Let's Date

"Sit down," Mr. Wan told Miss E and Grand when the rest of the team left the room.

Grand sat down even before Mr. Wan finished his sentence.

But not Miss E. She remained standing and crossed her arms over her chest.

"No. I won't do it," she said.

Her eyes were blank, and the only expression that could be seen from her face was the small shadow of irritation in the corner of her lips.

"I haven't said anything and you are already saying 'no'?"

Grand shifted his eyes over Mr. Wan and Miss E who were staring at Mr. Wan in annoyance.

It's the reason why most members are scared of Miss E as much as they are scared of Mr. Wan.

She is the only one that could act like what she is doing now with Mr. Wan.

Not even DT acts like that when he is Mr. Wan's nephew!

"It is a no," she said in indignation.

"It was just for the press. Besides you and Grand are friends," he said in a tone Grand hasn't heard Mr. Wan use with any of them.

If he didn't know Mr. Wan, he would think that he was begging Ellise to do his bidding.

Mr. Wan sat down on a chair across from Grand who was sitting down on a sofa.

"If you don't want to do it. It's okay. It's not part of your contract but could you at least listen to me before you refused it"

"I already know what you are going to say," she sighed in irritation. Nevertheless, she sat down on the sofa next to Grand to listen to whatever Mr. Wan was going to say.

"Grand," Mr. Wan began with him. "I assumed that you followed our agreement of you - not having a girlfriend, hmm?"

He cleared his throat and darted his gaze to Ellise before shifted to Mr. Wan, "No, I don't have a girlfriend."

"Good." He nodded, satisfied. " Ellise, I know you won't like it but all I'm asking is for you and Grand to interact in public more." When Ellise arched her perfectly shaped eyebrows in disbelief, he added, "And confirmed positively the information we are going to leak to the press. Don't worry, DT will be informed so won't misunderstand."

"Like I give a shit if he misunderstands," she snarled at Mr. Wan. "What I want to know is why are you doing this cheap publicity stunt of us being a couple."

"Who's going to be a couple?"

"You, stupid ass!" She snapped at Grand.

"Oh! I don't mind." Grand grinned and winked at Mr. Wan.

"I mind!"

"Miss E, the club needs sponsors. We didn't get a lot of sponsors nor investors for me to give all of you, the training you need for us to win the championship."

"And is pretending to be a couple in public would do?"

"Because of your interview, one gaming company that I can't name right now wanted to sponsor your training at Sanya next month. If that happened, the club can afford to send Grand and One to Oslo to do and intensive training there for two weeks.

We can stretch the club budget for all of you to give proper training. Not just the members of the team but all of you."

Ellise squinted her eyes at Mr. Wan. She doesn't like the idea because she found it cheap and degrading to do such a cheap publicity stunt, but she can't deny what Mr. Wan said. It would be good for the teams and all the members nof the WIZ.

"Don't worry so much about this acting gig. It won't be as what you have in mind," Grand chuckled.

Ellise shifted her narrowed eyes to Grand.

"The boys can do the 'rumor' thingy and we can just act as usual in public - leave it to me. And as long as you don't punch me in the face in public, it would be easy."

Ellise leaned back on the chair and crossed her arms over her stomach. She doesn't like doing it, but she trusts Grand.

She knew he wouldn't do something that would piss her off. Besides, Dana likes Grand and she has a feeling that the feeling was mutual.

"And what are going to do with this 'dating' thing?"

"We just hang out as usual then let the boys take a photo and 'accidentally' post it online."

"That's it?" She is still not sold with the idea of it.

"The acting part would be mostly hearsay and rumors. We don't have to do anything or be seen outside together especially Mr. Wan's strict and we are busy with training."

Ellise got the gist of what Grand was saying, it's just that her pride won't allow her to accept it.

Seeing the expression on Ellise's face, Grand leaned on to her shoulder, cupped her ear so Mr. Wan won't read his lips, he whispered, "Let's piss DT off," he chuckled.

Ellise pursed her lips and glared at Grand's and his stupid proposition. 'Or was it so stupid when she felt excited with the idea of making DT jealous. But then, would DT even get jealous at all.'

"Miss E, I won't ask you to do this if it's going to be too much. Just like what Grand said, it would be mostly rumors that we will feed the CTF fans, and if they eat it, then all is good. If not, also good. I just want to try the opportunity that would give everyone a better chance."

" You're asking me to take one for the team," she smirked.

" And it wasn't too bad, right? I mean, you and Grand are friends so it won't be too awkward to hear things and be asked in your future games about the two of you, and when that time comes, Grand will handle it."

Ellise was already sold with the idea of pissing DT off because a part of her wanted to know what will DT do if it happened. But her pride won't let her get away with it.

She listened to Mr. Wan's sales pitch so she could pretend that she agreed to it to help the team.