Chapter 145 - Last day in City B... (1/2)

Veronica woke up early in the morning next day. Today would decide about the future of Alex and Veronica's relationship that if they should continue it or break it apart..

The first thing that she had done after getting up, was to call Diana but again but she didn't pick up the phone..

Actually this time her phone was completely switched off.

Having a simple breakfast, Veronica went for shopping and bought a lots of gifts for her parents, her friends... but she couldn't decide on the thing she should buy for that idiot Reuben Smith.

She became frustrated as she couldn't find anything appropriate to gift him and started to walk pass the shops..

When she was passing by the street to celebrate her last day in city B, she was enjoying the moment when something caught her attention..

It was a traditional kind of shop filled with lots of beautiful show pieces.. Her feet led her towards the showroom and she observed each and every single pieces of those amazing handiwork species.

She was roaming around the shop when a particular something caught her gaze, which was a beautiful silver coloured photo-frame...

The top left and bottom right corners of the photo-frame were decorated with beautiful black stones in heart shapes. Whereas the whole frame was covered with very small silver bids which were shining brightly.

She was so mesmerized by the beauty of this photo frame that her eyes were fixed on it...

Seeing the beautiful stoney frame, Veronica's mind drifted to the only person whom she wanted to gift it badly.

So without wasting any time, she bought it and gift wrapped it in a beautiful golden molded paper. She told the accountant to stick a paper note on it so that she could write the name of the person there..

Done with her shopping, she happily exited the showroom and decided to have lunch at a fancy restaurant as it was already very late.

After one hour or so, she also finished her lunch and roamed around the city. She walked by the shops selling different types of jewels like earrings, bracelets etc..

She bought some for both of her and her friends' mother's. She saw some platinum bracelets, engraving two words with black and violate cursive typographies. The engraved words were..

”FRIENDS FOREVER…”

She bought nine of them.. Seven of them were for Louis, Willa, Neil, Henry, Lucinda, Reuben, an unknown someone and herself too.. the other two were for her new friends Diana and Alex..

The clock was showing that only 45 minutes were left to hit 5 so she quickly left for her meet up with Alex.

She prayed to God inwardly that every misunderstandings which Alex had about her would be sorted today..

Fifteen minutes later, she got a message from Alex, saying, ”Let's change the destination of our meet up today. Let's meet at the café near your college.”

Veronica thought it was strange for Alex to suddenly change their meeting spot but she obliged to it and replied back, ”Okay.”

Arriving at the coffee shop five minutes before the scheduled time, Veronica waited for Alex to come. But even after half an hour later, there was no sign of him...

She fidgeted with the handle of her sling bag and waited patiently for Alex. Another hour passed but still there was no Alex in the café.

Getting bored, she ordered an expresso for her and started sipping it. One hour was spent by her again alone in the café while watching different people coming and going out with their friends...

Feeling angry about Alex with the thought that he might not come today, she got more depressed.

Picking up her phone she texted, ”Where are you Alex? I'll wait for another hour here and if you don't come before it, then I'll leave the café.”

Veronica huffed sitting in the coffee shop and ordered chocolate pastry for her. She was now becoming hungry after waiting for Alex for atleast three hours.

She almost slept in the café with her head resting on the coffee table and woke up by a shaking on her body. She was beyond happy thinking that finally… finally her friend Alex had arrived...

Looking up at the face of the person who was shaking her by her shoulders, she was about to greet him happily when her smile fell seeing the person there…

The man in front of her was not Alex… but the irritating bastard Mike…

”Hey beautiful, what are you doing here alone?” Mike asked smilingly.

Veronica rolled her eyes at him and retorted, ”I'm not obliged to answer you. So just leave.”

”Still feisty huh? Or are you waiting for that stupid Alex here? Did he not come here?” Mike asked mockingly.

Her patience that she was holding till now finally broke down and she yelled at the animal in front of her, ”Listen Mike. I'm already very much pissed off right now. And if you really don't want me to beat you into a pulp right now, then I'm warning you.. Just leave from here. Otherwise you will regret this day for your whole life.”

Mike laughed crazily and said, ”Oh. Beautiful. I really like your boldness. But I'm very sorry to inform you that even if you wait for your whole life here, still you won't be able to see him as he is currently not in the city.”