In Love, Never Say Never

She turned to me and said, “When you see him later, do you intend to say hi?”

That was a strange question. “Why not?” I responded.

She shrugged. “Have you ever considered why they’re all in J City, but they lie to you about being in M Country?”

“Maybe they don’t want me to worry!”

“If that’s the case, what do you think their reaction would be when you appear out of the blue? I have an idea. Would you care to listen?”

“What do you have in mind?”

Stacey sat up straight and faced me. “You’ll see them tonight, but don’t go up to them first. Wait until tomorrow. I’m taking you somewhere to have the whole story sorted, and then we’ll deal with this calmly, alright?”

I was taken aback by what she said. It felt like she had overestimated the seriousness of the matter. I wanted to ask for more information but she silenced me. “Look, there they are!”

I looked in the direction she was pointing and saw two men, both about six feet tall, pushing a stroller as they talked.

There was some distance between us and them. I was a bit short-sighted anyway, so I could not make out exactly who they were but based on their silhouettes I could tell they were Nick and Jackson.

I really wanted to go over and talked to them, but Stacey stopped me. She urged me to call them on the phone first.

I took out of my phone. The screen showed some more

getting off the plane and since then I had not had

after taking a peek at

through the contacts for Jackson’s phone and dialed

I watched him hesitate to pick it

it going?” Jackson

lowered my voice and said, “Hi, Jackson. Where are you? I’m coming to J City in a few days and I’m wondering if you’d like to visit as

“Hi, Scarlett. I’m afraid we can’t go. We’re still in M Country at the moment. It’s cold here. It’s not good for the baby, traveling back and forth. Maybe

to me? If I had not come here and

disappointment, I asked, “What about

with Nick. There was a moment’s silence again, before he said, “She’s at home. I’m outside right now and, if you don’t mind, I

ended the call without waiting for me to finish what

for a while as I watched them walk further away, pushing the stroller ahead of them and

not stopped me, I would have run up to them and demanded to know why he lied to

breath and turned to Stacey. “So, what did you find? Lay it

that I could accept whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby,

are actually

suggest you give Mr. Fuller a call first. There are about one hundred missed calls from

at my phone.

I looked at Stacey and asked, “Is your place far