“Get out of my way, great barkers are not biters!”
He looked at her incomprehensibly for a long moment and said, “Do you have to mess with me?”
“Who’s messing with you?” She asked rhetorically, “Humph! You don’t have your first time, yet you’re still not humble and don’t keep a low profile. Do you think you’re high and mighty?”
“I’m a man!” He said.
“I know! You don’t have to tell me. I know you’re a man!” She looked at him, “Let’s put it this way, how many women did you have sex with before you met me?”
She stood with arms akimbo and lifted her delicate face to look at him. She found that he was tall, and she had to tilt her face up to talk to him.
Elijah was tormented helplessly by such questions from Esther, pinched her nose, and said, “Can you stop being unreasonable? Do you want to see the intimate video of Hudson and Winnie being exposed?”
“These are not the same thing at all, get out of my way!” She insisted on barging out. “I’m not talking to you right now, and I don’t want to talk to you. Anyway, I’m upset right now, you get out of my way now. Don’t say I’m messing with you, it’s good that you don’t mess with me!”
It just so happened that Elijah’s phone rang and he answered it. Then he had to let her go and went out on his own.
Seeing him leave in a hurry, Esther’s morale immediately deflated, and she cooed aggrievedly, “Humph! I hate you; I hate you! Why am I sad in my heart?”
Was she being unreasonable? She asked herself in her mind. After all, she was not the first woman he met, but the thought that he might have a lot of women just made her heart feel uncomfortable!
Esther also went downstairs, but she was going to buy discs. She bought a stack of discs, and on her way home, she coincidentally bumped into Kattie again.
Underneath the makeup, Kattie’s somber face changed and she greeted her with a smile, “Esther, what a coincidence!”
“Yes! Miss Cole, what a coincidence! I can meet you everywhere I go!” Esther said with a smile.
“Are you going upstairs?” Kattie asked.
“Yeah!” Esther nodded, “I’ve bought some movies and I’m going back to watch them!”
“Really? What kind of movie? I haven’t watched movies for a long time either!” Kattie glanced at the bag she was carrying, and it looked like she had bought quite a lot. “After lying in bed for so long, I feel like I’m getting moldy! Elijah has gone out, right? How about I watch it with you?”
Esther was stunned for a moment and nodded. “Are you sure you can watch any kind of movie?”
“Of course! I like to watch some blockbuster movies!” Kattie said and took Esther’s hand. “Come on, let’s go watch it together. It’s not fun for you to watch it alone too!”
“Okay!” Esther twitched her lips and said secretly in her mind, ‘I hope you won’t regret it!’
All she bought were ghost movies!
It was all creepy ghost movies. Hopefully, a woman like Kattie won’t get spooked!
Walking upstairs and entering the door, Kattie subconsciously glanced around the entire apartment. Esther turned on the TV and video player, then ran to close the curtains. Once the curtains were closed, the room immediately darkened.
Kattie was puzzled. “Why did you close the curtains?”
Kattie sat on the sofa, but her hand quickly took out something and pasted it directly under the coffee table without Esther noticing. All her moves were in perfect secrecy! After placing it, it just so happened that Esther came over from the balcony.
“It’s only tingling when you’re watching with the curtains closed!” Esther walked over and put the disc into the video player. “Such an atmosphere is only suitable for watching!”
Subsequently, a creepy voice was heard and Kattie was frightened. “Ah-”
“Miss Cole, I’m watching a ghost movie, are you sure you want to watch it?” Esther smiled and glanced at Kattie, who was panicked.
Her face was miserably pale as she pointed at the screen, where the prologue was playing and a female ghost with a long tongue and bloodshot eyes crawled out of the TV. “Ah – I don’t want to watch it!”
Kattie screamed in terror and ran out of the door.
“Miss Cole, why are you so timid? Haha… walk yourself out!” Esther slumped into the couch, picked up a pillow, and began to enjoy the movie. In front of her was a wide TV screen with a running video player below, a female ghost on the screen, her ears surrounded by the mysterious sound effects characterized by horror movies.
Kattie’s face was still deathly pale as she walked out of Elijah’s apartment. She didn’t expect Esther to watch horror movies, damn, this woman was hard to deal with.
It was night when Elijah came home. However, as soon as he entered the door, he heard a strange creepy sound and the room was dark.
With a snap, he turned on the light!
And then he saw that on the sofa, Esther was asleep while the TV was playing a ghost movie.
Elijah was dumbfounded and helpless. He felt utterly helpless, this woman, she actually could fall asleep while watching a horror movie. She blew him away!
Perhaps because the light was too bright, or perhaps because his eyes were too sharp, Esther opened her eyes and met Elijah’s deep eyes.
He looked at her, then at the TV screen.
She pouted her lips.
He didn’t say anything either.
She raised her eyes and saw Elijah standing there with his arms around his chest, looking at her with aplomb.
Esther stretched herself and looked at the time, it was already 8 pm. She hadn’t eaten yet and her stomach was damn well rumbling.
“You haven’t eaten?” He raised an eyebrow.
She pouted, didn’t answer his question, turned off the lights again, and then went back to watching ghost movies.
He suddenly crouched down in front of her, his icy eyes blazing as he looked at her. “Still angry? Do you mind it that much?”
