An August visitors

The first thing Cecilia did after getting to her home was taking a nap and to restore her lost sleep. What she passed through in the store room and the hospital was indeed the best birthday gift she had ever gotten over years.

Immediately she woke up the second day, she went to the supermarket. She brought the ingredients and side dishes, including beer, for a hot pot.

With her first battle won, she was going to have a hot pot part at home within herself before the script was sent to her and to make up for her birthday celebration she missed.

Some minutes before mid-evening, There was a knock on the door right as she was about to start cooking. ‘Who was visiting at this time?’

Cecilia became stunned as she pulled the door open suspiciously. Japheth Ramos and his sharp daughter Nicki Ramos was standing outside the door dressed in a snappy western suit, with a dark outer coat and his daughter carrying a colorful fruit basket. What kind of strange combination is this?

“Mr Ramos?” Cecilia swallowed in fright “why the surprise at this hour? How did you know my house? Is something the matter? Or you came to ask for my request because I ….”

Japheth Ramos’s thin lips let out two words before she could split more words “Sick Visit”

Sick visit? He personally came to visit at this late night and even bringing his little daughter along and called it sick visit?

“I have gotten enough of Japheth Ramos and his daughter yesterday and they came back today again?”

She quickly replied “Er… you’re being too polite, Mr Ramos. Sorry about the mess, please come in” Cecilia didn’t have time to react. She simply invited them in, flattered yet stunned. She speedily tidied up the whole rom as she removed the junk from the couch and shoved the piles of clothing under the bed…..

“Sit anywhere you’d like, do you want to drink anything? Is green tea or milk okay?” Cecilia asked all these while keeping busy and also trying to figure out why he had came. Perhaps he wanted to ask for her request because she saved him last night but if that was his intention, that’s not enough reason to come to her home? But, unfortunately, she was not able to guess the reason no matter how much she tried.

“Sure, I’ll love green tea” Japheth Ramos nodded with the expression of a commander replying to a soldier who had reported a military situation. Cecilia could only remain confused as she brewed a cup of tea for Japheth Ramos and a warm cup of milk for his little bun.

Japheth Ramos was cramped awkwardly on the narrow sofa in the living room while his little kid was everywhere, touching the furniture and the electronic instruments in the small house.

When Cecilia was done with whatever she had to do inside, she sat opposite them, both of them sitting together, they didn’t only look alike but was wearing the same expression: Silent and numb!

The scene turned awkward, Cecilia almost broke into tears while seated opposite them. Oh my goodness what are these two here for?

The gurgling sound that came from the kitchen saved the awkward situation, the air began to fill with an enticing spicy aroma. Cecilia quickly used this opportunity to break the long awaited silence “So, have to two had dinner yet? I was about to have hotpot, did you mind joining me?”

Japheth Ramos: “Okay”

Nicki Ramos: “(…………..)”

Cecilia; “…………………!!

She was only asking out of courtesy, were thy trying to pick a fight by looking at each other like that?

Nicki was surprised that her conservative always hygienic father could agree to share hotpot with someone they knew just yesterday in some crimpled messy home.

One Is the CEO of the leading entertainment company and the other is the little billionaire heiress whose networth could buy Cecilia and her family as a pet. They had probably tasted all sort of delicacies before. Why did they both sat down together in this shabby apartment eyeing each other for agreeing to have hotpot with commoners like her?

However there was nothing she could do. So she invited the father-daughter duo to the dinnig table, adding two more pairs of chopsticks.

“The soup is quite spicy, can you take spicy foods?” Cecilia asked with concern

Nicki Ramos: Yes!

Japheth Ramos: “(…………….!!!!!!!!!)

Cecilia: Okay th…….

“Stop!” Japheth Ramos ordered and looked at his daughter who had never spoken to him before saying yes to some other woman, which means what Seth told him at the hospital parking lot was true?

“Nicki…. Look at me, did you just talk? Talk to me Nicki, Dad is here???” He called earnestly but his daughter had shut her mouth again. Cecilia looked at the rhapsody, she couldn’t understand a thing, why is he asking her to speak as if she doesn’t speak before?

“Mr. Ramos what’s wrong? Didn’t she like spicy food? Shouldn’t she had talked?

Japheth Ramos’s once expressionless and numb face turned to face filled with concern and love for his daughter “Miss Cecilia, you also heard her talk right? You heard when Nicki talked right? He asked

Cecilia nodded in affirmation and continue staring at them, “Tell me what happed? Doesn’t she talk before?”

“She had never talked to me since she was born, so I am surprised to see her talking, am sorry of I startle you” He apologized but Cecilia welcomed his and look at the girl, she had dipped her chopstick into the hotpot as if she was not aware of what her father was saying to assure him further Cecilia said, “She talked to me when we’re both trapped in the store room and even wished me speedy recovery”

Japheth Ramos let go of his anxiety and faced the table, “Its okay, let eat”

Okay then……………

Japheth Ramos didn’t eat much, he was looking at Nicki the whole time, and also looking at Cecilia. Nicki loved the Spicy food as much as she did while he kept sticking his tongue out due to the spiciness.

Cecilia looked up and caught Japheth Ramos’s worried expression that she asked worriedly “Is it bad for kids of her age to eat spicy food?” she could not afford any price if anything was to happen to the little prince.

“Not that delicate” Japheth Ramos replied unevenly, he thought her worries were unfounded.