His Eagle Eyes on Me

There was no signature.

"Oh, there's no signature on the card so you might need to ask around to see which one of your friends wrote this," Anne continued.

Lucas held onto the card for dear life; even without a signature, he knew that it was from Irene because she was the only one who would call him Mr. Lucas'.

"Isn't Irene dead?" he thought. "When did she write this card? Before she died?"

"Ma'am, do you know how often the feedback box is opened?" he swallowed hard and asked.

Anna shook her head. "I'm not so sure about that. Should I call and ask?"

"Please do."

picked up her phone and called the dean's secretary and asked the

for over three months at a time." The hope that rose within Lucas vanished as he was

put it in the feedback box, though? Did she think that I would see this if she did so?" he thought. "That has to be it. If she hung it on the tree, I probably wouldn't have seen it." Tears welled in his eyes at the memories

you crying?" Anna handed him a box of

was a distant person and rarely spoke to any of the faculty members or his classmates. Under normal circumstances, he would never share his personal thoughts, but he could not

he muttered and tears rolled down

thought that she traveled such a long way to Edelweiss only to write him this message

at the airport. Had I known that she didn't have much longer to live, S would have listened to everything she had to say and said a proper goodbye

the trip, Ivy started

home to chat with her younger

anyone, but don't worry because you will have plenty of friends soon," Layla