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Chapter 2

       

Chapter 2

Three years. Three done years. And she lands in one done New York nightclub. And in addition to that, she knows Juliet.

My heart beats suddenly very fast. Why Juliet was obliged to know Alice? Why Juliet was obliged to be a journalist. Why Devil I did not stay wisely at my home instead of coming tell my life like a desperate person besides to a journalist?

- "You know her?" I whistled between my teeth by forgetting to address as "vous" her.

- "You know him?" Alice hiccups at the same time as I.

Juliet looks at first at Alice, then turns finally to me.

-"..."

I glare at her, she should not pronounce no word. I take a look towards Alice, all his members tremble, and the right hand is on its mouth whereas the left hangs on to the table. She fixes me for a long time, and details me from top to bottom.

- "I... I am going to leave", falter Alice.

- "I return with you", says Juliet by recovering.

- "No", I roar.

Alice and Juliet jump, and then look. If they knew how I me in madman. I am annihilated. Furious. Too many feelings mixed at single moment. I do not know any more what to think, what to say. And the alcohol does not help me. Absolutely not, let us stay calm, everything goes well. Everything goes very well.

- "You sit down", I take back.

- "Noah", murmurs Alice.

When she pronounces my first name I shiver, never nobody made me so much effect, and looked back on so much memory as on her by saying my name. I point out the sofa so that it sits down.

- "You drank Noah, too. We cannot speak calmly in that case. I know us, I know you..." she adds.

I close eyes. After three years of absence, she cannot know me anymore, I changed.

- "You do not know me anymore", I answer coolly.

Alice sighs, with tears in the eyes, then runs away. I get up to catch up her, but Juliet's hand settles on my arm.

- "I do not know what it passed between you, but leaves there. She has to calm down, I know her Noah. Hold take my number, and calls I tomorrow", tells me Juliet by smiling friendly.

- "Why?"

- "You have to give some explanation."

I shake vaguely of the head, and go to the bar. I need another glass, or even maybe two, three, I do not know. I do not want to remember that.

∞

Outch.

My skull hurts a lot to me. I open an eye with difficulty, and look around me, well. The positive point it is whom I am at my home, in the penthouse, only.

I use the coffee table to sit down. I close eyes to remember myself how I arrived up to here in a single piece. Nothing, I remember of absolutely nothing. I certainly took a taxi, business settled. Now I must know how come that I am on the ground, in the entrance, and not in my room. Not, in fact, it is not better than I know.

Alice. I had time of time dreamed in the day when I would see again her, but in all the scenarios that I had imagined myself, that one appear there not. But one thing's for sure, I cannot let her to go like that, she cannot run away second time.

Juliet. Damned journalist. She asked me to call him today, I do not know if I would make him. Even if it is the only person whom I know who has a link with Alice.