'Your enchanted beautiful eyes is like a great spell.'
Bai He Lian
***
I know she doesn't trust me. Gradually I feel my nipples so hurt and sore when I am breathing.
'What's going on with me?'
I remember the last nightmare. It feels so real even difficult to distinguish between reality or dream.
"What's happening?" Lin Hua asked again.
"My nip-" I stopped. "Nothing."
"Then if you need something you can call me."
I am so confused because Lin Hua has never visited my apartment before and I think I am not close enough to her.
"Uhm."
"Boss tell me to visit you. Don't think too much."
"Okay."
Since when did our boss care about us? Don't tell Mr. Zhao who asked Lin Hua to visit me but this seems strange too. Mr. Zhao is a husband who is afraid of his wife.
"Now, I have to go." Lin Hua said.
"Okay. Thank you for everything."
"It's okay."
I close the door after Lin Hua goes. I feel something strange now. I am standing in front of the mirror and see my neck surrounded by the red spots. Some of them turned purple. I open my pajamas and find out that my bosom has reddish and purple marks.
'What happened to me? Is that real?'
I still don't understand what's happened and how it's all related to me. How can I arrive here alive? Where is that man gone?
***
Today I wore a high neck white sweater to cover my neck. I don't wanna be a gossip source this morning. I went by bus then stopped at the nearest station as usual.
I have to arrive at the office as soon as possible. I think they must be asking me about these people but no one is asking me. This atmosphere is usual but why I feel something weird but I don't know what makes it different.
"Bai He Lian, please bring a cup of coffee to the meeting room." Lin Hua is talking with Mr Zhao. " I have to give these documents now."
"Okay."
I am going to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee with a teaspoon of sugar then deliver the coffee to Mr. Zhao room. I knocked on the door and he let me in but he looked at me confusingly.
"Bai He Lian, you have to deliver the coffee to the meeting room not here. Hurry up."
"Oh... Okay."
I can see a silhouette from the corridor. I open the door to deliver a cup of coffee but what I get makes me afraid when I realize the man from my dream is sitting down on the chair. He looks at me with a smirk frames his evil face.
Soon I put the cup of coffee in front of him but I cannot move my foot. What happened here? Am I so nervous that I freeze like this?
"Do you need something, Mr?" I try to calm myself to cover the fear in my heart.
"Yes." He stared at me again. "So your name is Bai He Lian?" He asked but this time he stood up and our eyes met.
"Who are you?" I asked him back.
He just stared at me with an ambiguous gaze. I don't know why his gaze delivered fear in me. Fortunately Mr. Zhao entered the meeting room and Lin Hua brought a lot of documents.
"Mr. Chen, I am sorry to make you waiting."
"No problem since I insist on coming too early. I am sorry to make you uncomfortable."
"No... No... No... I am the one who has to say sorry here. Mr. Xia will come soon. Bai He Lian, you can come back now." He ordered.
"Yes."
Now, I can move my leg and also go from this room. My instinct says I have to stay away from this 'dangerous' man. I think now I am running and bumping into a man. I am panicked.
"I am sorry. I am sorry. I am sorry."
"It's okay."
"Let me help you." I said while lending my hand to help him but he refused it.
"I can stand up by myself."
His icy words make me confused and guilty at the same time. He stood up in front of me then turned around. Walking to the meeting room. What?! Don't say he is Mr. Xia De Ming! Oh My God, what do I have to do? Did he fire me?
I come back to my desk with an uncomfortable feeling after meeting two men. One man has a dangerous aura and another can be fired in seconds after the incident. Someone please help me.
"Bai He Lian, Mr. Xia wants to meet you at the meeting room." Mr. Zhao looked at me with a serious expression.
"Alright." I take a breath before going to the meeting room twice. I knocked on the door until a sound of a man let me in.
The atmosphere in the meeting room right now is so full of tension. In this meeting room just both of us. That man can fire me whenever he wants. Mr. Xia looks at me like a girl who is waiting for punishment.
"That's good if you're here right now Miss Bai He Lian." Mr Xia looked at me. "I am sorry you cannot work here from now on."
"What? But what is the reason?" I am shocked.
"Maybe my decision is unfair for you but I have to do this."
"But why?"
"Because Mr. Chen doesn't want you working here. I still don't know what his reason was."
"But why?"
I still don't understand the reason. I don't have enemies. How can I become jobless in seconds after I met these two men today? Who is Mr. Chen? Is him?
I look at the man who sits peacefully on the chair. Just me standing in front of them.
"I think I have to go now. Mr. Zhao will give you compensation from the company."
"What?!"
Then Xia De Ming leaves this room but I can't accept his act so I grab his back collar and force him to look at me.
"Now, I am not your employee, right?"
Xia De Ming bit his lower lip to reduce his frustration towards me.
"Yes, you're nothing here." He answered while trying to free himself from my palms but I grabbed his collar tighter.
"That's goods."
I kick his stomach with my right knee with the strength that I have. I don't care if he will sue me for this. I see Xia De Ming looks so terrible but I don't care. He thinks that he can play me like this? Without any reason he fired me.
I can see another man who sits peacefully in his seat looks startled but he is still calm as before but I can see his icy smirk. I think he was made of ice.
"Listen to me. Don't ever think that you can play someone's life anymore!" I shouted at Xia De Ming who fell on the floor.
"How dare you!"
"You can sue me! Whatever you want since I have nothing!"
"Hey! Hey!"
Then I go. I don't care to hear his curse or whatever. I left this room to my desk to take all my belongings. I hold my tears not dripping here. I don't care if all of them startle me with their curiosity since this morning I have become a source of gossip so the gossip will spread to all of this building in less than a few seconds.
I carry the box that contains my stuff along the way. My high heels become my burden while I bring this box. My feet now like in hell right now as the rain suddenly drips when I am still on the outside of the building so I am crying hard.
Why do I have to get this unfortunate day? What sins have I committed in my past life? I am so tired so I let the rain drop and make me wet. I know Xia De Ming looked at me behind his car. His smile makes me sick.
"Yaaaaaaa! " I shout out loud.
I am so annoyed to see him smiling towards me right now. So I take my high heel off then throw my left high heels to his car. Since his car parked not far from me. My high heels hit his windscreen and successfully make them almost break except my heels still stuck on the windscreen.
I don't know why seeing him angry makes me so satisfied. I don't care about the heels anymore. When I see a taxi drop off the passenger in front of the gate. Soon, I ran and got into the taxi.
From the back screen of the taxi. I am so happy to see Xia De Ming who gets angry when saw my heel make his windscreen almost break. If he pulls the heel so there is a big chance his windscreen becomes a history.