Never before has the night looked so beautiful, or maybe, I was too late to realize the beauty of nature. It was a full moon night, the moon was up in the sky, stars were twinkling. I was sitting in my room, with a cup of tea. My room had a big window, which opened up a beautiful view of the world outside.

Sipping a bit of tea, I felt my head filling with a lot of thoughts, which I have never felt before. I was thinking about a person way too much than any other thing. I was able to appreciate every thing I saw, which I had never bothered to do before. Ever since I met Gina, and spoke to her, I have noticed a change in me. Although this may sound weird, I thought, I was all into her.

It's not unnatural, if you ask me. It's totally natural to have a crush on an actress, especially if she looks seductive, which Gina was. But, I liked many actresses, and many others celebrities, but Gina was different. Gina was an actress too, but something about her made me think about her all the time. My parents did not have the slightest idea that I had given away my heart to a famous actress. Her soft voice, elegant way of expressing her inner thoughts truly made anyone fall for her. Evidently, I was one of them.

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Treat's on me today. Coffee?"

"Okay, as you wish."

Ever since I met Gina in the coffee shop, we began meeting quite often, in the very same coffee parlor. It seemed as if Gina had started to take an interest in me. The waiter walked towards with two cups of coffee. Adding sugar to her cup, Gina said, "Tell me more about yourself, Drew."

I gulped. Looking into her brown eyes, I said, "I have a dark past, Gina. I don't think I can share it all with you."

"It's okay. My past hasn't been golden exactly. You can share everything with me."

Gina's eyes proved that what she said to me was true. She seemed to have caught the hook of similarity between us. With a deep sigh, I began, "I'm almost uneducated. I have been working as a nurse ever since I was fifteen. I had to drop out of school since I wasn't really the best of students my school had. Even my parents supported this decision of mine since they knew they can expect nothing good of me."

Gina silently sipped from her cup. Putting it down silently, she said, "How strange, a similar thing happened to me several years ago."

She closed her eyes, and began narrating her story. "You know, I used to be an actress. There was an audition in Minneapolis for a famous movie. I participated in that, and immediately got selected. The conductors thought I was pretty, talented and everything. So I went to LA, where all actresses lived. Somehow ever since my debut in Hollywood, all the movies I played in, flopped. I thought I wasn't talented enough, and totally unfit to be an actress. So I ran away from my huge villa in LA, and returned back here. Shortly, my mother got affected with appendicitis, and here I am now."

Gina paused for breaths. I noticed that there were tears in her eyes. She cried while recalling her past. Here I was sitting in front of her, sharing a similar past, yet totally shameless. Gina didn't deserve this life, she deserved something way better. Although I recalled my past, I didn't want to change myself, yet here was Gina, extremely distressed. I felt bad for her, more than I felt for myself. We were so similar, yet so different. I wanted to help her, but didn't know how.

"Please, don't cry," I said, feeling a lump forming in my throat.

"You are right," she said, wiping her tears, "tears are useless. They are not going to bring back what I lost, anyway."

Her words made me realize how wasted my life was. I sat looking at the dark truth that Gina unveiled before me.