The New F4 Chapter 18 - Revelation

Wong Tin Ma breaks away from his hug and is wiping the tears away from the beautiful girls face and she does the same for him.

"Now I know why you are called X." He said to her. She smiles.

"Oy, Tin Ma! Tell us who she is!" shouted Lin Wai who is shocked that Wong Tin Ma should know any girl at all.

Handsome as he is, his cruel, surly, vicious nature had turn away many a girl.

"This is your show, you tell them!" Wong Tin Ma tells X. She faced the group again.

"I am X! X, because X is the first initial of my English name, Xamantha, spelled with an X!" said Xamantha.

"And it is also the first initial of my Chinese name, Xiao Men spelled phonetically."

She smiles, gave a short bow and said,

"Greetings to you all, and well met! I'm Xamantha Lau, Lau Xiao Men!"

"This is getting even better! Not only do you have a face no one can forget! You also have an unusual name that no one can forget also!" exclaimed Lin Wai.

San Cai spoke up, "But Wong Tin Ma didn't recognize you! Yet now he knows who you are."

"Wong Tin Ma was a childhood friend I had known when I was 7. I had to move away to Australia when my father's Consul position took him there. We have not seen each other since then." Xamantha said.

"You obviously gave him something to help his memory. What was it?" asked Lin Wai.

Wong Tin Ma holds up the Baby Beanie Pegasus.

"You see when we were children I called him my little Pegasus because of his name Tin Ma. On the day I left Tin Ma gave this Baby Beanie Pegasus to me as a parting gift."

"Hey, Tin Ma! How come you never told us?" asked Lin Wai who knew Tin Ma's nickname was "Pegasus".

Wong Tin Ma never told them because when Xamantha left, it was the most painful and sorrowful thing that happened to him in his young life.

Whenever his father's beatings or ranting start to affect him he just thinks about the day Xamantha left to counterpoint his hate and anger.

It was because of Xamantha that helped him endure most of his father's brutality.

Xamantha comforted him when he was sad and hurt after his father's tirades. Whenever he was angry she was the balm that soothed him. She played games with him and taught him the grace and fun of losing.

Wong Tin Ma's world was never the same when she left.

Now Qing He spoke up,

"But that doesn't explain why he didn't see you in school or why you look familiar to us?"

Xamantha smiles and looks towards Hua Ze Lei.

"Why don't you ask Hua Ze Lei? He knows me." Xamantha said with a mischievous grin.

The people around Hua Ze Lei gasped in shock and were nudging him for answers. San Tsai and Dao Ming Si were gaping at him.

"You KNOW her? What is she talking about Lei?" demanded Xi Men.

"Hua Ze Lei! If you don't tell us what is going on I'm going to come over every night and dump ice water on you to wake you up!" threatened Mei Zhou.

Hua Ze Lei had been studying Xamantha curiously ever since she showed up. He felt the familiarity long before Qing He did but did not speak up.

He was absorbing every little tiny detail about her, referencing her in his highly analytical mind, because he has photographic memory.

No one, not even his closest friends or parents know this. When Hua Ze Lei was a child he could remember every little detail of the world around him, tastes, smells, sounds, colors, light. Emotions. With the minutiae of data, the world is more alive for him.

As a child he could not understand this, could not handle the bombardment to his senses or mind.

This overloading of his senses also caused him to sleep longer so his mind can rest more.

He could not frame his frustrations or what was happening to him in words so he vented the only way he knew how, by crying.

Later when he met Teng Tang Jing was what gave him the first solution to his chaotic mind. She was a rock, an anchor for him. When he focuses on her in his mind he is able to lessen the chaotic influx of data.

His second hope came from his martial training. The Aikido and meditation help calm him considerably.

Then finally came San Tsai. If Jing was like a rock, San Cai was an island. San Cai helped Hua Ze Lei come to terms with his emotions no one else can.

The coming of San Cai into Hua Ze Lei's life was fortuitous indeed.

Before Wong Tin Ma hugged Xamantha she saw Hua Ze Lei's eyes open wide in shock and recognition.

She knew if anyone were to figure her out it would be Hua Ze Lei.

"Hey, Lei! I'm talking to you!" said Xi Men.

Mei Zhou looked as if he could strangle Lei any second.

Hua Ze Lei, looks toward Xamantha and said, "Show them!"

Xamantha smiles and guides Wong Tin Ma to a seat,

"You better sit for this!"

She then walks to the back of the 'false X' who is still standing there not budging, blocking everyone's view of her.

She appeared to be doing something.

Everyone's looking at each other shrugging their shoulders.

San Tsai looks at Hua Ze Lei who had a secretive grin on his face.

Xamantha steps out in view of everyone.

Except for Hua Ze Lei and Mok Po Le, everyone turns white, too shocked to even gasp.

Mimi's face turns pale and covers her mouth to stifle a scream.

To be continued…