In his condo, Will could smell the justly cooked maggi curry noodle as he opened the main door. Emmi just came out of the kitchen wearing an apron with a bowl.
“Can I have one please…?”
“Nah take mine… I will cook another,” Emmi replied him. She suddenly stopped and looked at Will.
“What’s wrong…? You seemed upset.”
“You know I went to meet Hammy this evening.”
“So did you saw her?”
“Yup… and I passed her a bouquet of flowers. Then she was picked up by Jimmy,” Will sighed.
“So…?” she went back to the kitchen.
“He always gets the girls…”
“So you meant you have to give up… it seemed that you have some confidence problem there.”
“Yup… with girls. I am not good at it.”
“You try to hard… just be yourself and acts normal.”
“I don’t know.”
Will started eating his noodles. The place was quiet for awhile as he silently eating the noodles. Emmi came out of the kitchen later with another bowl of noodles.
“You don’t have to do some many things, just be yourself. If the lady doesn’t notice you, it meant you are not in her list.”
“Really?”
“Well that is how a woman thinks…”
“I am kind of a loser in this matter.”
“Everyone has his or her advantages perhaps she didn’t notice it yet.”
“I am not going to find a girl friend; no one will like to date a nerd. I am boring guy, you know.”
“You are not, you are smart, talented and far sighted person I even known. The way you run your restaurant and the creative food you cook, I can’t allow missing them.”
“You are just trying to be nice to me.”
“Tell you what, if no girl will be your girl friend, I will be yours.”
Will looked at Emmi. She indeed has a beautiful pair of eyes.
“Ok… after eating go and have some shower. You smelled.”
“Ok…ok,” Will replied.
CHAPTER FIVE
Langkawi, an island on the state of Kedah at the north of Malaysia peninsular. Will had decided to hold an annual trip for his restaurant at the Berjaya Beach resort in Langkawi Island.
At the same time, they were going to shoot an advertising video for the restaurant. Will had engaged Emmi’s company to work on this project so Emmi and her colleagues were coming along. Will was looking out of the window of the bus. The scenery of tropical lush hills fascinates Will which he totally ignored the buzz in the bus.
The bus has stopped in front of the resort lobby. Emmi who sat next to him hit his arm lightly indicating they have left the bus. Will let everyone to leave the bus.
There was buzz as everyone was picking their own luggage to the lobby. Will tried to help Emmi but he was stopped by the scene that one of Emmi’s colleagues, Billy Kam was helping her.
“Little bit jealous isn’t it?” Meston spoke as he stood at the back of Will.
“Why? I am happy for her,” Will lied.
Deep down, he was jealous as the girl he used be tease and talked to comfortably was being treated nicely by some else. He only met Billy just a couple hours ago and he already noticed that Billy was taking very opportunities to help Emmi.
“Come on… Will,” Emmi called out.
He just nodded as he and Meston walked towards the lobby.
The resort lobby was an open space lounge with overlooking of the swimming pools. Further away, the pools were facing the private own beach of the resort.
Emmi walked near Will and she passed a room card to him.
“Thanks.”
“I took the liberty to stay with you… in the same room. You don’t mind right?” she hit Will lightly again.
“Of course not… you can’t sleep if you didn’t hit me…hahhaha,” Will replied.
“Emmi, you want to share room with me?” Billy asked as he appeared behind Emmi.
“No, I am good. My house mate and I are staying together.”
Then they could hear Meston announcing the schedule.
“Alright everyone today is free and easy. Tomorrow we will start shooting the video. The following day will be tour day and the last day we need to pack and go back home.”
Everyone just nodded.
The resort rooms were situated inside the dense tropical rainforest hill. In order to reach the room, the hotel buggy will transport guests to and from the lobby and rooms.
Will was sitting on the buggy was it transport him back to his room. He had an evening walk on the beach and he need to shower before heading for dinner. Buggy moved along the cement road with garden lamps at the roadside for every 100 meters and went deeper into the lushful forest. The tropical trees were high up and some of the branches were thick. The place also surround with the sound of insects buzzing around.
