The Two Projected on the Screen

Adrian kept two concert tickets in his suit pocket, and Kristina believed they were a surprise for her. Instead he packed them for a business trip. She paid a scalper's price for her own seat and watched him kiss another girl, their faces projected onto the giant screen above the crowd. Afterward she found the girl's post calling it the best birthday present, and then his car accelerated and left her on the pavement.

She woke in a hospital bed to Adrian claiming he was only her boss, hiding the five years they had spent together. He said he had been driving, though she remembered the girl behind the wheel. When her uncle offered an arranged marriage, she agreed, and began packing the apartment she had decorated for a man who never admitted she existed.

At dinner he ordered the bitter melon she despised, and a girl appeared at their table, delighted that he still remembered she loved it.