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.

out of my phone. The screen showed some more missed calls from

the plane and since then I had not had the time to look at

tell Mr. Fuller that you’re coming?” She said hesitantly after taking a peek at the number of missed

contacts for Jackson’s phone and

phone. From a distance, I watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered something to him, and after that, he answered

it going?” Jackson answered

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 well. We

cold here. It’s not good for the baby, traveling back and forth. Maybe after the celebration, when it gets

to me? If I had not come here and see them with my own eyes, I would think

asked, “What about Macy? How’s

was a moment’s silence again, before he said, “She’s at home.

he ended the call without waiting for me to finish what I had to

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

have run up to them and

was sometime later when I finally calmed down. I took a deep breath and turned to Stacey. “So, what

whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby, my relationship with Ashton had hit the rocks, and the same had

actually

a call first. There are about one hundred missed calls from him. He must be worried sick about

happened to be calling me again when I peeked at my phone. In cases like this one, a

at Stacey and asked, “Is your place far