When There Is Nothing Left But Love

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

off the plane and since then I had not

coming?” She said hesitantly after taking a peek at the number of missed calls on my

I looked through the contacts for Jackson’s

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

how’s it going?” Jackson answered the

J City in a few days and I’m wondering if you’d like to visit as well. We can celebrate the

first, and then 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

 Why is he lying to me? If I had not come here and see them with my

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

silence again, before he said, “She’s at home. I’m outside right now and, if you don’t mind, I have stuff

ended the call without waiting for

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

up to

deep breath and turned to Stacey. “So, what did you find? Lay it on

I could accept whatever would come my way. I had

 actually going quite

in the eyes and pursed her lips. “I suggest you give Mr. Fuller a call first. There are

peeked at my phone. In cases like this one, a fight would most likely ensue if I

turn it off. Then I looked at Stacey and asked, “Is your