Old Friends

Ava was working on the foundation, it's been two days since the incident with Nina but her mind was still in a mess because of Oliver. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't concentrate on her work. After a while, she gave up on the idea of working and decided to catch up with her old friends and spend some time with them. Maybe she just needed a distraction to clear her mind.

Since Ava came back she has been very busy with the Foundation work and the inauguration of the Academy that she barely got any time for herself, but that didn't mean she forgot her old friends. She has been thinking of calling Mia and Susan for a while. Today since she has some time on her hand she finally called Mia and invited her, Charlie, and Susan to dinner. After fixing the time with her, Ava booked a table at a restaurant and finished up the work on her hand, and headed toward the restaurant.

Ava already found out about the changes that took place in the hospital in these three years. Dr. Paul went back to Shanghai to take over his family business two years ago. He got married and settled down there. The cardiology department was once again without a director so Charlie was promoted as a director, he was a talented and capable one anyway. However, what made Ava most surprised was that Charlie and Mia got married. Apparently, one and half years back the hospital arranged a ski trip where Mia had an accident and Charlie saved her life, from there on they started to get close and started to date. 8 months back Charlie proposed and later they got married. Ava was very happy for both Charlie and Mia.

Although Ava returned to China as Mackie, but the media soon revealed her past identity as Ava Green so the whole city was aware of Ava green's return and so were her friends. Charlie and Mia entered the restaurant hand in hand and Sister Susan followed them behind. They looked around and easily spotted Ava at a corner table. Mia took her hand out of Charlie's hand and ran to Ava. Ava also stood up and hugged her friend with a smile.

Mia pulled back and looked at Ava with teary eyes and asked, "Ava, you are really here. I can't believe it, you have no idea how happy I am to see you safe and sound. How are you?"

"I am good, girl how are you? Congratulation!" Ava said holding out her ring. Her eyes also turned red. She had left every single person behind when she decided to run away. Her grief was too much for her to think about other people in her life at that time but now she realized how much she missed these people, her family, and her friends.

"Silly girl, how could you just leave like that? Do you know how many times your mom had to admit to the hospital because of you? How could you do that to your family?" Susan came from behind and hugged Ava and said in a tone full of blame. She always saw Ava as her daughter so she couldn't help herself from scolding her a little.

Ava didn't get angry at Susan's words, she knew she was scolding her because she loved her but she felt guilty hearing about her mother. She didn't know about her mother's hospitalization. Only then she realized how her action has affected the lives of her loved ones.

"And also CEO Knights was devastated after you disappeared." Charlie shook his head sadly thinking of the man's lost face whenever he saw him at the hospital.

When Charlie came back and found out about Ava and Oliver he was heartbroken and it took him a while to get over his broken heart. He understood that Ava was way out of his league, but he couldn't help but feel jealous of Oliver. However, when Ava left Charlie met him a few times, he was a wreck, and Charlie felt really bad for him.

For the past three years Oliver lived a ghost life, he was a completely different person. No one ever saw him outside, he stopped doing interviews, stopped attending social gatherings. He was never associated with any woman. He was waiting for Ava to come back, he loved her that much. Charlie started to admire him when he really got to see this side of him.

Ava became tense hearing Oliver's name. She couldn't understand how everyone suddenly became so fond of that evil. Ava cursed him on her mind and thought if only they knew what kind of devil he was they wouldn't say anything good about him.

In Ava's mind, she was the only one who has been suffering, after finding out about Melody she never believed Oliver ever loved her, so she always blamed him for everything.