A RACE TO MY HEART (FAN FICTION) (CHAPTER 19)

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CHAPTER 19   
            

Another week passed . . . .              

Fate was already finished with her practice for the big race. The date of the race was suddenly moved to a much earlier date. So she had been practicing more seriously for the passed few days.              

Unknown to her friends and especially Michael, she had another reason why she had been practicing almost non-stop from the morning until evening. She wasn’t practicing because of the race . . . but because she wanted to forget . . . someone.              

She stared at the race track. And even though she was looking at it, somehow she was seeing something else.               “Max,” she uttered. “What are you doing now? Are you still angry with me? I miss you Max . . . I miss you so much,” she said in a low voice.              

Fate was thinking so deeply that she didn’t even realize that Michael was already sitting beside her.              

“Talk to me,” he unexpectedly uttered.              

Surprised, Fate quickly looked at him.              

“Michael, what are you doing here? Are you already finished?” she asked.              
Michael shook his head. “ I already finished more than an hour ago.”              

“An hour ago? Hmm . . . sorry . . . I didn’t notice,” she said with a low voice.              
Michael slowly stared at Fate again. This time he tried to study her reaction.             
“I know something’s bothering you. Why won’t you tell me? Maybe I can help,” he uttered softly.              

Fate tried to smile. “I am afraid my problem is already way beyond help. It’s already done and . . . over.”              


Michael frowned. “What do you mean? Does it have something to do with Max?”              

Fate continued to stare out at the race track. She sighed and then nodded. She knew it was time to face reality. She needed to accept that it was really over. She needed to learn how to move on.              

“We’re over . . . Michael,” she uttered while trying to control her voice. Somehow just saying those words was enough to make her cry.
              
Surprised . . . Michael quickly looked at Fate. “Over? What do you mean? As in . . . . break-up?” he asked, still unable to believe what he just heard.
              
Fate smiled. “Yes, we’re over. We broke up . . . It’s already been a week. I guess it’s time for me to accept it. You see, I’ve been trying to deny it. Deep down inside, I was still hoping . . . that he would come back to me. Somehow I was still praying that he would learn how to forgive me,” she uttered as tears finally found their way out of her eyes.              

Michael was shocked. He didn’t know what else to say. He wanted to comfort her but he didn’t know how.              

“But why?” he found himself asking out loud.              

Fate shook her head. “The reason why we broke up doesn’t matter now. He didn’t trust me enough. And he didn’t believe in my words. . . And I actually thought that I already knew him, I guess I was wrong. I was very . . . very wrong.”              
“But how could he do that? After you slept with him . . . you’re just going to let him leave you?” Michael uttered with anger in his voice.              

Fate looked at Michael. “What do you want me to do? Do you want me to stay with him . . . even though we are already hurting each other? Is that what you want? I no longer care about what happened between us. I will just consider it as a bad dream . . . a very bad dream . . . that I need to erase from my mind.”              
Michael stayed silent. He was totally left speechless by Fate’s words.              

“Michael . . .” Fate suddenly uttered.              

“What?” he asked back in a very soft and gentle voice.              

“After the race . . . do you think you can accompany on a trip?” she suddenly asked.              

Michael nodded his head. “You know I would gladly go anywhere with you.”              
“Thank you . . . I think I really need to rest for a while once the race is over. I want to go somewhere and try to forget. I want to start over . . .” she uttered with so much sadness that it was breaking Michael’s heart.              

“Don’t worry . . . I will help you. No matter what happens . . . I will always be beside you,’ Michael uttered as he gently took Fate into his arms.              

Fate didn’t react to what Michael did. Somehow she needed it. Somehow she needed someone at that exact time. She slowly closed her eyes and silently wept while Michael tightly held her in his arms.              

Days passed . . .              

The day of the race finally came . . . .              

The DBSK boys were all in the dressing room of a studio. They were getting ready for a TV performance when . . . .              

“Hey, turn on the TV. The race is about to begin. I am really curious who is going to win,” one of the studio staff uttered to another studio crew,              

“I hope Fate wins. I bet she’s going to be the winner,” one of the female staff members suddenly voiced out.              

Micky, Jaejoong, U-Know and Xiah just stayed quiet while they tried to observe Max’s reaction to the things they were all hearing.              

Max tried to ignore everything he was hearing and just played with his phone. He was trying very hard to pretend that he didn’t care anymore.              

Jaejoong shook his head in dismay. “What a big waste,” he couldn’t help but utter. He still couldn’t accept what Max did. Somehow he was thinking that Max could have just learned how to forgive Fate. All of them knew that Max still loved Fate dearly, and that he was just trying to act tough, but deep down inside he was already hurting.              

Jaejoong thought that Max could have just forgiven Fate and then they could have just started over. So in this way, both of them wouldn’t be hurting so much. Unknown to his friends, he had been searching news about Fate ever since she and Max broke up. Somehow he wanted to see if she was also affected the same way that Max was. And based on what he had read on news articles, he could easily say that Fate was also trying very hard to forget. He had read that Fate had been practicing day and night on the race track as soon as the two broke up.              

Xiah sighed. “What do we do with that guy?” he asked the other DBSK members while pertaining to Max.              

Max was in a corner of the room, trying to busy himself with the game in his phone.              

U-Know shrugged his shoulders. “What can we do? It’s his life . . . and his decision.”              

“I still think he made a wrong decision. He’s a fool to have just broken up with her like that . . . “ Jaejoong couldn’t help but say.              

“We don’t have any right to make decisions for him. He’s already old enough to know what he wants and what he needs to do. If he already decided to break it off with her, then we should just respect that,” Micky uttered.              

“He’s a fool. Look at him now. He’s hurting and she’s hurting as well,” Jaejoong voiced out.              

“He’s our friend. Let’s just respect his decision,” Micky uttered again.               “I still think they could have solved their problem in another way,” Jaejoong uttered with a sigh.              

Suddenly one of the TV crew walked into the room . . . He was busy chatting with a younger man.              

“I heard that Fate’s team will immediately leave the country as soon as the race is over. And there’s also a rumor going around that both Michael and Fate have dropped out of the next race that they were supposed to join. I think that race is supposed to be held in Germany,” the older man said while arranging some studio materials in the room.              

“Really? Wonder why? Hey, isn’t Fate supposed to be Max’s girlfriend? Whatever happened to them?” the younger man suddenly asked without thinking.              

Max then suddenly stood up and threw his phone on the table near him. He was obviously very irritated. The phone made a big crashing sound that caught everyone’s attention.              

Both the older and younger man exchanged glances with each other. They had totally forgotten that Max was in the room. Embarrassed, they quickly left the room.              

“Max, that was rude,” U-Know said in an angry manner.              

“Rude? You’re talking about being rude? They’re the ones who started it first,” Max answered with irritation.              

Xiah, Jaejoong and U-Know just shook their heads in dismay. Somehow they couldn’t understand their friend anymore. He had totally changed into someone they didn’t know.              

Suddenly their attention was drawn to the TV . . . a big news was being broadcasted live.              

“This just came in a few minutes ago. . . . Fate Nakamura just finished first place in the big race today. But there is a big commotion in the race track now. It seems as soon as she stepped out of the car, she instantly collapsed. One of our fellow reporters is already in the hospital where she was brought. Please stay tune for additional updates regarding this shocking news,” the TV reporter announced.