Hi Love Come Back

chapter. 8. Friend Meeting

The office is back to normal. The party is over. Chris has returned to the city of Hope.

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"Sall, not yet? Ayok dong, I have a morning meeting but have not finished preparing the material" said Ann.

"Well, lock the door for a second. Where's lazo?" I answered while I locked my bedroom door.

"He can't wait in front" Ann replied.

"Oh.ok, yuk!" take me.

We walked to the front of the highway to take the bus to the office.

"Finally you guys came too, it's a good thing not to miss the bus" said Lazo as he played his mobile phone.

"I'm sorry it was a stomachache" I replied.

Not long after, the bus we were waiting for arrived. Lazo let us ladies ride first.

"Later in the afternoon you go home first. I want to see my cousin, maybe he'll stay for a few days" Lazo said.

"Ok." I replied along with Ann.

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It was almost dark when Lazo came with his cousin. Ann and I had just finished dinner.

"Ann! Sally's! this is my cousin Thomas, he's a Major University student. In a few weeks there will be research in this city." Lazo introduced his cousin to me and Ann.

"Tom.." I said quietly almost whispering.

"Hi Thomas! I'm Ann Lazo's friend." Ann said as she reached out to Tom.

Tom was surprised to see me too.

"Ann, nice to meet you." Tom welcomed Ann's hand.

"You.. Tom, from Asri Valley, right?" ask him.

"It's me Sally" he said with a wry smile.

"So you know each other?" ask Lazo.

"Yes, we were old friends in my hamlet" I replied.

"Oh, I take a shower first. Tom, you wanna wait here or in the room?" ask Lazo to Tom.

"I was here" replied Tom.

Ann was chatting with Tom, while I only occasionally nodded and smiled in response to them. Tom turned out not to be as familiar as he used to be when we were together in the hamlet of the Asri Valley. It was as if he was keeping his distance from me.

"Almost forgot, Tom wants some tea or coffee?" I said start a conversation with him.

"Warm tea can?" he answered and then turned to continue the conversation with Ann.

"Ok, I'll stay for a second." I said a little annoyed, then went to the kitchen to make a drink for Tom.

When I got to the front porch of the park where Tom and Ann were talking with drinks. Ann said goodbye because there were some things that needed to be done. I'm both Tom now. I guess now's a good time to ask Tom about his change of attitude, and why he disappeared without any news from our friends.

"Tom, what are you doing? How come you didn't say anything, you never heard, you still think of me, Mena, and Kela as your best friend, don't you?" ask him.

"I'm sorry I wanted to follow Lazo to the room." instead of answering my question Tom got up from his seat and went to Lazo's room.

"Tom! It's weird anyway, you'd better tell me what my fault is until you're like this to me." prevent me while holding his right hand.

"I'm sorry" Tom said as he took my hand off and passed.

I was stunned by Tom's change of attitude.

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Ann and Lazo came together from their rooms. I didn't find Tom there. According to Lazo, Tom will stay here for a few days. Where's she?

"Lazo, where's Tom?" ask me to Lazo

"Tom, last night went with his friend. He didn't stay here. He said he would stay with his friends to make it easier to do his college assignments" Lazo said.

It seems that Tom is avoiding me, which makes me even more curious.

"Sally, this is Tom's seat for you" Lazo continued.

"Thank you" I said as I stuffed a small pocket book-shaped item into my bag.

***

Uh. fresh out of the shower. These days more and more goods are coming in and out of the warehouse which makes my work more and more. It looks like our on-site production and sales are seeing a pretty good increase.

I took Tom's pocketbook from the bag. Lay the body on the bed while leaning the back on the top.

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Tom's pocket book

"Today I was in the first grade of high school, now that I'm meeting Sally again, why does it feel different now? Unfortunately, Sally still thinks of me as a friend just like Mena and Kela. Ah maybe because I entered puberty alone, all this time I was his best friend"

It seems Tom only writes at a certain moment, one sheet with the next sheet has a date that is far removed. I open the next sheet.

"One year passed the taste I had for Sally was getting different, but not with her. Damn Dean the jerk is getting more and more attention to Sally. I have to protect Sally."

Unlike the previous sheets next contains the heartbreak of Tom in the midst of our togetherness while in the hamlet of Asri Valley. Until it came to a page Tom wrote..

"It seems I should keep harboring this feeling until the time is right. Sally will go after her dream away from this hamlet. I couldn't ask him to be mine when I was nobody like this. The son of a bitch had already proposed to Sally through her father. Thank goodness Sally rejected it, meaning there was still a chance for me.

I'll go on to be someone who makes Sally proud and will come back then to make her mine."

The last sheet of Tom's pocket book

"*Sally, sorry I couldn't look at you for long. I'm ashamed, I feel betrayed to be your best friend. No, not the friend I want. But I also realize I'm nobody right now. May you have the same taste and wait for me.

I love you not as a friend.

Tom*"

My heart felt uneasy, I wasn't sure if I should be happy, sad, or disappointed after knowing Tom's heart. I'm confused how? Do I need to tell Mena and Kela? I'd better shut up like that.

My phone reads a phone number I don't know ring.ring..

"Hallo. hello.." There was no answer from there, I hung up my phone.

To get rid of the chaos I opened my laptop. I open my favorite discussion forum to chat with friends in cyberspace.

*you are invited to the joint blog* from PawangHujan (ID in the discussion forum I know lately)

the notification that appears in my email.

I opened that link. It turns out that there are already some friends of my world who want to join there. I was the last member invited.

I haven't known PawangHujan ID for long. He's a friend of I. D. Awan, my gray friend. CloudCaboo is a mysterious person. At the very least, he wanted to be known as a mysterious person.

While other members in the discussion forum already know each other's faces. Gray Cloud is not clear what it looks like. I only knew him from private conversations in the chat rooms about his disappointment, making him antisocial. Not only in cyberspace, according to PawangHujan the Grey Cloud was like that in the real world.

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