"So cute!" cried Jessica as she ran towards one of the stands that displayed various shapes of dolls of various sizes.
How can they look so cute?
Rey could only shake his head slowly seeing Jessica's eyes sparkling seeing the dolls there. It seems, taking Jessica to a bazaar, is not a bad thing.
She likes events like this. She will immediately forget herself as soon as she sees things that are cute and beautiful.
"Rey, you saw that doll, it's cute, right?"
Jessica exclaimed while cradling Rey's arm spoiled.
The man also remembered that when they were still in high school, they used to go to the bazaar often. Jessica would pull him here and there asking to buy this and that.
And for some reason, the memory made a strange feeling running through the recesses of his heart.
Rey felt pain from loss.
Who would have thought he would miss the times with that girl first. The girl's spoiled behavior, Jessica's dependence on him...
Rey must have hurt her so much with Lusi, that Jessica decided to leave him.
Rey smiled faintly, he then pulled a peek a boo doll in the shape of an elephant and showed it to Jessica.
Jessica likes to collect stuffed elephants from her childhood. She even left his doll collection in Rey's room because her room was full.
"Want to?" Rey asked quietly.
"Yeah!" said Jessica quickly. A wide smile appeared on the girl's beautiful face.
Rey reached out his hand and caressed the top of the girl's head in annoyance. He then gave the doll to the cashier.
"Please wrap all the peek a boo in the shape of an elephant," Rey asked the stand guard.
Jessica immediately smiled broadly at Rey while hugging her doll tightly.
"Thanks!"
"You're welcome."
After leaving the doll stand, they went back to looking at the other stands.
As if nothing had happened, Jessica acted like she used to.
The girl pulled him here and there and asked to buy this and that.
Rey's heart warmed. He likes seeing Jessica smile and laugh like that. Something he hardly ever saw.
"Rey, I'm hungry!" whined daughter.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Just look for tteopokki!"
"Will you be full?"
"Later on, the tteopokki will add sausage, eggs, and noodles!"
Unknowingly, Rey pinched the girl's cheek affectionately. The man was too happy, he felt, The old Jessica is back.
"Come on!" Jessica pulled Rey to one of the tents selling tteopokki. They sat at the far end of the table.
The girl couldn't stop smiling hugging her stuffed elephant.
"Try putting the doll on the table first," Rey said quietly.
Jessica nodded, then put the doll on the table.
Rey pressed the small button on the elephant's leg, then...
The elephant's ears move open, then close, and sound...
'peek a boo'
"Funny!" Jessica shouted cheerfully.
Rey chuckled lightly at Jessica's behavior. He kept pressing the button, making the doll keep moving and making sounds.
"Jessica!"
Both Jessica and Rey immediately turned their heads simultaneously towards the voice that had just called Jessica's name.
Vera?
If there is Vera, of course, there is ...
With ease, Vera immediately sat next to Jessica while playing with the doll in front of Jessica. Meanwhile, Lusi sat down next to Rey with a meaningful look.
He must be mad.
"Do you shopping a lot? They're all elephants, dolls, headbands, sandals, pen holder, clothes, uh, cute, there's an elephant bag too. Do you want to build an elephant sanctuary?" said Vera amazed.
"After all, elephants are cute. Every time I see what an elephant looks like, it makes me want to take it home!"
"It's really funny I swear. Eh, you just hang out with Rey?" Vera glanced at Rey briefly.
"If you look for William, he's at home making toys!" said Jessica casually.
"Action figures, you mean?" Said Vera.
"It's the same! It's still a toy, isn't it!"
Lusi was still looking at Rey with deep eyes.
Yes, Rey knew he was wrong.
"Why don't you go with your boyfriend? Aren't you afraid he'll be jealous if he finds out you're out with Rey?!" asked Lusi suddenly.
With a forced smile, Lusi looked straight at Jessica.
"Yeah, why not just go with Alex?" added Vera.
"Alex has a high school reunion!" said Jessica casually.
"Why don't you just come along, usually when you're at a reunion, you're told to bring a partner?!"
"I'm so sorry, I don't know any of his friends anyways!"
Lusi only responded to Jessica's words with a faint smile.
Not long after, Vera and Lusi decided to go first because there were other events they want to attend
After the brief chat, Lusi did not invite Jessica to talk at all. She just smiled bitterly at the girl before leaving.
"Rey, it looks like your girlfriend is angry, isn't she?!" Jessica put her chopsticks on the table and looked at Rey sadly.
"Leave it alone. Then let me talk to her."
"Talk about what?"
"Just finished your tteopokki!"
"Back then, when you were cheating on me, I didn't want to leave you alone like this," Jessica grumbled.
