THREAD FORTY-FOUR: CONNECTION

A WEEK later Randall got a phone call from Eilyas.

“Is there any update?” he asked as he answered the call.

“I have all the information you need right now.”

He closes his eyes for a moment. Can he accept whatever the result is? What if it leads to a misunderstanding between him and Meredith?

“Dude, are you still there?”

He came back to his senses when he heard his friend’s voice.

He swallowed the lump in his throat. “Yeah! Let’s meet at our old hang-out place.

“Okay,” Eilyas responded before hanging up the call.

“DUDE, I think you and Meredith are really the reincarnated souls of Clayton and Barbara.”

“H-how did that happen?”

Eilyas handed him the brown envelope. “Everything you need to know is inside that envelope.”

When Randall opened it, the first thing that caught his eyes was a ripped and old photo of a girl sitting on the sofa. Barbara.

That’s the woman he sees in his dreams. Behind that, he could clearly see the bed that he thought was in a room or condo where that photo was