Slowly, the buggy stopped. Will walked up a stairs platform towards his room. He tapped his room card on the door lock and opened the door.
Will looked around the room as the door closed.
“Emmi, time for dinner…”
He was stunned as Emmi was standing in the bathroom and the bathroom door was widely opened. His house mate had just showered and she was standing there naked. Will just stood there looking at Emmi’s body from top to bottom. Emmi has a very fair smooth skin with her perky C cup breasts looked nice with her small 5ft 4’ body. Her nipples were dark pink in color and small.
Will’s eyes slowly directed to her small patch of hair on top her smooth vagina. Suddenly Will’s eyes met with Emmi’s, and then he mumbled some words and quickly left the room.
The air in the dense forest was fresh but not enough to clear Will’s mind. The image of Emmi without a shred of cloth kept playing in his mind. He walked along the pathway taking deep breath. Slowly he started to calm down listening to the birds chirping on the trees top and the insect buzzing deep in the forest.
He stopped and sat on a bench along the pathway. Deep in his mind, he was happy as he saw Emmi naked. She was indeed intriguing and he started fond of her. He even felt comfortable with her.
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The late morning sun was high up. It was a hot day on the private owned beach of the resort. The waves hit lightly on the soft sand of the beach.
Will was standing in front of the screen looking at the production crews shooting the video of his advertisement. It was already three hours on the beach. Some crews started to take some rest under the shades of some palm trees.
“Where is Emmi?” Will asked one of her colleagues.
“I think she went to that hill over there… looking for more location.”
“Ok… thanks.”
Will walked pass the lobby towards the archery area and up to the hill.
The part of hill was next to the sea and there were rocks formation dividing the dense forest hill with the sea. Will was started to worry about Emmi because the place was difficult to hike. The trees were big and there were lots of fern and wild plants on the bottom of those big tropical trees.
“Emmi…” he shouted out.
Will continued to walk for fifteen minutes but no one answered. He was wondering why she ventured this part of the resort. Then he saw a group of monkeys eating so fruits about 10 meters away. He calmly walked another direction to avoid them.
Another fifteen minutes have passed, he now was walking downhill.
“Help… anyone.”
He could hear the call from a small valley not far from his position.
“Coming…” he shouted as he reached the top of the valley.
Indeed it was Emmi sat on the ground with her hand pressing on her leg. She was at the bottom of the valley.
“Are you ok?” he asked.
“I can’t walked…”
“Ok… don’t move. I am coming down.”
Will slowly holding one tree branch after another sliding down to Emmi’s position. It was difficult to slide down as the plenty of dry leaves on the slope.
“You dropped down, is it?”
“Yup… and hurt my ankle.”
Will has reached Emmi’s position.
“Let me look…” he looked at her ankle and it was slightly red.
“Come, let me piggyback you,” Will looked at Emmi.
“Huh?”
“Why… are you shy ah?”
“Not really… I scared you fall me down…” Will already squad down and grabbing Emmi’s arm.
“Ready?” Emmi climbed on top of Will’s back.
He slowly stood up and walked.
“Quite heavy… ouch”
Emmi beat lightly on Will’s head.
“You deserved it…”
“Why?”
“For looking at me naked…”
Will smiled and Emmi was looking at him. Her face was so close to his.
“I like it… sexy and pretty. Ouch”
Again she beat him as he walked her half way. Now Emmi had her head resting on Will’s shoulder.
“Will… thank. I felt secured every time I am with you.”
“You are welcome…”
CHAPTER SIX
It was busy morning in twenty fifth floor of Amazing Tower. The finance department was in havoc, senior executives and managers were busy handling a crisis situation.
In fact, the penthouse level was gathered by many senior directors and managers. They were all in distress as everyone was putting all their attention on the KLSE board monitor.
