After Pandora died, I was in search of a new best friend. She came in the form of Hermione. We met at a concert where a student was playing Ravel’s adagio assai piano concerto. I started sobbing, and I realised the person next to me was too. Almost at the same time. We saw, laughed, and forgot about each other.
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Weeks later, and it was around the time that Bensimon got arrested, that my father reintroduced me to her. Hermione. Daughter of a high government official, senior of my father, went to HKU. Hermione was a painfully honest person, and the one thing I really could learn from her, was that she was brilliant at bargaining and selling something. She could take some shit and make you buy it at first instance at a higher price, and you would be totally blown away by her sales skills. She always had an animated flirty look that suggested she knew you better than you knew yourself. Reversely, she could also trample on whatever you were trying to sell her, and make you sell it to her at the lowest price possible.
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Why someone as smart as that, had such a crappy boyfriend, I did not know. You would expect someone like Hermione to have a respectable boyfriend in society, a professional guy with traditional values. But her boyfriend’s shallowness was so much you cannot understand it, like some amalgamation made out of things cut and paste together. He never had a deep focus or feel for anything in particular. He insisted AA everytime they had meals. So no chivalry to speak of. Herimone had a lot of canned food lovers. She was very neat about that stuff. She knew whom to go to, for what. This guy was for emotional warmth, this was for intellectual simulation, this was for his face, and this guy was for respect, and another was for lust. She was really tidy about distributing functions to them.
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A bit sick. I guessed too. And something I couldn’t quite learn. I would implode if I had so many feels stuck inside me and separated to be released to separate persons. “Adults are fake and have complicated relationships, and usually more than one system.” Hermione said. I felt like Hermione sat in the vacuum for so long and no one really knew what went through her brain. As I got to know Hermione more, I was surprised by the lack of bad news surrounding her. That was how saintly she was. She had many boyfriends. But she never had any kind of sexual slander. Nobody called her a whore ever. Not that we talked about sex. We had that unspoken respect between us. She introduced me to many guys, guys who would generally be out of my league. Those guys would want AA at meals, and were firm feminists. And asked things like if women had pay rise, would they also pay AA at meals. “Pretending you can do better is doing better. And that applies to boyfriends too.” Hermione said. I wasn’t sure what she meant those were better, since they didn’t pay for meals.
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When she took me out clubbing to introduce me to guys, we talked about what is the best way for women to act during dating. “Is the woman more normal when she is chi sin? Do you think a woman in love always is chi sin?” She asked , half drunk. “I supposed – but if a woman always acted crazy and spoke the opposite of what she wanted, hoping that the guy can guess, the communication will eventually break down.” At this point, a text from her boyfriend came, but Hermione ignored it. “Those people are coming! We better leave the place.” Hermione meant the protestors. “The protesters are coming to spread terror and prevent people from going to work the next day.” Hermione added, as if the point wasn’t obvious enough. “Stupid kids who don’t know revolutions are dumb. Their asks are stupid, and obviously have no respect for the country. They are ruining my night out.” She said as she choked slightly on her cocktail. She cleared her throat, announcing that we would be leaving.
My heart was numb, and just hoping things would be back in normal so I could go to work. Fleetingly I was worried that Bensimon would go to those places and be arrested again. It was so easy, like a woman who got pregnant by a playboy the first time we had sex, and still innocently assumed it could not have happened.
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