She meticulously scanned the drawer, trying not to mess it up. A blink and she would miss the vital item.
After about two minutes, her hand held it. Tears of happiness flowed down her pink cheeks. She shut her eyes tight. Fisting the object, Jinjing held it close to her chest. She felt as if her very existence depended on this little entity.
Opening her fist, she looked at her old SIM card in her hand. She wiped her tears and quickly sat on her bed.
It was her first SIM and she had it for a long time. It held sentimental values. Her parents kept the number active over the years. Guess they knew she would need it once again.
Taking her phone, she inserted the old SIM in the second slot. As soon as she powered her smartphone on, endless pings resonated through the room. Her phone received a string of notifications. She had thousands of weChat messages, missed calls and voicemails.
She changed over to the couch and relaxed herself before going through the long list of messages. She skipped a few from unimportant people. Her eyes were impatiently looking for a particular name. With the enormous amount of messages from that person, she did not need to look too far.
Scrolling to the top she started reading from the date she left, his birthday.
Most of the messages read as:
"Jinjing!!! Love please let me explain. Please answer the phone."
"I miss you. I was not aware of the engagement."
"I have let you down. I should have not let her come between us."
"I miss you my love."
"Jinjing I need you Jinjing! please come back."
"every day is hell without you."
She sniffed reading all his pleas. It felt as if someone gripped her heart tightly. She noticed that the pleas had changed into routine updates. As time passed, Liang would message her telling about his day.
"Jinjing! today I secured a very important deal."
"Ma! Is recovering well. She feels guilty though."
"I visited our mansion. The one we stayed in for your birthday."
"I have completely taken over from my dad. Now I am President Sheng and you would soon be Madam Sheng."
"Today is the most hated day of my life."
She checked the date of the message to see that, it was his birth date.
Tears rolled down like rivulets, soaking her top. She kept wiping them with the back of her hands but they did not dry up.
Skipping many in between, she scrolled down towards the end. She noticed a video and played it incautiously. It was the Jiaying and Yang Hui's video. She was stunned.
Since the time she came back to city B and even when she met Meili, she did not once inquire about Liang's engagement.
'The reason for our break up and I did not bother finding out about it?' she was amazed at herself.
The usually meticulous and intelligent lady, acted so dumb in the matters of the heart. Skipping the video, she scrolled right to the bottom and once again was taking by surprise. The last received message was from yesterday.
'he messaged me every single day?' the dam of tears broke down once again. Unable to control herself, she plopped onto her bed, stomach down, burying her face in her pillow. She bawled her eyes out because the last message completely shattered her righteous self.
It read:
"I love you deeply sweetheart. I want one chance to explain myself.
You said it once, instead of running or throwing tantrums we should talk it out. Once my love, only once. Then I will accept any punishment you deem fit.
Every second of these five years, I have longed for you.
my love, only for you."