Chapter 3

Life can be meaningful to others, that’s what my mother used to said and that’s what my friends thought when the guy I supposed to marry yesterday seems meaningful to me before, because he was the perfect guy to be with, tall, handsome, a secure job and the most important thing was that he slept with my bridesmaid which is my best friend since high school! How ironic, right? When you thought that everything is right on schedule, where you already got the best designer in town to designed your dream dress, the caterer are preparing the world class cuisine to feed the happy crowds and of course, the flowers, the beautiful and astonishing flowers that been brought all the way from the Netherlands to this special occasion. Melanie, wake up, and just face the fact that your fiancée slept with your bridesmaid, and yes, you did not expect this thing would happened but it did! Eventually it happened two days before the real wedding, and poor thing that no one can actually help but just feel sorry for Melanie. Poor thing!

After half a way towards the journey, Melanie just remained perplexed why the guy kept staring at her. She has no intention of having one of those chatting with stranger moment, while she knows that was how she’d met Max, her ex-fiancée. In one of the best pub in Munich and to her surprised she knows that this was the right guy when Max came and approached her to buy her a drink, and she was naive and yes, she was also dumb to believe his sweet and eccentric characteristic which any girl will be struck fall into, which undoubtedly she did. She wants to move her head to facing the front side or perhaps swift it towards her left, but she can’t! She doesn’t want this guy to just started a conversation with her, she doesn’t want to and she wish to remain silent the whole journey, if can! But she needs to adjust her sitting position and at one moment her elbow were collided with his elbow, and she didn’t even bother to say sorry but just like moving inches away from his elbow. Even though there’s not much difference. Sigh. How she wants this night to be over with, stop thinking about it and just move forward Melanie! She remembers that she got an iPod given by her brother, in case she got bored on the train, and she took it out and just plugged it to her ears. That’s it, I don’t have to talk to this guy right now, I can look at my right or left if want to. Good! Clever Melanie!

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What’s this girl’s problem? Does something look disguise with my appearance? Roberto thought for a moment. This girl looks much pretty and effortless with her normal complexion. But sadly to say that doesn’t turn Roberto hearts on. Roberto Buanne, 27 years old, from Rome, Italy. Been on his journey everywhere around Europe to promote the Italian Television, Italia Primeria  to other countries around Europe, and now he is on his journey to Brussels in meeting with his new potential clients. One thing about Roberto that any girl needs to know besides than his well built physiques and killing looks, he is bisexual. In a sense that he had this tendency to like both girls and guys at the same time, but Roberto doesn’t want to be called Gay or homosexual because he enjoyed both sexuality life and even his parents are fine with it. But breaking into this culture from his normal Italian route has just challenged his every journey that he has taken. At that point of time, he recalled back what had happened a few days ago in his apartment in Rome.                                                                                              

“You’re leaving for a month?” said Patricio in Italian.

“I have too. It’s work.” I replied.

“Then how about us? You just going to leave it hanging while you travelling across Europe??” said Particio angrily.

“Can we just don’t talk about this, I’m not sure myself about what I’m going through right now”, I replied with a sighed.

“You came back to me when you are in trouble, and we been slept for half a year and now you said you are not sure about what you are going through? Well let me say it, if you think I’m your doormat where you can just crawled when you just feel you want to, then you are wrong, I’m a better and deserves a lot much than that! If you came back and realised that I’m no longer here, then you will be sorry to do this!”, Patricio just left the building and I can hear his footsteps and the door been sputtered beneath the flats. That’s the last time I ever hear and saw from him....

to be continued....

Chapter 2

II

"I don't think I can stand this anymore, it's just too painful for me...", said Melanie.

"So, you wanna give up on us??",cried Max.

"Give up?? I'm not the one who sleeps around,for god sake!Max, I'm trying to put a wedding and you can actually sleeps with my closes friend?? Is that you called 'Give Up' , and Max please see the truth that there's nothing for us, nothing for you and me to be fix with. Nothing!",

"Please Melanie, give us another chance, I admit I screwed it up..."

"You indeed screwed up big time, you know how much you mean to me, and how much my dad always underestimated you, but I kept telling my dad how wonderful he gonna be for me as MY husband...and now there's nothing for me to stand upon to give you or perhaps us another chance, you have my words and now you brake it into thousands of pieces, and it just make me so hurt....",with that the sound of the train arose and it just brakes the whole nightmare that Melanie has thought of during this wee hours. She's hesitated whether this is the right thing to do, left her life back in Munich and starting on her journey to find herself, well some of her friends called it a "Eat,Pray,Love" moment but for here it's much liked a "Stupid,Dumb,Sick" moment, because she's completely hopeless, self defenseless when comes to be alone, she used to be with the Mr.Knows it all and this is the problem, when she had her last trip to a small island in Lugano,southern part of Switzerland with Max last summer, Max was the one handled everything from the hotel to places to visit and this just makes her feel relieved because she doesn't need to do a thing, ain't that good for anyone, right? But this what happens when you broke off and you are stranded on your own without any back up plan, after so long they been together, here she is, all alone and going off to start on her discovery of new places all by herself! 

