Chapter 14

The intruder was skilled. He took her surprise kick on his stomach but after that Ziah was not even able to land a blow on the intruder. He was able to dodge and block all her attacks. Soon enough Ziah's attacks slowed down as she started to feel tired. She is running out of breath but she was not successful on beating the intruder. She stopped briefly to take a deep breath but the intruder took this chance to subdue her. He grabbed her and press her on the wall, both of her hands on top of her head. She just realized that they are now near the main door. The intruder leaned towards her so Ziah instinctively closed her eyes tightly expecting an impact on her head. She was waiting for his attack but it didn't came. She heard the sound of the light switch turning on so she opened her eyes only to be blinded by the sudden rush of light. She adjusted her sight and tried to look at the intruders face.

"You?!", Ziah said.

"Yes, it's me. Can you calm down now?"

"Yes, I am calm now, you can let go of me."

"Why are you here Lello? And how did you get inside, I am sure I had lock the door." Lello turned his back and walk towards the door of her bed room and pick up something from the floor.

"I came here to check if you're awake now. I ask Granny Perry for a spare key in this apartment so that I can come and check on you." He walked back towards Ziah with his eyes focused on the floor. He handed the thing he picked up from the floor to Ziah. Ziah looked at his hand and saw a towel, then she realized that it was the towel which was covering her body. She blushed and grabbed the towel immediately, covered her body and glared at Lello.

"Why?", Lello asked innocently.

"You looked."

"No, I didn't"

"Yes you did!"

"No I did not." he smiled at her playfully which she returned with a glare before she run back into the room. She heared Lello's rich laugh before she closed her bedroom door.

As soon as Ziah closed the door she felt her cheeks heating out of embarassment. How careless was she for not realizing that she was standing completely naked in front of Lello. Now she's in a dilemma if she'll go out and pretend that nothing happened or continue hiding inside her room. But she clearly knew that she can't do that. Lello came here to check on her, and he will not go unless he do so, and that is for sure. So she gathered all her strenght before coming out of the room after wearing a comfortable dress.

"I thought you're going to hide from me forever.", Lello seriously said but his eyes is telling her that he's just trying to restrain his laughter.

"We both know that you'll not leave unless you're done with what brought you here.", Ziah said while glaring at Lello, warning him not to mention a thing about what happened earlier.

“Actually, I can go now if you want me to, I promise I won’t tell granny that you showed up in front of me nake-“, he wasn’t able to finished his last word because Ziah covered his mouth.

“Stop that! Why are you making fun of me?”, Ziah asked angrily. Lello stared at her eyes and it was only then that Ziah realized how close they are. She can smell Lello’s refreshing scent. Lello put his one hand at Ziah’s back to support her. The moment Lello’s hand touched Ziah’s back her heart started to beat erratically so she pushed him and looked away.

“Ok, I am sorry for making fun of you. Can we sit down?” Lello said gesturing to the sofa.

“Yes, please sit down.” Ziah motioned for him to sit down and sat on the opposite sofa.

“Please come here and sit beside me.”

“No need, it’s better if I sit here far from you.”

“And how is it better?”, Lello said with mischief in his eyes.

“Will you please drop it.”, Ziah said irritatingly.

“Drop what? I just want you to sit beside me so that I can check your body condition more comfortably.”, Lello said shrugging his shoulders. Ziah’s face turned red because of embarrassment and stood up to move and sit beside Lello. She heard him chuckle before he checked her body seriously.

“Your body is doing fine. Your fever had gone down and looks like your wounds are starting to heal. There is swelling on your arms and legs, but it should be fine in a couple of days. You still need to undergo a scan for us to know the condition of your ribs. I am suspecting a fracture, but we need to confirm it with the scan to know the condition of it, so you have to visit the hospital for the scan."

“No need. I know my body. I will heal after some days of rest.”

“I know you does not like hospitals, but your recovery is the priority here. Do not worry, I will be with you all through the process.

“No. You don’t understand. It’s not that I don’t like hospitals, but I can’t be hospitalized.”, she said seriously. “And it’s not like this is the first time that I injured myself like this.”, her last statement almost came like a whisper. Lello frowned but he chose not to ask her.

“If you are worried about the record that you might leave in the hospital, we can just do the test secretly without leaving any records.”, Ziah looked at Lello confused.

“It’s the least I can do for the person who saved my sister.”, he added.

“Are you sure about that?”, Ziah asked.

“Of course. I’ll be running all your test and will make sure that will end it quietly.”

“Are you not going to ask me why?”

“Do you want me to?” he asked. Ziah bowed her head and did not answer.

“Every person has their past and their secret that they never wanted to share. I am in no position to asked you about it and force you to share it if you do not want to. And I only mind my own business.” He started to collect his things after he changed the dressing of her wounds.

“Are you leaving now?” Ziah asked him.

“What? Do you want me to stay here with you?”

“No. It’s not what I meant.”

“Actually, there is something that I wanted to talked to you about.”

Ziah looked at him with confused eyes.