20033152 short story

A  CUP OF COLD COFFE
The bell is ringing; a man about thirty years old enters this  cafe  full of heavy smell  of coffee.
  “Good afternoon, can I help you?” the young shopkeeper’s wife greets him warmly.
  The man nods and finds himself  a seat. He looks around, it is a small but special shop which gives him a comfortable and home-like feeling.  “Could you give me a cup of coffee, please?”
  “Ok, wait a minute.” She says , smiling.
  Then, she begins to boil the coffee while he is looking  at her ,smiling, it seems like that he quite enjoys this very moment. A few minutes later, she puts a cup of coffee on his table
  “Please help yourself.”  
  “Thank you.” The man smells the coffee deeply and sips it
  “Have you been here before?”
  “No, haven’t. it is comfortable. I like the atmosphere of here.”
  “I also like it very much.  Though we have tough business , my husband and I  are not willing to shut it down.”
  Then, they keep silent  listening to the soft music. “Excuse me, may I ask you a question ?” he breaks the quietness first.
sure
  “I don’t know how to begin.” he scratch his head and was at a loss.
   “would you like to listen to a story?”
   She nods with  encouraging eyes
   “I  had a girl friend, we nearly get married. We had love towards each other for a long time. When I met her at the first time, I told myself that she would be my wife forever. Fortunately, she accepted me. I believe that I was the happiest  person in the world. But…” he stops then
  “But what? What happened?”
  “but I forget that at the back of happiness, often there exists the most terrible ghost. On  an evening a month after we betrothed, she was raped by ruffian. ” he lows his head .
   “Ah!” she can not help crying out
   “It is all my responsibility. If I sent her back home, it shouldn’t have happened!”
  “Is this your fault?”
  “No, I didn’t change my love. I still  decided to marry  her as arranged. But on the day before wedding, she  committed suicide
A long time of silence , NO one talks ,nor are they willing .”
  He calms down a little bit, but she can fell the sadness and shock from his face.
  “Suicide, has she been ……dead?”, she looks at the man anxiously  and waits for   his answer.
  “Fortunately, we found her and sent her to the hospital in time. She was in a  state of coma for the lack of oxygen for a long time. Even at the danger of become a vegetablian.”
but when I got the news and ran to the hospital, her  parents prevented me from meeting her.”
“why?”
her parent kneeled down and begged me not to see him any more  , I knew that she had  lost her memory . the doctor washed all her past away from her mind They thought this is good for her to forget the everything before , they were afraid that I would  help her remember the past. She might be miserable once more
“it sounds reasonable  it doesn’t matter. Anyway she is just fine nowt right? It is a hard choice ,but you have no other alternatives don’t you?”
“yes, furthermore, it has been ten years till today.”
“really? So You have been  waiting for  her for  ten years, and today, you can meet her finally.” She asked
“that is right. But I fear very much. I never change my love, but, what about she, if I told her everything between us,  she still can’t remember me, if she has had a boy friend, even have got married, what should I do? This is my something bothering me  ”
He looks at her  eagerly and waits for  her reply quietly.
After thinking for a while ,she says
“since you  love her so much, it doesn’t matter if she remembers you, you can start a new relationship. love  her again, and date her again, it I is as romantic as ever before.” She said ,smiling.
“but”, she said seriously, “but if she has married somebody, you’d better give up .”
The bell rings again, some students come in. she stands up and serve sthem.
Suddenly, she turns back and asks, “why do you ask me, we meet each other just for the  first time?” she asks curiously.
because t I remember she once told me that, after marriage, she will open a café  like this with me.”
Ha  
Yes ,the man nods
  The music stops, now  in the whole house only was  the sound of talk and laugh.
He lifts  his head and gazes at  her marriage ring secretly, a drop of warm tear drips  into the cup of coffee which has been cold for a long time.
People are still talking ,laughing in this café

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