(a/n) "OUCH" is right xj master! In most of the fictions i've read, Xiao always seems to submit herself to Jin. Well, for a first time, I thought a slap was in need! Too bad I ruined Jin's modelling career,lol anywho... here's the 8th chapter... My thanks go out to all of you who gave my those great reviews! One more thing... I do not, repeat do not watch soap operas...
Chapter 8 – Reality check!
"Did I really tell him to get out? I'm not dreaming then……" Xiao said to herself. She was all alone now in the room……
"Xiao! What the heck was all that commotion about?" asked Josie who had just come downstairs.
"Oh, nothing…… c'mon, we'll be late for work!" Xiao hastily said.
"Oh yeah! We have to be ready to meet that Mishima guy too!" Josie said. She actually had no idea that he had been here and left.
"Yeah, that Mishima guy……" Xiao gritted her teeth at the thought of him being there.
"Yeah, well, you better change, you smell like Panda now!" said Josie.
"Are you insulting my Panda?" asked Xiao, a little hurt at her comment as she really loved her Panda.
And so they both went upstairs their constant bickering was the only sound echoing in the room…
The bedroom…
Xiao had another quick shower, to prove to Josie that she did not smell like Panda, she was wrapped in a towel, hair dripping wet. She opened her closet, what she found made her scream.
"Josie! Where are all my suits? There's not one left! Except this one… it…… uh exposes too much of my cleavage……ahem…" she yelled, and then softened her tone a bit.
"They're all in the washing machine…… why don't you wear this one? I gave it for your seventeenth birthday. You told me you liked it! Don't you?" answered Josie.
"Yeah, I do… but don't you think it looks too…… suggestive?" Xiao said.
"That makes it all the more better! And anyway, it's only that V-neck that makes it look so "suggestive" as you say, and that tiny skirt" Josie said.
"Oh alright!" Xiao huffed loudly.
She was done in five minutes, her hair in a French braid that she had mastered a long time ago, her pixie- like feet in high heels that gave her a perfect height, and she had finally worn her suit, the inside shirts V-neck; exposing just a few bits of her cleavage, the black jacket, the super short skirt, and she finally finished off the style by putting on a new strawberry lip gloss, that made her lips even more pink and fuller.
"Wow! You look hot!" said an ecstatic Josie.
"Miharu! Uh…… I mean…… uh… sorry, Josie…" she said, that was something her friend Miharu would've said to her. Gosh, she really did miss her…
"Who's Me- ha- hoo?" asked Josie eyeing her suspiciously.
"It's Me-ha-roo, and she happens to be my friend…… well, was my friend……" Xiao corrected. --- Note to self: Remember to give myself a mental slap afterwards! --- she thought.
"But-"said Josie.
"Never mind! Omigosh! Look at the time! We are so busted!" Xiao said.
"You mean you're busted… I have shift at 11:00, I think Ethan really needs your help now…… better hurry!" Josie corrected.
"C'mon then! Drive me there! Homina, Homina……I… I… gotta think up an excuse!" Xiao said exasperated, "Sorry Panda! Can't take you! I promise I'll buy you a humongous bear treat to make up for not taking you!"
MacMillan Industries…
"Omigosh! Out of the way, people!" Xiao hastily said, while rudely pushing the employees and apologizing at the same time.
"Xiao! Don't go in there! They're……" one of the employees tried to warn Xiao, but she failed to comprehend what he was saying over the commotion that was taking place.
"XIAO STOP!" yelled Josie at the other end of the room.
Xiaoyu had finally reached Ethan's office…… and barged in… surprising both the young men who were discussing a business proposal.
"XIAOYU!" both the men chorused.
--- Oh no…… Jin's here… what a fool I've made of myself! Note to self: Remember to bang my head continuously on the bedroom door! --- she thought.
"Uh……I-I-I'm s-sorry s-s-sir…… here are…… the files…… you needed!" she said hastily holding up the files, taking in big gulps of air at the same time.
"Um…… excuse us for a minute……" Ethan said to Jin who had been smiling the whole time at Xiao's folly.
--- So, she works here, at MacMillan --- Jin thought.
Ethan walked over to where Xiaoyu was standing, who was shaking her head continuously and muttering something about herself under her breath.
"Xiao, where were you? I needed those files; you came in the nick of time!" Ethan whispered, "and why isn't he surprised to see you?"
"Because, we already met on Main Street…… he was the one who made me late, well me and him combined…… never mind about that! He told me everything……" she whispered nervously shifted her vision to Jin who was eyeing her like she was a piece of cake.
"About what?" asked Ethan, his voice still in a whisper.
"I'll tell you later…… right now, don't you think he needs your attention?" she said, referring to Jin.
"Hmmm…… yeah… you should really do that again…… nice butt…" Ethan said jokingly, pointing to the back side of Xiaoyu's super short skirt which had lifted itself up a bit when she barged into the room.
"Ethan!" she yelled in a whisper.
"Is that any way to talk to your boss?" asked Ethan teasingly.
"Yeah, when he makes comments about my butt!" she said in a whisper.
"Yeah… well, I'm sure he enjoyed it as much as I did!" Ethan said referring to Jin.
Xiao opened her mouth to retaliate but was silenced by Ethan placing his index finger on her lips.
"I better get going……" Xiao said quickly.
"Uh… ahem… yeah… I gotta get back to that business deal…" said Ethan, surprised at what he did.
Xiao silently left the room, and tucked a few loose strands of her hair behind her ear. She lifted up her gaze to see both the young men once again chatting…… a smile crept upon her face…… once she was outside the door……
"Why didn't you tell me they were both in there?" she shouted at Josie.
"Uh, if you did have good ears, you'd know that all of us were trying to warn you, Xiao" said Josie.
"Okay, okay whatever……" she said, "I need to use the washroom"
Xiao made her way to the washroom, to touch up on herself; she held up her face to view herself in the mirror but instead she saw someone else there, a beautiful Chinese girl with porcelain skin, brown eyes, waist- length silky black hair and luscious lips.
"Do I really look like that?" she said aloud in surprise.
For Xiao rarely looked in the mirror, she didn't think of herself as "beautiful" or "pretty" just a plain Jane………
She lifted up her hand to feel her neck, to feel the place where Jin had caressed her neck and recollected memories of what happened this morning…… just few more minutes and they could have done what all lovers do when they share a bond…… but she had seen something in his eyes, that she couldn't exactly describe, a sort of emptiness…
Then something flashed in front of her; an image of Jin in his mutated form, the same one that she had seen in her dreams…… she gasped aloud…
She had to find out what these constant visions were, and why Jin was always tied to them…… She had to apologize for slapping him first… "Which was totally unnecessary, he was trying to take my mind off things… I guess…" she said softly "But why am I feeling so queasy, and tingly all over?"
(a/n) Ah... so her feelings are starting to develop for Jin, once again, but someone else has an eye for her as well, and there might be devil jin here k? Pls give me reviews! Once more, thank you tons, for the other reviews:D