"Let's eat dinner before I send you home." Coby suddenly said.
Lea froze, she turned her head to the kitchen where Coby is currently cooking, "What?" she asked as if she did not hear him clearly.
"I'll send you home," Coby repeated.
Lea throws Coby a meaningful look, " Why would you send me home?" She asked with a suppressed smile.
" To make sure that you have gone home safely," Coby replied in a serious expression.
"Aayyee!!" Lea couldn't hold her excitement!
" Really?!" She took big strides towards Coby and looks at him with her twinkling eyes.
"Didn't you hear me?" Coby asked sternly, but Lea doesn't seem to be affected by his stern behavior.
"You're worried about me!" Lea Exclaimed!
"Don't think too much," Coby said.
" I just don't want to be blamed by your parents if something bad happens to you." He reasoned.
Lea's smile instantly faded, "Oh," she blurted out.
"Come and eat," Coby said as he puts down the foods on the table.
Lea opened her mouth to refuse Coby, but she changed her mind as soon as she smells the foods!
Lea excitedly walks to the dining table, "Ooohhh!! It smells good!" She exclaimed as she sniffs the food.
"Help your self," Coby said as he pulls a chair for him.
Lea secretly twitched her mouth, 'Tsss... He should at least act like a gentleman and pull a chair for me!' She secretly complained.
Coby looks up to Lea when she did not sit, "Are you not going to eat?" He asked.
Lea just pulls a chair and ignored Coby.
Coby put food to Lea's plate before he put on his own plate.
The two of them started to eat silently, no one spoke until they finished eating.
"Burb!" Lea covered her mouth as she burps!
"Ugh! That's disgusting!" Coby complained.
Lea removes her hand from her mouth and she raised her brow, " Shouldn't you be thankful that I am feeling full of the food you cooked?" Lea replied.
"Ah, you're a good cook, I suddenly want to move here!" She added.
(Cough! Cough! Cough!)
Coby choked when he heard Lea!
"Ugh!" Lea patted Coby's back, " Hey, don't take it seriously, I was just kidding!" she said.
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Just like what Coby promised, he walks Lea home.
"Oh! The night breeze is cold!" Lea says and then she turns her head to Coby, " Hey, don't you find it romantic?" Lea said with a smile on her face.
" What's romantic with walking at night?" Coby asked sarcastically.
"Aish! What would I expect from a robot/grim reaper like you?" Lea mumbled but Coby was still able to hear it.
" W-What did you say?!" He asked.
"Hmm?!" Lea looks at Coby innocently, " Oh! Nothing!"
Lea saw two people walking while holding hands, she couldn't help but envy them, she gives Coby a side glance, 'Aish, I am with a dumb person, who doesn't even know how to be romantic!'
Lea wasn't looking ahead of her, so, she didn't see the group of people heading into their way.
Coby was just silent as he looked at the group of people heading to their direction, they were talking and they seem like they are having fun, they are teasing one of their friends and they started pushing, one of them almost bumped Lea.
"Hey!" Fortunately, Coby was fast to wrap his shoulder around Lea and pulls her away from them.
"Oh, I'm sorry, sir!" The girl apologized when she realized that she almost bump someone.
Coby just ignores the girl, his attention is on Lea.
Lea looks down on Coby's hand on her shoulder, and then she looks up to him, but she froze when she realized he is staring at her.
Lea slowly revealed a smile, "Hey, what are you looking at?"
"Ah, have you fallen for me?" Lea joked.
Coby snapped back to his senses and suddenly remove his hand from Lea's shoulder, "Let's go." He said plainly as he walks ahead.
" Tsss..." Lea scoffed " He is a total opposite from his boss!" she mumbled and then she followed Coby.
The two of them reached Lea's house.
Lea presses the doorbell and her mom Lina was the one to open it.
"Good evening, Mom," Lea greeted her mother.
"You're home!" Her mother said, but then her mother notices Coby.
"And who is this good looking man with you?"
"Is he your boyfriend?" Lina asked.
Coby looked at the woman in front of him, she looked like an easy go lucky person just like Lea.
"Uhm..."
"Mom, He is not..." Lea's next words were stuck in her mouth when Coby suddenly spoke.
"Good evening, ma'am, I am Coby," Coby introduces himself.
"Oh! Hehehehe" Lina giggled.
" Just call me Mom, you're my daughter's boyfriend anyway!" She added.
"..."
Lea becomes speechless, her mother is assuming!
She love her mother but right at this moment, she suddenly wants to deny her!
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A few days since Gaile's death, Mr. Fuente gets back to the S Country.
He went straight to the cemetery to place Gaile's urn.
Mr. Fuente slowly puts down the urn in one of the vacant stands.
"Why you're too weak?"
"You chose to end your life without even fighting!"
He said while looking to the urn as if he is talking to someone.
"It's their fault!"
"If that woman did not come, you will not end up like this!"
"That woman and her father are just the same!" Mr. Fuente balled his hand and gritted his teeth!
He looks enraged and his eyes turned bloodshot!
At night...
"Help!"
"Help me!"
A woman shouted.
The surroundings are dark and he couldn't see the woman's face but he could recognize her voice!
"Why did you do that?!"
"You are paying your sins!"
"Dad' I'm tired of this!"
Gaile's voice suddenly echoed.
"Aaahhh!!!"
He heard the scream of the falling woman!
He saw Gaile's face, but it was not Gaile's voice!
"Ha!" Mr. Fuente instantly raised his body!
He is panting and beads of sweat popped out on his forehead.
Mr. Fuente looks around and he realized that he is in his bedroom!
'A nightmare!'
'It was just a nightmare!'
Mr. Fuente said to himself!
Mr. Fuente gets up from his bed and went to his mini-bar.
He took a glass and pour a whiskey on it.
Mr. Fuente looks out of the glass wall, 'A nightmare again!'
'I shouldn't be scared, this is just in my head! She doesn't exist!'
Mr. Fuente took a deep breath and take a sip of his whiskey.