Queen's POV
After a while of listening to Yuuma, I had a nature calling me to pee. I excused myself and told them that I needed to go to the restroom.
"I'll have to visit the restroom..." I told them and went out of the room.
Candace and Lorraine stayed with Yuuma and Jada. Inei on the other hand, followed beside me.
"You can stay here. The restroom is just on that corner." I told him thinking he was being a gentleman for accompanying me.
"I will use the restroom also..." I heard him replied.
It turns out that he also needs to go to the restroom! I make a face as we both entered on different lobby separating the men and women's restroom.
After several minutes, I saw him waiting for me in the lobby. We were walking silently towards the exhibit when I hear the text notification sound on my phone.
"Ping!" I jumped out of surprise!
"You're the only person I know that would have that kind of reaction over a notification." I heard Inei commented.
I glared at him before unlocking my phone. My face turned sullen as I checked the message. It was from the same unknown number! I didn't even notice that I already stopped walking and was frozen on my spot!
"You look hot on your dress."
I gulped and looked around. I saw Inei looking at me with confusion evident in his face. Suddenly, he snatched my phone and looked at the screen.
"You don't accept compliments well?" I heard him asked me after reading the message. He then give me back my phone. If only this is just a simple compliment!
"You don't just snatch a phone from someone." I scolded him but somehow I am not really angry at his action. I am more anxious about the text I received.
"Haha well?" He laughed.
"It's none of your business." I snapped at him and continued walking.
"Well, for the record you looked like the mother in your dress." he plainly stated and I automatically halted my steps as soon as the word mother registered on my brain. The nerve!!!
No teenage girl would ever want to be told that they looked like a mother on their outfit. It's utterly insulting! I sharply glared at him but did not speak a word.
The smile on his face widened. Hi is taking enjoyment at my annoyance!
"I meant you look like THE mother of my future children. The dress is great." He charmingly said with a wink and then slowly walked away.
What did he just say???
I stood there, processing the thing he just said. My eyes widened and I could feel the instant burning of my cheeks.
"That is so lame!" I told him when I finally recovered and caught up his pacing. The mother of my future children! The words flashed back to my mind.
"Haha... is it? I saw it on some social media. But look at you, your face is like a tomato." he cheerfully answered.
If a girl's glare is capable of killing, this man has long been dead! I would have been charged of murder! Right at this luxurious place with high end security and surveillance system!
"You have no originality!" I argued and he just laughed it out until we were back to the exhibit room.
"Speaking of social media, let's follow each other!" Inei said while still laughing. He then grabs a black phone in his pocket and gestured me to give him my account.
"Is this how men pick up girls these days?" I asked, straightly looking at him in the eye.
"Well?" he shrugged and handed me his phone.
"I don't have a social media account..." I told him and pushed back the gadget to him.
"Wow. Is that how girls reject men these days?" He retorted while placing his phone back in the pocket of his pants.
"No! I really don't have one. It's deactivated." I quickly explained and looked around to see where Candace and Lorraine are.
"Right. Well, this is my calling card..." he said and retrieved some shiny paper on his wallet and handed it to me.
"Wow! You sound like a businessman!" I said while checking his card. There are few details written on it.
I. H.
00000011867944
"That's because I am." I heard him chuckled as we rejoined our group.
"What happened to your face, Queen?" Candace asked while giving me a serious look.
I subconsciously glance at the screen of my phone before I muttered a response. "Nothing, I'm fine."
"You look like you were hit by an allergy!" Lorraine said while putting her phone near in my face. As I looked at my flustered reflection I realized how hard I was blushing!
"I don't know." I gulped then feigned ignorance and looked around trying to compose myself.
"Which among these cars is the most priceless, Yuuma?" Lorraine looked at the guy as she asked him.
"Well, that one in the center. It's modified to its finest! The car has the fastest speed, can drive along the road on its own, and has an audio and visual signal." Yuuma answered with enthusiasm.
The car seems similar to what Kate's phantom can do. Except, I don't know what audio and visual signal are when it comes to cars.
"Is that the voice command?" I stared at the car and asked.
"More than a voice command. It has facial recognition that can be enabled and utilized to unlock the car. It also follows hand gestures." I heard Inei responded then the phone in his pocket rings. He went on a few distances from us and answered the phone call.
"That's so cool! Do you think Kate will have an audio and visual sensor for phantom?" Lorraine asked staring at the car.
"I don't think so. Kate will think it as an impractical and inconvenient." Candace replied with a smile.
"True." I agreed and laugh.
Suddenly, a girl shouted in the distance.
"How dare you called this masterpiece as impractical and inconvenient! Only, the kinds of you who had the nerve to attend an event just so you can have a meal and satisfy your stomach will say that! You should be embarrassed by your ignorance!" as the girl lashes out, I immediately recognized her as the one who was in the garden earlier.
The flaming red dress that she wears makes her easy to be recognized.
"Whoa... Whoa... Whoa... How did we incur your bitterness, girl?" Lorraine asked as she slightly raised her eyebrows towards the girl.
"We could charge you of oral defamation..." Candace stated but the girl seemed unaffected.
"Oral defamation! I dare you! Isn't it true that you just came here for food?" the girl's loud voice finally caught the attention of other guests.
Some people had started to gather and surrounded us in a circle.
"What's wrong?" I heard Inei's voice as he asked the girl.
"These three girls near you just called the high light of this event as impractical and inconvenient!" the girl announced with much force.
I could sense that she wanted the onlookers to hate us by her announcement.
"Girl, don't put your words on our mouth! I said that the audio and visual sensor is cool. But when it comes to our friend, she would think of it as impractical. Why do you like to make saw-saw?" Lorraine defended loudly.
(Note: Saw-saw in this context is a term used when somebody suddenly joins or dive in a conversation that he/she is not included. It's a term used to insult someone interrupting a heated argument when both sides do not like the unsolicited opinion. You can also imagine a stranger dipping his fried chicken on your sauce.)
"Saw-saw? I am not interrupting nor butting in with you, a bunch of peasants! I am just stating the fact! Who do you think that friend of yours is?" the girl looked at us from head to toe.
"Well, that friend is Kate." Lorraine cooly replied.
"Bah! Look how shameless you all are! Now you are using the name of the model of this car as your friend!" the girl roared in anger.
"The car model is called Kate?" I asked Inei who is now standing beside me.
"Yeah. That car is called Kate. It's engraved at the front side." the man confirmed.
"Well, you just calm down! You look like a dog barking." Candace said as their exchange of conversation continues.
"Did you just call me a dog? Ha! Let me show you what will happen to the people who had dared to call me a dog. Guards!" the girl suddenly called and three personal bodyguards stepped towards us.
"Well, we have three men with us. It's a fair fight!" Candace commented and I heard Yuuma shrieked in horror.
"What the heck!" the guy said in disbelief. Beside him, Jada is shaking as he tried to control his fit of laughter.
As the three personal bodyguards closed their distance to us, they suddenly stopped and the looks on their faces were rather complicated.
The three looked at each other with reluctance evident in their faces.
"What are you waiting for?" the girl's impatient voice sounded followed by a deep baritone.
"What are you doing?" the man who just came was the companion of the girl in the garden earlier.