The moment that Austin made a chaotic scenario at the Cháo Yáng Auditorium, seems forgotten by the chaotic himself. He can't stop grinning and clapping all alone while his friends annoyingly watch him again.
"When Uncle Edison said to her that she's my girlfriend, she suddenly became red like a tomato! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He boastfully says to his friends who are sighing deeply even before from his bratty attitude.
His laugh almost echoes inside his room and his cheeks are turning red, "You called us just to tell your stupid story?" Yangyang suddenly destroyed his blissfulness but then he just shrugged his shoulders and grab some snacks on the table.
"Yeah why? I'm telling you there was nothing to worry about what had happened, Sir Younghyun just gave us a detention letter and Uncle also make sure the media will shut their mouths about me or us even Shiro!" Then he nervously put the bag of snacks on the table and did not look at them.
"Just gave detention letters, WOW," Yangyang exhibited his strong accent as he annoyingly vigor his statement.
"If I am Shiro I will eventually leave the school and fly away than seeing a demon every day!" Yangyang teasingly told Austin.
[BLAG] A sudden motion of being antagonistic lures Austin as he stands up and whacks the table and Mark gets startled that he almost throws the warm tea on his face. Nana and Yangyang exhibited their we are so done expression to Austin that makes him sit down stubbornly on the sofa.
"S-she's okay you know! She even wants to be friends with me! I knew it!" Yangyang rolls his eyes and doesn't want to talk back anymore at him.
"What? Why are you acting like that? She even said she wants to know me for ten years!" A deafening sound abruptly ends Austin's words as his friends look at him with doubt. He rapidly moves his eyes and grasps his hair.
"Then what words she exactly said earlier?" Nana breaks the silence while looking deeply at Austin. Austin was almost startled and cannot help himself to blush which makes his face warm.
"She... she said," He suddenly makes a thinking gesture as his point finger swaying back and forth while holding his chin.
"Whatever! I don't know how to duplicate someone's statement!" He explained himself then drink aggressively his flavored drink water.
"WHAT?!" He exclaimed to them as they looked at him again with their doubtful expression. He exhibited a grinning smile while brushing his hair up and cannot help himself to flutter as he remembers Shiro's facial expressions earlier.
"That Asher is weak! It's so damn easy to get with Shiro!" He boastfully said to them. Nana looking at him once again after browsing something on his phone, Yangyang makes a smirk for he has never believed every single word from Austin since the beginning and Mark is the only guy who seems to support him yet feels a hundred percent doubt on himself.
"I wonder what would she say in the detention letter? Is she going to explain how handsome I am?" Austin chuckles again.
"She probably wants to curse you," Yangyang told him without looking at him and Austin surprisingly show his odd behavior again.
"HAHAHAHAHA! If she did that I will be delighted!" He said it while hitting the table and holding his tummy for laughing since the first hour they gathered together.
"What the hell Austin, you just told yesterday that she's the one who might fall for you and now you are acting like that." Mark astonishes Nana and Yangyang for he recklessly let out those words from his tongue.
Nana and Yangyang glance at each other trying to hold their laughter but cannot help it anyway. Austin who is in shock suddenly turns redder than before and he even rapidly moves his eyes badly this time. The embarrassment he feels because of Mark's words who is rarely to speak up like that to him, he impulsively grabs Mark's collar with his threatening eyes on him.
"Hey! What the hell, are you talking about? Are you saying I like that girl? Her round face and pale face intrigued me! She's like a vampire who is not having blood for a century! Hey! Do you even know what my type is? She's very disobedient and unruly! She's even willing to punch my face to death and even kicked me earlier!" After Austin stated his steadfast explanation, his friends suddenly burst out laughing in front of him. Butler Qian who accidentally passes by to give them another snack also cannot help to chuckle because of Austin's behavior.
Austin gets off his hand to Mark and leans himself back to the couch and stubbornly crosses his arms, "Tss... All of you are ganging me just because of that pale face! I don't like her! I don't know what's wrong with Asher chasing her like that, she's stupid and rigid!" he said.
A moment of silence before Austin oddly smiles again as he tries to insult Shiro in front of his friends. Therefore, an immediate change of mood suddenly shows on Mark's face and nudge Austin aggressively.
"Tsk what?" Austin turned his back from what they are looking and he immediately sees Asher that looks already haggard with her swollen eyes.
