Sunday, October 25, 2009
|5:58 PM|

A crowd had formed, surrounding the long figure lying on the ground, unconscious. The main advertiser for HL Milk comes along and shouts, "Oi, TMD. 躺在那边干什么？" before walking away.
The main advertiser for Dutch Lady squeezes through the crowd and asks curiously, "Eh, what happened huh?"
"Don't so kapoh lah," retorted Hanky.
Suddenly, the lying figure wakes up in a jolt and whined: "I love you so much! Don't leave me, Charles!" Then he looked around at the crowd, looking at him with a blank stare. "Whoops."

Word spreads as quickly as a fire. Soon, you can even hear Zachffles whispering to Pathos, pointing at the long, but now standing tall, figure, "He's a guy, with the middle vowel changed to an A!"
Pathos scratches his neck and questioned, "Why not a B? I thought he likes bees."
Zachffles replied bluntly, "That's Hanky, you dumb-S."
Pathos flares up, "Well, isn't Hanky the one who threw away my pencil case?"
Zachffles corrected, "That's Alston."
Pathos thought, "Hanky isn't that bad a girl after all."

The other gang in class discusses this topic as if it was the Top Hit Song of 2009.
ZHY exclaimed enthusiastically, "Woah, latest album by that guy: I'm a Gay!"
Zan remarked, "NAW good lah. Confirm lose money one."
Giggles randomly assured, "He's so tall and hunky. Too bad he works in a pet shop."

Paper is wrap cannot fire one. Soon, the protagonist hears about it and angrily threatened, "I'll steal your mouse traps if you continue to spread the rumour!" This did not affect much, since it was known that stealing mouse traps isn't his forte.

Then came the last straw. It was overheard that even his best friend from SJI knew about it, but kept it a secret from him. After confronting him, they both broke up. Even the hamsters in the pet shop knew. The main character could no longer stand it. He wanted to put a stop to this.

And the easiest way was to faint.

"Guys, let's go. He's sleeping again, so let's crowd around and try to get more hints about Charles when he wakes up. Everyone, crowd around Leoj!"

PS. Characters here are strictly fictitious. Any resemblance to real life people is also strictly coincidental.

Grassoat
Senior Editor of The Distillation Melayu