“I don’t know, but we have to accept that they won’t go away if they didn’t die after so long. If it eventually happens, I think we should just go with it and accept it the way it is or pretend like it never happened, but I don’t want that to ruin such a great friendship.”

Derick thought about what she said. She was right, he had missed her as much as she had missed him, and the past few weeks had been hell without her.

“Ok, then I guess it’s settled then,” he said.

Joana gave a sigh of relief after Derick’s response. She couldn’t believe that she was...