The exchange of KLSE was volatile as some groups of international funds were trying to manipulate the exchange that morning. Many of companies share prices down tremendously. People were panicking.
One of the subsidiary company of the group was involved in the crisis. The Amazing Lite Company was one of the group companies listed on the KLSE board and was currently has share price dropped of 30%. Many of the staff has speculated that the company was under hostile take over.
May May and Hammy had gathered their report and going up to the penthouse level. They need to provide a new cause of action for the crisis.
“You sure this is the best option?” May May asked.
“We need to do something, or else the rest of the companies in KLSE were dragged into it.”
“I agree,” May May replied.
The door of the elevator open, the place was very noisy as a few of the directors were arguing among each others. The look from their faces expression was not good.
Hammy was worried as she followed May May from behind. Although she was equipped with financial knowledge and has won a few financial competitions but she never encountered such crisis situation before especially involved millions of ringgits. They went into the chair room as May May started to greet the chairman.
“Uncle, we have come out with a cause of action.”
“Let heard this…” Jeff said.
“You have all the information before you came out with the solution?” Lily asked.
May May just nodded.
“Yes, Mr. Chairman and Madam CEO…” Hammy replied.
There were two senior directors in the room, they walked closer to Hammy and anticipate her suggestions.
“We need to forgo the company, so we need to sell our available stock to the market. By doing so, we turned it into cash. At least we cut our losses,” Hammy started.
“We don’t know how bad the situation in KLSE is going to be. We only suspected or guess the groups are international fund. It might cause our other companies which currently only dropped 2%-5% price,” May May added.
“You sure about it… although online and logistic business the Amazing Lite currently operate in might not making substantial profit, but it might has potential,” one of the director commented.
“Ok, Hammy tried to sell 2% our stock first… if market continued to turn bad after 2pm today. We followed your action…”
Hammy nodded.
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The A250 roared out of the tunnel on the North South Highway. The road ahead was a steep corner downward hill. The early morning mist still engulfed the mountain road. The instrument screen indicated 150 kmph as the A250 enter the apex of the corner. There was no car on both lanes ahead. Holding the paddle shift on the steering, the car jerk slight as sixth gear reduce to fifth gear. The car swung superiorly steady with high speed passing the steep corner and exited the corner with 168kmph to the apex of second corner. Thanks to the AMG 20’ rim with Potenza S007 and the AMG/Brabus tuned suspension system, not a single brake was pressed on the AMG ceramic disc. The A250 drove toward the town of Kuala Kangsar.
CHAPTER ONE
Today is the last day of fasting for the month of Ramadan. I had reached Kuala Kangsar town and passed the Perak River to Sayong. The traffic was heavy in the town as tomorrow will be Hari Raya Puasa; my car has finally reached my mother-in-law’s house. The gate of the single storey bungalow was opened.
The house was fenced with white bricks and has a large compound. It was a typical Malay village brick house and was built next to the Perak River. The backyard of the house has a view overlooking at the river, but due to the geography of land, the river is inaccessible from the house.
I parked my A250 near the rambutan tree in front of the house. The tree was planted by my father-in-law many years ago and underneath it was a wooden platform for picnic retreat.
As I came out of the car, a Malay lady in her golden satin baju kurung with her matching dark brown hijab stood at the main door. She was my so called mother-in-law and recently has reached the age fifty but still looked stunningly like a lady in her early forties.
She smiled and asked “Morning, how is the highway traffic?”
“It was ok, since I took off from KL at 5am.”
I opened my car booth and took out two hampers from the car. It was an L’occitane hamper and a BIG Grocer hamper which I usually bought during the festive season.
“Why buy so many things, actually you don’t have to be with me during this raya.”
“It is okay, ma. It is holidays and I am happy to be here.”
I placed the two hampers on the coffee table and walked back out. I still need to carry my luggage out from the car. Aisha, my mother-in-law was still holding the door for me as I carried my luggage into the house.
