Chapter 3: Broken hearts and hopeful plans

Chapter 3: Broken hearts and hopeful plans

Jamie noticed that Aslana, Denise and Mara are wearing the same kind of clothes- lacy, pink hoodies, black camisoles, mini skirts and high heels and matching shocking pink handbags as well. Aslana threw a scowl on Jamie and then Denise and Mara sniggered spitefully that made Jamie and Raimund annoyed. "Just ignore her..." Raimund muttered to Jamie as they hurriedly go to the cafe. Then they reached the cafe and got their food. While they were eating on the same table, Aslana came and then in a split second, around Aslana and her friends was crowded with people. Jamie wondered what on earth is going on so she and Raimund went near to hear about something.
"Friends, it is real that me and Johannes became together..." Aslana arrogantly said.
"Then where's the proof?" a girl asked, "Yeah, we've been seeing obscene pictures of you guys but they were maybe just photoshopped." another one said. "She's just a poser" a guy said and then the crowd began to be noisy until Aslana raised a photograph of her with Johannes, intimate with each other.
"You call this fake?" she asked, eyebrows raised. then everyone became silent. Even Jamie couldn't believe her own wizard eyes, she feels like Aslana did something with the picture that involves magic but no way!! Aslana can't do magic... She's a muggle like everyone else around her. So Jamie just felt silent and her heart was crushed. Like her whole world crumbled as she saw what the muggle she most hated exposed something seemed unbelievable to her, something that would break her immature teenage heart that used to "fall" for muggle guys who are impossible for her to be with. Aslana's very lucky, she badly thought. for the whole day, she feels downtrodden and in despair. She doesn't participate well into the discussions in all her lessons after that awful recess time and she wasn't feeling good during lunch and the after lessons activities.

Then at 2:30 they got out. Seeing his best friend being unusually downcast for the whole day made Raimund worry about her so he tried to cheer her up while they're together at the subway station near their school to go home. "Don't worry Jamie, maybe Johannes isnt the right guy for you at all. Who knows Aslana's heart will break soon because of him. you know these celebs-such womanizers. you'll see soon." Raimund said as they get on the train but Jamie just looked at him with a tearful pair of eyes. "Sigh, look Jamie, i promise that we will throw a house party at my place when they're over. We'll have a kareoke party, invite Sammy Deluxe, Tokio Hotel and Cinema Bizarre over so it'll be fun. We'll all laugh at their doom and despair. We're gonna be "Three cheers for sweet revenge." like Gerard Way...Oooh, imagine Sammy singing Bohemian Rhapsody!!!!" Raimund said optimistically and what Raimund said hilariously made Jamie feel a bit better but still she feels like broken so Jamie smiled faintly and she felt so grateful at least she got someone who understands her so she hugged Raimund tight and told him "Even though right now, Aslana's in Johannes' arms, at least i still got you as my best friend."

In Raimund's part, it really feels great to have a friend who appreciates him. In all these years before he met Jamie, he never had a real friend who will accept him for who he is and then he met Jamie, another loner like him. The train arrived at the next station and this is the station Raimund had to get down since he lives two blocks away from the station so Raimund bid good bye to Jamie and she said good bye to him. Raimund walked away with some people who were going out of the train and he was gone. The train's doors closed and it moved to its next destination which is Jamie's station and it will be five minutes away. Five more minutes of melancholy and this time without the light shone by her worried best friend. The train stopped and Jamie stood up. She walked out of the train and then made her way against the crowd and she got out of the subway station. She noticed the clouds above as dark as her broken heart as she was crossing a few streets and then arrived at her house. She looked in the window ans she saw no one inside. "Dad's not yet home..." she thought. So she went in the front of the door and mumbled "Alohomora" and the door opened. That spell is so useful, she thought with a weak smile. Then she slumped into a black bauhaus chair with some red throw pillows in the living room. "Sigh, what a day. A hell lot of things happened. Things that are so hard to feel and i am so despaired" Jamie told herself with so much anguish in her. Then she turned on the living room TV and watched a bit of Finneas and Ferb on Disney Channel, Viva( a German music channel) and a German subtitled documentary show about the Igorot mummies somewhere in Northern Philippines on the Discovery Channel but they seemed to make her get out of her bad mood. Then at exactly 5 o'clock, a scrawny, business attire clad guy with glasses who seemed to resemble her very much - her dad Percy- arrived at their doorstep and opened the door.

"Hey Jamie, how's your day?" he asked in Cantonese. When Jamie is talking to her father and some relatives, it is always in Cantonese and to everyone else, English or German.
Jamie just looked at him and said "Oh, it was fine. yours?", "It was well." her dad said smiled. "Are you ready to know where are we going this summer?" he asked. Oh yeah, the summer vacation i almost forgot about it, Jamie thought. "We're going to England..." her dad said with a really big grin. "England?? Dad, that is so cool!!! We're going to Madame Tussaud's, Big Ben and the Buckingham Palace. " Jamie cried out with joy. "Oh, what airlines are we taking? Lufthansa? British Airways? Virgin Atlantic?" she added. "Well, we're not going there by air. Too expensive, not even by magical means coz it's risky but something you'll enjoy better." he said. "Then what?" Jamie asked. "We're going on a roadtrip..." he beamed. "Really?! that's great!!! Then we'll pass by lots of places along the way like Paris, Brussels and the beautiful countryside... it'll be awesome." She temporarily diverted herself from her heart ache she is having now. From then on, she thought she should move on by just thinking about other things instead, like the anticipated roadtrip that will happen within a month with her dad.

December 28, 2008