Invent a character who owns these things. Write up to 250 words about the character, incorporating some of the subjects into your description.

Leather jacket
Business card
Dusty radio
Silver locket with inscription
Bottle of herbal medicine
Rugby ball
Fortune – telling cards
Jar of sharpened pencils
Brand new laptop

And I'll be using....

Dusty radio
Leather jacket
Bottle of herbal medicine
Fortune - telling cards
Silver locket with inscriptions

Robert just came back from wondering around aimlessly. He has always been like that ever since last year. Closing the door, he removed his leather jacket and hung it on the closet. He ran his eyes to the brownish garment. He remembered how Susan gave the piece to him for his birthday two years before. They were walking back from having a romantic dinner over the Chinese restaurant this one night when they happened to pass through this boutique full of jackets. He was thrilled over the abundance of the garments but rather disappointed for being quite broke that day to buy himself a new cloth. Little did he know how his girlfriend secretly fixing her eyes on the piece he liked and went to the store the next day to make the purchase. And when his birthday arrived that weekend, Susan never surprised him more with a present wrapped in hearts-shaped wrapper, revealing the jacket he wanted so badly when he opened his present.

“Uhuk uhuk!” Robert’s drifted mind came back to reality. He was coughing rather heavily for the past few days. He had been exposing himself thoughtlessly under the rain that it affected his health rather profoundly. If you are his friends you wouldn’t recognize him as of late as he had lost a lot of weight. He was very skeleton-like these days. There was this one day when he coughed out blood he had to run to the sink. His dwindling health bothered his mother so much she gave him a bottle of herbal medicine and constantly forced him to swallow the thing. It was for his own good. Ever since the incident, he had lost faith on the modern medicine. Not that he could help it, though. Heaving a deep sigh, he stared blankly on the label of the medicine. It was from his mother. He loved her more than anything in this world. But he just couldn’t bring himself to sanity. Not now. Not after what he had gone through.

Suddenly he felt the cold on his chest. He brought his hands to his shirt and clasped them tightly. Inside, hung over his neck was a silver locket with inscription, all too nostalgic for him to take it off. It was from her. If you flip it open you will see the picture of the two of them, with ‘I Love You’ written at the bottom of the picture. They both made it each for one another during their 5th anniversary. He remembered how both of them pledge the oath to be loyal, till death do us part. But now?

He was snapped back to reality. He wandered around the room, looking emptily the surrounding of the room. Something caught his attention. He fixed his eyes on the drawer. There was something on top of it. Suddenly he moved towards the article. He picked up a card laid dusty on the drawer. It was a fortune – telling card. He trembled in sadness. He remembered how the card told them how they would live ‘happily ever after’. How Susan beaming with joy and hugged him tightly. And how he embraced Susan lovingly to everyone’s jealousy. They couldn’t be bothered that moment. They were deeply in love. So much so that they were not spared of murmurs from the passers-by who were obviously green with envy over their intimacy. He breathed out a long sigh. Look at him now. All messed up. Unkempt, with distorted health. Alone. Was this supposedly be the translation of the ‘happily ever after?’

He laughed at the card and crumpled it hard. He threw the card away. It hit a radio. ‘Oh my..’ Robert charged towards the radio. He clutched the radio into his hands only to see the pile of dusts covering all over the radio. He blew the dust away and rubbed it off, revealing a small grayish radio. His eyes began to water. The radio…Yes the radio made him to remember their first dating together. It was 7 years ago. They were both young and carefree. Jane, Susan’s friend introduced him to Susan. Robert didn’t blink an eye when he first met her. Susan brightly blushed. It was love at first sight. When they first went out together, they held a picnic over the lake. He brought the radio to impress Susan with a collection of love songs he had with his CDs. He remembered how the two of them spent the evening knowing one another with songs all too romantic for their background. It was like a theme song. He smiled nostalgically over the memory. But those were the days.

Today, here he was, all alone and in despair over Susan’s death a year ago. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and was too late to sought the treatment. Robert blamed himself more than anyone for not noticing the changes Susan had shown him over the years. Susan, loving him more than herself, didn’t have the heart to tell Robert of her disease. She didn’t want Robert to worry sick over her. And Robert continued to be cheerful and making antics, believing that Susan was all too happy with him. How ignorant he was! He blamed himself thoroughly. He was bitter even since Susan’s death. Susan died without him knowing the reason all along! He felt very guilty. He sat beside the radio and turned it on. The song blared from the radio. And it all went back to him. He burst into tears. ‘Forgive me, Susan…’