Chapter 7 - Peculiar Night

"As I told you, Sir, it's not mine, Sir, please leave me alone," Charlotte said and she turned around once more, but the old man insisted. "There are engraved initials on it, why don't you check it first so you know if it's really yours?" Said the old man. Charlotte murmured, and confronted the old man again.

"Okay, but in case it's not mine, I won't take it, I'm in a rush to get home," Charlotte said and she held the handkerchief.

And when she looked at it, she was stunned to see that it had the initials CNBA (Charlotte Nicole Bradley). "The first three initials are just like mine, but the last one with letter A is not," Charlotte scoffed.

"But the A is your husband's" the old man said.

"No, this is peculiar, I'm not married, and besides, I don't have this kind of hanky!" Charlotte shouted, and she immediately given back the hanky to the old man, and she turned around once more, and rushed to walk.

And the old man all of a sudden said something that astounded her. "Your spouse gave it to you, his name is Jack Armstrong," said the old man. And when Charlotte heard it, she ceased strolling and held her head and smirked. "Are you making fun of me?" She said and confronted the old man again.

"Get this hanky, usually yours," the old man insisted.

"I do not have a husband and why are you indeed using with my idol's name, why are you tricking me?" Said Charlotte. "You'll meet Jack Armstrong in this place this evening at midnight!" Said the old man, and he all of a sudden put the handkerchief on the bench. And it was in a hurry to leave.

Charlotte felt unusual. "He is insane!" She said to herself, and looked at the hanky on the bench. She murmured, and gaze at the cloth. Thinking whether she will take it or not.

She thought that the old man may well be a crazy person and he fair got beaten up. Charlotte shrugged and planned to leave, but she turned to the bench once more and thought that nothing would be lost if she will take it. And she sits on the bench and gazed at the handkerchief that lies there. Until she decided to get it, and after that, she put it in her bag.

When she entered her little flat, she saw her two young sisters and mother waiting up for her, they looked starving.

"Sister Charlotte is here! " Her youngest sister Karla exclaimed.

She first looked at her mother sitting in the wheelchair.

"Mom, how are you feeling? "

"I'm okay, but I'm hungry," answered her mother named Elvie.

"I'm so sorry that I'm late," Charlotte stated.

"Sis, do you get any food with you? " Jayla asked.

"Of course," Charlotte said and pulled out two containers of food from her bag, it was from the diner.

It was the food that left in the pot.

Sence of being kind and dedicated to her work, when there's food left in the pot, the manager gives it to her. "You may eat now, I'm sorry and I'm a little late to come home," said Charlotte.

Her siblings and mother were upbeat and they ate together.

When she came into the room, she changed into her night robe.

...

And that night she was uneasy. She remembered the old man she had seen earlier. "Who is that old man? Where he came from? " She said inside her and she took the handkerchief from her bag. And she gazed at it, and when she flipped it, she was dazed when she noticed that there was another letters that engraved in it. When she turned the handkerchief around, there was an engraved JLA.

Charlotte was surprised at what she saw. "JLA?" she said in bewilderment. She thought of Jack's full name, it was "Jack Lancaster Amrstrong? And the "A" in the last letter of my initial is Armstrong?" She thought with astonishment on her face, she felt so swooned.

And she recalled what the old man said.

"You will meet him in this place, this evening at midnight!"

Charlotte got up from to her seat and became even more fretful.

"It's outlandish for that to happen, Jack Armstrong is missing presently, and why ought to I know him? Who am I to meet the most foremost popular person in the world? " Charlotte said, feeling strange, but delighted at the same time. She thought of calling Candy to tell her what had happened, but she thought that it would unquestionably make chuckle at her. She thought of not to tell her anymore, and moreover thought that she was still in her work, she was assigned the night shift that time. After many more moments, she feels so strange that she needs to talked to Candy. She looked at the clock and it expressed 9:00 in the evening, she knew that it was Candy's break time, so she may talk to her while on her break, so she called her.

"Hello Candy, I want to say something," Charlotte said within the line.

"What is it?" She asked curiously.

And Charlotte told her what had happened,

And when Candy heard what Charlotte said, she giggled.