“Are you hungry? I can cook something for you since I need to prepare for buka puasa tonight?”
“No need, ma. I am fasting…” I replied.
She closed the door and said “Fasting? …there is not an obligation for you since you are Chinese.”
“It is okay, ma. Just for these couple of days only.”
The house was very quiet, since this year my mother-in-law and I were the only one who going to celebrate raya. It was not like this before, during the past two years the house was full of excitements. I have been celebrating the festive season with my girl friend and soon to be wife, Aini and her family here.
However, everything had changed since eight months ago. Aini and her father were attending my brother-in-law convocation in Terengganu for a few days. Since Aisha was not feeling well so she stayed at home. After the whole ceremony, they drove back to Kuala Kangsar and it was then they met with an accident. Their car was squashed by a 10 wheelers lorry and none of them survived.
The incident has devastated both of us and only recently we had managed to resume back to our normal lives.
“You can put your luggage in Aini’s room.”
“Ok,” I nodded and went into Aini’s room.
The room has not been touched for eight months already. We were supposed to marry soon but due to the incident, I have not even converted to Islam or even apply for marriage. Anyhow, I had presumed myself as a family member and Aisha as my mother-in-law.
The smell of cooking started to fill the room as I opened the door. Aisha was in the kitchen cooking and preparing for tonight dinner.
“Ma… can I help?”
“You better have some rest since you have driven for hours.”
“I am ok…”
“Then, please get me some bowls from the cabinet.”
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The sound of prayers from the nearby mosque has filled the evening.
It was time for buka puasa.
I looked at the dark blue sky as I could hear the sound of our neighbors cheering from distance. I lit the last torch that hang around the house compound.
From the house, Aisha was calling me for dinner.
I walked into the dining hall. Aisha has already serving dishes on the dinning table. There were traditional malay foods; there were chicken rendang, ketupat, serunding, BBQ chili kampung fish, curry vegetables and etc.
“Come and eat,” she said before she started her prayer.
I started eating once she finished her prayer.
“YJ, after dinner I will be going to the mosque to help out. You can hang around the house by yourself, ok?”
I just nodded as I was chewing a lot of food.
It has been awhile that I had malay food, especially after Aini passed away. She smiled as she looked at me eagerly eating my food.
It was a short dinner. After that, Aisha was getting ready to the mosque while I was taking a stroll in the house compound. The weather was chilled as I was looking at the neighbor’s children playing fire crackers across the street. It always reminded me about my childhood, playing fire crackers during Chinese New Year.
“I am going now… don’t wait for me,” Aisha said to me as she walked out of the house.
“Be careful…” I said and looking at her walking down the road.
The sound of children playing has echo around the area until later of the night. By that time, I decided to relax on the sofa in the living hall. Soon, I had dozed into sleep.
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Suddenly, I was woken up by a shook on my shoulder.
I slowly opened my eyes. Aisha was standing there and she was wearing a green satin short sleeve sleep dress. It was the first time, I saw her without a hijab. Her shoulder length curly hair smelled with after showered perfume.
I slowly stood up.
“YJ, go and sleep in the room. It is late night already.”
“Ma, you are not wearing a hijab.”
“I am about to go to bed and it is time that you will see me more often in this comfortable look. I wouldn’t mind…. as you are family,” she smiled.
Then I suddenly aware it was not just the hijab, her nipples were poking under her dress. She was not wearing bra and there is nothing underneath the satin dress. Her breasts were clearly outlined on her dress.
Immediately, my cock got hard.
“Good night, ma.”
“Good night.”
Then I walked toward Aini’s room.
CHAPTER TWO
It was the third day of Hari Raya.
My mother-in-law had asked me to accompany her to the wet market early in the morning. She needed to buy some fresh food and she wanted to cook some of my favorite dishes since I will be headed back to KL tomorrow.
