Claire gets into her car and drives away. She stops over by a friend's house who has a beauty salon. She parks in front of her house and gives her a call.

"Hi Sandra, are you in the house?" Claire asks her as she picks the call.

"Hey, what's up Claire? I'm not in but I'm on my way home. Is there any problem?" Sandra asks from the other end.

"Not really. I'm at your house, I'll be waiting for you." Claire replies.

"I don't want to keep you waiting. Why don't you just pick up my lock and wait inside? It'll take like thirty minutes for me to get back home because I'm stuck here with an old client who I have to finish working on before closing." Sandra explains.

"But you just said that you are on your way home. Alright, I'll be waiting for you." Claire replies as she hangs up after her friend replies to her. She gets down from the car and goes to the front door of her friend's house and

Jack goes to a convenient store to meet someone. He is on his way to the restaurant to collect some documents when he bumps into an old time friend, Patricia.

"Wow! Trisha is this you? Such a long time." Jack surprisingly asks her as he is surprised to see her. Patricia just keeps smiling as she is also surprised to see Jack.

"You are all grown up. I mean look at you. Wow. How have you been?" Jack asks her as he draws her in for a hug then exchanges a handshake with her.

"I've been good and you?" Patricia replies back.

"Your boy is all robust. I'm good darling, I mean it's been so long. Do you live around here?" He asks her.

"Not really. I came to get a dress for someone at a boutique nearby." She replies.

"Oh that's beautiful. Are you having some feast going on?" He asks her as he can see the dress in the jacket bag which she is holding.

"Yeah…we are throwing a party tonight." Pa

Claire comes into Maxwell's line as she is still talking about the party and picking up some clothes but she seems not to find what she wants. Maxwell tries to make her notice him as he comes up with a plan on how to get her. He moves backwards, pretending to also be looking for something amongst the selections when he accidentally bumps into her.

Her shoppings falls off the ground. They both bend down to pick up her shoppings as Maxwell pretends not to know that she is the one until they both get up.

"Hey…Mr. Wright. Good to see you again." Claire greets him happily as she takes out her phone.

"I'll talk to you later babe." Claire ends her call as she talks to Maxwell.

"I'm sorry I bumped into you." Claire apologizes.

"It's fine…I'm the one to be apologizing because I bumped into you. Sorry I didn't see you…how are you doing?" Maxwell asks her after apologizing.

"I'm doing good an

Claire gets into her car and drives away. She stops over by a friend's house who has a beauty salon. She parks in front of her house and gives her a call.

"Hi Sandra, are you in the house?" Claire asks her as she picks the call.

"Hey, what's up Claire? I'm not in but I'm on my way home. Is there any problem?" Sandra asks from the other end.

"Not really. I'm at your house, I'll be waiting for you." Claire replies.

"I don't want to keep you waiting. Why don't you just pick up my lock and wait inside? It'll take like thirty minutes for me to get back home because I'm stuck here with an old client who I have to finish working on before closing." Sandra explains.

"But you just said that you are on your way home. Alright, I'll be waiting for you." Claire replies as she hangs up after her friend replies to her. She gets down from the car and goes to the front door of her friend's house and picks the lock.

This isn't the first time that she is here so she knows the combination code for t

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