Personal Driver

CASSIE'S POV

"Say it...say my name," Shun demanded. 

She swallowed at first before she tried to spill out his name. She felt such helplessness, so an idea came up to her. 

"Um, I felt awkward calling you that way, Mas..." she paused for a moment, then continued.

"If you don't like me calling you master," Cassie bravely shared her thoughts. "Then how about brother...Shun?"

She said it like a whisper that barely reached someone's ears. Cassie waited for Shun's reaction.

She couldn't read his mood, whether he agreed or got angry at her calling him brother... she then heard him sigh.

"Is that how hard to say my name alone?" Shun questioned her.

She can't believe why he won't give up, demanding her call him by his name.

Is it just appropriate to call him brother Shun when he is too older than her? There is a twelve years gap between them.

Once again, she can't read him. It seems like she needs to watch his temper and moods from now on.

Shun remains staring at her face, like still waiting for her to say his name.

SHUN'S POV

11:20 AM

He glances at his wristwatch, yet ten minutes early, but decides to go to school.

He drove his car and parked close to Cassie's school building. He sees that the spot in front of the main door is empty, so he parks his car in that space.

The sun does not burn much today, so he gets out of his car and leans on it.

His gaze wandered around the school campus. Indeed, the place is different from those academies he entered before, but this school is not bad either. Although he sees the need to improve the surroundings, nature gives a pleasant ambiance.

Shun heard male voices coming from somewhere. They stopped at the bench behind the tree where he was parked and conversing about something.

"Did you see Cassie this morning?" said one.

"Cassie, who?" asked one of them.

"Do you mean our classmate, Cassandra?"

"Oh, I thought my classmate Cassilde. Why?"

"If only you saw her; she was so pretty this morning!"

"Nah, I did not see her this morning yet. Even so, she is pretty already. What's surprising about it?"

"Your lame! She is stunningly beautiful today!"

"That is true... Ever since she moved back from France, I have had a huge crush on her."

"I also like her. Our promenade is just two months away. I'm going to ask her to be my date!"

"No way! I'm planning to ask her as well!"

"Then how about we put a bet, whoever successfully asked her, he won. What bet you two will place?" the boy from another classroom suggested.

"Okay, if I win, I want your surfboard, Danny."

"What? No way! That was my brother Ian's gift on my birthday!"

"Then don't join the betting!"

The poor student tried to debate inside his head.

"Okay, I agree."

"Yes!"

"If I am the one to win, you have to pay for my diamond purchases for the whole month!"

"I want the same prize if I am the one to win!" Second demotion by their schoolmate.

"Then how about you? What is your betting?"

"I'll trade my phone," he reaches his pocket, then waves his new phone in the air.

The other two boys jump on him and try to snatch his phone. He runs to get rid of them. He even kisses his phone to make them envious even more.

Shun heard their whole conversation and even mentioned the game Rudolf played...he is throwing dark gazes at them and wishes to know their player IDs to request Rudolf to hack their accounts.

The bell rang for the lunch break. The silent building becomes so loud as the students come out of their classrooms.

He waited for Cassandra to come out of the building to have lunch together. Somehow, he anticipates this day.

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SEAGULL RESORT

She's still nervous about the idea of having lunch together, not to mention how Shun demands her to call him his name alone. Gladly their drinks arrive.

After five minutes since they had ordered, the waiter first served their drinks. Cassie takes a sip to relieve her thirst.

"Cassandra," he softly whispers her name after the server leaves.

Dazed, she looks up to meet Shun's gaze one more time.

"Bro… brother Shun, you are my employer, so it was disrespectful for me not to call you Master or Mister or boss or brother..." She wants to lay reasonable excuses.

"That's it. I am your employer, so I have the right to decide what I want you to call me," he reasons.

He sounded like this was final, and she should not argue with him to avoid not calling him by his name. But she couldn't find her words, so she remained silent.

Hearing no response from her, Shun sighed then said, "All right, until you can call me by my name, I'll let you call me whatever you are comfortable with... we just met a few days ago, so you still don't trust me… do you?" 

She's quiet again, unsure how to answer back to him. Cassie then gathers the courage to respond to him this time.

"It is not about I do not trust you... it is just that I was taught how to call someone when older than me."

There is a long silence passing them... Shun heaves a long sigh afterward and hides his disappointment. He could tell that he couldn't force her, so he'd let her be for now.

Finally, the food they ordered arrived. She didn't realize she was this hungry watching the dishes placed on their table.

After the server left, she then right away tried the food. It tasted good. However, there is something that is missing.

Shun eats quietly and sees how she enjoyed her food very much, so he does not bring up the subject anymore.

Shun asks a few simple questions that don't require her heart to trouble beating fast. They finished the food happily with only light conversation, and she was grateful for that. 

Shun sent her back to her school and then informed her that he would fetch her later and go home together.

What is this? Did he enjoy playing like her personal driver?