Just then someone turned on the light and I could clearly see who the man was. I staggered while stepping back, he caught me by my hand before I could fall. My eyes were opened completely, all the sadness I felt was gone and was replaced with a new feeling- shock. My mouth opened so wide that I could fit an egg.
"!!!" What is he doing here?!
"Woah there, be careful. You look like you saw a ghost"
"L- Luke?!"
"In the flesh" he smirked at me.
(Luke: Oh hello ladies~ I know you guys were waiting for me to make my appearance, now that I'm here, all your worries will go away *wink*
*smack*
Ow! Lia? Why did you hit me?)
"What are you doing here?!" I yelled.
"You know, it is very unclear, in a very weird turn of events I ended up here." He rubbed the back of his head while saying this, this is what he does when he lies. I did not question him though, although I did want to tackle him and force the truth out of him real bad. Of course he lied to me, he has been keeping Oasis's little dilemma secret way before I came back on New year's eve.
I narrowed my eyes at his words, wait a minute! I held his collar and glared at him, "DID YOU BRING BOB HERE?"
He got extremely freaked out by how aggressive I became. I mean let's get serious, each and everyone of you guys got freaked out by Bob and I personally experienced that weirdness so imagine how uncomfortable I felt.
"Umm yes?" he replied with an unsure tone.
*punch*
"Are you crazy or something?! How blind are you to trust Bob and ask him to escort me? He is like this creepy stalker perv!"
At that very moment Bob brought two glasses of punch for us with a bright smile, it seems that Luke asked him to do so after he saw me crouching in a corner. And to make matters worse, he might have heard what I said just now.
I turned to look at him. There was exactly one teardrop falling from his right eye while he maintained that bright smile. 'I knew it! I will never get a girl if I work with this guy. His sister finds me creepy. What girl am I going to get?'
"Umm, cough cough, hi, is that punch? Thank you. I was just talking about a guy I met at the office, now that I think about it, he has the same name as you haha haha isn't that funny?" I tried to cover it up as much as I can. If he found out I was badmouthing him, he may really try to do something to me.
"Oh, okay." Bob said, he still had that creepy wide smile on and the tear was on his cheek refusing to fall. You can't tell me that he is not weird after knowing how he looks like right now.
I let go of Luke's collar immediately and dusted my hands. Bob gave us the punch and left. I kind of felt bad now.
"I heard some rumours about you working in Revolutions." Luke asked me.
"Well, they are not rumours, it's true, I am working in Revolution." I took a sip and told him. We stood next to the railing.
Luke started coughing intensely. He expected me to deny those rumours, I guess.
"What are you, crazy? Do you know who the CEO is? He's Jason's brother! Ugh, please tell me that he did not see you and stayed hidden from him." He smacked his forehead and said.
Whoops, sorry to disappoint you Luke. "What do you want? The truth or peace of mind?"
I did not have to spell it out for him; he understood what I meant. "Ugh, Lia. Why do you make me worry so much?"
Hey, you were the one who asked me to tell you, it's not like I told you on my accord.
"Don't sweat, he does not know who I actually am. I created a fake identity so to him, I'm Luna Brown, not Amelia Smith."
"Fine, just stay away from him, don't get too close to him." He warned me. I heard this warning several times throughout my life. Good old big brother telling me to stay away from boys.
"Yeah about that. I'm his secretary, so.....avoiding him is impossible. Do you want more punch?" I smiled at him like I was unaware of his shock. Oh, he'll get over it just like I did.
"Anyway, enough about me. Its been over a month since we talked. What's happening with my parents. Are they still mad at me, are they begging me to come back, are they regretting their decision?" I asked him while putting on a proud front.
"No."
"...."
What the hell? Did grandpa not scold them or convince them otherwise? I was sure he'd do it though.
"Actually, they searched for you initially, but then they stopped because they wanted to teach you a lesson or something like that. So they stopped searching for you and let you face the real world so you'd be begging to come back." He said with a stoic face, completely ignoring the knives which went through my heart.