           The truth about her life is....she's scared, scared of facing her world all alone, to the fact that nobody wants to be all alone in this world. But Melanie has described her life as systematic, she even planned for her wedding in advanced since she saw the diamond ring in Max's drawer(man doesn't know better places to keep a huge secret, regardless pornographic materials). The fact that she's ahead on her life, to have the life she's been dreaming off, she has successful job in a advertising line in Munich and she's ready to quit her job to be with her man of her dreams. Yet, this has become a nightmare, since then she learned to make a back up plan, or maybe she planned to write a book for other women that faced the same situation with her and perhaps she called it; "The Women who Knows It ALL But Still Screwed Up"- that will be wonderful and this can be a true inspirational to all! Here she is, thinking too way ahead of her, and yet she haven't start on her amazing journey, and she got three months to prove to herself that she can be happy, "How can I do it in three months?", "Can I be truly happy?"- she's asking herself this question again and again. But no one seems having the answer for that. 

          It's almost 9.59 pm at her watch, Melanie just looking outside the window and glazed at the vision of night that just going to be dull and yet quiet the rest of the journey. She put her sacks on her seat beside her, it's almost 10.00 pm, the train should make a move any second, and she doubt whether there would be any one sitting beside her, it's good because she just would like to avoid any distraction,being anyone who wants to chit chat, seriously the cheerful Melanie has transformed to a rather quiet and inactive Melanie, and this is something she did because she just wanna be all on her own until....... 

"Is this seat taken Miss??",said by a young gentleman to Melanie.

to be continued...

Chapter 1

I

Melanie, took a long sigh and just wondering whether she should take this ticket and go back to her family. "Take this ticket and see the world! I don't want to see you trap in this city without knowing what happen outside", an old wise man known as her father told her to move to another place and find her self in a new situation, she just recently broke her engagement after preparing half a year for her big day where one day she saw her fiancee slept with her bridesmaid, how sad and tragic could it be. She couldn't think about what to do and where to go next, all her effort on the wedding just wash her mood together with her depression moment in her life. Now she wants to start on a new journey looking to the world and set a new challenges that may awaits her for a big change of her life. She's wondering whether she can fall in love for the second time...and she just don't want to know what's the end gonna be when she choose to open her heart after been racked by that big bastard Max! The train station look bizarre with people shivering from the outside cold weather and she just patiently wait for her train to be called..and this is her moment.

"What do you mean you don't have my name one the ticket?", said an angry young American man to the lady at the counter."What The......Aaand you expect me to pay double if I wanna be on this train???!!!", said Alex furiously, and the lady calm her by saying that they had make a mistake for another passenger which also known as Alex. Here, nothing can bet the charming and good looking guy as Alex Darby, 27 years old with a great New York accent and travelling 9000 miles away from home to be with his job! Nothing can stop this guy to pursued his career out of anything else. The best thing about Alex, he never learned to stop believing, he got the chanced to work with great people like Steve Jobs, Richard Brenson at a very young age, and this gives him the opportunity to be advance from the rest. He gave hundred percent commitment to his job, his liked one of those devotes to jobs where he can spent 18 hours at the office and still can keep up with his performance. He is on his way to Brussels to meet an important investor to invest in his giant company Big Inc. that successfully works behind financial credibility on human resources(only god knows what that means), he travel from place to place and he enjoys it, from the Bigben to Sydney opera house, he had seen it all at a very young age. And here he is, in this massive Munich train station cursing to this German lady about her misplaced his name with another 'Alex' with his name. He gave his credit card without furthering his argument with the German lady who speaks poor English. The lady continued to say, "There's only one seat left beside another passenger, is it okay Mr. Darby?" and with that Alex looked at the lady with his mouth inches to be opened and the lady understood, "Okay, done, 22:00 to Brussels for one, blanket provided, anything else Sir?".
"No, that will be all, thanks!"
And with that this will be a moment to remember where Alex not gonna be in the same journey as always, he is gonna pretty much have a change of a life time...and thanks to this German lady, who now retired and stays at the old folks home in outset of Munich. Thanks to her.

to be continued....


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