It's You...

Chapter 16.

It's Thursday, Jennifer is at work. She has just finished with her last meeting from her today's schedule. She has some time to spare, before she leaves work. Jennifer thinks to surf Brendon on internet and so she does. He's right on the top of the search list. She clicks on his name and there it is, all the basic information she could have easily asked Brendon to tell her. Like his birthday.

Jennifer catches glance of his birthday mentioned there. It's 11th March, 1991.

"Today is 28th Feb, his birthday is just mere days away then," Jennifer mutters to herself.

She takes a look at his pictures below, as she kept scrolling. They're all stunning. Brendon is the one who looks stunning in those pictures, Jennifer giggles by this crazy thought of hers. And then, there comes a picture of theirs together. Jennifer smiles looking at those pictures and saves one in her laptop. Just then an idea pops in her mind.

As Brendon's birthday is coming, she thinks of gifting him something. So she goes to the online shopping websites and searches for some gift for him......After a lot of searching and confusion, she finally finds the perfect gift for him. And without a second thought, she places the order, it's just perfect for him and for her as well. The order will arrive within four days, Jennifer is already excited. She can't wait for the day when she will actually get to give the gift she got for him.

Time passes by and Jennifer leaves her workplace. She finds Brendon, waiting at the entry. She strides towards him, puts her arm around his neck and kisses him.

"Why so happy?" Brendon grins.

"Just," Jennifer smiles and shrugs.

"Let's go," he says.

Jennifer grabs his arm and they walk to the cafe. They take a seat on their regular window side table with their coffee.

"I'm going to Great Britain tomorrow," Brendon says and takes a sip of his coffee.

"Oh!......When will you come back then?" Jennifer asks.

"Sunday. I won't stay for long over there. And besides, my grandad, he's a little bit fine now. It's just that he wishes to see us, so that's why we're going."

"Hmm."

"You won't say 'you'll miss me' this time, like last time when I told you that I'm going to Washington?"

"I will miss you. You keep going to places and I hate that but I can't stop you either from going. So I guess I'll have to learn to live with it," Jennifer sighs.

Brendon smirks, "I liked that, 'learn to live with it'. It kinda sounded promising."

Jennifer grins and sips her coffee.

"When are you going to leave tomorrow," she queries.

"After work. Somewhere around at this time maybe," Brendon answers.

Jennifer hums at his reply an gulps down the last sip of her coffee.

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I reach home after spending some quality time with Jen and I go straight to the bar area, set up in my house. I take a seat on the sofa there, with a glass of Ardbeg.

"You keep going to places and I hate that but I can't stop you either from going," this words of Jen are on a repeat mode in my head. It tells that she's understanding. She understands me, my life and what else do I want. I wish I could take her with me. I sigh and then my eyes have a look at the house. It's empty and quite, there's no one, but only me and the furnitures. Jen was so surprised and shocked at the same time when I told her that I live here alone. I chuckle, remembering that memory. But now it makes me feel the emptiness in this house too. I can't unsee it or ignore it. When Jen was here, time just flew and all the emptiness and silence of the house was vanished. I wish she could stay here longer. Then a thing strikes my mind.