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and it really disturbs me. Well, just
forget about it”, I said it with a little tense in my voice.

My heart beats faster and it came to my mind the voice of Jake. I was just thinking that maybe he was the one who
phoned me. But I guess its not. “It’s so impossible”, I told myself.

Jake was very happy to hear the voice of Helen it was the voice that he was longing for.
”She still never changed. She still never wants to talk to strangers”, he told himself smiling and shaking his head.
Grace who was a very good friend of Helen was pregnant. Grace was now stable in her life with her husband Gerald. Grace
contacts Helen.
” Hello,” Helen said in a pensive voice.
“ Helen! It’s me Grace!” she said it in a very hilarious voice.
” I just want to invite you for a dinner in my house with our colleagues at 7:00 p.m. Please be here, okay?”
“ Okay, I’ll go”, Helen said and then hangs up the phone.

At that night, Helen was wearing a black casual dress, which made her look more attractive in her fair complexion.
Her curled hair was hanging at her shoulders that made her shoulder noticeable.
I arrived at Graces house at exactly 7:00 p.m. All of my friends greeted me who still wore their office attire and some were
wearing casual dress.

I went directly to the kitchen to chat with my friends who were always with me since high school. Moreover, Grace
called us out in a loud voice.

“ Guys, lets welcome the arrival of our friend, Jake! she was pointing to Jake.
Everybody was shocked for we never expect his coming. It was so noisy by then. I can feel a tear running down to my
cheeks then I wiped it so that they cannot notice it. I hear some kind of a ring in my ear that made me deaf, I was looking
around, and I can hardly saw Jake because everybody was embracing him and was happy for his coming. I was still standing
at the corner and was still shocked and I can feel the unnoticed bumping of my friends towards me so that they can move
closer to Jake and so that they can embrace him. I want to runaway but someone called out my name in a very familiar voice
which I long to hear.
Helen!
I became conscious by then and I saw Jake calling and coming towards me. He handed me a glass of wine. All I can say
was, hi! I can feel my blood rouse, and I feel the heat of my face. I looked down so that I can never see his eyes. I can really
feel the emptiness I have inside was already fill. Then I am already ready to face and looked at him. I smiled at him with all I
am.
How are you? Jake asked.
Im okay! What a big surprise that your back?
He looked down. It was just becauseahm. he had some difficulty of saying something. I have something to be done or settle,
some sort of things which I never did or that was left unsettled before I went to Canada.
Ahm. when I am ready to say something, somebody calls his name.
Jake, come here! Grace was