"Please stop the car sir," she stamped her feet as she alighted from the car while Chryxso can be heard cursing continuously from the car. He's still holding his jaw and clutching from the pain he got after she gave him a right hook to his face. Her hands are shaking from the impact. That guy is a robot, he has an iron body.
She kept on walking away to calm her nerves. She really did not like it when her tiny stature is being discussed. She felt like a handicapped nurse when her height is being laughed upon. She felt helpless. She had once been a topic of discussion when a patient complained about her to the hospital management just because she's short so topics like this are definitely off limits to her.
She did asked her father complaining about her height when she can't vent her anger out but her father just shrugged his shoulders and said she got it from her mother. Mom, what kind of legacy is this? But she also reasoned that she should not get affected by these kinds of gossip when it doesn't do her any good, maybe she just overreacted.
Maybe, that's how Chryxso feels when she made fun at his current condition, although it was just a temporary thing. She winced. If you you take a look at it, she's the one on the wrong this time. Her annoyance meter went up while the same could be said when she tried to annoy him, too. She really needed to make it up with the guy.
She started walking back home when she noticed that the sky is getting dark. Ooops! I forgot, I got poor sense of direction (1). How do I go home now? I'll look really stupid if I ask him for help after what I did. What do I do now? She fished her phone from her pocket which, she now realized, was left at the car when she marched away. She hiccuped, I'm not crying. I'm an adult now, I'm a girl scou...
"Waa!!!" she rushed running when she heard some strange sounds nearby. With her wild imagination, she can't fully identify now how her source of fear looked. Only that she's in deep terror right now. Her surroundings are getting stranger but when she tries to go back, the soughs are getting louder, it may be a wild boar. What should I do now? What if the bear sees her, her martial art skills won't save her. She's too tiny, too. She's getting skittish by the minute.
Her ears perked up to hear a car's sound nearby. She tried to follow the sound and it looks like she's having some luck. She's now seeing some lights and hearing the sound of sirens. Is that from a police car or an ambulance? Oh well, either way I'll be safe. She hurriedly walked towards the area where she can see the lights for fear that they may just drive past her.
Few meters from where she's walking and she can already see the familiar faces of old Naning, Reika and the other household helps she saw from the big house earlier. They're accompanied by a bunch of police officers who laid camp on one side of the road. She can also see Chryxso's face going pale as if he's contipated or just fainting. She smirked, maybe he did something stupid again. Now, he even got the police involved. She stealthily moved beside him and poked his shoulders. He turned to her with an annoyed look on his face, still looking pale though.
"What?"
"Did you do anything stupid again?" she teased. His face registered a look of shock and hurriedly reached out to where he heard her voice. When he grabbed her shoulders, he kept her standing and shouted.
"Old Naning, she's here now. Let's go home." then he snapped at her.
"And you, don't you dare leave the house again. Do you understand?" she can't help but nod. She does not need any explanation for what she saw, he paled with worry. It's more than enough for her to know that he had been looking for her. He shook her again.
"Hey! Are you listening to me?"
"Yeah," she breathed. "Thanks."
"Let's go home," he's back to his cold persona again and turned away from her. One of the people around ran to guide him to his car. Old Naning and some of the police officers approached her.
"How are you feeling Young Miss? Are you hurt somewhere?" she tried to scan her body and even placed her palms on her forehead. She grimaced.
"I'm okay old Naning. I appreciate what you did. Forgive me if I worried you," she said sincerely and managed to smile which put relief to the old lady. A police in uniform drew close to her. She automatically responded in attention and made them laugh.
"I swear I did not do anything to harm the nature sir! I was just really lost. Please let me off this once, I don't want to go to jail, I'm still young and have lots of dreams." the police just scratched his head and walked towards her.
"We really suggest that you don't go out by yourself Ma'am. The citizens here are trustworthy but the forest is not cultivated and wild animals just roam around." she felt a chill on her spine when she remembered the soughs that made her run.
"I'm not even going out of my own room, sir." she again stood in attention which made the old cop suppress a smile before he gestured for everyone to go pack up.
"Aah, that was so tiring. I have no energy anymore." Mayu kept talking to herself while she threw her limp body on the sofa. The people at home seemed amused as she kept rolling back and forth on the huge seat.
She suddenly felt a cold wind rush in and saw Chryxso's serious face looking her way, or somewhere, whichever. The house helps went back to their own businesses and she was left gulping down with tension while waiting for his angry tirade.
1. Gets lost easily.