Thomas had been seeing this woman who was sitting next to him every single day for a long time. As he spent more time with her his love for her and her love for him, kept on growing.
'Thomas, lets take a photo together.' she said to Thomas.
'Sure'
Thomas puts his arm around her and just as she is about to take a picture he kisses her on the cheek.
Wanting to see her reaction Thomas leans back a little while still holding his arm over her shoulder.
She then looked up to Thomas, staring into his eyes and smiles. What followed was their first kiss.
– couple days later on a tv show -
Thomas sits down to watch the TV as she is supposed to have an interview being aired right around dinner time. Her schedule during the week is always full so Thomas only meets up with her on the weekends.
'So we saw a photo that you posted on your Instagram not too long ago of you posing and being kissed by an unknown man'
She is then shown smiling and blushing.
'Who is he?'
She answers the interviewer: 'He is Thomas.'
'And who is Thomas to you?'
'Thomas is my boyfriend'
Loud gasps can be heard from the crowd.
'Since when have you been seeing each other?'
'We have known one another for quite a while. Over time we just started seeing one another more often.'
'What do you do when you see each other?'
'Well... Thomas had the idea to do good for others instead of just doing good by ourselves in our free time.
For example:
About 2 months ago during the weekend we went to the market and bought a lot of food. We then divided it up into grocery bags with enough food to feed a family for a week. In the end we ended up with 28 such bags.
Thomas had made a list of families that needed help with their addresses and all. So we drove by those addresses and dropped off those bags.'
'Why didn't we hear about this before?'
'Because we kept it a secret.'
'But wouldn't the people that you gave the food to know who it was?'
'They wouldn't because we put the bag at their front door and ran away after we knocked on the door a couple times.'
'Then those people just found a big bag of food without knowing who it was from...?'
'Well, we did leave a note in the bags saying 'From your guardian angel for you.”
'Did you do that every time you went out?'
'No, sometimes we would just hang out. One other time we went to the slums and did a secret concert there free of charge of course.'
'Did you both sing?'
'Yea, first Thomas would sing a couple songs just to draw in a bit of a crowd to then blow their minds with my singing. That's how Thomas suggested we'd do it.'
–
Thomas couldn't help but smile. He knew something had changed from their kiss 2 days ago but it had still seemed so surreal.
Now that he heard her acknowledging their relationship on live tv it felt as if his love for her solidified and removed any doubts that he had.
–
- 2 months later at an interview on a tv show -
There she was again, sitting next to Thomas. Both were unusually quiet and while she glanced at Thomas, he did his best not to look back.
Interviewer: 'Now on our show for the first time we have here with us what is aptly dubbed 'the perfect couple'! I am sure you have heard of them before but if you haven't. These two lovebirds have been dating for quite some time but we only found out about it 2 months ago. As for why they are dubbed as being the perfect couple it is due to the nature of their dates. Rather than going out on fun-seeking activities they turn to the poor, to the sick and they help those in need.
What better way is there to make your love grow than to share it with those who need it most, right?'
Thomas looked down a bit and didn't smile.
Interviewer: 'So Thomas, how has it been?'
Thomas: 'It has been very hard.'
Immediately the smile on the interviewers face froze.
Interviewer: 'It has been very hard, can you please elaborate?'
Thomas then takes a deep breath and replies: 'We came here not to talk about our love. Rather, we have come to odds and we are breaking up.'
Thomas then finnaly turns to her and sees her looking down avoiding his gaze.
After a moment of silence that seemed to last forever the interviewer regains his bearings.
Interviewer: 'Why are you breaking up?'
Thomas sighs again and then turns to look straight at the interviewer: 'She found me cheating on her with another woman.'
Once again a deadly silence. The interviewer starts frowning as his eyebrows are then tightly knit together.
Interviewer: 'YOU CHEATED ON HER!!!'
Thomas: 'Yes I did.' after which he gets up and leaves without saying goodbye.
