"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?"

was seven hours and twenty five minutes from now. Waiting for his answer, Leonica wished he would say that he

spoke up again, except this time around, there was something hidden in his voice that instantly made Leonica serious. "Leonica, yesterday..." He paused, hesitating, something Leonica wasn't

to.

""Yes?" She asked.

something told her that that

couldn't see it. Glancing behind once again, she found Anastasia gathering the aid

Trip To

and shoving them in,

"So, five?" She asked.

"Sure."

and uh, don't be

said. She could almost feel his

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

from here on out.

taking a

then to the river. He didn't recall

eyes shifted to the small wooden building right up the road. Flowers and plants of various kind decorated the outside walls,

interior was equally decorated with flowers and

decided that the old

into the pockets of his pants, he made his way to the front entrance, his eyes

of each person that walked in and out, and how some of the older folk seemed to give him strange looks, like they knew him, yet didn't at the same time. Gabriel walked right through the entrance,

table with a wide selection of flowers and bouquets. Along the walls, stood

potted plants.

there, only to find a teenage boy sitting, tapping away on his

on the gum in

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