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After he let the teenage girl leave, he could feel his other assistant boring holes in his skull with his stare.
"What?" He snapped. It was just natural for him to act this way. The man was familiar with how impatient he could be anyway. There was no point in faking kindness.
"Care to explain yourself, Noll?" The teenager thought that his explanation sufficed.
"It was ground subsidence and human poltergeist from an untrained PK user. Need I say more?" They were at the van checking over the footages and the reports, adding necessary details and revising some.
The older man gave an exasperated sigh, "Let me try again. Care to explain yourself, Naru?"
The man in question stopped in his tracks. He put down the files he buried his nose in then crossed his legs and faced the man. "You noticed. The nickname was given to me just after one day of meeting me."
"And you don't find that suspicious?"
"I do that's why I hired her but she seems to have stumbled on the nickname innocently. What are your impressions about her?"
"She lacks coordination in her body, loud, smart-mouthed but intuitive. Although, she appears like she also lacks common sense."
"I agree, that she is. The girl is intelligent but is easily distracted. From what I gather, she has no idea of my identity but she did already give me a nickname."
"What do you mean?"
"She borrowed my book. Somehow the newest edition was left inside the van and she just randomly baptized yet another ridiculous nickname. Although, all of these are speculations, I rather have her close just in case she does connect the dots. It would be easier to negotiate with her terms when she works for me."
The older man looked thoughtful. "Are you sure that's the only reason?"
"She proved to be great help in the case."
"Yes and I didn't miss how you two finished each other's thoughts, as well as the exchange of insults. She seems quite familiar of how your brain works." He knows that the taller man was teasing since he was a genius after all and Mai was in high school.
"That's another reason I considered hiring her. She already has some background on parapsychology, albeit self-taught. I have no patience to train a part-timer anyway."
"Are you sure about this, Noll?"
"Not quite. I want you to do a background check on her, just leave the file on my desk when we get back."
"She reminds me of someone."
"I know. She has that warmth about her. Maybe it's her ESP abilities but I doubt it. We could use the skills she has with people as neither you nor I handle interpersonal communication well."
"She does make excellent tea." He smirked at the man because of this and the other just rolled his eyes.
I'm sure this brat considered to hire the girl after he tasted her tea. Typical. And I thought we'd be rid of his tea infatuation after none of the nearby coffee shops passed his taste. They went back to work after the conversation.
He was slightly peeved at the teenager he worked for since he effortlessly dismissed all his attempts in teasing. It was quite obvious that he found the girl interesting, to the point of actually employing her. The much sought after parapsychology genius and world class psychokinesis manipulator wants to hire another living, breathing human being. It was his parents that forced the brat to take me with him. I know he'd rather do this alone, that prideful twerp but he does despise manual labor. He rolled his eyes at this.
He redirected his thoughts to the other teenager. She does appear to be capable to handle the cases. She is intelligent to catch up to the prodigy's line of thought. That made her wary of her. He knew that if and when Taniyama-san finds out who they are that the young manager would not explain things to her and it is plain to see that the girl was sensitive. She would demand answers and will go head on with the boss but he knows that the kid in his corner would stand his ground. He was never one to give in to another person.
That girl, however, was amusing. She coaxed reactions and insults from his boss with ease and what's more surprising is that the boss himself seems to initiate it. It's about time that they boy enjoyed other things not related to paranormal studies. A wicked thought came to mind and he smirked to himself. Maybe with the girl around, the boy could finally develop hormones like a normal teenager. Now, that's something he'd gladly enjoy watching along with a certain scheming perky lady back in England. It was entertaining seeing the two teenagers one up each other. Normally, people would just accept his decisions and justifications, he was a genius after all but the girl actually puts up a decent fight. Some part of him would want to see her actually win over the arrogant scientist. They actually seem close and it's been just a couple of days. The man was glad that the teenager had a friend his own age rather than surrounding himself with academics and scholars. He was a prodigy but still, he was a teenager.
Going back to his original thought, she doesn't seem the kind to ask for money or material things just to keep quiet about their true purpose in coming to Japan. If the young man just asks her nicely. He scoffed. Ask nicely, one of the many things the boy wonder is incapable of. But although he was sure that the girl will keep it to herself if they ask her to, she would definitely want an explanation. Being who he is, the young researcher has already though of this. He could worry about this when the time actually comes.
