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

plane

Mr. Fuller that you’re coming?” She said hesitantly after taking

contacts for Jackson’s

went through to Jackson’s phone. From a distance, I watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered something to him, and after that, he answered the

it going?” Jackson answered

and said, “Hi, Jackson. Where are you? I’m coming to J City in a few days and I’m wondering if you’d like

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

to me? If I had not come here and see them with my own eyes, I would think they were

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

he said, “She’s at home. I’m outside right now and, if you

waiting for me to finish what

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

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

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

I could accept whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby,

are actually going

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

I peeked at my phone. In cases like

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