Come Back

1

"Noah.

I write you this letter because I cannot leave you like that.

You have to know that I am well. I want on no account that you look for me. I beg you.

I would give you no more news, this letter is the last thing which you will have of me.

I left. Where? Doubtless at the other end of the world. I do not still know, I would see when I would be at the airport.

Thank you for all that you made for me, thank you for having loved me. Thank you for having learnt me to live, to feel me alive. I lived four magnificent years by your side. I am sorry to leave like that, without you. You are the only thing which I am going to regret.

But the pressure was too heavy. I could not stay any more here, in this country. In this city, filled with memories.

But especially, I could not it anymore be so much mediatized. This life is not mine. It is yours Noah. You are used of all these paparazzi. You are a rich man of business. Our worlds are different.

Noah never doubts a thing, I have never stopped loving you. And you knew how to return my better life during these four years when we were together.

Goodbye my love,

Alice. "

It has been three years since I discovered this letter on the table of our kitchen, in our apartment of Paris. Three years when I rack myself the spirit by asking me how goes Alice, if she plans to return one day, if it was somebody. For my part, they are only one-night stands. It is necessary to say that Alice destroyed me by leaving me this letter. I had suspected on no account that she would leave. She looked so happy. It is true that many put a spoke in the wheel to us, but we always managed to surmount.

I am 27 years old in the day of today, and I am at the head of a company world-famous, the family company.

My parents liked very much Alice, and they were very sad when I told them that she would not return. I looked for him during three months. Three damned month to hope that she had made for me one done joke and that she had not really left the country. I looked for him in all France before understanding that she had really left.

♠

I take my suitcase and go out of the airport.

New-York

I have to stay in this city during several months, to settle a business with one of our partners.

I rented an apartment in the Upper East Side. More exactly, I rented a penthouse with a magnificent view, if I have to live in New York for indefinite duration, so much live in something which pleases me.

The taxi deposits me at the bottom of my apartment, I take my stuff and rise at my home, I begin to work from tomorrow, this evening I am going to review my cases and doubtless to modify what does not go.

A phone call wakes me, I fell asleep on the sofa by reviewing an important case. The number of my mother appears on the screen of my telephone, I pick up.

- Yes mom?

- Noah Raphaël Walter, answered my mother curtly the device.

I look at the hour on the oven of my kitchen, eighteen hours and ten.

- He is what time in Paris? I asked.

- Twenty three hours and ten. And you arrived to New York exactly three hours ago. Do you have anything to say for your defence?