Well, this is not going the way I expected at all. It seems I have to suffer beside Mr Wilson much longer than I anticipated. Well, tough luck, mom and dad. If you wanted your daughter to suffer in the real world you should not have raised her to be so independent. You should not have made her work and stopped giving her allowances, you should not have let her fend for herself from a very young age, so there! I ain't ever coming back!
Luke noticed that I became sad and dissapointed, and suddenly his big brother instincts kicked in. He gave me a hug and patted my head telling me that it was okay and that my parents care for me (I doubt that but, hey, I had Luke, Lisa and grandpa, that is enough for me)
Meanwhile, Mr Wilson tried really hard to get rid of the father and daughter duo. They were sticking right next to him and kept buttering him up. They did this so they could use him and make connections through him.
Yes, Mr Wilson says no on people's faces which Jason cannot do but it was hard this time considering they were not allowing him to talk at all. Mr Wilson's reason was that he could not say no to the girl because she looked like me. A whole load of BS, I tell you.
I look like me and he says no to me all the time, I even started bribing him with strawberry ice cream for goodness' sake.
After he got rid of them, he started searching for me. Oh, so now he remembers that I exist *grit my teeth*
Mr Wilson's light bulb finally started glowing, he walked towards the balcony and found me and Luke hugging.
A HUGE frown formed on his face. "Luna, what are you doing? Who is this man? What are you doing with this man?"
I wanted to say, dude chill, it's my big bro, but then I decided to not, why should I explain humph. Is he explaining everything to me? Before I could say anything, Luke stood in front of me in a very protective stance which completely annoyed Mr Wilson.
"I don't think she needs to explain anything to you." Luke said firmly. Aww that's my big bro. But can you not? You're going to leave after a few minutes, but I have to deal with his tantrums and he looks like he is gonna blow up any second.
"Luke, this is my boss, Mr Wilson, Mr Wilson, this is Luke." I explained. I do not want to pull another all nighter listening to him rant about his problems.
"I'm her b-" I elbowed Luke in the chest secretly to make him stop. What is going to do? Tell him he's my brother to intimidate him or something? That's just going to make me add more lies to my sob story which I had a hard time keeping track of.
*scene*
"How is Clarisse, Ms Brown?" He asked.
"Who?"
Mr Wilson frowned and said, "Your cousin, Ms Brown. You said she had a surgery, and you took a leave to visit her."
"Ohhhh, that cousin, yeah, she's dead. *fake cries*"
Mr Wilson was not at all convinced but he did not question it, thankfully.
*Cut*
"He's my friend, we're friends from childhood. This meeting was a coincidence." I explained.
Luke grunted at me as if saying, that is your cover-up story? Pathetic.
Mr Wilson became more angry at my cover-up story. If I did not know any better, I'd say he's jealous. Nah, he's not jealous, is he?
"You can call me Chris, Luna." He smiled. He did a complete 180 in terms of his expressions. One moment ago he looked like he wanted to remove Luke's existence from earth and now he's smiling.
"Nice to meet you, Chris." Luke smirked and extended his hand for a handshake.
Mr Wilson completely ignored Luke as if he was a person who did not take a bath and came to the party. "It's Mr Wilson to you." He narrowed his eyes at Luke.
Luke glared at him after putting his hand into his pocket.
There was a staring competition going on between them, but I was not bothered. I just quietly drank my punch, waiting for them to be done.
"I'll drop off Luna later, we're having dinner together." Luke said. Yay, we had a lot to catch up on.
"Sorry to rain on your parade but Luna and I have plans, she has some work to do so she can't have dinner with you." He said, and then he murmured to the side, "ever,". I had no clue about the 'work' I had to do, just saying.
Both of them looked at me as if asking me to make the choice.
'Your wonderful brother or a shitty boss?' Luke conveyed.
'Your awesome mentor, boss and best friend (I have no idea when we became 'BFFs') or some childhood friend who is nowhere as cool as me.' Chris conveyed.
I gulped, well this is awkward....