At such a close distance, the pitch-black night, the spooky ghost movie, Esther’s heart seemed to miss a beat. She looked into his eyes and seemed dared not to breathe too loudly.
He looked at her for a long time, and under his gaze, she felt fidgety, it seemed that it was not fear, but uneasiness, mere uneasiness. Seeing this look on her face, the corners of his mouth curled up into a faint smile. “You…”
But then he shook his head, “Never mind, stop watching, what do you want to eat?”
“Humph! I want to eat a virgin!” She pursed her lips and muttered aggrievedly, “Why can’t I meet a virgin? It’s so unfair!”
Nevertheless, when she saw him humble himself upon his return, she felt a great relief of frustration in her heart. But when she said these words just for fun, she still saw the anger that seemed to be mounting in his eyes.
“Why? Can’t I even think about it?” She asked rhetorically, walking over, turning the TV off, and turning the lights back on.
“Do you have to set me off?”
Watching the anger on his face subdue, Esther couldn’t help but start making an impassioned speech, “I’m the angry one, I’m so angry that I haven’t eaten, okay? You have picked up someone as pure and kind as me, what are you angry about? Who’s mad at who? It’s me who’s angry, okay?”
He looked at Esther for a long time and said softly, “You care that much?”
His voice was so soft that it made her scalp tingle.
“Of course! Let me ask you, will you care if I’m not a virgin?” She asked rhetorically.
“Hmm.” He nodded meaningfully. “I will!”
“That’s it, then can’t I even sulk? Would it kill you to cajole me?”
He tilted his head sideways and remained silent.
She continued to raise her voice. “Can’t I even ask about it? You’ve misbehaved yet you don’t allow me to ask about it?”
The corners of his mouth twitched, but he remained silent.
“You have nothing more to say, have you?”
His expression had been so unpleasant that even the sewers couldn’t compete with him.
“Can’t I redress the injustice after a charming and pure woman like me is possessed by you?” Esther became more and more agitated as she spoke. After that, when she saw that he didn’t say a word and she was over it, she changed her tone and asked, “What happened to the video? Who did it? Have you found out?”
Elijah looked at her deeply, suddenly lowered his head, and kissed her deeply. The kiss was so long that it seemed to have no end. After a while, he let go of her.
Her lips were red and sore from the kiss, making her a little angry. “Elijah, why are you kissing me like that?”
“What am I supposed to do with you?” He felt helpless with her, yet he doted on her extraordinarily.
“Humph! Don’t think I’ll forgive you just because you did this!” Esther snorted and turned her face away. Her small mouth was red and swollen from his kiss and it hurt a bit. “You stupid woman!” Elijah sighed helplessly.
“You just kissed a stupid woman, and you’re even stupider!” She retorted. “I hate you so much, I want your first time too! Why didn’t you save it for me?”
At that, she was so aggrieved that her eyes turned red. She tried to be strong, pretending to be tolerant and generous, but she still couldn’t help but redden her eyes. She didn’t know why she had become so vulnerable, become so caring, but these were her innermost thoughts, these were what she had in her mind, and she didn’t want to hide them.
Her momentary vulnerability made him feel compassionate.
He reached out and caressed her lips, narrowing his eyes to examine her delicate face that was struggling to hold back the tears. After a long moment, he whispered in her ear – “Is it because I’m so skillful? Do I give you the impression that I’m a womanizer?”
“What do you mean?” She paused, tears stalling in her eyes as she looked at him in confusion.
“It means you’re really stupid and dumb…” He kissed her lips again, but with tenderness and compassion, his dominance was taken down a notch.
But she didn’t understand at all, what did he mean?
“Are you hungry?” His voice was ambiguous to the core. “Let’s try the super-large-sized condom after we’re done cooking!”
“Ugh! Elijah, go to hell! Are you so erotic every day? You bought so many condoms, do you think you’re engaged in wholesale?” Esther nudged him and sat down shyly on the couch.
He just smiled and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner!
Until the next day before she went to class, Esther still sat on the couch and muttered to herself, “What does he mean? Did he give me his first time?”
After school on Monday, since Elijah had something to do in H City, he didn’t pick up Esther, but let his driver pick her up and take her back to his apartment.
As soon as the elevator doors opened, she bumped into Kattie again, who was hurrying out the door with two large bags in her hands.
“Hi! Miss Cole, are you going out?” Esther greeted light-heartedly.
“Oh! Esther, you’re back. Yes, I’m packing up the things Elijah had left in my house before, and now they’re useless, so I’m going to throw them away.” Kattie carried the bag and was about to leave.
Not knowing how it happened, either the bag was not strong enough for the stuff, or she did it on purpose, a bag instantly fell to the ground and a bunch of items was scattered all over the place.
Esther originally froze when she heard her say that she was going to throw Elijah’s things. When she looked down, she was instantly stunned as she saw several boxes of oversized condoms scattered on the floor.
“Ugh!” Kattie seemed extraordinarily embarrassed as she quickly squatted down to pick them up and said, “Look at me, I’m so stupid that I can’t even collect the trash properly!”
Esther’s sight was flabbergasted, but she didn’t say anything.