"Have you seen her anywhere in Hawaii?" Susie asked the guide who was staring at the photo.
"No." He said in a small voice. "I don't remember seeing this one face anywhere."
Susie looked at him at that. The happiness seen on his face a while ago had changed to a look of concern.
"I don't see the fun of such a scene in your face?" She looked at him with a smile. "Or you don't like it at all, a woman kissing another woman lustfully on the cheek? This is nothing new in this millennium. These things have been on this earth since the time when love and lust made a revolution in human life, right?"
"Could be." He said in a nervous tone without looking at her face. Then he turned his face to her. "Why are you looking for this woman?"
"She is my friend. I never saw her again after leaving the convent. Ten years have passed."
"When it says she is a friend, did you have a lesbian relationship with her?"
"Yes. She was more than just a friend to me. We were together day and night."
The guide was silent for a few moments.
"If you help me find her, I will pay you a good sum of money." Susie looked at him.
"Well, how did you know she is here." After a few moments of silence, the guide raised his head.
"It is information that I got from a classmate of ours. She is here now."
"Is that believable? Maybe she came here as a tourist?"
"She is here, with her husband."
"How can you be sure?" The guide looked at her unblinkingly.
"Lily, that classmate of ours, saw her here, a week ago. Lily had come here as a tourist on a cruise liner. Lily met her at a massage parlor while hanging out here. She was working there. The meeting was by chance. She begged Lily not to tell me about meeting her there."
"What is this friend's name?"
"Shall be called Katya, the name is Catherine."
Hearing that, the guide glanced at Susie. "Did you come to Hawaii just to look for her?"
"Yes, I came across the sea to this island just to see her."
"Why are you seeing her? Any special purpose?"
"My condition now is that I cannot live without her. Let's just say I was in a terrible darkness of loneliness after I broke up with her. Knowing that she is here seems like a light to life. Help me find her. I will reward you with a good sum."
"Didn't you say she lives here with her husband? If so, would she like to meet you? Because you are not just a friend."
"Yes, I am not just her friend. I am the keeper of her feelings, who have been with her day and night."
"What if she's forgotten all that? Maybe that convent life seems like a joke to her now? Or shouldn't she come looking for you? At least she would have maintained that relationship with you over the phone, if she wanted to, right?"
"That's right. She doesn't want to see me. It is a fact because she has forgotten me. A man seduced her and took her away from me or she bewitched him, to taste the sweetness of a new life. But I cannot forget her as easily as she forgot me." A sigh came out Susie. "I just want to see her."
"If she has forgotten you, then why go back looking for her? Leave her to live as she wishes? Why should you go looking for her who has forgotten you? You too make a man your life partner. And then this story will disappear from you. Then life will be peaceful and beautiful."
"If she is with me, my life will be calm and beautiful."
"What if she doesn't like you? Didn't you say she is with a man now? She must be enjoying that life. Can she give it up and come with you?"
"She can't hate me. My mind says that if I hug and kiss her, she will be my old Katya. I can never forget her."
Hearing this, the guide looked at Susie suspiciously. "Well, what would you do if she is not willing to leave that man and come with you?"
"That's a question that doesn't deserve an answer."
"I just asked about something that might happen."
"I'll take her, that's all." Susie said angrily.
The guide stared at Susie for a few moments after hearing those firm words.