"Bail on you and miss out on our appointment today? I think not." She sarcastically said.

Gabriel detected the tone in her voice and chuckled. "Well, aren't you excited."

"Ecstatic." She retorted, shifting her weight onto her other leg and glancing over her shoulder.

Anastasia still sat in her chair, Aid box's content sprawled out on the table. When she noticed her best friend's stare, she stuck her tongue out playfully, clearly still bitter over the fact that Leonica had answered her phone now, but not when she had called half of the day yesterday.

"So, where is it that you intend to meet me?" Gabriel's question snapped her out of her staring contest with her best friend. "My house?

He added in as if answering the question for her.

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If she had been with him on the other end, she could have seen the way his face scrunched up at the title 'MY' house. 'Our' house was a more familiar term to his lips.

"No," She was quick to say. "Not your house."

"Okay, name your place."

At his question, Leonica thought. She racked her brain, searching for a place that meant something to Gabriel. A place that didn't have any memory of Angelina.

She found a place, recalling the blissful memories like they were just yesterday.

The small feeling of Bliss those memories had brought were swept up by the recollection that those times had only lasted a brief period and Gabriel later turned into someone even Lila couldn't recognize.

"I have a places in mind," She spoke up, earning a hum from the other end to indicate that he was still following along. "The old flowery, down by the riverside. Let's meet in front." She started and glances at her watch, trying to tell a free time from now and all her packed hours. "By Five?"

five minutes from now. Waiting for his answer, Leonica

up again, except this time around, there was something hidden in his voice that instantly made Leonica serious. "Leonica, yesterday..." He paused,

to.

""Yes?" She asked.

He quickly said and something told her that that part of the conversation had ended, even before it

even though he couldn't see it. Glancing behind

To

them in, obviously ready to

"So, five?" She asked.

"Sure."

uh,

almost feel his smirk from

settled, the line went dead and Leonica clutched the device between her finger, silently praying

from here on out.

the evening when Gabriel stepped out of his car, taking a good

and then to the river. He didn't recall much,

road. Flowers and plants of various kind decorated the outside walls, entangling themselves around the building like it was their very source

the interior was equally decorated with flowers and people were

decided that the old flowery was

hands into the pockets of his pants, he made his way to the front entrance, his eyes not

person that walked in and out, and how some of the older folk seemed to give him strange looks, like they knew him,

wooden table with a wide selection of flowers and bouquets. Along

potted plants.

went there, only to find a teenage boy

The teenager asked when he noticed Gabriel, chewing annoyingly on the gum in his mouth. Gabriel looked away for a split second, a little taken back by the boy's

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