RJ already got a hint who on earth would carelessly enter his room. He put down his headphone and waited for her to speak up.
“Er…I’m here to watch NBA season, can I?” She asked but didn’t wait for him to answer and just went on to the TV remote and pressed the turn on botton. She then plopped herself into HIS bed.
He noticed her voice to be always cracking.
“Have you heard a crow screeched?”
“Eh?” She asked dumbfounded.
“You freaking sounded exactly like a crow.”
“Oh. You mean my tonsils?”
“So, it’s a tonsil? No wonder you have this very ugly screech.”
She slightly turned to him. ‘Screech? What is she? A bird?’
“Rude.” She muttered.
He smirked. “At least I’m not screeching…”
“I’m not a stupid bird, you know…”
“Then where should I categorize your kind? To an alien, then?"
“Nye, Nye…very funny…I’m laughing so hard here.” She rolled her eyes.
“Bird brain creatures don’t laugh.”
“Because you stole all of the bird brain’s humor.” She snapped back quite annoyed.
“May I pet you, bird brain?”
‘Does he has a plan to keep his effing mouth shut?’ Fara thought.
“What‘s the matter Bird brain? Did you gulp your tongue already?”
“Shut up, RJ. You’re not funny.”
“Facts are not something be to laugh at. You’re a Dodo bird…that’s a fact.”
Her nose wrinkled in annoyance. ‘Is he getting his revenge now?’ Well she must admit it that he won this time. She just can’t help it but feel the irritation. She was dragged down into a low specie in the world and guess what? The guy just picked up the most hateful ugly bird ever crept in the planet earth!
‘Dodo bird! A fugly long-beak dodo bird!’ Her mind shouted.
“Don’t mess up with me, baby boy, or you will catch a glimpse of hell…” She threatened trying to sound like him.
He chuckled as he earned his success from annoying this girl. He was not like this though but he so wanted to get revenged on her.
“Stop chuckling, mummy…” Fara fought back.
“Piece of advice, you should be in the rice field… you can make a perfect scare crow with that thin and flat as board boobs of yours...”
“Whoa! p*****t!” She crossed her arms to her chest.
“…or maybe you’re the runaway skeleton from our laboratory? No wonder it wasn’t there anymore…” RJ massaged his chin as if thinking.
Alright, Fara lost it.
“You!” She punched him straight to his face but her hand were caught by him. His annoying smile was gone. Fear enveloped her now as she prepared herself for the hell to come.
“I could sue you from attempting to assault me like that.” His teeth greeted.
“You started it!” She shouted.
“You are the one who trespassed here, b***h!” He exploded.
Fara recoiled in the reminder of someone who used to call her that word. She struggled from his grip and try to pull herself from him with all of her force. She was so frantic right now, her worthlessness was embracing her as she remembered the marked on her back, the very reason that destroyed her father’s trust to her.
He let her go this time as she started to punch him aimlessly. But Fara, unable to find her balance slipped immediately from the bed. A loud thud could be heard then.
“Hey, are you alright?” RJ asked after a moment of long silence.
No answer. Not a single groaned of pain from the girl.
He abruptly stood up from the bed and blindly traced his way towards her.
“s**t!” He cursed in the air as he found her lying in the floor, unconscious. He grabbed her and it took only a few seconds to discover that a moist on his hands now were actually her blood.
“Hey, girl!” He tapped her face. “Damn it! Don’t play with me this time, baby girl! Come on, speak!”
He actually skipped a beat when he didn’t receive any response at all. He hoisted her up to his bed and quickly dashed outside his room to call for some help. Luckily his doctor and nurse were heading to his room.
“What happen, mast-“
“Get your assess inside, damn it!”
The two doctors found a girl lying on his bed. A wound was very visible on her forehead. She was then brought to the operating room.
Chisa’s POV
I was heading towards Fara’s room in haste. I just received a call from her nanny that she caught an accident.
Tsk! That girl was an epitome of everything that spells disaster! No wonder she was called a walking trouble maker.
I got into her room and immediately turned to the nurse attendee.
“How is she?” I asked.
Fara was still sleeping right now.
“It was a slight injury. She hit her head on the floor. But the doctor said that she will be fine. And her discharge was canceled due to her accident. She will be staying for days, maybe.”
I nodded to her. Well I guess it leaves me no choice then. I guess I need to extend her leave from her class.
The nurse gave some further instruction to the nanny and left the room. I approached near to Fara and removed some strands of her hair off her face.
“Sleep well, tokki.” Then I hummed while caressing her hair. I know that she loved to be sung like this.
***
“What’s the matter, Andre… I did my best to please you, aren’t I?” Fara said almost pleading tone.“please don’t break up with me, oppa... I love –“
“Shut up b***h!” Andre snarled at her but Fara can’t stop right now. They shouldn’t break up. She can’t stand it.
“You are really stupid to do everything I told you. Look at you!” he exclaimed in disgust. “You had tattooed yourself with that disgusting beast!”
