Vanity Fair and City I (2)

August 17, 2006. My hometown.
He promised to see me at the end of 2006, in my university. However, he had his third girlfriend instead of coming to see me.

January 10, 2009. GZ.
He came to fulfill his promise at last, two and a half years later. That day, we met for the first time after graduating from high school. That day, I said goodbye to GZ. That day, I set my feet in another city, to seek for a new beginning. That day, he carried my baggage to the railway station and said: “You are my good friend for ever.”
The day I saw him was the day I went further away from him.
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Now I have been in this city for nearly a year, but I guess I haven’t changed a lot.

“That’s because you work in a simple environment!” Melanie concluded. “If you worked in a financial company like me, meeting so many millionaires, multimillionaire and successful businessmen, but you are only a low-paid white collar, you would change too!”

I nodded my head and agreed. Yes, there are many millionaires, multimillionaire and successful businessmen here. The splendid rings around themselves decorate this beautiful city. Their extravagant lifestyle fuels the business and stimulates our economy. They are so…attractive that most of us get lost.

Hence emerged the so-called “village of second woman”.

It is said that dozens of beautiful mistresses live there. Brilliant villas, fashionable clothes, expensive pets, lonely beauties and rich men who appearance one or twice a month…

In this environment, people change. He thought I changed too. I was so sad to know that.

Maybe I have become more practical, but my feelings haven’t changed. Nobody will forget their pure time and the nice feelings when they were young, at an age when we knew nothing about the real world.

He changed a lot after he went to GZ, the so-call metropolis where the air is heavily polluted, the streets are crowded and cars and buses produce much noise and waste gas. I know his clothes, his watch, his shoes…were all expensive famous brands. He bought them with the money of his rich father.

I was crazy about him but I couldn’t hide my feelings towards this…I despise him and those like him. Life will teach him a lesson in the near future when he leaves school and works in the society. Then he will know that he would have benefited a lot if he had experienced some hardship in his young days.

However, whenever I think of his saying, “You are my good friend for ever.” I am so touched that I still trust him. I trust his sincerity when we met at the age of 15. I cherish our friendship even though he is only a womanizing bastard and skin-deep playboy.



(2009-12-31, the end of the year… Tomorrow it will be a new year 2010. I will welcome the new years with my family…2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, I welcomed the new year with friends, classmates but not my family… finally we are together, in another city, to say hello to 2010…Happy New Year!!)