Chapter 60

"Edward!"

　　I heard heavy footsteps approaching me.

　　"Lily! Are you okay? What happened? Did you slip? Should I come over!?"

　　My voice trembled.

　　"Edward, I think something fell on top of me!"

　　"What? How can something-"

　　"I don't know! It's digging... in my legs and... it’s hard... and... bony... It feels like human though! Oh my god! Help me! It's a corpse! It's a dead rotten corpse!! It doesn't smell though! Edward! Get your fucking arse right here, I'm telling you-" I tried to remove the thing myself but instead it scared me more by poking on my left cheek.

　　I heard him chuckle from outside.

　　How could he laugh like that? Was he always a psychopath who loved to kill people for his madness and hid their corpse in his washroom! I read about these in recently published parts of ‘Ten things you don't know about your friend!’ and I remember checking Edward, Jake And Mia's stuff to confirm.

　　Did I miss something? I really think I should've opened his car and searched it thoroughly using my forensic spray. Maybe I would've found some rotten body parts then.

　　Was I his next victim, lying all weak on the floor, ready to meet my dark death in such unexpected circumstances?

　　I heard a key digging into keyhole before the washroom door opened with a creak.

　　It's a modern wooden door for god's sake Emily, it doesn't open with a creak! And Edward isn't a psychopath, you are! For thinking like this!

　　I slapped my inner self hard for defending Edward instead of taking my side!

　　"Lily! Are you okay?"

　　He turned the lights on and my eyes widened in surprise, embarrassment, humiliation and once again the embarrassment followed by shock.

　　"What the-" I frantically kicked the object from above me and it crashed loudly on the nearby wall, splitting into pieces... or more like bony parts.

　　Standing up instantly, I glared at Edward who was still smiling at me, trying not to laugh out hard.

　　"Why the hell do you have a human skeleton in your washroom!? Don't tell me you ate the meat and was going to throw the rest outside when you heard me coming in and locked you and your.." I looked at the skeleton." your human leftover in my library!"

　　He crossed hands in front of his chest in amusement, his muscles all flexing from his white shirt, a beautiful faint but tired smile playing on his lips.

　　"On the contrary, in my defence, I must tell you it was your birthday gift, though it doesn't look like one!"

　　I believed him though how much he sounded scary and stupid.

　　"You were going to gift me bones on my birthday?! Why is that? Did I upset you that much that you started comparing me to a dog!"

　　He saw through my facade, his lips curling upwards in a smile and for a moment I thought everything was okay between us once again.

　　"You're a doctor Lily so I thought you might need help with this thing! I hope you like your belated birthday gift!"

　　"I do. I like this human skeleton as my gift no matter how much people think I have joined armies with nomads and Bushmen and am next in line to be their leader!"

　　He chuckled and left me to do my chore while he said he would wait for me in his office. I washed my face, cleaning every corner of it, splashed some of the water inside my eyes and slapped my cheeks gently to alert myself up.

　　"Wake up Emily! You got to talk to him!" I nodded to myself in my reflection and went outside to see him sitting on a couch, staring at the lunchbox I prepared for him waking early in the morning and wrapped it too meticulously like a real housewife!

　　"It's your lunch if you must know! I'll lay it for you to eat! Wait there!"I opened the box and started to assemble everything I made on a large table in front of his couch.

　　"But you said, you wanted to talk!"

　　"Well, I do. I wanted to talk about your nutrition!"

　　I opened the salad box, sprinkled salt over it and tasted it to make sure it wasn't too salty. "Mm. It tastes right. Here! Eat it!" I slid down my handmade food in front of me while he stared at the food, then at me and back again at the food.

　　"But I thought you wanted to discuss what we did that-"

　　I raised my hand, waving at him.

　　"Nah. We have a lot of time at home to discuss all those stuff. First, you eat! I think I made this soup little spicy, will it be okay for you? Wait, where did I put sugar bottle? I'm sure I put it in this bag," I said and searched my bag again but didn't find it. "Oh man, it's a trouble, I needed to add this in curd otherwise this-"

　　"Emi, I'll eat everything you made for me. Now just give it to me!"