Previously,
Her cellphone, placed on the side table, was flashing a familiar caller ID named *Little Lin*.
Meanwhile at Stars Residence---
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"C'mon girl, what's taking you so long, pick up your phone!!!!"
Song Lin was getting impatient. The amount of time passed since Xiao Jane left from the restaurant, was making her anxious from head to toes.
She knew something was actually off when her call didn't get picked even after fifth attempt, and there was no response from trouble party.
Her fear seems visible in her pretty almond eyes as she heard a sudden knock on the bedroom door. Her heart skipped a beat, as if the door got opened, she will disappear from the globe itself.
With terrorised face, her senses spotted the open window.
"Are you girls back? Is there someone inside? I'm coming in!"
The gentle yet troubled voice of Mother Cheng echoed through her whole body. She knew she have to escape and there's no other thing she could think except for the window escape.
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Meanwhile, at the Penthouse---
"I..I..h-have t-to take th-this!" fighting her wild urges to eat Mo Fengshi right now right there, she controlled her hands and sat up from the couch. She moved at a distance, a little far from the ears of Mo Fengshi.
She felt pity for herself but she was sure that Mo Fengshi was going through the same. A sudden guilt surrounded her when she saw the caller ID again.
It was a feeling similar to the idiom that says, even after knowing that the flame could hurt her, she purposefully let herself to get burnt in the lava of her desires. Her hands, shaking furiously, clicked at the green pickup button.
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'I have to bear this one!' as she realised the door was about to open up, her legs guided her through the parted window and her fear made her jump out of it.
She herself wasn't sure if this was a trustworthy idea or a troublesome panicked decision taken by her but she knew it's better than staying inside and answering Mother Cheng regarding her precious daughter's absence.
She found herself hanging down onto the mid passing brick layer below the bedroom window, and her hands held them tightly for the support.
Rain getting struck upon her shiny pinkish face, causing her hair become wetty and messy at the same time.
She felt her cellphone on her back-pocket, cleverly placing it in there to reduce any chances of harm to her life, the phone.
Her heart was at ease now that her phone was safely placed.
She carefully looked down, her eyes getting terrified by looking at the height she was about to fall from.
"Girls..? Aren't they back yet? It's 1 in the noon and it's raining really heavy! Hope they will be good!" she scanned the room with her eyes in every possible direction, but the no one was there. The room was empty, so as Song Lin's mind.
'Isn't it garden? Am I really supposed to bath in grass spikes and mud? Only if not for Jane Jane's sake...I wouldn't have been this worried! ...I had to follow their car, but it got too late.....and that idiot Zhang Wei guy too. Lord!'
The decision to take Xiao Jane back from wherever she's lost, was taken.
'I can't go inside, since I'm already wet.....here goes nothing!'
She slowly released her grip from the supporting wall lining and made a slight jump. To her own surprise, she landed on her two walking limbs perfectly. Although her back was not feeling the same relief.
"So all the gymnastic practices during sophomore year actually paid me back! Yuck! My back got sprained.
Is today a friendship testing contest or what ? Has the universe organised this only for me?" she mumbled in the heavy rain, her breath getting faster and shorter.
She sneaked out of the house like an experienced thief and ran towards the car parked a few hundred metres away from the villa.
She pulled out the door, removed her wet tank top and placed it on the other seat. Then herself sitting comfortably at another, she took some heavy breaths in calming manner.
Her eyes were closed, face was shining and flushed due to heavy downpour. She picked her phone out and dialled the familiar contact she's been trying to reach all along.
After three rings, she heard the voice she was waiting to hear for ages in this troublesome situation.
"Lin Lin...." Xiao Jane's voice, humble and full of guilt ranged inside the car.
She lost her patience and yelled her throat out,
"Where the hell are you....you know what I'm going through for this....you...you are okay right?" her voice was shaking with anger and care at the same time.
"Lin I....I messed up. I'm sorry.... I don't think I can take my legs back now..." guilty conscience was drowning her inch by inch.
Hearing her guilty confession, Song Lin exclaimed,
"What do you mean.... what exactly happened??" Somewhere in her mind she knew she was right! Something was really off.
Xiao Jane mustured up the courage and spoke out everything she had done after leaving the cafe and to her own dismay, this sounded terrible than ever.
