Chapter 2

I just blushed after hanging up the phone. I don’t know what Lana needs from me and why uncle is looking for me, because I told I’ve only been there for a while, but here, it’s about to get dark, and maybe I’ll spend the night.

Zaffiro had a sudden meeting so he had to lock me in this room. Because I knew he didn’t trust me so he even locked it up, really shameless! I was so bored that I just thought of sending a message to my so called friends and dear sisters. After all, sadly in the mansion, even if someone goes home there but only a little and not yet complete. We just worked and then only the elderly were left in the mansion, too bad.

[This is emergency and you have to go home! In Ficarro Mansion. I have an important announcement. I’ll wait you there until 8:00 in the evening.]

I smiled and remained sitting on the bed. It’s still three o’clock in the afternoon, so I can still soak in it with my baby.

I quickly walked quietly and pressed my ear to the door, I couldn’t hear anything except my breathing. Couldn’t he have left me here? Or maybe it’s worse— I immediately covered my mouth so as not to shout because it was forbidden to make noise.

Suddenly the door opened causing my head to bump.

“V-Veron? What are you doing there?” puckered question and promptly touched my forehead.

I immediately smiled broadly and ignored the pain. “Ahh no nothing. I’m just experimenting. Where are you talking to?” I changed the topic but he didn’t answer it and just closed the door immediately.

He frowned and stared at me intently from head to toe. I’m nervous because he thinks differently of me now. So I backed away as he walked closer to me.

“W-Why are you looking at me like that?” I just kept stepping back until I could sit on the end of the bed.

“W-What are you going to do?” my next question but not a single letter, nothing came out of him.

He bends slowly so I close my eyes. Will he kiss me? I immediately stretched my snout to feel his lips but… I immediately opened one eye and there I saw and felt that he had touched the button on my polo shirt and closed it.

I just stared at it badly then stared at his lip.

“What? Is there something wrong with what I did?” he asked me as its hands were inside his pocket.

I thought he would kiss me. But thanks to him, I forgot to close the polo because I took a picture of myself, because it’s a pity the surroundings are beautiful if I just stare.

For some unknown reason, my eyesight was so big on its lips. “Who was your first kiss?” I seriously askedz but this is the reason to turn it on me.

“Why do you want to know?”

“Just, just tell me, promise I won’t be angry,” I insisted.

If I’m not mistaken, he kissed me when we were kids, though he also does that to others but I mixed it with malice.

It averted its gaze from me and I noticed it stared at the white flower. He didn’t even say a word and seemed to be worried. Am I offended him? He doesn’t have a girlfriend yet, but sometimes, I hear his mother forcing him to get to know some girls. If I’m not mistaken that woman is also a business person or what. But I don’t know anything.

“Hey, are you okay?” I was still dragging the hem of his dress so it turned to me.

“Y-Yeah. About—”

“Not anymore. Don’t answer that, I’m just kidding. I know you don’t have a first kiss! As if you had a girlfriend. Come on!” I got up and grabbed my little bag on the bed and started walking.

But surprisingly no one followed me so I slowly turned to him. Again I saw it staring at that flower. I don’t know but he’s very serious, I could see the sadness in his eyes even though I don’t know what that thing has to do with.

“L-Let’s go.”

I just lost my sight again when I heard its deep voice which made me straighten up and smile a little at him. He walked first while I was behind him, following and as if I was the only one. I don’t want to do drama now because I can’t do that. But because I could feel his other aura, the sadness in his eyes and the dark weight of every breath I could feel so, I had a hard time how to talk to him.

The awkward thing is if I suddenly tickle him, maybe later he will suddenly point a gun at me! So I just decided to keep quiet behind him. I just followed him until we got to the parking lot, I noticed my car was gone, maybe Zaffiro had already delivered it to one of his employees.

“V-Veron? Are you still here?” he asked when he turned his back on me.

For some unknown reason, I suddenly felt hurt? Well, hurting me was just a normal for me. But there was something that hurt me because I couldn’t process what he said immediately. He thought I wasn’t there? He thought I was leaving? Didn’t he notice me? If anything, I’m not that observant.

I smiled broadly at him as I always show. “O-Of course, because you said we’re going home together, that’s why you delivered my car,” I said to him, trying to be normal with his curious looks.

After a while it smiled a little and shook. “I’m sorry, I’m really thinking a lot. All right, come on in.” He opened me up and I sat down, I saw it circling in front of the car and I couldn’t help but remember his reactions.