"Ash-"
"ASHER!" Mark was getting interrupted by Austin who is happily standing up in front of Asher and boastfully looking at her.
"I talk to that pale girl earlier!" He proudly said to Asher. Yangyang, Nana, and Mark are quite disturbed about what they feel at the moment.
Asher takes a deep sigh and suddenly her tears fall from her eyes. The three gentleman stands up to help Asher and ask her where had she been for a whole day.
[BLAG] a noise came from the object Asher aggressively drops on the ground. Asher raises her right hand and surprisingly gives a head-turning slap to Austin's cheeks. A deafening sound made all of them stop and stare at Asher, for she never ever did that to Austin at least one time.
"How dare you to show yourself like that! You are even proud of what you have done to her!" Asher exclaimed while her tears are contentiously falling from her eyes.
"What should I do now?" She said while hitting Austin's chest forcefully with her two arms and that was the time Mark tries to stop her by holding her shoulders.
"You embarrassed her in front of many people and you even never apologize about her headphones! That was given by his dad!" Asher suddenly feels so weak as her knees are already trembling from weariness, she drops herself on the floor, and Austin looks at her while clenching his fist.
"Her dad just died last year," Asher said with her shaky voice. All of them become in a state of shock as they heard about Shiro's father. Austin also got his knees unstable and sits down again not glancing at them while he did not notice his hands are already shivering as well as his heart.
"I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE HOW TO FACE HER! SHE'S STILL HEALING AND THIS IS ALL I DID TO HER! WHY AM I EVEN FRIENDS WITH YOU AUSTIN!? YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!"
Asher stubbornly cries like a tantrum kid and Mark helps her to get up again and make her sit on the sofa and lend her some water. Nana seems like have no interest in their drama while browsing something again on his phone and eventually left afterward. Yangyang is glaring at Austin for he is trying to talk back recklessly to Asher again.
Yangyang takes a deep sigh and is already stress-out as he grasping his newly colored jet-black hair for his upcoming New York Fashion Week.
"Since all of us are on the scene I think this is all our fault and I will never let this pass." He looks at them again as Nana comes back and sits on the couch nearly to them this time and unexpectedly wants to join the conversation.
"It's Saturday tomorrow, let's give her an apology visit."
Asher, Mark, and Austin get startled as they heard Yangyang.
"Y-yeah! You are right, you are right!" Austin frights them as he stands up assertively.
"I'm going now!" He asserted but Yangyang hurriedly dragged him down.
"I.said.tomorrow. IDIOT!" Yangyang sluggishly said to make Austin understand him.
"How can we able to do that? Do you even know where she lives?" Mark innocently asked them. Asher and Austin widen their eyes as they obviously did not know the answer as well. Yangyang and Nana glance again at each other, and Yangyang exhibited his charming smile and motion his hand to Mark.
"Good question Mark!" He said while patting Mark's head as if he is a dog. "Hey, Nana speak!" Yangyang told and shove Nana's legs.
"Here, I ask dad." Then he showed his phone to them and read a message from Attorney Nathan Lim who is a Dean at the College of Law.
"So that's it, ready yourselves tomorrow at 8 am and bring some food if you prefer as you know, maybe that thing will make her better at least than overwhelming gadgets and stuff," Yangyang teasingly said to them that makes Asher look at him while pouting her lips.
As they all take off themselves from Austin's mansion to get ready, Austin left dumbfounded and slowly walked towards his room thinking about what Asher did to him, and especially what he did to Shiro.
"I have to say it tomorrow, I have to!" He said weakly to himself.
When he prepared himself to sleep he looks at the ceiling of his room and remembers Shiro once again, "What she's thinking right now?" he suddenly let out those words from his mouth.
He keeps on changing his sleep positions yet he cannot feel any sleepiness on his head. He sits down scratching his scalp aggressively, "Seriously! I can't sleep!" then lays down again on his bed while he expresses his thin lips making his cheekbones up.
"I have to talk to her alone, tomorrow..." He whispered to himself as he slowly closes his eyes.
