Chapter 82
Returning back to the still night Hui Lik's voice sings throughout the rooftop as he plays on the guitar.
Miss Wong had an amazed expression as she heards Hui Lik's singing, the way each word touched her heart profoundly.
Looking at you from the back, my body acts in funny ways
Looking at you from the front, my hands are trembling
Looking at your smile, I can't help but be happy for days
I'm utterly speechless whenever I'm speaking to you
I'm all over the place whenever I bump into you
It's my life's finest moment when I touched your face
If you allow me, to hold you just a bit closer
I wish to use ten years of my life
in exchange with the ten days I'm with you
I have to tell you, your true meaning
Everytime my heart skips a beat
The uncertainty; it's hard to control
You're the blood running through my body
I have to tell you, my story
This second, even if my heart stops beating
In my memory; subconsciously
Love lives inside my heart for eternity
I'm utterly speechless whenever I'm speaking to you
I'm all over the place whenever I bump into you
It's my life's finest moment when I touched your face
If you allow me, to hold you just a bit closer
I wish to use ten years of my life
in exchange with the ten days I'm with you
I have to tell you, your true meaning
Everytime my heart skips a beat
The uncertainty; it's hard to control
You're the blood running through my body
I have to tell you, my story
This second, even if my heart stops beating
In my memory; subconsciously
Love lives inside my heart for eternity
Time can fly with a blink of an eye
Life and death; no one can foretell
Only this feeling of love will forever stay the same
As Hui Lik finishes his song Miss Wong could feel all her bottled up emotions moving her with warmth and affection for the lighted figure in front of her.
She tightly hugs her elbows with her hands, pursing her lips slightly as she still tries to withhold all these overwhelming feelings inside that's pushing away her resistance in her walled heart.
In the stillness of the night Hui Lik puts down the guitar that's strapped on his body against the railing next to him.
Putting the guitar down he takes steps towards Miss Wong, each step he could feel the heaviness of his feet as his heart beats strongly thumps in his chest.
As he finally stops his strides as he reaches in front of her, taking her delicately soft hands into his and looking with longing affection into her eyes.
In that silence as he watches into her eyes Hui Lik remembers back to the practice room early in the morning.
"But I'm so scared to confess my love for her," he confides to Tony.
"Hui Lik, you're already a great man," Tony tells him. "Your love for her is not the result of 'strategies' but has become a 'truth'."
During this moment with her Hui Lik feels the dryness of his mouth as he looks into those warm eyes filled with eagerness for him to speak.
"I'm a man of simple words, and doesn't know flattery," he states to her in a slow voice as his beating heart resounds in his chest, "but since the first time I saw you...I have fallen in love with you."
As he says to her, each word that comes from his heart felt so difficult to express out of his mouth.
Each second that passes as the words flow out felt like an eternity in this still night of silence.
But all this anxiety as his anxiety warms his body makes him forget all the thoughts in his body as he focuses his attention into those warm eyes that electrifies him with courage.
"I know," there was a quietness to her tone then came a long pause, "...I can't accept your love."
She didn't dare to look into those longing affectionate eyes that watch her, afraid that it'll reveal all the feelings she tried to hide inside.
There came a long silence in this stillness, a thousand thoughts went past Hui Lik's mind as he tried to comprehend.
He wants to ask why or at least say something to break the awkward tension that he could almost feel weighing heavily on his body as if the air solidified.
Miss Wong wants to run away from disappointing his loving heart for her.
Yet it was as though she couldn't command her feet to run away as she freezes on the concrete ground.
The silence was like a thousand arrows piercing through Hui Lik's body.
Even one second feels like a million years of waiting in the cold and under heavy rains.
"Fei Fei, when our eyes met on that day," calling her nickname he spoke with sincerity, "I want to know you...to be close to you...Yet I was so afraid at the same time, because I thought...I had nothing to offer you."
She had an astonished expression as she looked into those warm sincere eyes.
The words he spoke touched her on the deepest level, her eyes grew slightly teary as she listened and saw him opening to her vulnerably.
She wanted to say something to stop him, but it was as though her voice was gagged in her throat, unable to be spoken.
"It's true I don't have great wealth to satisfy your every whim nor great power to protect you," he said to her holding her hands.
"You're so silly Lik," Miss Wong smiled with a chuckle at how Hui Lik can be such a fool sometimes, "I don't want that."
"You're right," he said to her with a joyful smile, "but I love you with all my heart. And everything I have I want to share with you."
It was in this truthful honesty that Miss Wong felt her heart warms to the man in front of her.