It was supposed to be the wedding of the year or at least, it was to her family and friends. After all, the culmination of a courtship that spanned seven years deserved celebration for its enduring love and commitment. Gary was the person whom she had thought was the answer to her prayers. They had been a couple since college. Her memories of a good life comprised Gary since she met him. He had become the gauge by which she measured everything else. In a nutshell, Gary was everything.
When he finally proposed a year ago, she felt that it was so natural. Her days was soon taken up by the massive preparations for a traditional Chinese wedding. It was such a whirlwind of activity that occupied her days that she failed to notice Gary's growing restlessness with the entire affair. In fact, he seemed to grow more and more distant with her. Everyone else put it down to the jitters of "getting hitched", totally to be expected or so they said. There was nothing ordinary about Gary's increasing disenchantment.
In the month leading up to the wedding, he began to disappear for long hours of a stretch. She was initially apprehensive, but his denials of anything being wrong appeased her tears. But today was the day they were supposed to have their bridal photographs taken. Gary had not turned up. Instead, a worried-looking best men delivered Gary's terse note about his realisation tthat the marriage was not right for him and that he had changed his mind about it. The note held abrupt apologies for his irresponsibility decision and begged for her understanding.
But she could not understand it at all. Whatever happened to all the promises that he made to her in the course of teir courtship.
writing by Nik Nur Amira Bt Amran
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