Chapter 3
Category:
Urban
Author:
MaeveWords:1162Update time:25/05/26 19:56:40
This scene.
Made both Roy and Liana freeze in place.
Roy quickly snapped out of it and yanked me aside:
"This is the friend you mentioned?"
His voice carried a note of displeasure as he glared at the man, his brows furrowed so tightly they could crush a mosquito.
"Yes, I'm MiMi's good friend, Drew Grimes."
Drew confidently shook hands with Roy, then casually tossed his luggage into the trunk before plopping down in the back seat. He waved excitedly at me:
"MiMi, come on in."
I moved to get into the car, but Roy stopped me.
"Daring, men and women shouldn't sit together like this. Isn't it inappropriate for you to sit with another man?"
He leaned in close, and I could almost hear the grinding of his teeth.
I looked at him, puzzled, "Just friends."
Out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at Liana, still comfortably seated in the front.
For a moment, Roy was at a loss for words.
......
Drew chatted with me the entire ride.
It made the front seats seem unusually quiet.
It's not that Liana wasn't talking.
She's usually quite lively.
Every time we went out, she would chatter endlessly with Roy, from childhood mishaps to the latest gossip in their neighborhood. They'd go back and forth, always discussing topics that left me, sitting in the back, completely out of the loop.
But today.
No matter how much Liana tried to strike up a conversation, Roy remained distant and uninterested.
The thirty-minute drive took only fifteen.
After dropping off the two passengers.
He opened the passenger door for me:
"Come sit up front."
I glanced at him, then remained seated in the back, calmly declining:
"I'm fine back here."
"I'm tired. Let's just get home."
I closed my eyes to rest.
In the silence, Roy's door slam seemed louder than usual.
Roy entered the house with a dark expression.
I had just taken off my shoes and stepped out of the entryway when I saw him sitting in the living room, smoking.
The glowing ember of his cigarette cast shadows on his face, highlighting his conflicted expression.
"What's the deal with that guy?"
Roy took a deep drag, then crushed the cigarette into the ashtray before looking up at me.
I looked at him, my tone calm:
"We're just friends."
"A six-foot-tall man as your friend? Mina, you went on that business trip with him, didn't you? You spent several days with a man like that…."
The more he spoke, the angrier he became. He kicked the suitcase hard.
I grew angry too, yanking open the suitcase as I retorted, seeing the fury on his face, "A business trip partner is either male or female. He's easy to get along with, so what's wrong with being friends?"
"Of course, there's a problem! He's a man! How can a man be a friend?"
"Why not? You can have female friends, but I can't have male friends?"
My words left him speechless.
I had never seen such a range of expressions on Roy's face before.
There was shock, frustration, and even a bit of resentment.
Finally, he nearly ground out a sentence through clenched teeth:
"Liana is different. She grew up with us. If anything were going to happen, it would have by now…."
"And I'm different with Drew. Can't we just trust each other?" I cut him off, speaking with conviction.