“So, care to enlighten me as to why you felt the need to call me here?” Stacy leaned in slightly, her voice edged with a hint of sarcasm, as she sat poised and elegantly in front of Liam, at the plush restaurant he had asked to meet. “Are you mad too? It has been a while since we have seen one another. Please, don't be like this too. It would make me feel very terrible,” Liam implored to Stacy with pitiful eyes as he shifted uncomfortably in his seat, a weary sigh escaping his lips. “You know it is not possible that I wouldn't be like this with what you have done to my friend. What happened between you and Nadia?” Stacy questioned, wanting to hear his side of the story since he had requested an audience anyway. She had been trying to ignore him all this while because she didn't want to get too nosy. “Gosh! I do not even know where to start,” Liam muttered with an exhausted expression on his face. “And you never told me you had a girlfriend?” Stacy cut in sarcastically, giving him
Carlton sat nestled in the plush embrace of his favorite armchair, at his study desk at home, reminiscing about the good moments he had with Stacy, with happiness fluttering in his heart. With a wistful smile playing on his lips, he pulled out his phone and began to scroll through the gallery of pictures from their vacation. He allowed the evergreen memories to wash over his mind like a gentle tide, feeling so much happiness from every meaningful moment they spent together. He felt so much happiness thinking about how their lives had played out in the beginning, and how she came back to his life so unexpectedly, even when he thought it was never possible. It made him realize how lucky he was in his life. As he dropped text messages with so much love for her while waiting for her to reply to them, his mind suddenly traveled to the issue he had left on the ground before they went for their unplanned vacation. His mind went back in time to the first time he saw Alison when they were b
‘I thought you said that we would be eating alone. I wouldn't have come if I knew it was going to be like this!’ Liam texted his mother sharply, his hands trembling as he burned with repressed fury, upon seeing the most unexpected crowd at their supposed family dinner. After the last fight, Liam had with his father on the phone, his mother, Tracy, had been trying to get both of them back together on good terms. She was deeply frustrated that her husband and son never seemed to see eye to eye, and had barely managed to convince her husband to set up a friendly family dinner outside their home where they could settle all disputes. However, she had no idea that her husband would invite the Garcias to their private dinner too, making things more complicated than they were supposed to be. His intention for the shared dinner was not hard to decipher either. ‘Your father didn't tell me he invited them until now. I had no idea either,’ she replied to Liam's message with a sullen and apolog
Nadia sat at a regular bar and ordered a glass of margarita, while trying to distract herself from the disturbing thoughts which continued to plague her mind. She decided to leave home and have fun by herself, since Stacy was not coming home that night, and because it was something she rarely did for herself. All her life, she had slaved away to side jobs and endless bills, to provide for herself and her family. Even while she was still in school, she worked herself to deep exhaustion doing part-time jobs during the day, and studying all night to maintain balance in her life. She could never buy good things for herself, enjoy her youth, or treat herself to good things because she was busy saving every penny she earned to be able to sponsor herself and her family. It had been tough all her life, but yet she had put up with it. However, she could not believe that she almost lost her job to a mere lady's fight over a guy. It made her rethink everything she had ever told herself, and
“That is great, Felicia! I had no idea that you were even ahead in plans already,” Austin seethed with a broad smile, as he poured himself a glass of champagne, and his friend, Antonio, one too. “I mean, that wedding hall is so hard to book for many months because of endless reservations, and I found the right time to do it. It is better now than later,” Felicia explained with a bright grin curving her lips, as her eyes sparkled with gladness. “Isn't that true, Tracy?” Felicia impulsively invited her into the discussion, seeing that she had been quiet all evening. “Yeah. That is great!” Tracy forced a bright smile and gave a reluctant answer, knowing well that her son was not interested in the union at all. “Then that is final. We can start making the preparations,” Austin declared with exhilaration, as he and Antonio toasted to greatness. “Wait… wait… wait here. Everyone, wait,” Liam chimed in, after waiting for them to ramble on, his voice laced with incredulity, “Wedding halls?
“Evelyn is so obnoxious! Gosh!” Stacy muttered furiously under her breath as soon as she remembered her last encounter with her again at the hospital cafeteria. She was sitting in front of her dresser to adjust her makeup, while Nadia was helping her to straighten the curls in her hair with hair stretcher. “Did she already cross the line when it is barely a week of you working back at the hospital?” Nadia questioned in surprise, as a thought occurred to her, “Oh, she might. She must have heard you are friends with Liam, and cannot keep her obsessive behaviour in check,” she muttered disdainfully. “Yes!” Stacy muttered angrily, the more she thought of Evelyn's threat to her again and again. ‘Who does Evelyn think she was?!’“What happened between you two?” Nadia asked flippantly, deeply engrossed in what she was doing. “Did I tell you that I met her already in the past? Four years ago,” Stacy mentioned, as she carefully put on the bracelet that Nadia had given her that morning to ma
Stacy was utterly shocked beyond her mind when she saw the news when one of her colleagues showed it to her, and her face turned pale as she read the words that were used to defame her over and over again. Though the news was taken down less than thirty minutes after it was posted, the hospital technical team promised to find out who had posted it. Everyone laughed over it and told Stacy to not be mindful of haters, however, she still could not help but hear the side talk of others talking about how likely the news was definitely genuine.Liam came to see her after he heard about what happened, and they talked about it over lunch together while laughing. He promised to help her get to the root of the matter too. They talked about Nadia too, and talked about physiotherapy though. Stacy appreciated the kind gesture from him because he helped her to feel a little better, but her mind still couldn't get over the worries of who it could be. ‘Who would have done that?’ she wondered endless
“You are finally getting discharged tomorrow morning,” Liam announced mildly with a demure demeanor, as he flipped through the charts of the patient, whose bed he was standing before, “Do not break bones and return here the third time, okay,” he continued, as he looked at her facial expression which looked like she was always ready to fight. “I cannot guarantee that,” Keisha answered frivolously, as she turned to continue making final touches to the image that she had been sketching all day. “Wow! That is some level of outspokenness,” Liam almost stuttered as he spoke to the young lady, as he wondered what was going on in her mind that made her say that. “At least I am better than you,” Keisha remarked, without raising her face to look at him while deeply engrossed in what she was doing. “What?” Liam's feet held back on the spot when he heard what she said in disbelief, the thin line of his left brow arching a little higher than the right as he turned to look at her in surprise.