e foreign to her in the previous years. She can hear a calm but silent snore beside her. She had slept alone for many years, so, having a bod

fore her. She blinked, once, twice, thrice—believing that wh

e words she whis

didn't feel offended when his eyes widened and he suddenly bolted away from

when he finally manage

ning the oddity of their current situation.

d, "I found you beside a ro

o leave the bed, that's when she felt it. A searing pain on her lip and cheek.

l me Mel, what happened?"

reply or a comeback, but in that mome

if you're not comfortable

ut once again—she can't conjure a word. She just kept her eyes on him, questi

road. You were wounded so I brought you back to my pla

ep recesses of her brain, she finally

if he suddenly turned mute. Why though, he couldn't tell. Even the word wife didn't bring any clarity inside his suddenly

chael are now seated inside his car, on the road to the attend the reunion. All that is clear to her—she is now ridin

assmates had arrived, but her husband is still out on an errand. "How

s are now busy drinking and th

rty, why isn't he here. She was about to panic, but a fleeting thought suddenly brushed through her mind. Michael is a very dedicated doctor, he must have come across an injured person or something. Bes

urned, but believeing she knows her husband well enough, she settled on her initial though

uld. His broad jawline is more pronounced, not as how she remembered them, but his long las

ing, because without a moment

pened to

her head, forcing her deeply

your f

exactly happened to her? She closed her eyes and left his question han

, but the truth is—she was planning to take a peek. She won't speak to any of them

sted to stay inside the restaurant—arguing to her friend that she wanted

elf staring at her childhood home. The gates are rusty, even the paint on the two storey house are chipping

e kept gazing at the house which she haven't visited for twenty years, Me

mind of its own went for the door bell, and before

ven from a far, Melissa was able to recognize who he is. When th

ou doing here?" her

she didn't. She stood there, a li

sa? Me

art hammering from what transpired next after she stood in front

answered, "What's there not to be

chael, how you can speak with me like we'

, but the frown that came a

, we're no longer the same petrified teen