The traffic at the roundabout with the clock tower on it was heavy. During the festive season, a quiet town like Kuala Kangsar was packed with people coming back from the cities. I just stood outside the market waiting for Aisha.
It was not long before she appeared in my sight.
“Let’s go, I am done shopping.”
I helped her with the bags and we headed to my car. I drove past the post office and a row of shops before reaching the bridge to Sayong. Most of the shops were closed during the holidays. By now, the sun has risen up.
As we reached home, there were two men standing at the gate. I slowly stopped the car and wind down the car windows. They were bank officers and were looking for my mother-in-law.
Then she invited them into the house. While she was serving the gentlemen tea, I was busy putting the bags from the market into the kitchen. Once I had done, I slowly stood by Aisha. Apparently, she was three months behind for the house mortgage and the bank will take action if the installments are not pay. I quickly took out my cheque book from the car and wrote a cheque to pay a month of the installment.
Both of the gentlemen looked happy as they could go back to their office with some results. Then I escorted the gentlemen out of the house and they took off.
The house was quiet again. The birds were chirping outside the compound as I took a nice breath of fresh air. Then I took my time to walk into the house.
In the living room, my mother-in-law was sitting on the sofa and sobbing. I felt upset looking at her like this and this wasn’t the first time I saw her crying.
Anyway, I sat next to her and started consoling her. I put my hand on her shoulder and starting rubbing her back. There again, my cock slowly harden as I could felt the outline of her bra strap. I liked to feel the silky material of her satin baju kurung.
“What happened, ma?” I asked her.
She slowly calmed herself down and looked at me.
“It is not necessary for you to help me. Aini has gone and you should move on with your own life.”
“It is ok… I already considered myself as family.”
She slowly put a smiled on her face.
“Now, tell me what is going on…” I asked.
The house was mortgaged to support my brother-in-law university education. Everything was going well as my father-in-law was servicing the installment monthly and Aini was helping him as well. However, everything turned into downhill as they had passed away. My mother-in-law was struggling financially to maintain the house as well as servicing the mortgage. Things became worst as she had forced to retire early from her teaching job in primary school recently.
I just nodded as I was listening to her case.
“Anyway, ma you need to think about what to do about the future,” I suggested to her.
She kept silent as she stood up and walked into the kitchen. I felt worry about her.
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In the afternoon, I started packing my stuff into the luggage while Aisha was in the kitchen cooking for the dinner. It was a long silent afternoon.
Soon her mood seemed to be better as she served dinner during the evening. Most of the foods she cooked were my favorite dishes and I was eager to dig in. She seemed be happy as she looked me eating.
“Eat slowly…”
“Huh…”
“You looked so cute when you are hungry… no wonder Aini like you so much.”
I smiled at her as she smiled back.
“YJ, I had decided to sell the house since it was too big for me. It seemed so quiet staying here.”
“I understand but where are you going to stay if you sell off the house?” I asked.
“Maybe in one of my relative place…”
Then an idea came into my mind.
“Why don’t you move into my place? My condo has three rooms and I only occupy one room now.”
“But… I don’t want to bother you since you have done a lot for me.”
“Nonsense, I will be very happy you can come and stay with me. Beside, I do need some company since staying alone after Aini has gone was very lonely.”
By hearing my suggestion, it put a smile on her face again.
“I won’t take no for an answer…” I continued.
“Ok…ok, I will arrange. You seemed like a grandfather…so busybody ….hahahahaha”
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I woke up from the soft music of my iphone. The room was lit with the light of the phone. The ring didn’t even stopped … as I clumsily took the phone from the bed table.
“Hello.”
“YJ, this is International Space Agency. We got news.”
“Yes”
“We hereby to inform you that there was an accident in Colony 243 MARS. The research structure was collapsed during a storm which took the all the personnel lives of the research facility. We are sorry that your parent were gone too.”
