CHAPTER 7

"Why are you just visiting now? How's the company?"

Peterson sensed the arrival of his friend Dave. He immediately asked this. 

It also didn't show up to him for a few days except for a few calls he received here while it wasn't coming to his house.

For a few days, Dave didn't go to Peterson's house. Peterson saddened excessively. He did not eat and became an even hotter head.

Peterson was furious with the maids whenever they brought him food to his room. 

Every time he was forced to eat the food brought by his maid.

Some of his maids would probably come out of the room... Crying because of his screaming and sometimes he would hurt them by throwing something that could be picked by his hand.

"You don't eat? Why?" Dave asked. 

"I'm not hungry," Peterson sighed, speaking heavily as he answered Dave.

"But you still need to eat," Dave worried.

Dave sighed. 

Peterson was like his brother. 

He never considered it just a boss or a friend. 

Instead, he treated Peterson as a family.

After he met Peterson. Peterson accepted him as his friend and treated him like an older brother.

Peterson also considers him not just a friend and bodyguard. So he is very grateful for it. 

Especially for Peterson's support during his years of the time they were both still studying. 

Even its resettlement of him in its house. He was very grateful. 

Until now he is still working here.

Dave can't leave his friend especially since he knows Peterson's situation. What it goes through to his friend that they only two know. 

"Peterson, I have thought of a way. You also need to get out of this confusing world. This room of yours has overcome hell. You need to get out so you can breathe, and breathe fresh air. It's not just confinement here."

"What are you saying, Dave? I can't get out of here anymore. This is now my world. You know that."

Peterson replied, sure of what he said to Dave. He had no reason to hope that one day his eyesight would return.

The doctor said there was no hope. 

If he seeks a doctor in America and there he will have surgery. There's a chance for him, his eyesight came back.

Why else? Peterson often said. 

If he leaves, what he worries about is that he will lose everything his father worked for. 

He couldn't even tell what the problem was for his family. His situation that he faces alone. 

He can only leave the room whenever Dave visits or visits him. 

If Dave visits him. 

Dave's got him out. And they always go to some places where Peterson wants to go.

Dave already has his own house. 

A gift from Peterson after their College graduation used to be Peterson's condo when he was still in college and it was a gift from his parents. He gave it to Dave after he had built his own house.

"There is a way, Peterson. Later you will know and you will know the person who will be with you whenever I am away and cannot visit you." Dave replied. 

 "What? Person? Later?" Dave nodded even though he knew Peterson couldn't see. 

"Yes, I hired her to take care of you while I'm away. And, because of her, you can go out always, often whenever you want. And, you can go to the office without worrying. She will take care of you. She will be your maid and she will take care of you and keep you from others." Dave said again.

"Don't worry for her, she knows how to keep your secret from others, so no one can know that you lost your sight."

"What if I don't agree?" Peterson immediately objected when he heard "she" 

A girl that he doesn't know and Dave says she is his maid.

"It's too late for your stubbornness and your way of resisting my decision." Dave also responded quickly to his friend's stubbornness.

"Dave" Peterson whispered his friend's name.

Dave sighed. Because he knows that Peterson knew, he wasn't going to lose here when it came to his decisions. Peterson still couldn't win against him.

Dave is also stubborn, especially when it comes to his friend's sake.

*****

"Are you alright? Why are you nervous?" Trina asked when they met before she went to the place mentioned by Dave.

They had already talked to Dave, but only on the phone. 

She was nervous to hear its full voice which was delicious to hear. 

She felt something strange in herself as it throbbed fast as she looked at her cell phone screen to see who was calling her before she answered it.

Dave's number she has also saved on her phone. 

When Trina gave her the next day Madam's number she called. 

Madam gave her Dave's number so that she could call him and she could talk to Dave in person. 

Madam never mentioned to her why Dave wanted to talk to her. 

When she texted Dave. Dave replied to her. He reminds her how Dave blocked his body from the knife of her opponent that should have wanted to stab her. 

Dave even said he could want compensation. But Dave did not mention what kind of payment it wanted. 

Dave just told her he had a job offer for her with a big salary.

She no longer refused as she was surprised a large amount of money came into her bank account.

Sofia was surprised how it knew her bank account and Dave sent a large amount that was more than she needed for her mother's hospital expenses.

Sofia could no longer think twice because she needed Dave's money. But before she went to meet Dave, she first went to the hospital to bring the money to her mother. She paid all the bills for the operation and some tests to be done on her mother before the operation was performed. 

She says to the doctor to take care of her mother first in case she could not go to the hospital right away.

So now she is going to the place where she and Dave will meet. "Don't be nervous. You said work was the reason why he wanted to meet you, didn't you?" Sofia nodded.

"By the way, why do you need to be nervous?" Trina asked.

"I don't know," Sofia replied.

Sofia sighed.

It's because the nervousness she feels doesn't go away or disappear. Especially now that they will meet again the man who saved her life.

"Just think of the job you are going to do. Then maybe he won't do anything bad to you. And, as far as I can tell, Dave is kind. He just kept quiet as I told you every time he was at the bar. But, of course, we're already convinced that he's still a man and you shouldn't trust him right away. But, Madam told me that you don't have to worry about her niece because he is so kind." Trina said to alleviate Sofia's worries.

Sofia thought about what Trina had told her before they parted and she took her in a taxi. 

She just nodded to Trina after she boarded, and Trina told her not to worry. But her nervousness is still there and will not go away. 

Sofia sighed again as she was on board a taxi to a village that Dave had pointed out to her. 

Dave texted again to say that they would meet at his friend's house.

Who is the friend Dave mentioned? Sofia asked herself when her eyes were amazed after the taxi stopped in front of a very beautiful and very large house.

Is Dave's friend the one who owns it? Sofia asked herself again as she got out of the taxi and left him in front of the big house.