Emy's gaze shifted from Saff's reflection to Manager Tim as she turned her head to look directly at his face upon hearing his invitation. Fortunately, the elevator rings and the door opened as they have reached the ground floor.
'Saved by the bell' Emy thought in her mind, luckily it's just the four of them inside.
As the two managers stepped out of the elevator, Manager Tim waited for Saff to step out as well while standing few steps away from the elevator door, alongside with him is Manager Emy who is obviously in a hurry to walk out from there as she looks at the main door of the building.
They both Heard Saff as he spoke while stepping out of the elevator "Thank you for your politeness Manager Tim but I have decided to take a late lunch, I'll go ahead" and Saff slightly nods at Manager Tim who slightly smiles at him before he walks on the opposite direction, away from the two managers.
Looking at Saff's back who is slowly walking away from their spot, Emy felt a bit guilty and it made her sad knowing that she intentionally rejected his invitation in this kind of immature way. 'I'm sorry Saff' she apologized in her mind, Feeling a sliver of pain in her chest right now.
"Shall we?" Manager Tim said shifting his gaze from Saff's back to Emy's hazel eyes as he knew that Emy's sight is directed at the young man.
Somehow, Manager Tim got the hint on what's with the awkward situation that had happened between Saff and Emy a while ago, but he decided not to ask about the whole details behind that, and just keep his silence. Besides, it's his chance to have time with Emy right now with just the two of them, and talking about another man with her will not give him any advantage at all, instead he plans to take this as a good opportunity to know Emy more.
Unknowingly, it is a complete opposite with Emy as her mind is still full of Saff's face with his serious gaze towards her a while ago at the elevator, but she doesn't want to let it show in front of Manager Tim who seems to enjoy having conversation with her while she only pretends to be listening, when in truth is that she wanted to run after Saff right now and apologize to him.
'Wait! What? Apologize to him?' Emy questioned herself, realizing that her mind, heart and conscience seems to disagree with each other. However, even though avoiding Saff seems to be the best option she has right now, at the back of her mind, Emy knew that she should have talked to him directly about what she thought with his confession, instead of running away from it.
At the middle of their lunch, Emy deeply sigh still feeling the sliver of guilt, and sadness that seems to be slowly engulfing her whole body and mind as anxiousness starts to attack on her, she couldn't even get a peaceful meal with him on her mind.
However, Emy still can't figure it out, why is she feeling this way?! Is it because she just felt guilty with her scheming plan to avoid Saff? Is it because of her being rude as she rejected him that way? Or is it because she felt that the man had grown importance to her already? Or perhaps, she is just a great pretender who keeps on claiming that she can't figure it out while trying to block the young man away from her heart.
After their lunch out, Emy and Manager Tim went back at the company and they separated as soon as Manager Tim needs to go back at the conference room with the other production staff to continue the meeting earlier that was only cut due to lunch time.
Emy being left alone with no more schedule of meeting for the rest of the afternoon, decided to visit the music room to check on Saff's music writing as she hadn't checked on him earlier this day since she was also at the conference room. Besides, she took advantage of it as she intends to avoid Saff at the first place.
Entering the music room, Emy didn't see any figure of Saff there, so she just walk towards the piano knowing that Saff uses this instrument in his music writing. Emy saw the music sheets spreads at the little table beside the piano bench, 'This must be where Saff is writing' she thought to herself.
Emy took the music sheets and carefully read the lyrics written on it with music notes, her eyebrows slightly furrowed realizing the written lyrics on it seems to be like…a love confession.
'I want to hold your hands
Take you for a dance
I want to be the one you talk
About the things that make you cry
You're the one I want
I don't want to share
Did I scare you?
Forgive me if I don't like seeing you
In another man's arms
You know I like you
Not a secret I try to hide
You know you like me
But you keep giving me excuses
I hope in time you'll see that there is more in me
Than just my words
Because I had a beautiful dream
It was you
But I hope you're not just a dream
So who can stop me if I
Decided that you're my destiny
Let's rewrite the stars my love'
It's the lyrics of the song that Saff is working on his solo single, and as Emy reads it, her furrowed eyebrows is now gone as it rose and her eyes widen in realization that some of the words that were used are very familiar to her as Saff once said those words when he seemed to have confessed to her before.
Seeing the title of the song that is written on the upper part of the music sheet as 'Love Confession', Emy's heart starts to beat fast as she hadn't expected it from Saff and she is not ready for this, at least not right now when she is currently in the situation wherein avoiding him would be the best thing to do.
'So...is it really a love confession?' Emy asked in her mind as she doesn't want to assume anything from him but remembering the time when Saff said some of the words that are now included in the lyrics of his song, adding up to that is the title of it, she can't help but to feel fluttered about it.
'No! Get a hold of yourself Emy! Would you? This is not about me and definitely not about the two of us. wait! There should be no such thing as us in it, stop thinking about it!' Emy is having an inner battle as she mentally scolding herself against what she is really feeling about it.
Emy is not naïve, of course she knows what Saff means when he said those words to her, but until now there is this certain amount of doubt in her heart as to why? Of all the people, why her?
A widow and single mom like her, who is years older than him? She just can't believe as it is also happening too fast for her, and perhaps for the both of them. This is why Emy wanted to avoid it at the first place but Saff seems to be very consistent with his feelings with the way he is proclaiming it.
Though Saff haven't said the words 'I like you or I love you' directly at her, Emy understood what Saff meant when he once said that 'he doesn't want the thought of seeing her in another man's arms' and yet here she is at the elevator with Manager Tim's hand clearly making a move by holding her waist in front of Saff, when Saff already warned her about what other intention might the Manager has for her.
Emy shut her eyes for seconds with this in her mind, feeling a bit disappointed towards her immature actions right there. What was she thinking back there?! She could have just talk to Saff directly instead of running away with such lame excuse.
'You're not a high school student anymore, Emy! I could have saved myself from having this inner conflict' she thought mentally scolding herself once again.
Couple of hours had passed by, but no figure of Saff appeared at the music room, not even his shadow. Standing from the piano bench she was sitting a while ago as she waited for Saff to be back, Emy dialed his number and called him but his phone just keeps on ringing until it hangs up, no answer from Saff.
Emy feeling a bit worried as to where he could have been without her knowledge, she stand and starts to walk heading at the door. Stepping out of the music room, Emy came to a halt after seeing Saff at the other end of the corridor walking towards to where she is standing right now.
When Saff is already just two steps away from her, Emy realized that he is not even looking at her as he just look straight ahead of him as if she wasn't even visible there. When their shoulders met, Emy turned her head at the side where Saff's direction is but he just walked passed her and entered the music room as if they didn't know each other at all.