There was a silent. Suddenly my room filled with emptiness. It was used to be filled with voices of holo-conferencing with my parents from MARS. Since I was the only child and they wanted me to stay on Earth till I finish my school before transfer to the colony.
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In the meantime, Will was woken up by Emmi. He had felt asleep on the table; he looked at the window as the sun already rose.
“Will… have you wake up…” Emmi knocked on the door.
He looked at the clock, it was 8 am. The market is going to open at 8.30am. He quickly gathered his stuff and changed into formal clothes before he rushed out of the room.
“Emmi, I will come back later. This is urgent.”
Before Emmi could reply, the door of the condo already closed.
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Hammy nodded.
“Stop….” from far everyone in the room looked at the door opened.
The noise from outside the room was already calm. The two senior directors’ faces turned happy as they saw the person at the door.
“Will… what are you doing here?” Jeff asked.
Will quickly walked towards Jeff and passed a file to him. Jeff opened up and slowly read the information in the file. For the corner of the room, the senior directors mentioned
“We are saved…”
Hammy looked at May May with full of puzzled. May May only put a smile on her face.
“Do not sell the shares of that company. 2 to 3% amounts of shares are all they need to make havoc to our companies as well as others. Dad look at these figures, the groups behind were not well funded.”
“How did you get the information?” Jeff asked.
“We always trust Will and his sources,” Lily commented.
“Alright… May May, you know what to do.”
May May nodded and made a call to her department.
“So what do we do?” one of the senior director asked.
“Nothing… I already called uncle Tony and uncle Othman. They will do the same. We just waited… by noon their will out of stock and fund.”
“If the situation became worst at noon how… we will be in trouble,” Hammy explained.
“Yup… stock exchange is a human game. If one of the large companies got panic, they will gain from the panic and they will able to easily take over a company. Then the rest will fall like a dominos. That is why the same information I had already passed to a few of large company CEOs.”
“How sure are you?” Hammy said.
“It is a game of gamble.”
Then there was a silent.
“I need some coffee, May May joined me for a coffee and brunch.”
May May just follow Will from the back.
“Don’t worry… I will be back.”
Jeff and Lily were making calls to validate the issues. They were happy and glad that Will was with them when the company encountered crisis.
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In the café at the lobby, May May brought Will a cup of hot latte. Will looked tired and she believed he has been working all night. The market started to show bit and bits of unstable since yesterday. Only this morning, the clear intention started to show.
But May May knew that Will already knew about the forthcoming crisis yesterday and he has been working all night.
“I thought we are going to face this alone.”
“I never officially left you know… I still one of the group shareholders.”
“Then you should not resign your position.”
“May May, we talked about this. I enjoyed simple life and work.”
“Ok…ok, let talked about another topic. Did you manage to ask Hammy out for a date?” May May looked at Will with full enthusiasm.
“Did you see how she reacts in that room… you should know the answer.”
“Oh…”
“Well, your brother already on to her… it seemed she was very fond of him.”
“Come on… everyone knew Jimmy is a playboy.”
“Maybe you should ask Hammy about how she thinks of Jimmy.”
“I am so sorry… but I think after today, she might changed about this. Oh, how is Emmi doing? Is she still in pain and have you take good care of her?”
“Of course, I took good care of her.”
Will’s reaction was surprising when he replied May May.
“What is going on? You better tell me the truth. You bullied Emmi isn’t it?”
Will was uneasy when May May asked that way. He slipped his coffee and trying avoid eyes contact with May May.
“Will…. What have you done?” she asked again.
“Uh… mmh, I don’t know how to say it. I don’t think it was appropriate to let you know…”
“Come on… I won’t tell anyone even Emmi…okay.”
Will took a deep breathe before he opened his mouth.
“I saw Emmi naked.”
“You what?”
“It was an accident, we were sharing room in Langkawi when I barged in the room and she was not wearing anything.”
“So… did she mad at you…?” May May asked.
“Nope…problem is I kindly of like it.”
