A Four-Letter-Word Called LOVE (COMPLETE - ENG Translation On-Going)

Epilogue (2)

Chris:

"I—I-I don't understand, Mum."

Mum saunters towards the bed and sits beside me. She looks at me while my gaze never leaves hers.

"Mhairi left this letter before she left their house. Jeanette found this lying on Mhairi's office table. Your name was there that's why she presumed that Mhairi wants you to read it."

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My car is currently cruising along the winding, country road of Stornoway. I've decided to pack all my stuff again and drove from Milnathort to Ullapool that night. It's a 7-hour-journey, but the exhausting drive didn't deter me from booking the very first ferry trip to Stornoway the next day. Uncle George's words and the letter that Mhairi left gave me enough reason to travel this far to find some answers;

The answers to all the puzzling questions that her letter left me.

- - -

My fingers genially tear the envelope and take the letter out. I open the message written and starts reading it.

"Mhairi was genuinely upset and depressed from your leaving. She stayed in her room for weeks, refraining herself to talk to anyone even from George and Jeanette. They both tried their best to reach out to her but to no avail. Jeanette has to leave some food in front of her room so that she could eat. George wants to stay longer, but he couldn't because he has to follow you to Chicago. He's about to leave when he decided to try and speak to Mhairi. But she's gone, leaving with that letter and a note telling them that she's going somewhere."

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A tear suddenly springs free from my eyes, leaving me unguarded. I breathed out while shedding it away from my cheek. Overwhelming, mixed emotions are starting to build-up when I check the sat nav – which still puzzles me 'till now because the signal is working.

I'm getting closer to the place.

I switched the shifting gear and stepped on the gas pedal firmly. I drive as fast as I could to reach the place that I've been dying to go ever since I read Mhairi's letter.

- - -

"Mhairi didn't mention to her folks where she's going. She just let George and Jeanette know that she needs some time away to rebuild herself again – to, start her new life away from everyone."

Mum continues to mutter while I keep reading her letter. Overwhelming emotions have started to build up while tears are now rumbling down from my hazel brown gaze. A flicker of hope suddenly sparks beneath my melancholic heart. The gut-wrenching thought of not seeing her again dies out, and the glimmer of wanting to see her replaces it.

"No one knows where Mhairi is, Chris," Mum uttered. "George and Jeanette tried all their hardest to find her, but she refuses to tell them where she stays for the past three years."

I quickly shed my tears and fold the letter.

"I have to go to Stornoway, Mum."

"Chris?" Mum said with a baffled look on her face.

I immediately stand up and put all my clothes back again to my luggage.