If I ain't got you

Ping!

"You have a reminder from Shen Ji Yu"

Ru Ran stared at her phone in a surprised. Ji Yu set a reminder for me? She tap to open the reminder from Ji Yu sent by Siri.

"I love you" and the reminder is timed at 8 pm. The reminder made Ru Ran even more perplexed. What on earth is going on? Why did Ji Yu set a reminder to remind her he loves her and it should happen at 8 pm tonight. She quickly looked at the calendar to see if today is a special day but to her dismay today's date is just an ordinary day. It is not their anniversary or birthday.

Thanks to his reminder she could not focus on knitting and her brain worked overtime trying to figure out the mystery behind his reminder.

After 3 hours of pondering, she could not rake her brain anymore she decided to give up and she texted him, "Yu, did you set a reminder in my phone?"

He replied her message, "I sent you a reminder."

"Why did Siri reminded at 1pm when it stated that it should be done at 8pm? Why do I need to remind you that you love me at 8 pm?" she texted back to him.

"I send you a reminder to remind you to tell me that you love me at 8 pm. Siri informed you at 1 pm so that you are aware of your task and she would be reminding you later just before 8 pm." he replied her.

Ru Ran rolled her eyes at the screen. Initially she found him sweet for setting a reminder in her phone to remind her he loves her but it turns out, she is the one being reminded to profess her love for him. Leave it to the man to think about things like this. She could imagine his face being pleased with himself.

"Do you know because of your message, I was not able to concentrate on my knitting," she complained in her text.

"That is the main purpose of the reminder, it is to have you think of me constantly," the send button was pressed in instant after he finished texting. He laughed out loud after seeing the text had been delivered causing his parents to eye him suspiciously.

She face palmed at her husband's behaviour and decided to ignore him, she had already wasted most of the afternoon thinking about him. Despite her level of annoyance with him, a smile still formed on her face coupled with her twinkling eyes of happiness. This man never failed to amaze her.

.................

Ken was nervous in helping out Ai Sha and his imagination ran wild, sadly in reality it does not live up to expectations, once he managed to help her to the washroom, he was chased out and only called back in once she was all properly dressed.

Her wet hair and the soothing lavender scent were the only evidence that she had taken a bath. He took her scent in and his face blushed as he was reminded of his wild imagination. He did not know what overcome him, it is not as if, this was his first time with a woman. He had been intimate with a number of women in the past but never once he felt this way. Women had always a tool for him to vent out his frustrations either sexually or physically.

This feeling, this feeling of wanting to protect and wanting to possess yet not to cage her up is a novel feeling. He did not know he had it in him. Maybe that night watching Uncle Tek protecting Xin Xin ignited something in him. Thinking about that night, the song by Alicia Key's, If I ain't got you came to his mind, summarising Xin Xin and Uncle Tek's love.

The song played in his head.....

Some people live for the fortune

Some people live just for the fame

Some people live for the power, yeah

Some people live just to play the game

Some people think that the physical things define what's within

And I've been there before, and that life's a bore

So full of the superficial

Some people want it all

But I don't want nothing at all

If it ain't you baby

If I ain't got you baby

Some people want diamond rings

Some just want everything

But everything means nothing

If I ain't got you, yeah

Some people search for a fountain

That promises forever young

Some people need three dozen roses

And that's the only way to prove you love them

Hand me the world on a silver platter

And what good would it be

With no one to share, with no one who truly cares for me

If I ain't got you with me baby

So nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing

If I ain't got you with me baby

He let out a smile because at this moment, this is exactly how he felt too. When one of the escorts his men hired for him sang this song for him, he scorned at this song because he didn't believe such love exist, but Uncle Tek proved him wrong and now he is in love, he knows that this world would not mean anything without having the one he love by his side. If it wasn't for Ru Ran's words that day, he would not have realised how much Ai Sha actually meant to him. He lost his usually calm and collected self. So this is how it feels to be in love.

Ai Sha waved her hands in front of the frozen person in front of her with a silly smile on his face. She wished she had her phone with her at this moment because she wished to capture this moment so bad. Since she didn't have it, she'll just have to keep this image of him in her own memory box.

"Ken!" she called him shaking him out of his daze.

"Yeah, come let's get you to the bed and I'll help you dry your hair," he said in a husky voice.