“What!!! Are you pervert or something… that is my best friend…”
“No, it is not what you meant. What I meant was I started to have feeling for her… and she kind of ok with the incident.”
“Oh…, if that is the case, I am really wish you two can be together.”
“But I am not sure about this… perhaps she might just think of me as a brother.”
“Let me get some info about what she thinks…”
May May smiled at Will.
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The penthouse of Amazing Tower was roaring with applauses as the market rebound back. Like Will had predicted the groups of investment players finally had withdrawn their activities due to insufficient funds.
Will was sitting at the corner looking at his laptop.
While Jeff and the rest were happily chatting as they stood in front of exchange real-time monitor. The price of the company went up that expected.
He smiled while looking at the happy faces of the chairman and senior directors of the companies.
“Well done, Will…” one after another directors padded him.
But this was not far from over; he knew this was the first step to test the market. It was just the beginning; there must be someone behind these. He was not going to tell everyone, he doesn’t want to create panic. So he finally looked at his watch, and he was totally forgotten that he left Emmi at home.
“Dad, I got to go…”
Lily hugged Will and said “Baby, you better get some rest. You look tired, later I asked the driver to send you some soup.”
Will nodded as he walked into the elevator.
Down in the lobby, Will saw May May and Hammy having lunch at the café. He waved at them before he left the building.
“Ma’am, is Will really the chairman’s son?” Hammy asked.
“Yup…”
“But he didn’t look like a rich kid.”
“Yes, he really down to earth person. But he is really smart and expert in financial market. He had rescued the company from a few crises before.”
“But why he is a cook…?”
“He enjoyed simple life. In fact, you are actually filling in his position in the company.”
“Oh… my mistake to judge him too early.”
May May just smiled.
CHAPTER SEVEN
It was after dinner; Will and Emmi were playing monopoly in the living room. Emmi has enjoyed the dinner Will cooked for her.
“So everyone was happy seeing you this morning…?” Emmi asked.
“I was too focused on the task ahead.”
“How about Hammy… I heard you argued with her.”
“Well business is business. I am not offending her and I think she will understand.”
“Later, she doesn’t have a good impression of you, how?”
“I don’t really care too much.. any more.”
“But I thought you like her…”
“Lately, I am not sure about it anymore… perhaps my focus is someone else.”
“Then… tell me, who is it? I am your buddy, you can trust me.”
Before Will wanted to continue… the door bell rang.
He rushed to the door and opened it. May May and Hammy were standing at the door.
“Come in…” he invited them.
Both the girls followed him to the living room. Emmi was waving her hands to the girls.
“How are you?” May May asked.
“Still having difficult to walk. So late you come to visit.” Emmi said.
“Worried about you mah… I scared that naughty guy didn’t take care of you.”
“Make yourselves at home. I will make some coffee,” Will interrupted.
Heading towards the kitchen, Will saw the girls were getting along well. He opened a cabinet and took out a packet of starbucks grounded coffee. He put a few scope of coffee into the maker and brewed it.
The smell of coffee soon filled the kitchen. He then took out a carton of milk from the fridge to froth the milk.
“Need any help..?”
He turned his head and Hammy was there standing behind him.
“It is ok.”
“Will, I am sorry about this morning…”
“It is okay. We just have different perspective in looking at the issue. And I just got lucky.”
“I don’t think luck is what you did. You are good at finance.”
“Thanks… I am better with cooking actually.”
“Well, can you cook for me someday? I would like to try… kind of a date.”
“Uh.. I can’t for these days since I need to take care of Emmi. She injured her leg.”
Hammy nodded.
“Hammy can you help me to bring the coffee to the living room?”
“Sure why not, you are so cute. I started to like you,” Hammy said before she left the kitchen with a tray on her hands.
Will stood there… thinking the pretty girl who he talked with no longer hold any interest in him.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Chinese New Year was around the corner.
