Yeah. Hannah had kept herself exclusively for John for too long. She accepted every sh*tty thing he did for the sake of a twisted love. Because of that, she had forgotten that she too, was in need of love.
She resolved to leave because she wanted to live her own life. I guess John would never know who he had lost. I guess he would never come across someone who’d wait for him for years anymore. He lost someone who’d give everything up just to give him a home.
I held her hand. “Uncle Louis and I will support you no matter what, Hannah. Uncle Louis sees you as his own daughter, and I know he’ll give his blessing. We’re grateful for you because you gave us Kiki. We’re your family, so tell us if you ever need anything.”
She chuckled. “I know you’d support me.” She poked Chandler. “Don’t ever try to bully me, you hear? I have a family behind me now.”
Chandler grinned. “You always had a family behind you.”
I smiled. Then, I realized that we couldn’t get what we wanted a lot of times because we were obsessed with the illusion of a grandiose love, but happiness had always been about the little things.
Hannah had dated John for many years. All she wanted was a peaceful life for her family, but John didn’t catch up on it even though he had the same wish. Eventually, she slipped away from him.
The moment I got out of the car, I saw Nora before the airport’s entrance. She was wearing an autumn trench coat and a dress, and she was shivering.
Nora trotted up to me with her luggage in tow. “Oh my god, you’re finally here,” she gushed. “I was freezing, gosh. The winter in K City can kill, literally speaking. I mean, why is everyone flocking to this place anyway?”
She kept grumbling as I helped her with the luggage. Before I could put it in the trunk, Chandler had already taken it from me. He grinned. “Leave this to me.”
Hannah took out a thick down jacket from the trunk. “Is this fine?” she asked me.
I nodded and covered Nora with it. “You should have called me. I could have gotten you some clothes. Oh, you came with a friend, didn’t you? Where is she?”
The down coat warmed her up a little, and she looked around. “She said she was going to warm her hands up. Oh, there she is.” She pointed at the exit, so I looked in that direction. Much to my surprise, I saw a familiar face. It was none other than Hailey, who texted me a lot just a few days ago.
She was in even thinner clothing than Nora was, and she was pushing her luggage while coming up to us. Hailey’s constitution wasn’t that good, to begin with, so she was starting to turn blue from the cold. Of course, she looked surprised to see me too.
“You didn’t get any hot water, huh? Told you this airport’s too big.” Nora noticed she wasn’t holding anything.
I looked at Hannah awkwardly, but she only smiled and took out a grey coat. “Good thing Chandler didn’t take them out.
I thanked her before going up to Hailey with the coat. She smiled at me. “We meet again, Scar.”
I handed her to coat. “Looks like it.” She was the only one who’d call me that.
Nora looked at us in surprise. “You guys know each other?”
I nodded. “We met before.”
She pouted. “What are the odds of that!”
After the simple introduction, Chandler put their luggage in the trunk before coming back into the car. “Where will you go now, Ms. Stovall?”
I told him the villa’s address, then he revved the car up again. But then Nora quipped, “Oh, I rented a place in the city center, so it’s fine. Hailey and I will be staying there.”
I pouted. “But the servants have already cleaned the house, and staying by yourself is going to be a hassle.”
“Don’t worry, it won’t. I have a ton of stuff to deal with, so staying at your place is going to be a hassle for you instead. And the place is really more convenient for us too.” Nora was still as talkative as a child.
I wanted to convince her, but Hailey said, “We’ll stay at the place Nora rented for now. She told me you have a lot on your plate now, so let’s not add more to that, okay?”
I stopped persuading them after that. Chandler sent them to the place they rented in the city center. It was an apartment with two bedrooms. It wasn’t big, but the decor was nice.
Since she had nothing to do, Hannah and I helped the girls tidy up the place before going to the mall to purchase a lot of winter apparel.
