With Patricia living in her house, Leena certainly felt less lonely than before because she had someone to talk to throughout the day. Unfortunately, she also had a lot more things to do and worry about. Accidents just kept happening with her friend around.
"Patricia, you better tell me right now, why is there water on my floor?" Leena shouted at Patricia angrily with her hands on her waist.
"I was helping you clean the floor, of course! I feel bad crashing for free at your apartment so I decided to help you with the housework." Patricia looked at Leena with innocent eyes. Was she wrong in wanting to help her do the chores? She didn't understand why Leena was screaming at her like this.
"Are you sure you are helping me clean the floor? Because from where I stand, I see that you are ruining it! So please, don't ever feel guilty about living here rent-free! And you better not help me with my housework! You are only increasing my workload." Leena gritted her teeth, trying to contain her annoyance. She looked at Patricia with exasperation. Was her friend being serious right now? How could she not see that she was making it worse? She was ruining the floor by leaving the water on it.
"Oh God! You are just being dramatic! I watched how you cleaned the floor yesterday and I did the same just now! I have no idea why it turned out like this. It's not my fault, okay? Blame the floor for not sopping up all the water." At these words, Patricia looked at the wet floor with indignant eyes. She felt wronged. She was just trying to help Leena; she didn't expect things to turn out like this. Besides, Patricia had slipped on the wet floor and fallen down. Her ass still hurt. She had already learned her lesson.
"What? Blame the floor? Do you hear what you are saying? It's a tile floor for God's sake! And sop up the water? Do you think it's made up of sponge? I really don't know what to say to that." Leena was at a loss for words and couldn't believe what she just heard. 'Fortunately, we don't have a wooden floor, or it would have surely been ruined by now,' Leena thought in relief.
Oh. It doesn't sop up the water? Then what should we do? Do we just leave it and wait for it to dry?" Patricia looked bewildered. Finally realizing that she had made a mistake, she was clueless. It was the first time she didn't dare raise her voice to Leena.
"Well, we have to grab a dry mop and clean the floor again. Wait a minute, please don't tell me that you didn't dry the wet mop before mopping the floor." Leena glared at Patricia again. She hoped that she was wrong; that Patricia wasn't stupid enough to mop the floor with a very wet mop. But it was obvious that Leena was right in her assumption.
How did you know that? You are very clever, Leena!" Patricia smiled, surprised that Leena had guessed correctly. She didn't even notice the dangerous glint in her friend's eyes.
"What the hell! I can't believe you really did it! Patricia, I'm going to kick your ass for what you did today!" Leena ran over to Patricia in outrage. Seeing this, Patricia quickly dodged her and fled. It seemed that Leena was serious this time. She looked pissed off, so Patricia could only run away. She was not silly enough to linger around and face her wrath.
"You are being ridiculous! It's just a floor for God's sake! Why are you being like this? I will clean it up again, okay?" Patricia didn't expect Leena to be so angry about the floor. She kept escaping Leena, not wanting to get into her clutches.
"Clean it up again? Do you think that I would be stupid enough to let you clean the floor once again? You would probably ruin the whole apartment if that happens!" Leena said, beyond pissed. She didn't know how to deal with her friend anymore. 'Patricia will pay for this!' she thought.
"I promise I will dry the mop before I clean the floor this time. Just give me a second chance!" Patricia begged. She wondered when Leena became this severe. She had always been so gentle and nice. But this Leena was freaking her out.
Do you think I believe you? You are clearly very bad at housework!" Leena didn't trust Patricia's promise. She'd rather clean the floor herself than let Patricia have a second try at it. Only Patricia could be this shameless and claim that she had been helping Leena with the chores. She was just adding to Leena's workload, that was all.
"Hey! Kevin, you are back!" Patricia suddenly waved at someone standing behind Leena. Her face was enthusiastic, as if she had spotted somebody who could finally save her.
"Don't try to distract me! Do you think I'd be stupid enough to fall for your lie? Kevin probably got off work just now. There's no way he could be home this early." Leena didn't budge. She still faced Patricia, thinking that her friend was trying to fool her. 'Patricia is trying to distract me!' she thought to herself.
"What are you two doing? Why is there so much water on the floor?" Kevin furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. The floor was all wet. He had no idea what had happened.
"Um! Kevin, you are back early today." Leena immediately turned around upon hearing Kevin's voice. She was utterly surprised. Kevin was really here. It seemed that Patricia hadn't been lying. It also meant that Kevin had seen her yelling at Patricia. How embarrassing! All of a sudden, Leena didn't know how to face her husband.
"I had to run a few errands downtown and then I came straight home. I think I smell something burning." Kevin wrinkled his nose. Yes, something was definitely burning in the kitchen.
Ah! I was cooking the meat!" Leena quickly ran toward the kitchen in the middle of shouting this. In her hurry, she forgot about the wet floor and lost her balance. Suddenly, she slipped on the water and started falling backward. Patricia gave a yelp at what was about to happen and hid her eyes behind her hands. She didn't want to see Leena fall. However, when Patricia didn't hear a loud thump or Leena cry out in pain, she slowly put down her hands and opened her eyes again. Leena hadn't fallen down. It seemed that Kevin caught her right in time.
"Be careful. Wait here. I will go and check the kitchen." Kevin let go of the hands that were holding onto Leena's waist and walked over to the kitchen. He didn't want her to hurt herself in this anxious state.
"Leena, are you okay? You scared the shit out of me!" Patricia walked up to Leena, still a bit worried. She looked Leena up and down to check if she was hurt.
"It's all your fault! I just embarrassed myself in front of Kevin because of you." Leena glared at Patricia. Luckily her husband was quick to catch her, or she would have fallen down and broken some bones.
What are you talking about? He is your husband! You don't need to feel embarrassed at all." Patricia puckered her lips. She still couldn't understand why Leena was so shy and awkward around her own husband.