Kylie

I bumped into Kylie today while I was walking around Orchard Ion with Keith. For a while I couldn't believe my eyes and as she passed by I put a hand on her arm just before she got on the escalator. I took a quick glance at her hands as she turned around.

"Hey." She said, smiling.

"Just knocked off from work?" Kylie asked.

"Nah, I'm off today. So how you doing?" I said, happy to see her.

"I'm good, was just going for hotel training."

"Hotel training? You switched jobs?"

"No lah, still the same job. They're our client." She explained.

"So where are you working now? Still at the same place?" Kylie asked.

"Yeah... I mean no! I work at Far East Plaza now, Kitchen Mogu Mogu." I said.

"Which hotel are you with?" I asked.

"Royal hotel."

"Ohhh alright." I replied, then a short pause. "Well, what's with the ring?"

"Hmmm was that what you were aiming at all the while? Yeah I've got like a lot of rings now." She smiled as she showed me the rings on her fingers. Then there was one particular ring I couldn't help notice.

"What? Some significant other gave it to you?" I asked, thoughts floating through my mind.

"Nahh, I bought it for myself."

"Rigghhht.." I said as I nodded my head, strangely relieved. She once said she wanted to buy a diamond ring by herself and apparently she's done it.

"Sooo, you haven't changed your number right?" I asked.

"Yeah, not yet. Still the same number."

I wanted very much to continue the conversation, but before I had a chance we parted with a, "see you around."

I was glad to see her again, despite a deep sense of regret and shame. Given another chance I would want to get back in touch with Kylie again, having learnt a valuable lesson after losing her. It was a turning point of my life, and now that I love another I swore to myself never to repeat the same mistakes I made on Kylie.

I loved Kylie, but she's history.