emma, the second his mother return to Asia and if it wasn’t because his mother stayed for a three whole month, Chan would never find quality within Emma, which make he finally decided to give Emma a real shot, which is the fact Chan got everything to gain from this relationship and nothing to lose, that he actually enjoy spending time with Emma enough that been in a committed relationship with her, felt opposite to feeling suffocating and considering the fact Emma is knock out hot, making it pretty cool to show her off to his friends, so after two years of dating, one preen-up that Emma signed and that she is Ok for Chan to put their house under Chan’s mother’s name, so he won’t lost everything in a separation, Chan and Emma moved in together.
Then, two years ago, Sam and Hailey moved in together. Before Sam and Hailey moved in together, Sam would only hurt Hailey on emotional bases, but after half a year, they’ve been living together, Sam started hitting Hailey too and those attacks Sam conducted, are physical assault.
Chan started to become the person, Hailey turns to, whenever she is having problem with Sam. Chan still want nothing to do with Hailey, but consider the fact he hasn’t seen Hailey for almost nine years, he figures whatever problem that caused Hailey to trap herself in that relationship, is gone and decided to help her again, by letting her sleep on the couch.
But it turns out, Hailey still hasn’t change and once it became obvious to Chan, he started wanting nothing to do with Hailey again.
Coincidentally, Emma and Hailey went to high school together and now because of Sam and Chan, Emma and Hailey got back in contact and are now BFF.
Chan has already lost patient with Hailey again and if it isn’t because of Emma, he would already gone from only letting Hailey sleep on the couch, to only allow Hailey to sleep in the hallway outside his apartment, to stuffing her in a motel somewhere he can’t see and then finally close the door on Hailey forever, again.
“So, are you going to work today?” Emma said
“Yap” Hailey said
“Are you coming back here, afterwards?” Emma asked
“I’ll go home.” Hailey said
“Why am I not so surprise, it is always the same drill.” Chan said dryly. “I swear to god, if my kids ever ended up in a school you teach in, I am pulling them out of that school, right away.” Chan said
“So, you think, I won’t be a good mother?” Hailey asked
Chan frowned “Are you fucked kidding me? Look at you, you can’t even take care of yourself and you even got a horrible taste in man, A.K.A jackass guy. I swear to god. Why you don’t, just dump his, looser ass, already?” Chan said
“Stop calling him that, he is not a looser. If you keep calling him that, I am going to get angry.” Hailey said
“Why am I not so surprised?” Chan said. He couldn’t be bothered to pay more attention to Hailey and turned his attention to the kids.
“Come on kids. Let’s go.” Chan said.
Chan stood up and started walking towards the front door. The children got off their chairs and ran to the front door.
“I’ll see you tonight.” Chan said to Emma.
Emma smiled “See you tonight.”
Chan and Emma kissed on the lips.
“Bye.” Hailey said
“Yeah, whatever” Chan replied
Then, Chan walked to the front door and open it, then he and the children exit the house and then Chan shut the door behind him. Inside the house, Emma and Hailey could hear the sound of Chan and the children outside for a few seconds and then it started to fade and finally disappear.
“Come on, you have to try my cooking.” Emma said
“Thanks, but I’m not hungry.” Hailey replied
“Try it or I’ll get angry.” Emma smiled
Hailey took a look at Emma. Hailey smiled and try a bit of food. It is only now, Hailey realized how hungry she is, she felt she could eat an entire horse, but she chooses to remain polite and only ate a little.
“It is good.” Hailey smiled after she finished.
“You see, I told you.” Emma replied “Come on, I’ll drive you to work.” Emma said
Hailey let Emma gave her a ride to work.
Hailey is a primary school teacher. Emma drove her car to the primary school where Hailey worked. Hailey got off the car.
“Thanks.” Hailey smiled
“You sure you don’t want to come back to my place, after work?” Emma said
“No, I’m fine, thanks.” Hailey replied
“Alright, I’ll see you around then.” Emma said and then she drove off.
“I remember that and mum’s idea wanting us to take a girl we just met for three days back to our family dinner is” Tang started 
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