II: Farewell Mr. Lingers

"I had been looking for you for quite some time, and now that you're right here before me things aren't the way I imagined. I'm not dressed in the right clothes, I don't have the right hairdo, it's raining and cold out, and I'm late for a meeting. Either way, if I don't tell you now, perhaps I never will."

Mr. Lingers was taken aback to see his friend after so much time.

"Ms. Blinters, I had no idea you were going to be here - ..."

"Yes?"

"..I'm just surprised"

As always Mr. Lingers was short on words, he was one of those outgoing introvert types whose inner nature is that of a louder mind than tongue.

"You once asked me why I never spoke with Ms. Lares, and I told you that it was none of your concern - basically that it was between us. What I wish I would have told you, or rather asked, is for you to consider why Ms. Lares never came to me herself with the issue. You see, I never had anything against Ms. Lares in that period, in fact we had both talked over issues years in the brewing. So to know that she felt not only comfortable to tell you that I had not spoken with her, but to involve you in our issue whatever it may have been speaks volumes - at least to me. Perhaps you were offended by my reply to you, but the truth is I don't agree with what I believe her to have begun. Much more for Ms. Lares to have spoken down about me - no matter how minor - to you, only highlights the past to me and that she has not changed much. Ms. Lares is still the same girl who told me that I needed to find someone to befriend my own age. The irony here is evident."

"You came all the way here to talk to me about Ms. Lares?"

"The role of Ms. Lares in our friendship is a lot more significant than you may ever realize, perhaps because by the time you do you will both be in agreement about something I can and will no longer prevent. I am here to try and help you understand an issue that I can't actually tell you about."

"I wish you would stop talking in riddles."

"Oh, Mr. Lingers, how deeply I reciprocate that feeling.."

To be continued...