"What are you doing here, hm..?" I was a little surprised, the way he looked at me and spoke was completely different from when he was facing me earlier.
"I just wanted to come here. Oh yeah, Meva, right?" Wait a minute! Who is this woman actually? I haven't even introduced myself. She stretched out her hand to shake mine, and I stretched out my hand to return her invitation.
“Yes, you?” he seemed to be holding back his laughter a little when he heard what I said.
"Oh, my changes are so big that you forgot my face? I'm Lena. Alena." I was a little shocked, suddenly my hands trembled, a flash of events that I didn't want to remember flashed through my mind.
I still haven't come to terms with my own past trauma, and now I have to face the perpetrator who is clearly visible before my eyes. I saw a slight smirk appear on Lena's face, the same smirk she wore the last time she beat me to a pulp. Somehow, I have to get out of this situation.
The phone in my pocket vibrated, interrupting my reverie and all my barely contained feelings. I reached for it, it was an unknown number.
“Just a minute, there’s a phone call.” I quickly walked out of the restaurant after getting a nod from them.
“Hello? Good afternoon. Who are you with?”
"Your voice is really good. If I were to say something like that, it would sound like a dog's voice. Oh yes! Mev! Hurry up! I swear I'm really nervous about your client. From now on, my design doesn't meet his expectations at all!" Ah... yes. I left my partner with a client who was quite troublesome.
“Sehun?? Why don’t you just use your number?” I was quite annoyed by him, even though we were only talking to him over the phone. It would be even more annoying if we talked to him in person, I had to hold my lips tightly to keep from swearing at him.
"Hey, you don't have your own boutique number? That's crazy. That's really bad." One more thing, he's quite the hyperbolic person, I don't know why I can be friends with him.
“Haish… Yes, I’m going there now!” I hung up the phone unilaterally, I couldn’t stand to hear his ramblings anymore if the call remained connected. I immediately ordered a taxi and went over to the table where I was sitting earlier.
“I’m so sorry, I suddenly have work to do.Urgent "Really, I'll go first!" I immediately went to the cashier and paid for the food that Chanyeol and I had ordered earlier. I saw Chanyeol stretch out his hand, as if he was going to stop me from leaving first. Even though it was useless, I was still happy that he had the intention to stop me. I ran to the parking lot, it turned out that the taxi I had ordered had arrived.
Huh…. Actually, I was quite grateful that Sehun called me earlier, otherwise I would have been stuck with that girl. I don’t know what would have happened if I had stayed with her. I was quite surprised when Chanyeol happily offered his shoulder to Lena, who was the one who bullied me and Chanyeol hated her so much.
I've missed so many things. At least I've come to a better understanding of how far apart I am from Chanyeol. Six years hasn't been that long, has it? I feel like I'm the only one still stuck in the past, and I feel like they're great at forgetting memories they don't want to remember.
The taxi I ordered stopped right in front of a boutique with white walls and a few gold accents that added an elegant impression. This boutique is mine, I have opened several branches abroad and this is my main branch in Indonesia. I got out of the orange taxi after paying. Immediately after that I went straight to meet Sehun and the rather troublesome client. It seems that his days in Indonesia were enough to make him need to go to a psychiatrist.
“Good afternoon, maybe I can help….
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• 06:35 pm
All I want right now is a sofa in the living room, a bowl of popcorn, a thick blanket, and a Netflix movie playing on the big screen television in the living room of my apartment. But my body won't move from the bed and my hands can only reach for the cell phone on the nightstand. I'm too lazy to prepare everything I wanted earlier. As a result, I just scroll through social media, even though there is a lot of work piling up waiting for me.
A message popped up on my phone screen. Chanyeol. Did he text me? I suddenly remembered what happened this afternoon with Chanyeol and Lena, I couldn't believe how they could be so close to each other.
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Chan-yeol
Can we meet again?
OK! Where? When?
Chan-yeol
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I don't know why I felt excited after getting such a short message from him, I got up from bed and rushed to the kitchen to make dinner after giving Chanyeol my boutique address. I opened the instant noodle package and boiled it with eggs. I heard someone from outside my apartment pressing the pin button on my apartment door.
"Nyet! I brought chicken. Watch out, you said you're on a diet. I'll order it across the valley and across the ocean." This voice... the voice... of the person I want to eliminate from this world. I don't know what spirit brought him, but suddenly Sehun came. His arrival for me was like Jailangkung, coming uninvited and leaving unaccompanied.
I suddenly remembered what happened this afternoon. Because of his overly polite attitude, I lost one of my valuable clients. I approached Sehun, who was already sitting casually on the sofa in the living room, and beat him up. For some reason, whenever I'm with him, my hands become lighter and I can swing them in all directions.
“Ow! Ow! Yeah, yeah, sorry… What’s wrong with you?” I stopped my punch. I stood in front of him and put both of my hands on my sides.
“Why?! What did you say?!” I raised my hand once more to hit him. Sehun quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me into his embrace.
"Miss! Let go! Lep—"
“Yes, I’ll let go, but later.” I struggled, trying to free myself from his embrace.
“Bi! I’m counting from one to three. If you don’t let go, I won’t renew my contract with you!” Sehun tightened his embrace on me, closing the distance between us.
"One!"
“Sorry.” I was silent for a long moment. This was the first time I’d heard him apologize this seriously. Usually, if he made a mistake that made me this angry, he’d either apologize in passing or not apologize at all. Sehun released his embrace. The atmosphere ended quite awkwardly between Sehun and me.
"Ekhm .. btw, you called me bi loh."
“Yeah, I mean pig. What do you want to watch?” Sehun pouted his lips after hearing my words. I sat beside Sehun, my hands busy pressing the remote buttons searching for the movie that had been playing on the television screen.
“Anything, as long as it’s not scary,” Sehun said rather curtly.
“Ok! Conjuring!”
“See! I’ll just go home if it’s like this, you’re no fun.” Sehun folded his arms in front of his chest, giving a disapproving expression at my choice.
"Ugh! Just go home. The chicken is for me though." Sehun sat back down facing the television screen while holding a box of fried chicken calmly.
"Not going home?"
"No, I want to help you eat the chicken. If you get fat again, I'll be the one to blame." Sehun turned his gaze to the movie I had just shown on television. I really liked teasing him, he was quite adorable when he was angry. Did I just say adorable?
TBC~~
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