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.

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

right and proper, I immediately checked with Darren, who said with a chuckle. “You know, I am actually kind of hungry. So, uncle Jason, I’ll gracefully accept

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into a local

asking my uncle for his opinion with every dish he ordered, and even

Darren a.simple, honest smile, starting

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

was really touched inside.

were shopping for new clothes for my aunt, Darren was eager to join in, “Perfect, I’ve been meaning to get a coat for my dear mother as

laugh at me if my

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us headed to the women’s clothing section.

pink down jacket for my aunt among the array of women’s

as white as Xaviera’s.” he explained, bashfully like a young man in love. “She’ll definitely look good in it.”

was 49 this year, but to Jason, she

twinge in my nose. “Let’s

going to try

Darren who