Listening to her words Song Lin's mind short circuited. She realised that everything she had thought till now was way better than the thing happened between them.
"You....you f*cked his lips?.....you were the one who attacked that Big Muscleman?!!!! You're kidding me right!! This is like one of your silly stories right? Say something girl, Don't kill me with your silence!!"
Although she was saying these words, but her mind already knows that Xiao Jane was not kidding nor making fun of herself. The hint of the truth in her voice can't be more obvious.
"No....as you have figured out....it's true!" Xiao Jane, helplessly answered, feeling the pain of the wound she brought upon herself by hitting her own leg on the lying axe.
"Girlll...I don't know if I should be crazily happy for you that you finally got the courage to kiss someone....or.....if I should die before you, so that, I don't have to witness your guilty face....! I... I'm going crazy!" Song Lin knew that there's no stepping back now, but is it really that bad? It's just a kiss!
Her mind was asking questions in form of riddles. What if he actually had fallen for her.....It is possible but it's not certain!
"Where are you?...I.... I'm coming to take you back!"
Song Lin felt like her energy bar had already dropped to half quite fast (40 spent on Zhang Wei and 10 on jumping from window out of total 100).
Xiao Jane gave her every possible direction she observed while riding the car from the cafe to the penthouse. She thought if she could dig a hole and bury herself inside it, to avoid particular gazes, away from everyone, away from Mo Fengshi.
She turned back, only to face his flushed yet perfect jawline, trying to hide the raw emotions of his face.
'I'm reacting like an idiot because it's my first kiss! But why is he getting mad on his regular feast! It's nothing new for him, no wonder he's too good at this! He's definitely overreacting!'
Although her thoughts were numb about his condition, but her emotions were feeling bad for him.
She felt a huge bolt of contradiction.
'I don't know what to do now.....what would I do with you Mr. Mo? Why am I feeling pity for you! If this goes on.....with my complicated past and our three years of future contractual marriage.....I am confused.'
She came back at the couch. Mo Fengshi stood up and brought back the coffee cups to the kitchen. He didn't ask anything after the call ended.
Confused, thinking why he didn't say anything, Xiao Jane looked at him. But looking at her wrist watch, she decides it's best to leave. Climbing upstairs, she got inside the bedroom to get her purse and dress which was still half wet.
She came down, her emotions getting messy and mixed.
On one hand, she was ready to leave the house, to experience a sigh of relief, and on the other hand, she felt like she can't breath alone now.
She felt the need of those lips to pump breath inside her. She felt tears running down her cheeks. What situation she got herself into.
'Can I afford this feeling....? Why it feels so bad, the thought of leaving him alone! It's not like we're married yet.....'
Passing the last step of the staircase, her eyes again met those beautiful amethyst pair, gleeming in pain and despair at the same time.
She's leaving. But she hasn't told him yet. Looking at his expression, she can tell that he already knows that.
"I...I am sorry for... my...b-behavior!" she couldn't help but her voice choked in the middle. Every word she tried to say was heavy and full of guilt.
She felt bad for someone, knowing that he's hiding something, but atleast the thing that's obvious to her eyes was those saddening eyes.
"You're going...., right!" his words..., heavy, painful and rough.
"Yeah,...I have to!" her words, like a soft whisper, audible only to Mo Fengshi.
"So out first date ends like this...."
Mo Fengshi stepped closer to her, making her heart pounding like hell, again. Xiao Jane was afraid if he tries to stop him, she might change her mind. But staying here anymore would be a bad idea. Bad for her heart and her body.
"Mr Mo...."
"Save this in your contact."
He passed her a note, written with a number on it.
"Give me a call....when...when you're ready for our next date, or even marriage!" he tried to make his words harsher but it seemed painful than ever.
Holding onto the note, she hurriedly moved her feet towards exit door.
" Your lips must be sore..... put some ice packs on it. You'll feel better. We'll meet soon, my girlfriend!"
Looking back at that smirking face, Xiao Jane felt embarrassed, touching her lips, she felt giddy and guilty.
"Girlfriend....?"
"Yes! Miss Xiao of Xiao Empire, only my girlfriend is allowed to kiss me this way. Now you have to take responsibility for your newly made boyfriend, dear girlfriend!"
'Boyfriend? He's my boyfriend now?' and that's how, Xiao Jane got herself a new boyfriend after all these years.