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"Tell me anyway, because if you don't, I'll keep worrying like you do."

"Your worry will get worse if I tell."

"Leandro!" She demanded, crossing her arms implacably. Her friend sighed and capitulated.

"I warned you."

 He sighed again before informing her.

"It's him. He's had an accident, a very serious one. And in that accident, he lost his memory."

Crystal was shocked and saddened by this, it had to be said, even though there was nothing left between them, as their mutual friend had made clear to her.

"When? How?"

"Crystal what's going on, who's had an accident?" inquired her friends, worried in their turn, especially noting their friend's appalled expression.

"This person…He had an accident, I'll tell you about the wedding organization later," she promised them before turning back to Leandro.

"So, Leo, tell me everything. When and how? And how is he now?"

"It was just four months ago. He'd been dating Leonie for two years, and they too had decided to get married, then he left for Brazil on a three-month educational exchange. I don't know what happened there, but he split up with Leonie while he was there. She was obviously heartbroken, and confided in me... "

"That sounds strangely familiar," Crystal cut him off, unable to refrain from fierce irony.

"You see, you're completely over it. Leonie in her own way, since they're back together."

"What? That guy offers second chances!"

"He's changed with age, shall we say..."

"Anyway, so what?"

"Nobody knew he'd come back from Brazil, and it was even by the merest chance that me and Leonie had learned of his accident. He lost his memory in that car accident, but they're trying to rebuild a story on a new basis, and it looked like it would hold a lot of promise, however, I can't help but be worried."

He shrugged.

"They're my friends, after all. And so are you. Well," he resumed, kissing her cheek. "I'm going to go join her."

"Okay. Give me some news, please."

Leandro's gaze was almost insulting.

"Oh, please, there's nothing between us anymore, and for nothing in the world would I wish to return to him or wish him harm, but he still mattered."

"If you say so. Well, I promise, I'll let you know how it goes."

"Thanks."

Leandro went to join this person's fiancé, if she could still be called that since he'd only come back to her because he'd lost his memory.

She went to sit back down with her friends, friends who were clearly chomping at the bit for the story. When Crystal, with visible melancholy, told them what had happened to this person whose identity only Fion didn't know, they were obviously mortified, for Crystal's three high-school friends, despite the end of her love affair with this person, had really liked him. But fortunately for the young woman and her new love, they liked this one too, and were very happy for her, for both of them.