story

"i've never felt alone, till i met you..."

"hey there, remember me?"

a startled stella looked up. "oh, hi terry."

terry was surprised to see that stella's eyes were red. "something wrong?"

"no....everything's fine, just..er...just...something just flew into my eyes, thats all."

"ok, so how have you been around lately? didnt hear from you for quite some time, you know."

"nothing much...just finished with the final paper of the exams..."

"you're not gonna celebrate with your friends?" stella shook her head. "by the way, where's your boyfriend?"

"he...he's out with his friends..."

sensing stella's discomfort, terry decided not to pursue that matter. it was obvious that stella wasn't feeling happy that she had finished her exams, and something's definitely wrong with her being alone. the rest of the afternoon was mostly spent by terry trying to cheer up the downcast stella. when it started to get dark, terry walked stella home, biding her farewell at the playground near her block.

after that, terry hanged around at a nearby coffeeshop, wasting the time away before packing up and going home at around his customary time. it was around 1am when he logged onto the internet. as usual, he didnt bother to log into the irc chatrooms, and proceeded to surf the sports web pages. it was to his surprise then, that he suddenly got an icq message. he didnt think that anyone besides him would be up at around this time. he checked who it was, and to his surprise, it was stella.