Just like the interviewer there were many who loved her, for her singing, for her good looks. There was very little about her that was unlikable. After Thomas left the stage she quickly ran after him.
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'Why!? Why did you say those things?'
Thomas answered: 'Because... you earn a living by being a public figure, an example. That is not something I can take away from you.'
Thomas then ran away while loud jeers are heard from the audience in the studio.
The next day:
'CHEATER!!!' screams an angry woman at Thomas as he stands in line to do groceries. The womans husband tries to calm her down.
'He's the guy that broke the heart of our nations idol!' screams the same woman again.
Shortly after the husband stops trying to calm his wife down and instead glares at Thomas just like everyone else.
The storeclerk who was checking out his groceries looks up at him and sneers.
'So you are that personification of betrayal who broke what shouldn't be broken. I am sure it wasn't you who had come up with sharing your love with the poor. Fake love is all you could give huh.'
Feeling the atmosphere becoming increasingly hostile Thomas then ditches any thought he had of buying groceries and starts fleeing as more and more people are noticing the disturbance and many after recognizing him started glaring at him. Followed by jeers and threatenings Thomas starts running after which he hears one man say:
'Yea run you bastard! Leave the country for all I care. You are not welcome here!'
Followed by more and more people yelling 'LEAVE!' and 'BOOO!'
Thomas then tried doing groceries somewhere else but wherever he went he was ostracized and run down. Some people even kicking and hitting him. Thomas then went to the police to report him being hit and kicked before narrowly making his escape but all he got in reply from the police officers was: 'Serves you right.'
–
2 weeks later
–
Just like every modern teenager Jack went straight to his computer upon arriving home from another long day boring day at school.
Checking manga sites and reading a few to keep up with the series that he liked, checking his e-mail for any important e-mails which he didn't have very often so it was more a routine of keeping his mailbox spam-free.
Then going onto Facebook and while he was scrolling he saw a video about one of his favorite singers who had gone through a horrible break up a couple weeks ago and her now ex-boyfriend. They had been dubbed the perfect couple but it seems that those things only happen in fairy tales.
Clicking on the video he hears the all too familiar voice of Thomas.
'I put a location tracker on her smartphone as this is a special occasion, I thought it would be okay to do so.
Because I am going to surprise her and ask her to marry me!'
Looking up and down from his phone on which a map could be seen with a red dot. After a while Thomas checks his phone one last time before putting it in his pocket and entering a restaurant.
The restaurant seems quite empty and he can barely hear some talking far in the back.
Then as he turns around the corner he sees her, kissing another man.
Thomas then drops the rose he was holding in his hands saying:
'Not again...'
Which causes her to notice thomas. Thomas turns away and starts walking.
–
Screen turns black and after a couple seconds; Thomas is breathing heavily and running as loud jeers and obscenities are yelled at him from every direction. He is then kicked hard causing him to stumble and as he lurches forward you can barely make out that he lost a shoe and that his pants are in tatters. He quickly gets up and keeps running.
–
The screen turns black again and switches to a later date. It is dark and because of some streetlights you can make out that Thomas is heading to the forest. It is either late in the evening or early in the morning and there's nobody around. He then heads into the woods.
After a long walk in the dark played on fast forward the video pauses as the sky starts lighting up and the sun starts appearing over the horizon. Followed by Thomas sitting at the edge of a cliff looking at the sunrise. The video is again fastforwarded only noticeable by the increased speed at which the sun rises.
Then just as the sun has come up fully over the horizon Thomas says:
'Goodbye.... goodbye my love'
After which he then jumps off the cliff.
–
The screen once again turns black after which a piece of text appears.
'This video was found at the bottom of a cliff and was shared because Thomas had written that in his goodbye note so that you who are watching this now can learn not to be so quick to judge or to seek revenge.'
That message too fades away followed by:
'In loving memory of Thomas'
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Author's note:
Over 800 000 people die due to suicide every year.
For every suicide there are many more people who attempt suicide every year.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds.
When you see someone is down, despite your judgement of that person please cheer them up.