Grandpa Chen was about to go into the room that Davis was in. Davis didn't know what to do; he was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. He thought as his heart raced uncontrollably...
With Davis short on options, he jumped through the window without thinking. When he landed on the floor he dislocated his right ankle.
Grandpa Chen looked into the room but didn't see anyone there. He just assumed that it must have been the wind that knocked down the vase earlier. It was okay for him to have imagined someone else in there; he was old after all. He thought.
After Ming had dropped Davis off; she decided to wait for him to return since he wasn't with his car. Her eyes got wide open when she saw him jump from a one storey window. She knew that she had a thousand questions to ask him; but her first instinct was to go and help him.
Davis was glad to see that Ming was waiting for him. He was limping towards her car then she got out of the back seat to help him. She put her hand around him and he held her for support. As they went into the car.
"Are you crazy or something, anyone would have to be insane or stupid to try a jump like that. So which one are you? Insane or stupid. '' Ming said, visibly concerned, but her sarcastic tone overshadowed it.
"I'm not insane..."
"Oh, I guess that means you're stupid then. That actually explains a lot, cuz who else but a stupid person would jump through a story window ``.Ming said, she definitely wanted to nag.
"I couldn't let Grandpa Chen see me," Davis said defensively.
"I thought that was the point of why you were going in there. To talk with him"
"It was at first, but not until I overheard him on the phone. And I couldn't let him know that I had heard his conversation so I had to leave without him seeing me." Davis explained.
"What did you hear?" Ming asked if she had finally picked interest and wanted to fully understand what Davis had heard that would make him jump out of a window.
Davis couldn't tell her; not that he wanted to, but even if he wanted to he couldn't cuz he didn't really hear anything tangible. All he heard was just enough for him to know that his grandfather was hiding something.
"I can't really say, part of it was in Chinese," Davis said.
I didn't know that Grandpa Chen could speak Chinese" Ming said surprise,
"Yeah me neither" Davis said...
Ming took a glance at his foot. "I saw you limping after you landed from your jump. Is your leg hurt" .
"I don't know, but it doesn't hurt," Davis said .
"Let me see," Ming said.
Davis slowly crossed his leg towards Ming. His leg had swollen a bit. She touched it and he winced.
"I thought you said it doesn't hurt?" Ming asked
"Well it doesn't hurt if you are just looking at it, I didn't know that you were going to touch it" Davis said and withdrew his leg from Ming.
"It's dislocated, we need to take you to a hospital," Ming suggested.
"No you can't! If you take me to a hospital they'll probably put a bandage on it and if anyone sees it, they will start asking me questions. And no one can know that I went to visit Grandpa Chen. Or he'll suspect that I was the one who overheard his conversation"
"Okay then no hospital but you have to get that treated. Maybe I should take a look at it" Ming said.
"Are you some sort of doctor?" Davis asked Ming.
"My mother was a healer, back in the town where I grew up in, she used to treat a lot of dislocations, and she was very good at it. I managed to pick up a few things from her" Ming said.
*****
Giovanni and Rita had been fighting way often, especially as his father had cut off his trust fund; and he can no longer afford to get Rita all the materialistic things she want; which was the whole reason that she had agreed to break up with Davis and date him in the the first place.
Giovanni however has gotten infatuated with Rita, and doesn't want to lose her especially not to Davis... Feeling that their relationship has been sliding backwards he decides to ask Rita out. She reluctantly agreed to go out with him.
Rita prepared to go on her date with Giovanni. She walked towards her wardrobe, opened it, she was displeased by the clothes she saw staring back at her... Giovanni walked into her room prepared to pick her, but saw that she wasn't dressed for an outing.
"What's the problem,why are you not yet dressed?" He asked.
"All my clothes are old. I need a change of wardrobe" Rita complained.
"Just wear any of your old clothes, I'm sure you would still look beautiful despite what you re wearing" Giovanni said
"Why can't you just get me a change of wardrobe like I told you" Rita yelled at him.
"You know why, my father has cut off my trust fund so I'm on a budget now. I can't go and start buying you new clothes when there's nothing wrong with your old one" Giovanni said, he didn't yell, but the tone of his voice was pretty close to yelling.
"If I can't get new clothes then I'm not going any friggin where with you." Rita yelled then banged her door shut on Giovanni's face...
"Damn that bastard he can't get me what I want." Rita muttered, then remembered Davis. "I bet Davis would be able to get me all what I want and even more. I was definitely a fool for breaking up with him". Then she remembered the kiss that she gave Davis; "I bet he hasn't been able to stop thinking about me after that kiss" she muttered to herself and wore a sly smile.
