344 Lets Talk (1/2)

”Take a deep breath... It's okay. You just have to ring the doorbell. Yes, you can do it!”

This was Nora's encouraging words to herself as she tried to lift her hand but ended up dropping the idea. As you might have guessed, she was standing at the door of Xin Villa at this time of the night.

Nobody knew how she did it but somehow she managed to sneak up to the door without alerting the security at the main gate. Her drunk self was quite good at finding her way or perhaps, it was sheer dumb luck.

She had several thoughts running through her mind. As much as she wanted to see Ah-Si, she was also not very confident. Especially after she watched him leave the other day at the mall.

'It's your love story, nobody can write it except for you!' Xiu's words rang in her mind making her turn to stare at the doorbell again.

”Oh, Fuck it!” she simply rang the doorbell and waited. As she heard footsteps coming closer from the other side of the door, she whispered, ”Here goes nothing...”

As soon as the door opened, Ah-Si's face came into her view. As their eyes met, both of them stared stunned at each other.

”Hi!” Nora waved her hand at him making him frown.

Of all the days, why was it that he was alone at home tonight? There were not even any housemaids in the house tonight. And why was it that she was standing at his door late at night looking pretty drunk but still... Cute? Ah-Si shook his head immediately. Don't fall for it again. She's not cute. Not cute at all. He repeated those words to himself.

”What are you doing here?”

Nora had expected this question but it still hurt the way he asked it. He clearly showed how much he didn't welcome her here. But just because he didn't want to see her here, was she going to leave? The answer is NO! If it had been before, yes, she would have left by now already seeing him giving that hard stare. But tonight, she had two motivations to stay. One; she was drunk. Two; Xiu would kill her if she didn't take control of her life.

And apparently, those two reasons were good enough for Nora to hold her ground, lift up her eyes, and look at Ah-Si.

”I wanted to see you,” she answered making Ah-Si's eyes widen a bit in shock. ”Also, I wanted to talk to you.”

After his initial shock, Ah-Si intended to close the door as he said, ”We don't have anything to talk about.” But before he could close the door, Nora put her foot in and blocked him from doing so. ”Nora!”

”What?” she looked into his eyes challenging him.

”You're drunk. Go home!”

”Not going unless you sit down and hear me out!”

Nora and Ah-Si kept looking at each other without blinking as if there was a competition going on to see who would blink first. Because whoever did will lose this battle. They say the one who loves more always loses. Then can you guess who lost?

BOTH...

'You wouldn't want your daughter to grow up without a mother, do you?'

'Don't you want your daughter to have a happy family?'

'Don't assume things so much. At least, sit down with Ava's mother to know what actually made her abandoned her own daughter. No mother would leave her own child without a valid reason.'

Those were the words that flashed through Ah-Si's mind as he looked at Nora. His father, Darren and even his own brother had repeatedly told him to stop avoiding this matter. He knew he couldn't run from it. Especially, he couldn't turn a blind eye when Nora was standing right before him at the threshold of his house.

”You want to talk? Let's talk,” saying that Ah-Si opened the door wide and indicating her to walk inside. Nora was in disbelief but she still managed to step inside. She watched Ah-Si closing the door behind her before he went to the cabinet closeby and pulled out a pair of new slippers for her to change into. Nora quietly took off her shoes and slid her feet into the pair of slippers he placed before her.

As she followed him further inside, she wasn't looking at anything except for his back. Those broad shoulders that seemed so enticing. She wanted so badly to put her head on his shoulder and forget everything. Wouldn't it be better if time turned back? She promised to not be scared of her own thoughts anymore.