𝘈𝘳𝘰𝘯
Yuqi was driving the car at a very fast pace, yet, she seemed so calm. This girl...who was she in actual?
At school, she stayed mostly silent. When me and the boys used to humiliate her, she always remained as that same calm and quiet girl. She never objected about anything. I was already ashamed to myself that I mentally bullied her and humiliated her. Well, something else could happen today, and Tom and Garry would be the reason of that. Thankfully it didn't happen.
The car stopped in front of a huge gate and it immediately opened revealing a rich town-like place. My eyes sparkled at the designs of all of the expensive looking buildings. I admired them through the car window, everything seemed so dreamy.
Yuqi finally stopped the car in front of another huge gate. As soon as she stopped her car, I could see someone running towards her and opening the car door for her. It was a very good looking man, damn, how could a guy look this good? I came back to the reality when I felt someone waving their hand in front of me through the already opened window. I looked at the person it was none other than Yuqi which freaked me out. She looked cold as hell. Her expressionless face had become more expressionless. That didn't make sense, but it was what it was.
Getting a bit flustered, I quickly opened the car door for myself and got out of their while being a little embarrassed.
(What happened to that intimidating Aron whi never gets embarrassed or flustered? Why was I acting like this?)
The door-opener guy couldn't control his laugh while looking at me. I gave him a glare, though, nothing worked, he laughed more. At one point he spoke through his laughter, "You are looking like a already boiled chicken." Too much embarrassment, I was getting tested for sure.
"You two done?" A deep, cold voice lingered through my ear. Both me and door-opener guy looked at the person just to find out it was Yuqi. How could a girl have such a deep voice? It sounded like Scar, but in a more beautiful way. I wondered if that was her real voice.
The girl didn't utter any other word and started walking towards the opened gate which revealed a huge mansion. It didn't cost much, maybe some billion dollars. I felt poor, man!
Although the mansion looked like a typical billionaire's mansion from the outside, but it felt very homie and cozy when we went inside. I was mesmerized by all of this.
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The door-opener guy whose name was still not known, signed me to sit on the couch and I did what he said. Then he sat beside me, me and him, face to face. About Yuqi, she was nowhere to be seen.
Coming back to the topic, the guy was looking at me very seriously while crossing his arms. But he didn't look intimidating at all, infact he looked cute and a bit funny.
One minute already passed and neither of us vocalized a word. At the end, I was the one who decided to speak.
"Um..Hey!" I tried to greet while waving my hand as an awkward 'hi'.
"Finally you spoke!" the man exclaimed, heaving a deep sigh of relief.
Hm, this man was a little shy. But I assumed that once the other person breaks the ice, then he can't stop talking. I had the surety if being wrong.
"So you are Aron, aren't you?" he asked as I nodded. How did he know my name? Maybe Yuqi told him. "What's your name sir?" I uttered.
"Call me Mr. Chen from now on."
"Mm."
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Mr. Chen seemed to be a genuinely nice person so far. The thirty minutes we spoke were awkward yet good. But I still didn't have any idea about what Yuqi was upto. The only thing me and Mr. Chem talked about was the theories about 'Death Note' though. I didn't dare to start any topic related to Yuqi.
'Death Note' was actually really good anime. It was an anime suggested by Alex which was definitely worthy. That time I was so immature and used to cry because I was high-key pissed on my alcoholic uncle. Yet I couldn't do sh!t about it.
Anyways, the best thing about watching 'Death Note' was I got a lot of art references. Since that day, I got the idea that I had some talent in drawing.
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"Mr. Chen, I have to go to work, " I tried to sound tensed, but I actually didn't have any hurry. I had a day off today. The truth was that I wanted to leave this rich place as soon as possible. I just wanted to go home and draw something on my canvas. My anxiety could attack anytime.
I already assumed that Mr. Chen already knew that I wanted to go home.
He smiled at me as he patted on my shoulder, "Come with me."
I bobbed my head and followed him. Mr. Chen halted in front of a wooden door, he tapped on a tab which was glued on the wall as the door opened, it felt like this scene was lowkey came from sci-fi movie. One thing that surprised me was how could a normal looking wooden door be actually so advanced? I guess I was slow in these tech things. I was maybe a poor man in my past life who didn't have enough money to buy new products from the world of technology. Well I was still not rich though.
Coming back to the topic, the door opened by itself and a wood made room was in front of my eyes. My eyes sparkled as I entered the room. There was a huge window, I could see the garden through there. A large shelf was placed at my right side, lots of books were placed there. On my left, a few paintings were placed on the wall; All of them were based on natural beauty, I guessed.
All of the paintings were filled with earthy tones, it gave me a calm feeling. My drawing style was different than these paintings. I always drew loud cities— filled with buildings, vehicles and people.
But there was one similarity between these paintings and mine. In both of the paintings the sky was drawn beautifully. It felt like the sky spoke the unsaid words of people–sorrow, happiness, love, everything!
"Mr. Chen, who painted these?" I asked the man in curiosity. He looked at me and began to walk towards me as he stood just beside me.
His eyes dazzled up as he looked upon the paintings. It appeared to me as if his eyes were speaking on behalf of him which I couldn't understand.
"These are painted by miss Yuqi," he smiled, not at me, at the paintings. But I could sense a bit of pain in his words. What's with that pain thing?
(My head was filled with questions.)