Jade (3)

"You…" KJ whispered. But how was it possible? The girl he met so many years ago was in her late twenties and much older than him. By now, she should have been well into her forties but to his shock, she did not age at all. She looked hardly a day older than the time KJ had seen her the last time.

"How did you find me?" he demanded. "We've been looking all over for you and yet, we couldn't find you! And now-"

"I'll appear only when the fates want me to appear," she said in a mysterious way. "It seems that the fates wanted me to meet you again."

She sat down beside him, looking at him with a poker face. "You seem to have grown a lot over the years," she commented. "Did you manage to change your fate?"