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.

of my phone. The screen showed some more missed calls

phone to silent mode after getting off the plane and since then I

you’re coming?” She said hesitantly after taking a peek

contacts for Jackson’s

watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered something to him, and after

how’s it going?”

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 can celebrate the new year together in J City.

Country at the moment. It’s cold here. It’s not good

watched as the man standing not far away fed me with lies. The feeling was unbearable. Why is he lying to me? If I had not come here and see them with my own eyes, I would

aside the disappointment, I asked, “What about Macy?

I saw Jackson exchange glances 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

for me to

them walk further away, pushing the stroller ahead of them

had not stopped me, I would have run up

down. I took a deep breath and turned to Stacey. “So, what did you find? Lay

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

actually going quite

Fuller a call first. There are about one

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

off. Then I looked at Stacey