We even overcame strangers for being so quiet. It was just focused on driving while frowning. Maybe when Auntie Nieva made her pregnant, she was wrinkled for almost nine months.

I just leaned back in my chair because of what I was thinking. I’m 26 years old but here, I still don’t have a husband. My other classmates are like that, they have children and what’s worse is that they are still married. Speaking of marriage… when will I experience that? I wore the best gown and then walked in front of a lot of people and then he stared at me still smiling. After our wedding, here it is omg! My long awaited honeymoon!

It’s nice to dream.

Although I didn’t want to ruin my thoughts, I decided to cut it out and decided to look at him. I’m really into their races, so as much as possible I need to breed them, as in right away!

“I’ll take you to the mansion first so that the darkness won’t catch up with you. I’m still going somewhere and I might take a long time,” he said softly as a reason for me to sit up.

“I’m fine! Promise, I’m not going to scratch. And then I don’t have anyone with me yet, so just take me with you,” I said with a smile while waiting for what he would say.

It was still silent as if hesitating whether to take me or not so I was a little frustrated. It’s okay with me if he doesn’t want me to come because he might be talking to a big business person.

“Alright.” He turned the car towards maybe that was the place he was going.

As we drove down the road I noticed that this place was familiar to me, because 5 years ago it was also the one we passed on to a large hospital. I don’t know if he’s really going to the hospital because that’s all I know, unless there’s another reason. But to my great surprise, our car stopped.

The place was quiet, there were a lot of trees and only a few ambulances were there, the area was wide and there were a few people who would visit maybe and there were patients walking around with the guards on them. Surprisingly, Zaffiro and I decided to get out of the car and I finally saw the place. Nothing has changed, five years have passed but this is still the look of the place where we were rushed, where two important people were almost killed.

As we walked into the hospital I couldn’t help but look back on what had happened before. As time goes on, the presence here grows heavier. Some of the chairs next to the patients room were quiet. I just caught up with Zaffiro who was walking straight, I also noticed from his right hand that he was holding flowers. I just noticed that he was holding a flower maybe because I was also busy looking around so I ignored it.

I still can’t help but wonder until now why we’re here.

ROOM 203

We stopped in this room, it was at the end so it was very quiet but the only surprise was that no one was here.

“Are you still going inside?”

I stopped meditating when I heard Zaffiro’s voice so I focused on him and smiled at him.

“A-Ahh, Sure,” I replied smiling slightly.

He nodded softly at me and then opened the door in front of us. This allowed me to enter first and then to be exposed to the white, spacious, clean, airy room, and as I walked a little further I saw a bed and the patient. A beautiful woman familiar to me lying and freely sleeping in that bed.

Later I noticed Zaffiro replacing the flower next to a woman and then replacing the one he bought… that flower is also familiar to me, if I’m not mistaken that’s what he gives to his Mommy .

“Isn’t she—” I couldn’t continue what I was saying because it barely nodded. It was smiling but its eyes were wrapped in sadness, which was far from what I was used to.

Curiously I forced myself to focus my attention on a sleeping woman. Is that her? After all, she’s been mine for a decade not seen, but just wondering why is she there?

“She’s still beautiful. She doesn’t seem to have changed her appearance. She’s looked like that since high school,” I said, staring at the patient. “What happened to her?” I asked here but my eyes still remained on the woman.

“Car accident. He had an accident 5 years ago. He had the worst injuries… than the driver,” he replied and I noticed that he slowed down his last word.

5 years ago? We were the same person here. “Where is her family?”

“She’s a complete orphan. She was looking for her sister before but because of what happened, I was the one to look for her first.”

Is she completely orphaned? That’s why I didn’t even notice anyone coming when we had meetings in high school. Zaffiro stared at her and didn’t seem to blink anymore, I looked at Zaffiro and the woman in front of me alternately.

“Is she your friend Zaffiro?” I poor questioned.

Does he have other friends? And even more surprising there is a woman. But he can’t be attached to a woman, but there’s nothing wrong with having another friend, He’s a very caring friend then, even if he takes care of other people.

I waited a few more seconds but he didn’t answer so I looked at him. This time he is smiling, a smile I only see when he is with Auntie Nieva and when he teases his youngest sister Zafia.

It slowly bowed causing me to be surprised at what he did next. He kissed it sensibly and there was something whispered. He kissed her right in front of me.