"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?"

from now. Waiting for his answer, Leonica wished he would say that he had something coming

Bubble busted. When she wanted to groan internally, Gabriel spoke up again, except this time around, there was something hidden in his

to.

""Yes?" She asked.

nothing." He quickly said and something told her that that part of the

it. Glancing behind once again, she found Anastasia gathering the aid

To

them in,

"So, five?" She asked.

"Sure."

uh, don't

could almost feel his smirk

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

from here on out.

In the evening when Gabriel stepped out of his car, taking a good look at his surrounding. The area, the atmosphere, it

the river. He didn't recall much, but his mind told him that this was

to the small wooden building right up the road. Flowers and plants of various kind decorated the outside walls, entangling themselves around the building like

see that the interior was equally decorated with flowers and people were

the old

his way to

older folk seemed to give him strange looks, like they

with a wide selection

potted plants.

was a desk and Gabriel's eyes went there, only to find

gum in his mouth. Gabriel looked away for a split second, a

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