Hi Everyone,
The following is a fanfic that was started ages ago by a person named "Smiley" ... <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> that featured two stars -- Maggie Siu and Leon Lai -- a couple which I've always been interested in. It first appeared in Maggie's International Fan Forum, but never got completed. Another writer (Deb) decided to continue it and added the next chapter. Seeing that there's so much potential in this story, I decided to take up the mantle and try to complete the story. So you see, in some ways this is kind of like a Round Robin Fanfic. I'm just now the only person rounding off the edges <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
It's not completed yet... but very close to an ending.
Hope you enjoy! And please give me comments and suggestions. Would really like to hear some feedback.
C
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THE VOW
Chapter 1
by <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> (aks Smiley)
An iridescent moon lit up the ebony sky above Hong Kong. Leon Lai sat in his Mercedes, opening one aluminum can after another until he’d downed the six-pack. Beer cooled the burning ache at the pit of his stomach. Beer helped him remember.
For 364 days of the year he had successfully curtailed all thoughts and forgotten about Maggie. On June 7th, he did pull out the memories, rolled them around in his tortured mind and relived again the golden days of his sweet abandoned youth....
After five years it astonished him that the memory of her beautiful face still held such power over his mind and heart. Closing his eyes produced a flood of images and a sensation of almost painful pleasure. HE HATED HER, and in the same breath, realized that he will go through the rest of his life and never love another woman again the same way he had LOVED Maggie.
Normally, Leon Lai lived his life as a well-known, respected citizen, president of Lai Industries, the man who had almost everything.
Tonight he drank beer instead of whiskey sours. Tonight he wore worn blue jeans instead of an Armani suit. Tonight he yearned for a time long past and the young woman whom he had loved with a passion he never hope to recapture. Leon gripped hard around the steering wheel.
The happy wonder days, youthful days were swept away by the pain that followed by her deception. He drove down the road that he knew so well in his heart. Unconsciously and without any direction, he found himself parked outside the old house. The house where he and Maggie had been so happy there once… before her betrayal and deception.
Anger rose within him until the taste of bitterness filled his heart. They had married and had Jimmy there. He could still see her as clearly today as he did all those years ago when she was pregnant with Jimmy. Ironically, she had abandoned him and Jimmy for the money his
mother gave her. She threw all their love away for ten thousand dollars. On that June 7th, she had packed all her clothes and possessions and left him and Jimmy behind with only a short letter and the necklace he had given her as a wedding gift.
The ache grew within him until his chest hurt.... God… he'd loved Maggie.
Leon drove around for what seemed like hours and he went back to the private place he owned. He walked out and took the ax, carrying it deep into the land. He hadn't come here for years and the memories this place evoked were bittersweet. He swung the ax and hit the tree bark with violence, anger, and frustration. He kept on swinging until the huge tree began to fall.
He stood back. "It's over," he mumbled, chest heaving, as the mighty tree slammed against the earth.