*****
Davis had become susceptible to Ming, he couldn't object to any of her treatment methods, after all he was the one who didn't wanna go to a hospital.
Ming had driven him back to his dorm; she was surprised about how shabby looking it was but she didn't really care. She made Davis lie on his bed and raise his leg up. While she went to boil water.
As they were waiting for the water to get boiled; Ming wandered around and admired the things in his small and shabby dorm room. While Davis laid on his bed and admired her as she admired his room.
After several minutes of waiting the water finally boiled. She soaked the cloth in the hot water and used it to clean his leg but he winced every time the cloth came near his leg.
"If you don't like the pain that you're feeling, maybe next time you won't jump out of a window," Ming said teasingly.
"It's not like I had a choice, but don't worry next time I would rather get caught than to go through this again," he said in surrender.
"Good" she muttered simply, then continued what she was doing. After she was done cleaning his leg with the hot water. As Davis would describe it, she rubbed some kind of strange cream on his leg, and massaged it gently.
The room was silent "What did you wanna talk to your grandfather about" Ming asked breaking the silence, while still massaging his leg gently"
Davis reasoned that if he doesn't reply then the room would just be filled with more silence. "Brendon and Jude are selling the Chen's enterprise and I wanna buy it. I never thought that I would say these words again but; I don't have enough money to do so. I was hoping that maybe he could lend me some"
"Why didn't you just come to me?" Ming asked then Davis looked at her, he could only see the side of her face but he could tell that she was smiling warmly.
"Would you have helped me?" he asked.
"D, all you had to do was ask," she said. "Now about your ankle, I'm going to have to relocate it" she added.
"Would it hurt" Davis asked
"A lot" she responded, "but I have something that wouldn't let you feel the pain, if you'll excuse me I'll go get it" she said then left.
She came back not too long after she left with a vile in the hand with a liquid inside. "Here drink this, it should make you not too feel the pain. But only a little sip, its kinda too strong and I don't want to be the one responsible for getting you drunk." She said and handed the vile she was holding to him.
He took it and drank only a little sip as she had instructed. His face shrivelled up the moment that he tasted it. And that caused Ming to chuckle a bit as she walked to him and held his ankle. But he could still feel the pain and he dreaded it. So he picked up the vile again and gobbled everything in it down.
And almost immediately he stopped feeling the pain, in fact he stopped feeling anything all together. He had gotten drunk and for the first time to be precise, he had never had the chance to get drunk before.
"I feel numb, am I supposed to feel this way?" He asked
"No, if you had listened to me, but you went ahead and drank the whole bottle and now you're drunk"
"Huh, I don't feel drunk" he said while touching his fingers, and Ming just smiled at him. "You have a pretty smile" he said when he saw her smile.
She blushed at first. But she wasn't thrilled with the idea that Davis had to be drunk before he would complement her.
"Here goes," she said as she relocated his ankle.
"Ha that tickled" Davis said; he was so numb that he couldn't feel the pain.
"You need to get some rest" Ming said and started leaving
"Where are you going? " he asked with a sleepy voice.
"Not far, I'll be back to check up on you" she said and with that she left...
After she left his dorm and the entire apartment building. She passed Rita as she was going in; she didn't know who she was but she felt a sudden feeling of uncomfortableness as they passed each other. Then she walked to the car and met Simon, her driver and bodyguard who she had kept waiting.
*****
After Rita shut her door at Giovanni's face. He got frustrated and went to a club, where Kevin was throwing a party. He ignored everything that was going on and walked to the bar section. He wanted to get so drunk that he would forget about Rita.
Kevin spotted him and went to him; "hey bro have you come to join the party?" Kevin asked but Giovanni didn't reply. "Gio what's the problem man? '' Kevin asked again.
"That bitch Rita refused to go out with me because I didn't buy her new clothes, can you imagine that"
"Seriously, is that why you look so solemn, and here I was thinking that someone had died. Look at me; dad cut off my trust fund too, but here I am throwing a freaking party. Do you wanna know why, because we only live once.So forget about that bitch, and be the Gio that I remember and party! " Kevin said.
"No man I can't, I'm not in the mood to party"Giovanni said.
"You're breaking my heart man." Kevin said and drew Giovanni up. Then he called one of the ladies in the party, and she came. Hey Gio this is my friend Natasha. Nat see my brother here is in a bit of a foul mood, I was wondering if you could cheer him up"
"It'll be my pleasure" Natasha said while smacking her lips.
"So Gio what would it be, will you let Nat cheer you up or not, its all up to you now"...