Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 73

Jason called again, but suddenly there was a different voice on the line.

“Yeah, I’m at Gate 3, would you mind helping me out, sir.”

“Xaviera?” came the surprised voice through the receiver, “It’s me, Darren.”

To my total shock, the person who was helping my flustered uncle find the entrance to the mall turned out to be Darren.

A short while later, when we met up, Jason, with a grateful look, told me, “He was the one who helped. The guy’s awesome.”

Darren listened to him finish his choppy sentences without caring about his stuttering and said with a gentle smile. “Sir, you’re pretty amazing yourself, but next time, remember to check the floor number, okay?”

I explained to Jason, “Darren and I are classmates.”

Jason’s face lit up with surprise and he happily said, “Really? That’s… that’s fate for you.”

Darren told me he was there to take his cousin shopping and had bumped into my lost uncle in the parking garage.

Jason had gotten stuck on the basement level.

at me and then at Darren and said, “Xaviera, he

“You know, I am

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a local cuisine restaurant.

of tact, asking my uncle for his opinion with every

and gave Darren a.simple, honest smile, starting off a bit stiff but gradually

inferiority complex that can surface when a common man meets someone of higher status, but Darren covered all bases, his actions

was really

to get a coat for my dear mother as well, and Xaviera, you’ll have

me if my taste’s old school,

Chapter 73

the meal, the three of us headed to the women’s clothing section.

chose a tender pink down jacket for my aunt among

a young man in

to Jason, she was

felt a twinge in my nose. “Let’s go

going to try it on, Xaviera?”

was Darren who asked.