Playing Hard to Get

Jennifer wake up from her sleep at noon. She remembered about the incident happened this dawn as soon as she opened her eyes. She was frightened at the thought if it was all just a dream. But, she was assured that she was not dreaming as she heard someone's voice. She looked at her side and saw the mother and son duo. 

The son was so handsome and the mother was so pretty. Edward was not in his pajamas. He was wearing a white shirt. Jennifer felt like she had a punch in her hurt as she saw him in that white shirt. 

" How can someone be so handsome?!, she thought to herself. She felt like as if her whole body was filled with butterflies. 

Selina was forcing him to finish the soup and he was frowning at his mother. She found it so cute that a smile formed on her lips. She was shocked as she heard Selina scolding him, " My Son, come on! Be my good boy and finish this. Aren't you my good boy?", Edward looked so helpless in front of his mother. He was looking like a annoyed child. Jennifer never imagined in her dream that a person like Edward was treated like a child by his mother. "Aunt Selina was literally treating her dashing business tycoon son like a 5 years old kiddo!" 

Remembering about kiddo, she was suddenly embarrassed as she thought about this morning. How she started to cry in front of him thinking that she was paralysed. Most importantly, the reason why she was mainly crying was really embarassing. She was so upset that there was nobody in this world to wash her loo. 

"Oh my god, Jenny. How could you cry for this. What would have happened if I would have told him that I was crying because I was tensed about my loo.", Jennifer's hand was on her mouth as she yelled out in panic, " Oh Jesus! " 

Both Edward and Selina looked at the direction of that sudden voice. Selina called out to Jennifer as she hurriedly move to her bed side, " Jennifer, what happened? Was there any bad dream?", Jennifer was stunned as she was looking at Selina with her big eyes. She started to think about what she should say and told her after some seconds, " Yeah, I think I had a bad dream." 

Selina heaved a sigh of relief and caressed her cheeks. She hold her hands tightly and said, " Jennifer, Aunt will always take care of you from now. You don't have to worry about anything. Just take rest now. You are all fine. Doctors said that you will be discharged soon.", Selina gave her a warm smile. 

" So, you can move yourself?", a voice came behind. Selina and Jennifer both looked at Edward. Jennifer looked at him and there eyes were met. Jennifer felt like her heart forgot to breadth. She controlled her emotions somehow and simply just nodded at him. She didn't say anything further. She turned her eyes at Selina and started to talk with her. She was still very embarrassed about her crying in front of him at that morning. So, she was just nervous around him which led her to ignore him. 

Edward tried to avoid this matter but he could not help feeling irritated about what just happened. He was thinking in his mind as he was frowning, " Huh! Ignoring me now, great! Is she trying to play hard to get or what? She thinks I don't know that she is also just like other fangirls of mine!"

Just at that moment, Lina came to the cabin. She greeted everyone as she entered the room, " Good morning everyone. Edward, are you already planning to go to the office?", she asked Edward as she saw him in shirt and pant. Edward nodded at him. She chuckled and turned to Selina, " Aunt, why don't you say something to your son?" 

She then turned her eyes on Jennifer. She gave her a warm smile as she asked her, 

"Miss Jennifer, I am so glad that you came out just totally healthy and fine after this huge surgery. " Jennifer just nodded at her. She can clearly felt that Lina was faking it. She knew so well that Lina doesn't like her at all. 

" Okay, guys. I am so relieved now as I have seen you both healthy and good. Aunt Selina, please take care of them. See you guys.", After saying that Lina just left. Selina and Edward didn't have any reaction at Lina's actions. But Jennifer was stunned. " She just left?! ", she had wierd feeling about Lina. As a girl, she could clearly sense that Lina had feelings for Edward. " Shouldn't she show some affection towards Edward. Why she just left?", she started to think in her mind. 

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By the evening, both were discharge from the hospital and taken to the Philips residence. Both of them were fine now. Edward had a special kind of physic so he just recovered soon. He always takes a very short time to recover. That's a reason why his father call him " Superman." but, Jennifer was weak and she needed to rest well for some days. 

Edward and Selina both didn't want her to keep in that hospital after hearing about that nurse who mixed drugs with her antidotes. So, they took her to the hospital and appointed two special nurse for her. 

After coming to their house, Edward informed his parents about his business trip. The flight was after an hour. They both got furious hearing him. Mr. Philips started to shout at him, " Here comes our Superman son, how dare you to decide this without asking your parents?" 

That time, Selina did not try to calm down her husband as she also started to scold her son, " Son, how can you go for business trips just after this huge surgery. What if something happens? " 

Edward looked at his angry parents and took a deep breath. He then started to give explanation, " This tour is very important. It was already decided. I dont want to delay this anymore. It's not like I will have any loss in business if I don't go. But, I just don't want to loss the contract. I will be unhappy if I dont get this. Also, don't worry about me. I will take care of myself I promise." 

Mr and Mrs Philips was still not satisfied. But, at the end they had to give up in front of their son. They both knew Edward so well. Their son will definitely do what he already has decided to do. 

After the conversation with his parents, Edwards went to the second floor and stopped in front of Jennifer's room. He was just standing outside of her room as he was in dilemma if he should enter or not. After a while, he decided to enter. He knocked at the door and the nurse opened the door. He told the nurse to go outside. 

Jennifer was already asleep. She was already very sleepy because of her medicines. She was asleep as soon as she was sattled on the bed. Edward sat beside her and kept staring at her face for a long time. There was no motion in her body and her breathing was heavy. She was in deep sleep. Edward came to inform her that he was going to Paris for few days. But, at that moment he didn't have the heart to wake her up. After some time, he walked away from her room and straight went to his room. He felt like to take a cold shower before the flight.