When the morning finally came, Austin mostly slept approximately three to four hours. He was very impatient last night for it feels like the morning was slower than before. He already prepared himself at 6 a.m. and will drive his Tesla Model X, he also carries a bag of snacks and uncooked seafood inside the chiller box. He mends his black straight fluffy hair while looking at the car side mirror and patting gently his Black Saint Laurent sequin embroidered jacket under a red striped knitted t-shirt along with metallic stripped jeans. He rushes his engine and hastily drives getting on the venue they talk about last night on their group chat.
They said that they will only use two cars and Mark will come with Austin while the rest is with Yangyang's Blue Lamborghini Aventador. Austin sighted his friends inside the coffee shop near Nana's Condominium, as he enters the café some other girls cannot help to look at him for he is standing out. He swiftly walks towards them and cannot hide his excitement as he sits on the chair near to Mark.
"Who are we going to wait?" He annoyingly asked them.
"Ash and Nana, they will buy something for Shiro and also, she asked for assistance privately to her dad's mall for she thinks she broke the headphones last time the night she slaps your face," Yangyang said it after he turns his Ray-Ban upwards and drinks his iced macchiato coffee.
Mark suddenly exhibits his awkward smile as he did not want to make Austin remember what happened last night. Austin just gives his annoyed glare to Yangyang while clenching his fist on the tables and looking on the outside trying to be patient at least for a minute for everything that happened last time was almost his fault. They finally see Nana and Asher going down on a black BMW X5 SUV with the assistance of Asher's bodyguard.
"Hello, guys! Shall we go?" Asher said with her exciting eyes whereas she is bouncing her feet a little from the excitement and nervousness she felt since the last night.
"Wait, sit down," Yangyang said in an authoritative voice, "Let me say something for I don't want any chaotic and idiotic-like scene again," He said with his sarcastic voice while exhibiting his smile looking at Austin and Asher.
"Well, you all know what I mean like you two reckless extroverts," he said and he suddenly stands up while Austin looked up at him fiercely.
"Let's go, guys!" Mark suddenly makes the atmosphere light as he pretended to show his excitement.
"You are being too much Xiao Yang!" Austin speaks up as his jaw clenches so badly and kicks off the table and aggressively drags Mark from them. Nana and Yangyang glance again at each other and shrug their shoulder simultaneously.
"Seriously Xiao Yang," Asher stubbornly said and walk-out too.
They finally ride inside the car and start their engine, Yangyang and Austin are talking on the phone through their Airpods as they swiftly go in the direction where Nana's guiding them to.
"My dad's secretary has been here last night for a check, he said that it's a good village to visit unlike the other middle-class family, Shiro's home seems planned and her family looks quite provided," Nana told Yangyang with his lazy voice.
"Are you sure? That silver gate?" Austin asked Yangyang while peeking on supposedly Shiro's home. Yangyang looks at Nana for assurance and he hurriedly glances at the silver gate after he brows the map on his phone.
"Yes that's it," and Yangyang halts the car immediately.
As they set off their feet on the car they see a typical home surrounding with brown and white shades and a medium length but taller than them size silver gate in front of a vacant lot with busy neighborhoods that watering their plants for its still morning. Most of Shiro's neighbors cannot help to curiously glance at them for they obviously do not belong in the town. The fancy cars they bring and also themselves are sumptuous through their eyes.
"Hey, the doorbell!" Mark said while pointing at the doorbell's home. Austin instantly shifts in front of the gate and starts to ring the doorbell three times. A hasty deafening sound lured them as they heard someone open the door or more likely spring screen door from the inside. Asher and Mark's hearts rapidly won against their chests as they gulped hardly because of nervousness.
"Lolo Pabling you are early today!" A sound from a delighted girl suddenly breaks the silence and the gate slowly opening and they view a girl charmingly smiling with her blue terno pajamas with penguin prints on them along with fluffy bunny slippers.
"Shiro!" Asher exclaimed as all of them were struck by Shiro's unexpected appearance. Shiro immediately changes her expression as she expects Lolo Pabling a soy milk old vendor Shiro closes to will be in front of her but she was wrong.
She wanders her eyes hastily and notices Austin dumbfounded looking at her that makes Shiro get some creeps and instantly closes the gate.
"Wait, am I dreaming? Is that them? Really?" she mumbled to herself and slowly opened the gate and peek at them a little.
"You have been in the wrong house," she tells them quickly and shuts down the gate aggressively even she glimpsed that Austin occurring his stubborn face again.