[[*Endless Road_______Endless Journey]]*

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

[[The Last Chapter XXII]]

After a few weeks in school, the countdown to graduation began. Every student was sent to different companies on a three-month long attachment. Successful completion of the attachment and the diploma would be secured.

Jaime could hardly believe three years were coming to an end so soon. It still seems that yesterday was his first day in school. He didn't have a feeling that he had aged three more years.

Part of him was looking forward to the attachment. It would be quite an experience learning how things work in the real society. But the bigger part of him dreaded the coming attachment. It would be the longest time he would be apart from Celine for three years.

For the last few months, he had been thinking long and hard. Perhaps it was about time he let go of what he had been holding on. He and Celine hadn't made much progress, though that was not his main concern. He had been feeling guilty that he could be holding back Celine from potential happiness.

The three months were hard for Jaime. He felt he really needed to move on for Celine's sake, but try as he might, he couldn't convince himself to do so. Neither did he know how to. There were just so much he could never forget. Even though both of them hardly kept in touch, it had done nothing to change how Jaime felt.

There were still so many words he had unspoken. He didn't want to have any regrets, but neither did he want those words to have any more impact on her. In the end, he finally talked himself round.

Afterall, there were so many things loving Celine had taught him. He grew to understand that one does not need to possess another physically in order to love that someone. And he knew that so long as she was happy, it wouldn't matter who she was with. Because it would make Jaime happy too.

It was a terribly difficult decision, but Jaime was the one who wouldn't change his mind once he decided. He knew what he had to do on the day they graduate.

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*end of the road*

[[Walking Alone On This Endless Road]]*|9:10 pm|