Don’t Fall In Love With Me Mr. Ceo - Chapter 13

Mia finally stopped crying and the sky turned dark while the stars twinkled in the sky. She does not know how long they stood there and she has no idea what to do next. William seemed unmoving even though he must have noticed Mia stopped crying.

Mia thought of something and acted quickly. She slowly moved her hands to William’s side.

Mia suddenly stopped crying but William does not know what to do next in this kind of situation. He would just wait for her next move, William thought to himself. Not long after Mia moved her hands slowly to his sides. He got excited and his heartbeat became faster. It seems that Mia is going to hug him back. He was anticipating Mia’s next move when he couldn’t help himself and yelp as he suddenly felt pain to his side.

Mia slowly moved her hands and pinched some skin from his side, she then gave it one twist, it seems highly effective as William gave a yelp, and his hands who were hugging her are now touching his side.

“It hurts,” William said.

Mia couldn’t hold in her laughter as she saw his appearance. Her chest felt like a load was removed.

“Let’s sit over there, I prepared food, snacks and some hot chocolate drink. Do you want any?” As William led Mia near the viewing deck, there was a blanket laid out on the floor, a basket, cooler and a hot water container. Mia sat down on the laid out blanket. William poured in the chocolate drink in two cups and handed Mia one while he sat beside Mia, holding his own cup.

They remained quiet for some time as if they were enjoying the view of the night sky. A couple of minutes later Mia asked him, “Do you remember when we first met?”

William replied with a gentle smile, “I prefer the first time we talked.”

[Williams point of view]

My father’s business has started to boom and our lives were getting better, however, father suddenly made a decision for me and my sister to move to his old town. He told us that he would prefer that we experience normal lives as kids and not be spoiled by all the money that we had. The decision was sudden but his actions are so much more amazing. We were then sent to our grandparent’s old house, our admission to his old public school was all arranged and our things were not even packed.

Just like shipping a delivery, he came and went after a few instructions. First, we have to live by ourselves for the time being to learn to be more responsible. I who was 8 at that time while my sister was 10 was dumbfounded by this instruction. What did he expect from his two kids at our age? Second, we had to budget our allowance which he will give every week. He told us that he will not give us additional money if we overspend. Lastly, we had to do the household chores and food preparations. We were both baffled and lost in what 2 kids like us do to survive. Before he took us where we went to get our haircut, me and my sister, but that’s a different story.

As we were in different grades, I who was suddenly in a place so unfamiliar to me felt insecure and alone. I was looking at the floor while I was introducing myself. The school year has already started so I had no friends whom I can talk to. I was given a seat near the window at the last row, the problem was, I was small for my age, the only comfort I had was the girl in front of me was the same height as me so I can just lean over and be able to see the board. I just needed to find the right angle.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday passed like normal, however, when Thursday came I had no more money. Our house was close to the local shopping district, there I found my favorite action figure of the anime I like, without thinking much I bought. I got home and realized my mistake so I asked my sister nicely if she could lend me some money, unfortunately, she was in the same situation as me. Her only saving grace was, she was popular with the girls in her class and they give her free food since classes started. I, on the other hand, had no friends which I can ask for food.

The dreaded lunch break came, and I did not know if I should stand up and go somewhere else as everyone was taking out their lunch boxes or getting up to buy food. I always bought food when the bell rings and would bolt out of the room as fast as lightning. The line gets packed up with people really fast so you have to act fast to get the good stuff. As I was having this thought my stomach grumbled. I thought it was pretty loud as some of my classmates looked my way. I was embarrassed so I looked down at my desk.

As I was looking down there was a sudden shadow that cast above my head. I looked up and saw the girl in front of me looking at me. I thought she would ask me if I was the one whose stomach was grumbling but instead she asked me, “Did you forget your lunch?”

I could not answer her question, instead, I was just looking at her. I never did pay any attention to my classmates. She who was in front of me had her hair tied in a braid, she was wearing dorky glasses, her dress was a shade of pastel that was decorated with frills and laces while she was wearing doll shoes.

This was the first time she talked to me.