The Fall

It was another weekend morning. As usual, I’m at the mall to shop for my groceries. I’m always up early to shop as I wanted to avoid the weekend crowds. Then I saw the banner. My ex’s company was having some promotion for their products. My heart started thumping. “No, I would not see him here,” I thought to myself. It was unlikely for me to see him there as he was already someone in top management and a manager would not be going down to inspect on his employees on a weekend.

My heart was still beating very fast. I braved myself and wanted to walk past the promotion booths as fast as I could. I was about to breathe a huge sigh of relief until I saw a familiar face. It was my ex. I turned around and ran off. I hate him so much. He made my heart beat very fast until I felt like having chest pains. I had my most painful experience in life because of him.

I was in my old t-shirt, faded shorts, wearing ugly flip-flops and looking awful. I had been putting in 18 hours of work and studying for the week. Eyebags and fatigue were obvious on my face. There’s no way I would let him see me like this. He would start laughing and think that my life is bad without him.

I started to run to avoid him seeing me. Then I slipped and fell on the floor. I fell hard on my knees with both my hands on the floor trying to stop my face from hitting the floor. It was a very bad fall. My knees were bruised horribly and I saw bleed slowly trickling from my right elbow. I still had to make my escape. Still crawled on the floor, I saw a pair of shoes. It was too late. He was standing in front of me.