She was intuitive, that was certain. He called Noll by his Japanese nickname and she found her way to get one of his books. Somehow, he was sure that it was because of her ESP. She was unconsciously picking up pieces to a puzzle she didn't know she can solve. She was not ordinary as she appears. He realized he has to keep his eye on the girl when she arrives at the office.
Checkmate.
While the man who had his bangs cover half of his face contemplated about their situation with the teenage girl, he was smug about expertly dodging his assistant's attempt to tease him about her. I wonder if he would continue his antics when he finds out that Mai thought that he and I were lovers.
He dismissed the thought thinking that it would be more distasteful on his part. He knows that the older man would use it against him, that a girl thought, someone of his stature, was homosexual. Mountains of females would throw themselves at him and she thought he was gay. Granted, he never did show any interest in the opposite sex but it was just simply because he found copulation boring. He was well-versed with the difference of the man and a woman anyway, and he strongly believes that beauty is just socially-constructed. He just assumed he had more sexual charisma to not be thought of such.
He would never admit it but what she said actually dented, but only in the slightest, his shined and polished male ego. Honestly, what am I going to do with you? The question had endless possibilities. She was welcome company after all. She was one of the few that didn't repulse him with her presence.
Mai walked home slowly. Now that she has the time, she could think about the things that she drowned out to focus on the case. Deciding that it would be better to face the good first before the bad, her mind flew to the bright and beautiful dream she had that morning.
She was sure she wasn't reliving a memory or distorting one. Maybe it someone else's? She pondered on that. The man looked so in love with whoever he was smiling at. Maybe that dream's connected to the one where I was looking into someone's eyes? Whoever that person is, they sure are lucky. She was thinking of the dreamiest, corniest thing about how the two people seemed so unconditionally in love. She even made up a few stories of how they met. It was pure imagination, of course. Eyes and lips didn't tell her much except the overwhelming emotions.
There's always the possibility that it's a premonition. It was possible but she never had dreams like this before. That could be plausible since she did feel everything in the first person. She was almost sure that what she felt would be exactly how she would react to those eyes and that smile. She blushed and flailed her arms around. She blushed at the thought that someone in the future will be looking at her, will be smiling at her like that, full of passion and adoration, unadulterated happiness and love.
Now, who do I know that has blue eyes? Let's see. There's John. She blushed. She couldn't think about John that way. He was a priest for crying out loud! Naru? Her blushed deepened. Nope! He's her boss and she didn't even like him that way. Sure, he's attractive and smart but he's also an arrogant narcissistic jerk! But his eye color does seem closer to the person's that was in her dream, although not quite. She thought of other people she knows who had blue eyes. Masako? She did find her pretty and graceful. But I'm pretty sure I don't swing that way. It is true that she is inexperienced when it came to dating and relationships but she was attracted to a few boys when she was younger. Maybe I haven't met him yet.
She continued to daydream until she was in bed. If that's a premonition then it means… my other dream. A sob escaped her. But it didn't make sense! Who I was apologizing to in my last breath? I don't have any parents so how… I don't understand! She cried thinking of the possibilities that could lead to that event. She thought that maybe her first dream was connected to the more depressing one. Maybe, I was talking about the man's parents and the idiot… maybe I was talking to him.
Her eyes were continually refilled with hot clear liquid that ran down her cheeks to her bedsheets and pillow. She relived the dream and the emotions, the feel of the icy water, her last thoughts. She mourned about the family she was going to have, only to leave them. Well, that's actually fitting to the story of my life. Someone's going to be in love with me, take me to meet his family. They'll consider me as their own then I'll get into an accident then just leave them all behind. That's just great. This time, I'll be the one leaving.
It was like she was mourning for the love she has yet to find and eventually, lose. Life was a wicked mischief-maker. She spent the rest of the night bawling until exhaustion claimed her.
Everything's going to be okay, Mai. Just keep the faith. Everything's going to be okay.
The voice didn't belong to her but it was just the comfort she was looking for. She didn't question it. She just continued having forty winks.
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