Vol 1: Ch 12 - Rei's feelings
Xue seating in the chair while Rei is still standing the moment she arrived at the place, without even got offered by her to take a seat. Luckily, Rei only wears high heels when she's working and when it's not or out of duty she will wear either flat shoes or wedge sandals. So today she's wearing flat shoes and luckily she's not wearing any wedge sandals or else her feet is already hurting from standing. Rei only wears a white shirt and jeans because it's Saturday meanwhile Xue wearing an elegant blue dress with matching high heels and purse. Then Xue asking her again since Rei was silent after hearing that question from her.
"So what about you and what do you feel about Vin, huh?"
Rei tells it right away when she heard it again and because Xue is asking her seriously, she answered truthfully. "Honestly Xue, during our High School Years I expect that I and Vin will become a couple but it never happens because Vin only sees me as a friend, I don't want our friendship to be destroyed just because of my selfishness and also my parents have a rule to us together with my siblings that never dating or in a relationship if we still didn't graduate in our tertiary and didn't obtain any degree yet. So that time, I'm wondering if I and Vin become a couple during that time, maybe I will hide our relationship to everyone including my parents, and only reveals it after we obtain a degree but it never happened and nothing happened at all since Vin only see me as his friend.
It's just only my illusion that we will become a couple and so in order to avoid being hurt in the end, I stop my idiocy so I accept the fact that I and Vin are only destined to become a friend and nothing more. After we graduate in our High School, for five years we only messaging each other once a year, and today is the day we plan to meet for the very first time after 5 years since graduation but I think it will not going to happen since you and Vin already an item even if it's not you, Vin will be found his partner someday. Now, Xue, I think you've misunderstood something but I think you're the most important person to Vin compared to me since you're expecting a baby with him."
Xue feels guilty but the moment Rei said the last sentence she got upset and suddenly stands up and asks angrily.
"Do you think having a baby with him, I'm already important person to him, huh?"
"T....that"
"You don't know anything so stop talking like you know everything. To tell you the truth, he was drunk that time and mistook me as you; I grab that opportunity and drugged him so that's why, are you satisfied now?"
"D-----drugged him?"
"Yes I drugged him. Why? Well I drugged him because I want him and only want him to become mine." Xue cried and repeat it again and again "he will become mine, mine and mine alone. Do you understand?" Xue almost stumbles but Rei is fast enough and holds her but just got misunderstood by her.
"Don't touch me." She slaps the hand of Rei that's almost going to touch her and pushes her away then said to her "or do you want me to get a miscarriage just to steal Vin from me?"
"No, that's not what I'm doing."
"Then what else do you want beside me other than losing my baby from Vin, huh?"
Rei is now out of words because whatever she does and whatever she says, Xue will only misunderstand it so instead of doing anything or saying anything so she just asks her "so Xue, what do you want me to do?"
"Stay away from Vin, avoid him as long as possible, don't interfere with us anymore, never message him again or keep in touch with him, erase his number or even block him. Whatever it is as long as you never in reach and contact with Vin."
"Okay, I will do that entirely and all of it of what you just said right now but in two conditions."
Xue afraid of what it is but still asks Rei "as long as I can do and it's my capability then I will do it, so what is it?"
Rei said it right away "First, stay healthy and raised the baby well, don't get the baby got affected just because the child father mistook the mother as someone else. (Rei called herself as someone else). Secondly, please contact your parents right away and explained what happened to you so that they will not be worried about you. I will just inform Aunt Meng that you're fine and nothing bad happened to you. And the rest you do the explanation of why and what reason you have because its not my job to explain what really happened."
"Is that all?" Xue is not satisfy of Rei's two conditions since she were expecting something else from her.
"Uh-uh"
"Do you already believe me? I mean, do you really believe me right away that I'm pregnant with Vin's baby? Do you not need to asks of any shreds of evidence that we were really together? Do you just believe what I say without any evidence at all? Did you ever think that maybe I just fabricated it in order to get rid of you?"
"The fact that you already know I'm meeting with Vin today and a coincidence that you didn't come home to your unit, it means that your living with Vin now and then you're the one who messages me by using Vin's phone since you just admit it a while ago, so no need for me to ask any shreds of evidence since it would be like that."
Both Vin and Xue's jaw dropped because Rei got it right, they were aware that Rei is smart but it never, it never occurs to them that it's more beyond that one.
"Also, by sacrificing our friendship just to be with Vin, it means you've been thorough of this. By combining those possibilities then you didn't fabricate any of those and that's already a shred of solid evidence to believe you."
"That's it and you don't need to fight me?"
"Whatever I do, it will become useless because I'm only a friend to him while you, you can have because you have a baby with him, even if he denies it, Vin can't because he have a responsibility to bear so in the end I'm the loser one if I will fight with you."
"Then awhile ago why you didn't let me get stumble and fall, you know it's your chance since the baby will lose for sure."
"I can't let it happen because the baby is an innocent one and most of all, even if you're pregnant or not, I need to protect you because you're my best friend."
Hearing the word best friend from her, Xue cried again and asked. "After what I have done, you still accept me as your best friend?"
Rei approaches her and helps her seat in the chair. "Of course you are my friend, silly. You just blind by the love that's why you did it, well at least you didn't let get me killed." Xue cry, again and again, Rei said it in a low voice. "Now, now stop crying you're a shipping lines heiress and it will be a big scandal if it got leaked especially you being pregnant without marriage yet."
"Rei, I'm really sorry."
"It's alright, I understand that you blinded by love but not fully blinded since I'm still alive and talking with you now. Now, remember my conditions alright. So I'm going now."
"Uh-uh"
Rei let go of Xue from her embrace and turn around to leave but got stopped when she heard Vin's voice.
"Rei?"