it's been more than a year since Cherry and I broke up, although we did not have an official break-up date. Maybe we never needed such a date . to me , it was just a matter of how and when cherry and I would say bye to each other ; I saw it clearly when our relationship was just weeks old, and perhaps cherry felt more or less the same , if otherwise , then it was because I or the new world around her was still a mystery to her and she was too young to see things .
It was purely chance that cherry's life and my life came across: we took the same flight from Shanghai to Vancouver and then connected the same flight to Toronto , our final destination.
after an unplanned meeting with a friend in Shanghai , I hired a cab and rushed to Pudong airport , I was given by myself just enough time to go through the routine things to board a plane. I found the line I belonged to , then I waited patiently, I did not care whether or not the line was moving , as long as I would have a plane to fly me back to Canada. At some point , I noticed two women milling around anxiously , which was of course a very normal thing. there was a young man , average height, early thirties in front of me, and another man , tall , late forties, standing more than a comfort zone away from the man before me. I would not relate one of them to the other in any way if not for the two women came to the two men every few minutes to exchange some words with , which I was not in a mood to overhear at all. The thought of trying to figure out the how the four people were related popped into my mind one second and slipped out the next .
what remained in my mind was two uneasy faces of the two women, some sort of awkwardness or discomfort between the two men and the two farily sized suitcases on the buggy the young man was pushing.
I did not travel a lot, especially by air, this was the second time for me to take an airplane. at one point , I noticed there were two lines , one for business class and the other for economy, and I was not quite sure that I was lining up in the right one , so that I asked the man in front of me that If i was in the right line.
to be continued
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