Chapter 148 - Fall For You (1/2)

A silent girl is the most dangerous one. How? Because women have a natural ability to create scenarios in their minds that don't even exist. 90% of the times when a girl is silent, she's either overthinking, falling apart, crying inside, cursing her luck or all of the above.

Xiu wasn't any different especially now when her emotions were in a full swing. She was also creating her own zoo in her mind. According to her, she was lowkey scared to get happy because every time she got too happy something would just go wrong. Like it did this very day.

Spontaneously, a m.o.a.n escaped from her mouth while she was trying to look around her bed for her phone. A soft knock at her door caught her attention and Xiu frowned since Nora would never knock before barging inside her room. And when the door was pushed open, Xiu's brows arched up slightly to see Darren.

”Didn't you leave?” Xiu asked in a daze.

Darren didn't answer her question. Instead, he helped her in sitting up and passed a bowl to her saying, ”Drink this brown sugar water while it's still hot.” When Xiu didn't move, he urged again, ”Go on. Stop daydreaming already.”

”Oh,” with that, Xiu took a sip of brown sugar water while keeping her eyes on Darren who went out and brought a hot water bottle.

Silently, he helped her with the hot water bottle to keep her warm and frowned when he touched her ice-cold feet. Wrapping her up in her duvet, he said, ”I thought Nora was exaggerating but no... You really are a careless person.” Seeing the way she was smiling to herself, Darren asked, ”What's so funny?” Xiu shook her head in response. ”If you're done with drinking that, then lie down.”

”Okay,” Xiu passed him the empty bowl and lied down.

”What do you want to eat?”

”Hmm... Ice cream” replied Xiu with a grin.

”Ice cream? No, can't do.” Xiu pouted and he added, ”Ice cream is overly yin in nature. It's harmful to the body in this condition.”

”But it's my favorite comfort food,” said Xiu.

Darren pulled out a chocolate bar and said, ”For now, eat this. Let me see what I can do to compensate for that ice cream of yours.” Xiu happily snatched the chocolate from his hand and nodded her head.

Seeing Darren in deep thought, Nora had to come up to him to ask, ”Anything I can help you with, neighbor?”

”Point me in the right direction,” said Darren as he looked in the direction of the kitchen.

”Wow! You can even cook?”

”Doesn't everybody knows how to cook these days?” retorted Darren with a frown.

”I can't cook even if my life depends on it,” replied Nora in all honesty. ”That's why Xiu says that I should find myself a good husband. However, Xiu also says that my estratetraenol (EST) only attracts trashy men. And the worst of all is, I can't even refute.”