He remembered how she sounded back then.
Like a little kitten, warm like the winter sun.
But they were just getting by, and they had
stopped having long talks, they barely talked for
more than a minute.
His texts were short.
She’d become emotionless like tap water.
Brenda was passionate and fun, and that was
why he contacted her.
Jake closed his eyes and wondered if he was
just like his friends.
Sarah gave him her love, and he took it for
granted.
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He saw a letter on the table.
One was from when Sarah was 20. She said
thank you for being here.
Jake smiled sadly at his reply, he had forgotten
all of it.
The other one was new.
The letter didn’t have any love, only goodbye.
She wanted to never see him again.
Jake’s eyes were red, and he frantically started
calling, he didn’t have any contact with Sarah’s
friends.
Her entire life revolved around him.
Then he got a social media notification. It was
Sarah liking someone’s posts.
The mutual friend was Brenda.
Jake slid to the floor.
Her calm “congrats” made him hurt. How long
had she known?
Jake went back to calling Brenda and yelled at
her.
“I told you to leave Sarah alone, how could
you?!”
Brenda cried. “Jake, I’m having your baby…”
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2:25
He hated her.
“Get rid of it!” He hung up and drove to the
airport.
He used his position to find a list of
passengers.
Brenda was on a plane to Washington D.C.
He knew he didn’t want to believe it.
He tried to find anything on the internet.
But after that, the news vanished.
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Jake was calling in sick a lot, and took a month
off.
Then, a few days later, it blew up again, with
photos of my dates with him.
“I ship them!”
People were jealous of this billionaire spending
money on me.
It was my Sarah!
Jake knew that it was not a coincidence, and
he could barely see through the screen. He
punched the table.
He didn’t notice his bleeding hand. He was
going online to say that Sarah was his wife.
He got blocked, and then he started to cry.
“Sarah, don’t leave me!”
Things settled down. I had forgotten all of my
past issues.
This new mission was a dream come true.
The way he treated me was unbelievable.
He was rich, but he was also very sweet,
respectful, and I couldn’t find a fault.
Compared to Jake, he was on another level.
I had seen that he was a really good guy.
I knew that even if it wasn’t a mission, I would
like him.
But he seemed to know what was going on with
the system.
When I asked the system, it didn’t know either.
So I asked him.
“Do you have a system too?”
If he said no, I would act like it was nothing.
He looked at me and said, “Yeah.”
I was surprised but didn’t say anything else. I
said, “Let’s see who finishes their mission first.”
He smiled and said yes, and I was glad to be in
a competition.
He and I were giving each other an equal
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amount of love, which made me feel good.
Today I was picking out a wedding dress, and
someone grabbed my arm.
Jake pulled me into his arms.
“I finally found you!”
He kissed me all over.
I couldn’t get away. I bit him hard and tasted
blood.
Jake got his head on straight, he was so tired,
his questions were so weak.
“What are you doing here? Why did you
disappear? I was so worried!”
He was grabbing my shoulders. His tone was so
low.
