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.

took out of my phone. The screen

silent mode after getting off the plane and since then I had not had the

after taking a peek at

contacts for Jackson’s phone and dialed

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

how’s it going?” Jackson answered the

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. What do

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

lying to me? If I had not

asked, “What about Macy? How’s she

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 have stuff to do. I’m hanging

for me to finish

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

run up to them

deep breath and turned to

everything that had happened, I was confident that I could accept whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby, my

are actually going quite

Fuller a call first. There are about one hundred

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

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