"So? How was it?", asked a woman in her late twenties. She gently picked up the exquisite teacup and took a sip. Her eyes were keen on Jacques.
"I was given few schemes. Here take a look." Jacques handed over a white A4-sized envelope and put it in front of the woman.
"Naaah. I don't wanna see it. It's not like I can help you pay for it. I just help you get it, not return it."
"You never change. But yeah, you're right, I don't plan to ask for help from you on paying too. You already helped me a lot." Jacques suddenly wore a face of worry and sadness.
"What happened to you? What's that face for?" She asked.
"Well, the schemes were generously offered to me by the President. Personally, in his office by the way. However, he took time to paint the picture of what happened to Nyla from the day, I went berserk..." Jacques continued according to the story Callum told him earlier.
"Oh... so you were supposed to be an expecting father now?" Her face turned sour, a hint of jealousy in her question.
"Yes... Violet, don't be worked up now. I've been with you all this time. I am just saying, I knew all about Nyla's difficult life before and I was the worst that happened even after knowing all that." Jacques tried to coax the woman who have tried to slap his hand from holding hers. She failed so she let him hold her left hand while reaching for the teacup with the other.
The woman, who looked 80% like Nyla, suppressed her emotions. She has been in love with Jacques since high school. They grew up together because they were neighbors. Although her family was well-off and Jacques' was not, her family do not concern themselves with family status, riches, or fame.
She could have entered a prestigious university during college due to her intelligence and money. However, to be with Jacques, she decided on her own to enter the community college where Jacques went into. Her father indulged her since that will make her happy.
Imagine her surprise when one day she knew that Jacques' girlfriend looked a lot like her and started living with him in just 5 months. Her heart broke into a thousand pieces but nobody can know. If anything, Jacques cannot know. Or does he knows already that time? She can't tell.
Jacques had always treated her like a friend. He had always kept an invisible barrier between them. But he was always that "available friend" to help her with things. That was why it was very difficult for her to accept that the woman he fell in love with looks a lot like her.
When Jacques fell into the bad habit of gambling and debts, She was the one who helped him fake the documents. She was the one who signed the co-maker portion. She was the one who appeared before the lending company with Jacques.
She was the imposter. And she was the one who indirectly caused Nyla's further misery at that time.