Well, today was one of those days that one doesn’t want to talk about but I guess you will have to in the end. See, about 5 months ago I dated this girl, "M L". We’ve been dating for so long that as a matter of fact I can’t remember when we started dating actually.

I do know that "M" and me broke up because of stupid reasons, totally unnecessary. I also know that I got told that she would never lie to me again. Funny thing is, some 2 months after we broke up I find out that she’s engaged to this other bloke she hardly knows…

Well today I ran into her… I parked at the local Spar, and right across from where I parked, she and her mom was getting out of the car. I just sat there, couldn’t move, watching her getting out of the car and going into the shop. When they came out, she spotted me, and needless to say, came over and asked me how things were without blinking. Like nothing happened!!

She then went off telling me all these things I already knew, like her not working at the coffee shop, she doing temp work at the Action Café in Gordon’s Bay, etc etc. Well, I know all of that. I also know that she is now engaged, only some two months later after we broke up!! Just then, while we were talking, her phone rang, and she just killed the call… I told her: “That must be the fiancée calling”, and she replied, “o, and how do you know about that?”

Now let’s be honest, people cant really hide stuff from me, and I know what’s going on, although I rarely interfere. This I do know… Getting engaged just after, well 2 months, after you broke up with someone, is not right. Something’s fishy… It makes me wonder if all those “staff braais” she had with her fellow waitresses really were “staff braais” while we were still together. Bottom line is, it still fucking hurts, and knowing her, she will get hurt pretty soon in her newfound love as well… I just know her.

When she got back into her mom’s car, I simply got out of mine, did my shopping at the Spar and drove home. On the way home, being a DJ and all that, the weirdest song came into my head… I was so weird that I had to look up the words… It’s a song by Elvis, Called Lonesome Tonight… and these are the words…

Are you lonesome tonightdo you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart
Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight

Spoken:I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart
Act one was when we met,
I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down
Is your heart filled with pain,
shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight

Well, my stage is still standing, but it still hurs looking into the light, although it’s in a distance…
And then came "R"...

Rub it in some more... I love it!! Bang said the man, and then we fell...