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Wufei...

"Do you, Sally Po, take this man…"

"Aieee!" Another board was broken into pieces. Sweat pouring down his face, his breath was coming out in rapid succession… but Wufei was oblivious to anything as he performed another round of karate stance.

"…To be your beloved husband, to have and to hold…"

"Haaaa!" Wufei executed a successive flying kicks, then broke a block of hardened cement this time. He was panting heavily as he paused after the final blow. His sweat was dripping down on the broken pieces.

"…In sickness and in health, till death do you part?"

Wufei slowly stood up and went towards the bench where he got the towel to wipe his sweat.

"…I do."

He sat down then slid the towel down, covering half of his face. He remained that way while staring at nothingness for quite sometime.

Those words rang in his head since that morning. Over and over the scene was playing in his mind: Sally walking down the aisle, looking regal in her wedding gown. She looked more elegant than he could never imagined. Her eyes were full of love as she made her way down the aisle towards the man waiting for her at the altar.

Sally Po married another man. A man who was her colleague in the preventer.

Wufei witnessed it all. Standing at the back pew of the church, he witnessed the whole ceremony. Even congratulated the newly weds afterwards just to let them see that nothing was wrong with him.

But nobody knew of the pain he was feeling inside. Nobody knew. For, although he maintained a calm composure outside, deep inside he was tearing up in two.

He straightened up and maintained the same bravado he had mastered through the years. He was trained since childhood to shroud his emotions. He made his way towards the pagoda where he collected the rest of his belongings before going home.

Huh, home… and when did I ever have a home to go to?

He flung his bag on his shoulders and after paying his respects to the altar, made his way through the park towards his apartment. Every step he took, he felt like he was stepping on his own heart.

For years he thought he and Sally developed a certain kind of understanding. He felt emotions, which he thought he was not capable of feeling. He had learned to trust another human. He had learned to open up.

He was gravely mistaken. Sally loved him only like a brother… a younger brother.

Wufei let out a deep sigh. This was nothing new to him so what was he fretting about. He had no one and nothing in the first place. He was a nobody to start with. Fighting had always been his life, and always would be. Marriage and commitments were out of the question. Sally was happy where she was. Leave it at that.

He stopped by the tree at the park and looked at the buildings of the town below. He better start packing up. This space colony was too big for the three of them to live in. It was time to move on and start all over again. He was a soldier and that was what he would do right now. He would request for a re-assignation to the L2 colony.

It was a matter of time now to heal the wounds, and not long from now, the scars would show… another reminder of his past. Wufei made his way towards the town. He turned towards the darkened alley instead of his usual way through the crowded streets. He barely made any sounds as he walked on the electric wires instead of on the ground when he heard two people concealed in the darkness whispering. Alerted, he walked closely. "….threat on the L2… arrive… next week…" murmured the one with a lit cigarette.

Wufei moved closer so he could hear clearly.

"No one will suspect about this."

"Yeah, now that the threat to our success has been completely eliminated, we could proceed as planned. Nine years is enough time, we will make it…." With that, the two men broke away going each in their separate ways.

"Hmmm… It seems that my instinct was right on the spot. My departure for the L2 colony is sooner than I expected. These people will never give up," Wufei commented flashed his lopsided smile.

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