"So sad! Pathetic. Ha ha!" Evan's laughter exploded within seconds, especially after seeing Luci look so annoyed.
"You were also dumped behind right? I'd rather be left by my boyfriend with nothing to lose. But you… you've lost…." Luci stared at Evan's body, starting from his chest then down, and ending at Evan's 'central point'. Luci shook her head sadly especially after seeing Evan covering 'his' with both hands.
"You!!!! Watch your eyes when you see me! Just because you saw me naked earlier, then you can look down on me?" snorted Evan. It's not enough just to use both hands that he uses to cover 'his'. He also reached for the sofa cushion to cover part of his body.
"I won't underestimate if you don't start first!" Luci looked away and then checked her phone again.
'Thirty minutes have passed. But the person who picked me up still hadn't arrived. He's not lost, isn't he?' Luci thought worriedly.
Seeing Luci who was so restless just because she was waiting for someone else had made Evan a little annoyed and hurt.
'I'm beside you right now, hey! At least watch me for a little bit!' Evan protested in his head.
"Are you still in love with your ex? Ahem." Evan was acting like he didn't care. His eyes looked around and again found Luci's beautiful shining face. For a moment Evan froze in amazement. But after realizing it, he grabbed his cellphone to pretend to check messages.
"You're trying to avoid this topic, aren't you? Could it be that you still like one of your exes?" Evan's words sounded hopeful. Luci didn't want to respond earlier. She was busy with her cell phone.
As said before, Evan didn't like being ignored. He must have his full attention when speaking. Therefore, seeing Luci ignore him made Evan almost angry.
"You're good at ignoring people, aren't you? Is this because your ex left you first huh?"
"Let's not talk about it anymore!" interrupted Luci, who had been listening and hearing all of Evan's ramblings. However, because for Luci this topic is very sensitive, therefore Luci deliberately did not respond. Her only goal is to get Evan to give up and not discuss it again.
"Why? Why should I tell you not to talk about it? I love this topic!" Evan seemed defiant again. His sharp eyes seemed to look up most arrogantly.
Luci rolled her eyes, got up from the sofa to go to the front, at a place closer to the exit.
"Rather than my ears being hectic to hear his babble," whispered Luci.
Evan's heartache was even more after he was left alone by Luci. He had been dumped, there was no other than it.
"Hey, where are you going? Why are you sitting there? Come back!" shouted Evan in a very thick commanding style. Even though he was wearing a plain t-shirt, the rich young master's aura that always dominated every action and conversation was always attached to him. Just like the impression of a spoiled princess attached to Clara.
That impression is in contrast to Luci who was born like an independent and strong knight. The knight is dignified as an heirloom in the middle of the sea, which will always follow fate to wait for the right time to appear and become a universal force.
Luci would prefer peace, she would choose to live in seclusion if necessary. Because her life is used to seclusion. A forest bird and a tame tiger may be more than enough to accompany her daily life in exile.
"Could it be that you don't want to meet your brother? You must be looking to meet this guy, right? The man under the blooming cherry blossoms?" Evan formed a bubbling motion with his hands. Even his feet tiptoed a bit to make him stagger.
Luci immediately turned around with a dazed look. For the umpteenth time, the wound in her heart opened again. Her love for Daniel is like wanting to come back in and reside in her heart.
'No, you can't! You must forget him immediately!' she thought.
"No answer means yes." Evan sped up and sat right next to Luci. His face showed victory when he had found something that could bring down Luci's pride.
'She has already lowered my self-esteem. So I should do the same to her,' Evan thought.
"So he's in Japan huh? Did you two break up because of a long-distance relationship?" Evan asked again with a sly smile that would never leave his thin lips. Evan crouched then, while his arms wrapped around his knees. "Ah, if you don't answer, it means yes. Huh, a long-distance relationship is really hard."
"How did you know all that?" asked Luci with teary eyes. It wasn't easy to forget Daniel, but Evan proudly opened the old wound.
In a short time, Luci almost wanted to give up her intention to forget Daniel because she felt it was too heavy to forget her lover.
"I looked at your phone. You turn it in your sleep. You even cry when you just hear his voice." Evan's face turned into annoyance at that time. It's an insult when he has to be rejected or dumped by women again. Whereas before, Evan was always being chased by women, at least after Evan was abandoned by his first love.
'Oh, I did play Daniel's video last night. Argh, he must have seen it all,' Luci complained while squeezing her head. Her head started to throb at that moment.
'Don't let Mr. Evan find out the real story. And don't let him find out about Hans. I'm just afraid that if this deal doesn't work out then he'll use Hans to attack me." Luci bit her lower lip nervously.
For a moment she thought of Hans. He is Luci's motivation to keep on living. The existence of Hans is a way to atone for Daniel's death which has been caused by Luci.
"Are you going to meet your ex?" Evan asked. His face was starting to get worried now. Yet he still tried very hard to hide it. A guy on a level like Evan shouldn't look worried just because of a girl's business, he always said.
"Not really. I won't be able to see him again," Luci answered at last. Her face was made as casual as possible, like when she had to part with her ex-lover due to distance and time issues from two different countries.
"Oh yes? really? Why is that?"
"Because…because he won't be coming back here again."
Evan frowned. He thought about the meaning of Luci's words. "Oh you mean he lives in Japan? Forever?"
Luci laughed blandly. She didn't expect this misunderstanding to be this funny, and at the same time make it easier for her to cover up the truth.
"Yeah, that's it," said Luci with a wry but somewhat amused laugh.
'Think of it that way,' she thought with her eyes staring blankly ahead. Daniel's face lit up again. There was a wave and also a smile directed at Luci.
'If only that were the case,' continued Luci hopefully.