“But you are the one who requested this…” referring to the dragon tattoo on her back.
“That was easy…” he grinned. “…and guess what? You had helped me won from the bet. That marked on your back, was an indication that I’ve won and will be your constant reminder of your foolishness.”
She slapped him big time which earned her injury when he mercilessly slapped her back.
“I have love you! But you are a jerk! A jerk!”Fara shouted at the top of her lungs. Her frame was trembling because of too much anger.
“A b***h is a b***h…no matter how fancy your clothing maybe, Fara.” Siri butted in. Andre kissed her in front of Fara. Those two were together all along and she was fool enough to believe that Andre loved her.
“And one more thing, I never loved you, bitch.” Andre said nonchalantly.
She had heard from the student that Andre just received a large amount of money from his friends who joined the bet.
Those animals! Money diggers!
Her calvary didn’t end there when her father knew about her trouble and the tattoo on her back.
“I disowned you!” her father shouted to her. She cried herself for the whole night. She even stopped for a semester just to tend her bruised mind, heart and soul. The only person who was true to her was her Chisamie. She always visited her in the house. And she was the only person that talked to her as if nothing happened. After what happen to her and Andre, came great pestilence. Firstly, she dropped out and failed her professors who used to believe in her ability. Secondly, she stained her skin with a dragon tattoo and thirdly, her father didn’t trust her anymore as evidence of naming the company to someone she hadn’t met yet.
Everybody in her house wasn’t talking to her. Well, aside from their help, no one did dare to talk to her. Her father grew cold towards her. And her mother can’t look straight to her eyes as if it was great crime to have such daughter like her.
Her perfect family was now ruined because of her unruly acts of stupidity…that person took away everything from her!
She always cried on her room in secret hiding all the affliction of life within her.
Farasha’s POV
A sleeping form of Chisamie caught my eyes the moment I opened them from slumber. Yeah I’m in my room right now. I looked at the clock…2:47am. The room was so quite but why did my heart was racing like hell? Could it be a ghost staring at me now? I gulped, somehow frightened by my own thoughts.
‘Stop it, Fara!’
I bolted into a sit on my bedside when I remembered what happen between me and that damn asshole RJ. Yeah, I fell off from his bed and the rest was…well, I don’t know. I just found myself again in my bed with Chisamie on my side.
I stood up feeling a little bit dizzy, I unconsciously touched my forehead.
‘Oh, bandages?’
I quickly ran to the comfort room and found myself staring in the mirror. I frowned a bit.
‘So I injured myself this much, I wonder why am I not stricken in pain?’
I guess, I got used to hurting myself. This wound in my head was nothing compared to the pain within me. The marked on my back was the evidence of it. Even without taking my clothes off, the dragon was quite visible as it traveled its tails to my upper arm and at the back of my nape. I heaved a sigh and smiled. Life’s like that. We made mistakes, don’t forget to stand up. Just breathe… that was the secret of it. Breathe, Fara.
***
Seven in the morning, Fara was still fast asleep. Chisamie didn’t bother to wake her up before leaving. She had to attend her classes and finish some papers as preparation for her research defend.
7:45 o'clock in the morning.
Fara stretched her arm wide and gave herself a big yawn of her life. She was quite refreshed despite what happened to her yesterday. RJ reminded her about her past, well it happened three months ago, but surprisingly, she can manage to laugh about it. She even dreamed about it last night and the feelings for Andre?
Zero.
No hard feelings after all. Well, maybe a little bit.
But for Siri? Always in foul mood every time her name was mentioned.
She jumped off her bed and went to her nanny who had her back against her direction.
“Good morning!” Fara beamed rather loudly which made the latter slightly jumped in fright.
“Omo! Don’t surprise me like that! You planning to kill me?” Loisa clutched her chest.
Fara only giggled.
“Are you feeling fine now?” the nanny asked after a while.
“Yeah.”
“Then let us grab the meals I prepared.”
“Yay!” Fara excitedly clapped her hands as she saw her favorite sweets on the basket. “At last!”
Then she attacked the food focusing more on the desert. It had been a very long time, three weeks to be exact, since her tongue touched sweets because of her effing tonsil. Although she still had the annoying cracking of her voice but the doctor said that she’s all heal after the Tonsillectomy surgery and taking antibiotics.
After a while…
Loisa was preparing to leave when she remembered something important. She turned to Fara who was carefully scrutinizing her camera and clicked shots to the window which was revealing the sky.
“Fara, Chisamie left something for you. She said it’s your assignment.” She handed a book to Fara.
“ Assignment?” she pouted.
“Chisamie wants you to read the pages she folded there and make some reports. She will get back here after 2 days.”
Fara scanned the folded pages and made faces.
“Fine. I will finish this before tomorrow.” Fara said at last.
“Alright, I’ll leave first…you behave here, okay?" Loisa reminded.
Fara only nodded. “ Be careful in your way.”
The nanny waved her goodbye.
2:00 o'clock in the afternoon.
