The Returning Ex

Sophia slept through the day, and she only got up in the afternoon.

When she walked out of her room, neither John nor Zack was around.

She scratched her head and headed out, not knowing where she wanted to go. Ever since last night, she had been feeling somewhat conflicted.

For reasons unbeknownst to her, she had a dream last night, and it was about things that happened a long time ago; things that she thought she had long forgotten.

But they appeared to be so vivid in that dream: fights, curses, accusations, blame-passing.

They were all horrible things.

She could even feel somewhat suffocated as she thought about them now.

So, she sat back on the couch in the hotel lobby and stared at the hotel entrance.

It was as if there were many voices in her head, but she could not tell for sure what they were about.

She felt that she had nowhere to go, and if it were not for John and Zack, she would not know what was next for her.

The thought of this made her feel useless.

After a short while, she heard Zack’s somewhat anxious voice. “Why did you leave the room? We thought that you were abducted when we didn’t see you in the room after we got back.”

Before she realized it, Zack had walked up to her and was standing opposite her.

I

Zack liked this tone.

all smiles and walked up to her, patting her on her shoulder. “Now that’s what I like to hear. Your demeanor this morning was making

shook him off and stood up.

You

toward the elevator. “Yes,

room. It appeared that Zack was the only person that was worried

went in, she went straight into her room before John followed suit after a couple of minutes. “Zack and I have eaten. What would you like to eat? We can

and that was

there was nothing else he could say to

the other was in the

this was their default way of living. They always had nothing to

that, John had never followed up with

heard John’s phone

on his tone, Sophia could tell that he was not talking

would not be a business call at this hour. If it was a private call, she could not think of a person

on the window, trying to eavesdrop on his

and continued, “I’ll be

responded, John then replied, “Yes, with

be someone she knew since that person

quickly, she had a guess, and

too smart was not always a good

something else and she heard John laugh. “Forget it. I was just a little