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.

my phone. The screen showed

set my phone to silent mode after getting off the plane and since then I had not had the time to look

She said hesitantly after taking a peek at the number

I looked through the contacts

call went through to Jackson’s phone. From a distance, I watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered

it going?”

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

he said, “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 after the celebration, when it gets warmer. Then we can go back to see

feeling was unbearable. Why is he lying to me? If I had not come here and see them with my own eyes, I

asked, “What about Macy? How’s she doing

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 have stuff

call without waiting for me

watched them walk further away, pushing the stroller ahead of them and talking

run up to them and demanded to

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

come my way. I had lost my baby, my relationship with Ashton

actually

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

to be calling me again when I peeked at my phone. In

to turn it off. Then I looked at Stacey and