THREAD THIRTY-FOUR: FIRST KISS

“HEY, DUDE! How long will you keep staring at her?” Leendon asked Clayton to get his attention.

He noticed that his friend is looking at Barbara from a distance.

Barbara is in the imaret, reading a book while Clayton and Leendon were under the big tree, looking at Barbara.

“Why don’t you approach and talk to her? What if she’s just waiting for you to do that?” Leendon said.

Clayton looked down. “How can I do that if she was avoiding me?”

Leendon shook his head. “You won’t know if you don’t approach her.”

“To be honest, I’m at a loss for words.”

Leendon tapped him on the shoulder. “At the very least, show her that you’re doing everything you can to reconnect with her.”

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“Mer?!”

“Randall?”

Meredith and Randall exclaimed in unison when they saw each other in the Jail booth.

She couldn’t believe that Randall was at the other end of the red thread she had chosen.

Was it faith?

He frowned. “What are you doing here?”

Meredith crossed her arms. “I should be the one as