253 Blacklisting her name (1/2)

Ryn cleared her throat again. She was trying to find a way to avoid this but knew by looking at Mika's expectant look, she had to answer the question.

\”As you all know I've been friends with Mika since young. We've been friends since school… since around… when we're twelve years old…\” Ryn paused. She looked at Mika for help but Mika just grinned.

Ryn sighed again.

\”I… I don't think we should talk about what happened in the past. Past is the past. It's a part of our history…\”

\”My goodness, Ryn, how long are you going to mumble around this?\” Mika asked with a chuckle. She saw how desperate Ryn was to avoid answering this question. Until now she was confused with Ryn's stubbornness to hide her relationship history with Jeremy. Was it too embarrassing to tell the world about their history? And Ryn was still thinking whether she wanted to accept Jeremy back or not and the feeling was more toward accepting back but too stubborn to acknowledge her own feeling?

Ryn groaned as she covered her face. Why was Mika forcing her to answer this? This was not a question about their friendship but toward her relationship with Jeremy, which she refused to talk about. For her, this was her privacy and she was not used talking about things she found private. Too private to be exactly.

\”Would you like me to answer the question?\” Mika asked finally when she saw Ryn still not opening her mouth to answer it.

\”I'm a bit worried for you answer, honestly,\” Ryn replied back with a heavy sigh.

\”Why? I won't lie because you are here with me,\” Mika grumbled with a teasing glare.

Ryn blew out a sigh. \”Oh my God, this is so hard.\”

\”Not that hard,\” Mika murmured under her breath.

\”Fine. Jeremy and I had a history when we were in school. It was a puppy love but now we're just friends. The end. No more talking about this. No more.\”

Mika handed Ryn's drink as a support. Then, she hugged Ryn, stroking her back gently, \”Now, is that so hard?\”

\”I hate you,\” Ryn murmured.

\”No, you're not. The one you hate is my brother, remember. You love me.\”

\”Hmph…\”

Mika ended the session and pulled Ryn with her up to their room. Ryn was still unhappy after answering the question and Mika tried her hard to coax Ryn.

\”Come on, Ryn. It's just a question. Even if you answer the question, nothing will change,\” Mika coaxed.

Ryn took a deep breath to calm down. It was clear the question gave so much impact to her mental condition.

Mika looked for something in the small refrigerator. She took out a bottle of milk and poured it into a glass. Then, she brought it to Ryn who was sitting on the couch. She handed the cold drink to Ryn and rubbed her back gently.

\”Are you feeling better?\” she asked once Ryn out down the bottle.

\”Hmm…\”

Mika had to pull Ryn toward the door with another hand holding her magic box. Although she wanted to give more time for Ryn to calm down but the thought of making the devil Jack waiting for them gave a shiver to her body.

They must not make the devil angry.

*~*~*~*

Jason kept his phone in the pocket and listened to his assistant's report about the projects his father put him in charge with.

\”And Sir, the woman called Ella Cheng came again this morning,\” his assistant reported awkwardly.

Jason turned to look at his assistant, cocking an eyebrow. She came again? Such guts. Such a thick-skinned woman.

He thought yesterday he showed her what he thought of her. Trying to work here using mother? And she expected to go straight to an important position like a manager? In her dream. If she wanted to work here, she should do it like others, by applying and going through the interview. But no. Not Ella Cheng. For her, the interview was not her style and being the niece of his parents, she should get the highest position under him.

Last night he was being nagged by his lovely and sweet mother. Apparently Ella went to talk about her 'suffer' to her mother and her mother then went to talk about this with his mother.

\”She has no qualification for the position she's eyeing at,\” he replied and looked at his father for help, \”Father, you know how important each position in the company and if we give it to someone who can't do the job, who is going to be blamed if she made a wrong decision especially regarding a very important project. You can't expect me to help watching her all the time. I have my own projects to watch over and I can't just stay with her the whole time.\”

Of course, his father agreed with him. Even though he loved his wife so much but he had to think of a big picture. This was the company he spent all his sweat and money on. He did not want the company he inherit from his father and grandfather went to the slump just because of regret and guilt.