Liliah and YaoYao was puzzled by Andrew and Steven interaction but both did not have the opportunity to question further. Felix saw the awkward scenario too but didn't question further when he saw the various roll of plans brought in. They went straight to work dissecting the old and existing infrastructure; what is still working, what is not. YaoYao was able to pinpoint those in the east and south but they need to do a through survey on the north and west. Some area in the north might be difficult to access as building has collapsed on top of each other. Felix said in this case, they have to be present during the clearance of the rumbles to ensure they didn't dug into an active gas pipe.
Towards the end of the day, Felix can no longer hold his curiosity,"So what happened this morning?"
YaoYao retold the incident and let Felix know about Liliah being an ex-classmates during her time in the faculty of architecture at University G. A bit of insight on her family situation on the reason why she drop out not because of her result but more to avoid debt and taking care of her grandparents.
"Luckily your boyfriend arrived the way he did. So romantic, I hope my boyfriend has such charisma too,"Felix said dreamily.
At this point, the sip of water that just went down my throat backflowed. When I stop choking, I studied Felix from head to toe. Right, he is a typical gay guy. Kind, considerate, good looking, Steven is that too but different good looking.
"Don't look at me like that, everyone knows. It's no secret that I like men,"he winked at me.
"No, No, I was just thinking at one point I thought my boyfriend was just using me as a cover for the fact that he is gay too,"I explained.
"You said your boyfriend admonished Andrew and Andrew didn't retaliate? He even exposed Liliah not being a real architect of the firm? This is unlike Andrew, he has long lost his architect integrity and turned into a shrewd businessman which explained why a person such as Liliah hovering in our office. At that point, you are safest with me since she is scared of me after I humiliate her in front of our client when she failed to perform as my assistant six months into the long term contract. Total waste of time to train her," Felix vocalised.
I just nod my head.
"What's his name again, your boyfriend?"Felix enquire.
"Steven,"I answered.
"Steven Tan?"Felix asked again.
"Steven Tan is your boyfriend!!!"Felix high pitched shout shocked me.
"Actually, I am not so sure about his family name. It never come into discussions and everyone else just called him Steven,"I shrugged.
"If he is who I think he is, you step on a landmine. Good luck!" that is all he said. Nothing further came out from his mouth no matter how much I pleaded and asked.
This whole "Who is your boyfriend?" question bothers me the entire day. Thank god there were so much to do for the project that I didn't have time to think about it. Felix has called in lunch delivery for the past two days and warned us it's going to last for at least a week or two just to get the ground work right.
By night fall, I made my way back to the apartment after having dinner with my grandparents. The building is on the opposite side of the hotel we used to station ourself therefore not very far from the shopping junction once we passed through the old quarter. I have this weird feeling of being followed so I tried to speed up and look around as much as I could but nothing. Fortunately this part of the old quarter and shopping junction is always crowded at night.
I realised it was a serviced apartment because there is a concierge at the lobby. The company must be doing very well for Steven to put the whole team here for long term. I only know I was holding my breath when I saw the security in uniform standing outside the apartment entrance. I used the key to go through the second door behind the concierge and the tag for the elevator. It was considerate for Steven to drop them this morning, otherwise I might need to sleep on the floor at my grandparent place.
My phone rang as I went through the door,"YaoYao, everything ok at the new place?"
It was Steven.
"Wow, this look amazing!" I was talking about the full glass window overlooking the old quarter.
"I can see my grandparent place from here,"I was feeling giddy of the possibility of spying on them with a binocular and call to spook them hahaha.....
"Once you are comfortable, we should invite them to stay with us for a while. The whole area is going to be rebuilt soon and it won't be suitable for any haitants for the next three years. Your grandparents are mine too so check and let me know if there are anything in particular they needed in that place. I have spoken to them earlier that we will try to maintain the old quarter as much as we could to ease their mind. I need to stay overnight at S City so don't wait up for me,"Steven ends the call there.
I have to think how to remove my grandparents from our old home which is a difficult feat by itself.