The Wong residence was having a pre-chinese New Year eve dinner party tonight. The party was held annually on the winter solstice day in lunar calendar.
Will was waiting for Emmi to dress up since she was invited to the dinner as well. It was an annual party at the Wong residence where the company staffs will gather and party at the chairman’s residence to pre-celebrate the coming festive season.
Will was a little excited since Emmi will become his partner for the night. It was the first time; Emmi became his partner for this type of occasion.
Then he could hear the click-clack of the high heels coming from the room. He turned his head and he was astonished by how pretty Emmi dressed up.
The short hair girl was wearing an elegant simple plain grey long satin dress. Her tiny body shape was well wrapped on the beautiful silky dress. She was not tall but the cute and elegant girl in front of Will already melted his heart.
Will still looked at Emmi with undivided attention.
Emmi was waving her hand in front of his face.
“Hello… hello… back to earth …”
“Sorry… you… you are so beautiful…” Will replied.
“Thanks. But we better go… or else we are going to be late.”
Emmi held Will hands as they walked out of the condo.
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The Wong residence was packed with crowds. Many lady staffs have dressed remarkably beautiful. The pool area was set up for food buffet and the large garden was decorated with a stage where live band was performing. Many staffs were dancing in front of the stage.
Emmi was busy talking to Will’s parents while Will was eating with May May and Hammy on one of the table. He kept looking at Emmi and most of the time his attention was on Emmi. He barely focused on what May May was saying.
“Cousin… are you okay?”
“Ya ya ya…”
“You seemed to worry about Emmi and your parents…?”
“Look… what are they talking about? Is it about me?”
May May smiled “If you so concern about them… go and interrupt them. They are your parents leh.”
Will left the table and headed to Emmi’s direction.
“Heh.. cousin…” May May was too late.
It seemed they had ended the conversation as Will’s parents were headed upstairs. Emmi was waving her hands to Will and before she could move toward Will, Jimmy had interrupted Emmi.
He was talking to her and holding her hands. Will was pretty upset when Jimmy did that to his roommate but no girl can resistance Jimmy’s charm. He decided to walk away from Emmi as they started chatting. He walked to kitchen looking for sister Yan. There many caterers working in the kitchen preparing more food for the guests.
“Young master, why weren’t you go partying…?”
“Not in the mood…”
“Come… I make some you favorite desert for you.”
Sister Yan knew what Will like when she saw him in this mood. She opened up the fridge door and took up a cup of lychee longan syrup drink for him.
“Thank sis.”
Then she returned back to her work.
Will was observing the caterers working while he finished up his drink. Then he decided to head to his room since the party was a little noisy. His childhood/teenage room was untouched and maintained like it used to be. Off and on, he still stays here to accompany his parent especially every Chinese New Year.
The room was bigger than his current room in the condo. He sat on the study chair and looked through the window at the party scene at the garden. Perhaps he could see Emmi dancing with Jimmy in the crowd.
Then, he was interrupted by a knock on the door.
“Can we come in?”
“Come in…”
His parents opened his room door and stood at the door.
“Emmi is looking for you…”
Will turned his head and looked at his housemate stood beside his parents.
“So we leave two of you here.”
There was a silent as the room door closed.
“So this is your room…?” Emmi asked.
Will just nodded.
“I thought you are dancing with Jimmy.”
Emmi walked closer to Will and held his hands.
“I am not interested and there is only one person I am interested to be with.”
“Who?” Will asked.
“He is standing in front of me.”
She hugged Will as she moved her lips toward Will’s. Then she kissed him. It was short kiss and they stared at each other.
“Emmi, dance with me.”
Will turned on the HiFi player at the corner of his room. As the soft music played and filled the room, both of them started dancing.
“I thought you like Hammy…?” she asked.
“Emmi you had slowly filled in my life. I don’t know I can live without you.”
She stared at him and smiled.
“Me too. I had slowly felt in love with you with every single day it became stronger and stronger.”
They kissed again.