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.

phone. The screen showed some more missed

off the plane

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

nodded. I looked through the contacts for Jackson’s phone and dialed

I watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered something

how’s it going?”

J City in a few days and I’m wondering if you’d like to visit as

It’s cold here. It’s not good for

not far away fed me with lies. The feeling was unbearable. Why is he lying to me? If I had not come

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

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

he ended the call without waiting for me to finish what I had to

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

stopped me, I would have run up to them and demanded to know why he lied to

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

accept whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby, my relationship with Ashton had hit the rocks, and the same had gone

 actually going quite

“I suggest you give Mr. Fuller a call first. There are about one hundred missed calls from him. He must be worried sick about

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

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