"Rather than grumbling incoherently, it's better to just eat it, the tteokpokki!" Rey said flatly.
***
They arrived at the share house early, after Jessica went to the room, Rey was waiting for Lusi in the living room.
He waited a long time for them to come.
After Vera left them, Rey immediately pulled his girlfriend to the rooftop to talk.
Just in case someone overhears their conversation because it's not good if they fight later, people will listen to them.
"Sorry," he said quietly.
"What for? Ah, is it because you refused to go with me, but instead went with Jessica?" cynical Lusi.
"Yes," Rey said flatly.
"You're annoying, don't you know, Rey?! Do you prefer to walk with her instead of me?!"
"Lusi..."
"So the story is that you chose her over me?!"
"No, Lusi!"
"Then what? I saw you smiling at her before we came to you. Do you like her?"
"Why do you think like that?"
"Rey, listen! I don't like you around Jessica anymore! I don't like you smiling at other girls. I'm jealous!"
"You know, that I'm close to her, right? Even long before we were dating!" Rey explained.
Lusi smiled sarcastically, then shook her head slowly.
"I don't want to know! I'm jealous to see you with her! I'm afraid you'll like her! I'm scared, Rey! I love you! You don't understand!"
Whoops!
They looked at each other and were silent for a long time.
"Listen to me. You can only look at me. Smile at me and like me. Not at other girls!" said Lusi then pushed Rey so that the man sat on the chair.
The girl immediately sat on Rey's lap and stared at the man intently.
"You can only have me in your heart, Rey!" said Lusi with great emphasis.
A second later, the girl immediately crushed Rey's lips, giving him an intoxicating touch that was impossible for Rey to refuse.
Lusi began to slowly unbutton Rey's shirt.
"Not here!" Rey whispered.
"To my room, or yours?" Lusi looked at the man with a meaningful look.
***
"Jess?"
Jessica jumped in surprise when a deep voice called her name so hoarsely.
The glass she was holding almost fell, luckily she was still able to catch it, even though the water in it had all fallen to the floor.
Jessica scowled to find William with disheveled hair, standing behind her.
"William, don't startle, can you?!" Jessica shouted annoyed.
William, who was still half asleep, shook his head slowly.
"Yeah, I'm calling you so you won't be surprised when you see me in the kitchen! If there's no sound, you'll think I'm dying again!" William explained as he pulled Jessica's arm so that the girl would leave in front of the refrigerator.
William took a bottle of coffee drink, then took a sip of its contents roughly.
"Midnight drinking cold coffee! Not good you know!" Jessica commented while putting her glass back on the kitchen table.
"The important thing is that it can keep me awake! Office work beats me that's a lot! Where's the deadline tomorrow!" William grumbled.
"If I can help, I'll help. Too bad I don't know anything like that!" Jessica exclaimed pleasantly.
"You want to help me? Seriously? Come on!"
Excitedly, William grabbed Jessica's wrist and dragged the girl to her room. After arriving at his room, William immediately locked the door.
"Why is it locked?!" Jessica screamed panicked.
"So you don't run away! Come on, come here, here, help me move the data that is here to here!"
Jessica scowled in annoyance. This is called forced labor. Even though she was just messing around.
Reluctantly, Jessica sat in front of William's laptop and did the man's work.
Even though it's only transferring data, if the data is this much, and this detailed, it's certainly very inconvenient.
William instead immediately lay down on the bed, and pulled the blanket.
Outrageous indeed!
"Jess! Marcell is asking you grandiose," said William in a hoarse voice.
"Ask how?"
"He asked, do you have a boyfriend yet, where do you work, how old are you, and so on!"
Jessica took a deep breath, she was still focused on the data in front of her.
"Jess, he has a crush on you! Do you want him or not?" asked William while looking at Jessica's back closely.
"I don't want to! How strange is your question? You know I'm complicated with my love story, don't add it, I'll be a playgirl after a while, isn't it funny!"
William chuckled softly. That girl was right.
"What if you just throw Rey and Alex apart, then you try to accept Marcell. I guarantee you, he's kind, loyal, doesn't like adventuring, and isn't perverted! With him, you're guaranteed to be happy!"
"I don't want it! Rey isn't just an ex, for me! He's more than that! And Alex? He's already my guardian angel! Then you tell me to throw them out of my life? How can that be?!"
"Sometimes, it's better to throw it all away, and start something new!" William's voice sounded very low when he said that.
"William, if you go to sleep, I'll slam your laptop! It's good that I was told to do it, you have a good sleep!" threatened Jessica without knowing that William had indeed fallen asleep behind her.