‘Good morning Chris! You are bright and early today!’ Alexander chirped as he walked into the office one morning.
‘Good morning Alex.” Christine breathed out as she continued to stare at her laptop, frowning in concentration.
‘What is it?’ Alexander bent down to take a look.
All he saw was a blank screen of Microsoft Word. However, someone had typed ‘I am going to kill your project’ all around the border.
‘What is this? Who sent it?’ Alexander demanded.
‘I don’t know. This was sent to all of us by the way. You have a copy too.’ Christine sighed, took up her mug, and drained the coffee inside.
‘Damn! This is too much!’ Alexander cursed. ‘How would our staff react to this?’
Christine shrugged and said, ‘Let’s find out’
The whole morning was spent in meeting with the whole team being questioned as they tried to find out the culprit. However, it did not seem to be done by anyone in the team, who had everything to benefit from the success of the project. Therefore, there was no conclusion but everyone was told to be on alert for any sabotage to the project.
This incident was soon filed away far behind their minds as no further incident happened. Alexander and Christine became close friends. Working together allowed them to spend a lot of time together and their friendship grew. Being the only 2 Singaporeans around also gave them the bond to stick together. Soon, the 2 of them were fast friends and went about everything together. Nevertheless, their growing friendship ironically put a strain on Christine as she was reminded of how much it was like her relationship with Shawn. Much to her horror and delight, she found that Alexander was in every way like Shawn, and he had actually far exceeded what Shawn had done in the past. His gentle ways and shy mannerism pulled at Christine. His childish ideas of fun often mirrored hers and his manly behaviours tugged at her heart strings, demanding that she opened her heart to him. Sensing her defences breaking down, she started to distance herself from Alexander. She lied to herself that she would only have Shawn in her life. Christine felt that she was betraying Shawn by falling in love with Alexander. She refused to do that, but the only way to stop was to go away. On the other hand, Alexander had fallen in love with Christine. He loved the way she did everything, from the way she walked to the way she laughed to the way she looked to him. Her trust in him pulled at him and he tumbled head over heels in love with her as time passed.
At a time like this, Christine and Alexander were introduced to a new guy Jeremy who was just sent to the Malaysian office from Hong Kong. Jeremy was a slick sort of guy. He had a shock of blue hair and his eyes gleaned with cunning at every other moment. He took an interest in Christine from the start and began to show up at places when Alexander and Christine hung out. Soon, he was in thick with Christine, who thought Jeremy more exciting than Alexander could be. Jeremy also became a way out for Christine, who was afraid of what her friendship with Alexander would become. She hung fast to Jeremy and refused to listen to Alexander’s timely advises.
Alexander, who knew that Jeremy was up to no good, could not persuade Christine to see otherwise as Christine was steadfast in her refusal to listen to him. In her stubbornness, she began to avoid Alexander at work, and hung out with Jeremy instead; taking the naive thought that Jeremy would not harm her. Little did she know that Jeremy was going to lead her into her own destruction.
She began visiting stripping clubs and gambling dens with Jeremy, drinking with abandon and began to neglect her job at Mannical. Her performance dropped to zero and yet, Alexander would cover up for her. He had realised his love for Christine ran deep and he wanted to save her from total destruction. Nevertheless, he did not know where to start and could only look on as Christine plunged deeper and deeper into the dark and unknown world of drugs, alcohol and gambling.
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