Isabel Smith remained dazed for a long time before turning her head to glance at the spot on her right where Percy Stanton always sat. She opened her mouth, only to feel a strange void in her heart, as if she had lost something.
This kind of incident had actually happened to Isabel several times within three days. She used to have lunch in the ground floor company restaurant with Percy frequently during her workdays. Percy would usually stand in line to get their food, but one day at noon, she found herself sitting blankly at the dining table for over an hour. Only when she noticed that all the other employees had finished their meals and left did she mutter, "Percy, I'm starving. Why haven't you bought the food yet?"
Then, she realized that Percy was gone, and she needed to get her own food.