Fara was still in the middle of reading, taking down notes, and summarizing. She didn’t notice the nurse coming in and out to her room, checking her if she took her meals and giving her the medicines.
4:00 o'clock in the afternoon.
Fara was encoding her summary while having a piece of home-made cookies beside her. Munch, munch. Encode and munch...
7:00 o'clock in the evening.
The nurse came in to give Fara her medicine. She had eaten her dinner already. Her eyes on the screen, still working for the final draft of her report.
The nurse managed not to disturb the geek working.
9:45 o'clock of the night.
Fara yawned and stood up to stretch. “I’m finished! Yay!” She exclaimed and shook her butt left and right. She grinned seemed satisfied with her accomplishment.
She then managed to fix herself as she prepared to sleep. After a while, she went to her bed and grabbed her camera, scanned the pictures she had captured. She smiled with the perfection of her shots.
It was one thing she can brag about herself. She had this artistic talent and modesty aside, she had been the school’s great asset when it comes to photo shooting. She had worked with lots of the country’s known photographers. Not to mention that she had been sent to Paris to join a world contest. To make it short, she just brought home the bacon without sweats.
Her father was so proud of her not until she met Andre in a photo shoot. He was a model in bunny magazine and coincidentally, they both attended the same school.
Not long after, he courted her. They were together and were even known as the Campus Couple. Andre can sing a song with his beautiful voice and every knee will be bent every time he sings.
Fara considered their relationship a bliss. She loved him that much but it happened that their togetherness was a great lie. A fallacy, maybe.
Fara put down the camera on the bed and heaved a deep sigh.
Past is past. She must move on or she will break. She placed the camera beside the net book, grabbed the latter and started surfing.
“ What’s new…” She mumbled.
She typed: Business today.
Search result: Kwon Group soar high in the business industry…
“ Nye…”
She did not finish it and searched in the sports events.
‘Boston Celtics leads the game against Miami Heats’
“Yes! Boston wins the game! Boston wins the game!” Fara sung doing the western country dance. “Oh yeah, who’s the man dude?” she said mocking the losers.
She read more about the news and was disappointed that her favorite player Piere, can’t play with the next game because of the injuries on his feet. It will be good if she was able to witness the winning moment of her team but because of RJ-
‘Wait a minute? RJ! How is he doing right now?’ She suddenly thought but eventually wrinkled her nose remembering him teasing her as a flatted-boobs scare crow, dodo bird and a skeletal system representation on their laboratory. And what else?
“He’s a monster mummy!” she ranted mostly to herself.
‘Maybe he got annoyed with my presence?’ She pouted with the thought. Was she that annoying?
She paused for a while as she remembered his words.
‘You’re the one who trespass here, b***h!’
She could still hear him shouting at her…
“Well I’m gonna apologize to him tomorrow…and leave him alone. ” She said finally as she retired to her bed.
Nurse’s POV
It was past twelve of the midnight already but master Rui was still wide awake sitting on his bed. Throughout the day, he had been behaving well.
I didn’t have difficulty in feeding him. However he scarcely finished his every meals which naturally, I can’t insist. Giving him the medicine? Piece of cake. But I can’t get used to this kind of a behaved dragon.
I was pretty aware that he was waiting for baby girl to come. But she didn’t. Maybe that explained his mood now?
I don’t know.
“Please rest now, Master Rui Kwon…” I sounded like pleading this time bowing my head.
No response.
“You must take care of your health, master.” I said, still bowing my head.
No response.
I looked up to him. His forehead crest and his lips firmly closed. His face obviously directed to one direction. The door.
I hesitated but I couldn’t hold it any longer. “Baby girl is probably resting right now but I think she’ll come here tomorrow?” Oh my…did I just say that?
“Do you think so?” he asked facing my direction. Gosh, I’m dead now.
“Certainly.” I found myself nodding while saying a silent prayer to myself.
Then he decided to lie down to his bed.
After a moment, I hear his gentle snore. As I stared at him, I realized what the other lady nurses were talking about him. Despite my age, I’m 30 years old with two sons, my judgment about beauty can’t fail me. Well, master was quite gorgeous. More like a fallen black angel…what’s happening to me now?
I shook my head and was about to leave when someone knock on the door and opened it.
‘Oh! It is her!’ I’m surprise with the presence of baby girl. I approached her as she timidly entered the room.
“How are you feeling now?” I asked her in a low possible tone.
“Is he asleep?” she asked looking on master’s direction. She had a basket on her right hand. I could notice her eyes tense the moment she entered the room but it was suddenly washed out when she saw him sleeping.
“What’s the matter?” I asked.
“Nothing. I just want to check on him.” She smiled. “I’ll leave first. Please give this to him when he wakes up.” She glanced at him and mumbles something within herself. I could catch a few words only. He’s fine. Can’t be dead. Just a dream.
I paused, realizing the puzzled words.
‘So she thought him to be dead so she went here to check him?’ I shook my head again. Could this be a good development?