Overhear

Changing into her night dress, ZouMi came back after ten minutes, and she saw Gu Huan in the kitchen with a serious expression wearing a light blue apron, which originally belongs to her, skillfully cutting the vegetables.

"Hey, what are you cooking, let me help you." she offered her help.

"No need, wait for me on the dinning table. It'll be ready, soon." He smiled politely, and made her set on the stool.

After several minutes, a bowl with noodles and perfectly cooked vegetables on the tops were place in front of her. The sweet aroma filled her nostril tugging directly to her heart.

He sat opposite to her, face to face she gazed at him and blurted out.

"Well... How many more favors are you going to do for me?"

"It's up to you, if you think it's a favor, then it is. If not, then it's not." He shrugged his shoulder.

"What do I think, you say."

"Well, a friend or a brother"

"Brother, Ugh! No I already have three and trust me, that's sometimes too much to handle. Friend is, okay."

'Wait what! What did I just say. Why didn't I agree for calling him brother, as I do to all others? My mind, what's wrong with you?' She had a talk with herself in her mind.

"Okay. Deal." Moving his hand forward to shake a hand with her "Friends"

Keeping the chopsticks down, she too did the same and shake her hand with him, "Friends." smiling politely.

He gazed at her lovely face, like the full moon, emitting the bright light in the middle of the night.

"You should smile more often, it suits you."

'Wait What? Why did I say that'

ZouMi was stunned with his sudden words, she was never the shy kind of girl and accept compliments, since childhood but, today was different, she felt something amazed. She blushed lightly, "Thank you."

Now the air around them turned, so awkward that none of them uttered a word. After sometime, ZouMi finished her food, which was tasty,

'Is it because I skipped dinner or this was actually the best meal I had?' She wondered.

"Thanks for this, it was delicious."

"No need to thank, it's my pleasure to serve you, My Highness."

And then they both laughed. After finishing her food, ZouMi stood up and said, "Time to rest."

"Let, me clean it."

"You were the one who said for 'no formalities' now look, you're the one doing."

"Okay , carry on. Good night."

ZouMi's back hit the soft mattress, and she fell into slumber. After three hours, ZouMi woke up as usual by the haunting dreams which linger on her mind from the past four years, from the attempt on her, to her dad's accident.

ZouMi got dressed and came out, with in half an hour. She had never applied any make up, her skin was flawless and make up would hide the beauty, she naturally is. ZouMi sat on the chair, placed at one end of the table, she gazed at the other end in front of her, the place of her father. No one dare to sit on that chair, neither in presence, nor in the absence of ZouMi.

Xau, came down with his backpack and headed towards the dinning room, seeing ZouMi, he put down his head making sure not to make any eye contact, with the devil.

He greeted everyone on the table and sat down quietly. His moves didn't escape for the sharped eyes of YangYang.

"Say Xau, what did you do. AGAIN?"

"What? I didn't do anything." He replied anxiously, still making sure not to make contact with, Zu. He shrieked into the chair when he felt the gaze, he didn't need to look up to know who was it. The answer was obvious it was, ZouMi.

YangYang nagged Xau, to say what he did this time, when Gu Huan came down.

"Gege, stop taking and have your breakfast." ZouMi, said in low, yet authoritative voice.

YangYang shut her mouth and started eating putting her head down.

"Say gege, where is that fearless reporter?"

Gu Huan teased YangYang, when he saw her reaction on ZouMi's words.

"You never do the things, confidently in front of the one who taught you."

"Hahaha.."

Mrs. Sid came out from the kitchen wearing a flower printed apron and holding spatula.

"Zu, come home early today."

"Why Mom?"

"Aiyo, now you need reasons to come home early?"

"No Mom, I have a dinner meeting today. If something that matters, I will cancel that meeting for you."

"Okay. You've to arrange that meeting on some other day. I want you to meet someone today, who is coming to our home."

"Okay, mom. As you say." Not asking any further question, ZouMi picked her phone and called her assistant Tina.

"Tina, postponed my dinner meeting to tomorrow's lunch. I've something to do."

"Okay." And she hanged up.

After the breakfast, ZouMi and Xau waited for a while till YangYang left.

Coming out Xau was planning to hire a taxi as his bike was damaged and was surely sent to the garage for repair by ZouMi.

At the gate a new model and his all-time favorite Ducati Panigale V4 stood still.

He ran towards it ready to hug, but stopped just a meter, hanged his head down and was moving, when a key fall in front of his eyes.

"Don't you need it?"

"Zu..." His eyes being misty.

"No need your tears to flow, though I bought it for myself, I don't liked it. So you can take it."

He chucked and said, "Liar" and pounced on ZouMi for a hug.

"Okay, okay. I hope, you don't do the same with this bike, like you did to the last one."

About mentioning yesterday's event, Xau pulled back from the hug and muttered, "About yesterday..."

"No need, but next time don't get caught by the police. What a waste it could be, if a rider can't get rid of officers." And both of them laughed.

Not so far Gu Huan was sitting in his car, when he heard their conversation.

'Why do I always overhear her conversations?'

He thought to himself.