CHAPTER FIVE - PART TWO

"Good morning." Purple greeted when Neptune opened the door. She was wearing a long white and purple parka jacket and a plain knee socks with a shoes. She was wearing a cap with a word 'Purple'. She still looks hot though.

"Ma'am, why did you have to fetched me? I thought we're going to meet at the airport?"

"I'm just making sure that you're well prepared and bringing the important documents for the business deal."

"Of course it's with me." She rolled her eyes.

"You look pretty even when you're pissed off." This time, she was the one staring with.

"I don't need your compliments. I'm just going to do my job seriously even if you played with me." She strongly said back.

"You're the only one saying back and breaking me like that." Purple laughed.

She was shocked before she recovered herself. She crossed the line. Even they didn't met fine when their first encounter in resort, she must not continuously talk back like what she did before. It was long before.

And even Purple said her feelings to her, she was her boss and she was the one giving her the payment. If she try that to the other employer where her job is different, maybe not even a day she highly knows that she'll be kicked out in no time.

"I'm sorry Ma'am. You're just too teaseful."

"You sorry yet you scold me." She was still smiling, "It's true when I said to you that you're beautiful."

"Whatever, Ma'am." She just locked her house and started to walk to Purple's (Lamborghini) Car.

"Maybe you're late in terms of electrical finances."

She just turn her head at what the woman said, "Why?"

"Because you're in a jumper." She winked then laugh.

Neptune then caught what she meant. She was wearing a jumper that reaches only her thighs. Inside the jumper she was wearing a white t-shirt.

"You're too corny." She tried to stopped smiling on her joke.

"Smile now. You don't have to stop it."

"You're still too teaseful, Ma'am."

"We're just only two call me Purple, okay?" Full of tenderness and softness was in her tone.

"Fine, Purple."

She whistle, "It's really sweet to hear if you called me by my name."

When they entered the car, Purple was the one who put a seatbelt for her. Purple was really a sweet and caring woman. Even to the other employees she was the same. Just enough to motivate and inspire them. And enough to make her heart melt. She lay her head on the headrest.

"How about your car? Where will you leave it?"

"My driver was waiting for me in the airport. She's the one bringing my car back to my home."

"Okay."

They're in the middle of the way when Purple talk again.

"Neptune, I have a question."

"What is it?"

"Do you find me beautiful?"

"What?" Her questiowas kinda overreacting.

"Just answer my question."

She stared at her. She was smiling while her eyes was fixed on the road.

"Fine. Yes, you are handsome."

"Another question,do you want to be taken care of?"

"Just what in the name of Protagonist did something entered your mind? Your questions was weird."

"Just say yes or no."

She stop breathing for a moment and let out a deep exhalation, "Okay. Yes."

"Then let this beautiful lady beside you take care of you."

She lost a words at what the woman said. Isn't that a pick up lines? And why do it feel like that line really came from Purple herself? Just admit it, Neptune. You know you giggled at it. She pondered in her mind.

PART THREE

"I thought four of us will go to the Islands?" She said after she got the burger and coffee that Purple pass to her. They're in the waiting are in Terminal 3. Thirty minutes after the boarding time and the two that was supposed to be with them are still not there.

"It was 4 AM is their flight. Our flight was separated because there's no vacant seats left."

"Hmm." That's her only reaction before she took a bite at the burger.

"What's with the 'hmm'? Are you using that you's much better if Mrs. Arfoire is with you?"

"I didn't say anything." She just kept on teasing her. She just keep her poker face and her distant because she was still not ready to be fall in love with him.

Purple didn't persue any longer. She just give her a shining smile and continued eating. She was getting tense at the smiles.

Without conscious she grab the handle of the cup and drink it.

"Aw, Nepu?!" She hissed. That coffee was so hot! She felt like her lips was red when it connects.

"You should've blew it first." Purple said.

"Do I even know that this coffee was built-in stove in the bottom of the cup? It was like boiling." She keep on caressing her lips.

"Let me see." Purple put her face closer to hers. Looks like Purple was looking down at the species with a microscope. She just shook her head. Wrong comparison. Not because of her lips just swell that doesn'tean her lips will turn into a balloon.

She just stroke her lip.

"This will subside later." Purple just passed her water bottle to her.

Neptune drank the water from the water bottle. She doesn't care if her lips made contact from a purplish color that was Purple's lipstick because she already drink it. "Why's mine is a coffee? Then you're just a cold water."

"Because you're always yawning. So I thought you wanted a coffee." Then she look back at her lips. "Looks like it's okay."

It should be her lips is okay because her heart was pounding so crazy while the face of Purple is getting closer to her.

When their flight number is called, Purple decided to help Neptune. She was really like a mother that always help her child, and she already proven it many times. From stepping up from the airplane until they seat on their assigned seats she was still there. She was also the one who fixed the seatbelt for her.

"Do you travel a lot?" Neptune asked as they travel through the air.

"Yeah. Just a way of coping. But now I'm poor, I always just stays at the house."

"I guess your girlfriend was a loving woman."

"Yes, she was. It was a waste when she died early."

"When will you let her go?" This was the only time they bring up this topic.

"What do you mean?"

"When will you free yourself from her memories."

"That's not simple. She was killed. If she was just killed by a flu, maybe it was really that easy to accept that she was her line. But knowing that somebody took her life made it harder."

Her face was suddenly covered in sadness. She can't be angry at Purple because her question was really a matter-of-fact.

"I understand."

"Can we just change the topic and-" Her sentence was cut short when the airplane suddenly shook.

She was automatically clinging to Purple. Next of it was a harder shook of the airplane. Even all the other passengers are panicking. The flight attendant was always announcing the line: "Stay calm, we are only experiencing turbulence."

Neptune was really clinging hard to Purple. She was also panicking. She have no word on why she hugged the woman. She was also hugging her tightly. Her face was then at the woman's chest.

"Stay calm, I'm here. I'm not going to leave you."

She held on to that promise and to thay soothing promise. When the shaking has ends, Neptune just put her face on Purple's chest. She miss the feeling of something protecting her. And she experienced that again because of the heart-pounding turbulence.

"We are safe. It's just the turbulence, nothing to worry. Are you okay?" There was a tenderness in her voice.

Neptune just nodded but she didn't let go between their hug. In just one hour, she was still with her.

In Leanbox's National Airport is their landing then Purple visited of her friend near the airport. A lady that is well pretty because of her voice. From there, they ride on a van, a boat then a tricycle to reach the Leanbox's Islands.