Friend

The evening view at the Zhongshan Park was indigenously beautiful. The sun was shining down keeping a bit of warmth in the air. The tips of the leaves were starting to change letting everyone know that fall is approaching. The birds were chirping, and the squirrels were running around gathering up supplies to make their nests before the came.

"Hey. I want to ask you something," Mu Kai said as he looked at me.

Then I took the last bite of my wrap and wiped my mouth.

"Go ahead." I said.

"I gave some thought to our recent outing, and I was wondering if you would be interested in being?" he stopped.

"Being?" I motioned for him to proceed.

He cleared his throat and took in a sharp breath.

"Would you likely be interested for being a companion?" He asked.

I narrowed my eyes.

"What? I don't get it." He heavily sighed at the fact that I did not get what he was trying to say.

"Would you be interested for being a person that who would accompany me to certain functions, plus no strings attached, and I would pay you of course?" I was in the middle of drinking my water when I spit it out.

"What? You mean like an mistress or call girl," I yelled.

"NO, NO, that is not what I meant Ru Wen," he tried to explain.

"I mean, I mean like a friend." He sweated.

I lightly smiled at him because that was so hard for him to say.

"You mean go out as friends, like me and my best friend?" He ran his hands through his luxurious hair. I lightly touched his arm.

"Mr. Mu, if you want to be friends then all you had to do was ask. Actually, I already considered us friends, and there will be no money involved either." He pursed his lips and a small smile escaped from them.

"Actually there's a benefit I need to attend tomorrow night. It is a charity function, and I need to be there to represent my company, would you like to go?"

I bit my lip as I sweetly smiled at him.

"Hm. Okay, that's a small matter and I would love to go then." He smiled back as we got up from the table and started making our way out of Century Park.

"Thank you. I will pick you up at six sharp then," he said looking straight ahead.

I silently smiled because I felt different when I was with him. And I liked the feeling, but then I hated it to because nothing can happen between us, and I needed to be extremely careful that nothing did.

Just as we were leaving I heard someone call my name.

"Ru Wen?" I looked to the side and time stopped as I saw Mo Ting walking towards me.

Mu Kai stopped walking when I did and looked at me; he knew something was wrong.

"Ru Wen, how are you?" Mo Ting asked in a confused tone.

Then I took in a deep breath.