Chapter 25
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Shuji woke up early and immediately left his room. Even though he didn't wash himself, he went straight to the underground to practice.
Shuji approached the bodyguard who followed him.
"Can you bring me coffee and biscuits?" Shuji said to the bodyguard.
"There's a kitchen here, sir I'll just show you, sir." the bodyguard answered to Shuji.
"There a kitchen here?" Shuji asked in surprise and just stared at the bodyguard.
"Yes, sir didn't miss Chen mention it?" the bodyguard replied to Shuji when she looked at him.
"She didn't mention to me just every room and what was in it," Shuji replied as he joined the bodyguard while still yawning.
While the two of them were walking, Shuji's cellphone suddenly rang.
When Shuji opened the screen lock of his cellphone, the caller Erika appeared to him. Shuji immediately answered it and spoke to her.
Calling...
Shuji: Darling...
Erika (Darling): Darling, how are you at the resort?
Shuji: I'm fine, darling….
Erika (Darling): Why don't you call me at least I've been waiting for you to call me for a few days, darling...
Shuji: Li–eatrice works a lot and I also help her, darling even at night we do something so I don't have time to call you.
Erika (Darling): When you wake up, I'm already sulking at both of you, I doubt that if I only know the place of their resort, I'll come back to you there, even on Google map, the name of the resort and hotel is not there...
Shuji stopped walking to follow the bodyguard and was shocked to hear from his girlfriend.
Shuji: What did you say?
Erika (Darling): I researched on Google map where in Palawan Leatrice's family's resort is, there is nothing listed at all but when I searched on Google search website only Sarah Mikaelle Resort and Hotel (www.https:/ /SarahMikaelleResortAndHotel.com//Home)
Shuji: Really? What is on the website?
Erika (Darling): Cottages, Beach House, Hotel Room, Entrance price, and pictures at the resort don't even have the address written there, Please! PM us for your reservation in the resort and hotel. I give details in PM or Email!
Shuji: Leatrice told us that their resort is very private, darling even I still get lost here.
Erika (Darling): Let me know what's happening with you in the resort.
Shuji: When we get back there, darling...
Erika (Darling): I miss you so much, I'm just shy to ask Uncle where that place is, I really want to see you back there, darling..
Shuji: Don't you have a shoot?
Erika (Darling): There is, darling, during our break time, Akats asks how Leatrice is doing, maybe she is tiring herself.
Shuji: Tell him Leatrice is okay.
Erika (Darling): Did you hear?
Shuji: He is beside you?
Erika (Darling): Yes, are you two together now?
"Sir!" the bodyguard called to Shuji to make him look.
Erika (Darling): Who are you with?
Shuji: Leatrice's bodyguard at the resort because I was asking her about something else.
Erika (Darling): Something else, what something else?
Shuji walked again, he was just following the bodyguard when he saw the door at the end of the hallway they were walking through, opened it, and revealed a kitchen similar to the one above.
"The only difference is there is a door." the bodyguard answered to Shuji.
Shuji: Ah...
"The difference is the color of the wall, thank you," Shuji replied, the bodyguard nodded to him and then left her.
Erika (Darling): What color are you talking about, darling?
Shuji: That bodyguard just showed me a room.
Erika (Darling): Oh?
Shuji: Yes, wait a minute, darling...
Erika (Darling): Go ahead...
Erika heard the rustling from the other line. Shuji brewed coffee and walked to the refrigerator when he opened it he saw ham and hotdogs he looked at the explanation.
Shuji: How are you doing there?
Erika (Darling): It's okay, darling, there is a lack of models but the manager managed to get an audition with a fashion reality show.
Shuji: Really? Then—
Shuji heard the door open and saw Lixue enter followed by his male bodyguard. Shuji raises a hand and shows the ham and hotdog to the two bodyguards who enter. Lixue just nodded and they sat down at a small long table with long chairs.
Erika (Darling): Aren't you watching TV over there?
Shuji: That's not why I'm asking.
Erika (Darling): This Season 3 was just stopped, wasn't it because the network changed?
Shuji: Yes, who is joining us?
Erika (Darling): We are one of the original cast, darling, even if others want to join, the models who are part of Sakura can't be disqualified.
Shuji cooked while he was talking to his girlfriend with her cellphone on loudspeaker, Lixue could hear the conversation with them.
Shuji: Who is the host of the show?
Erika (Darling): Formerly famous model and actress just came back for this reality show.
Shuji: Who?
Erika (Darling): Teresa De Leon-Garcia.
Shuji: Oh...
Erika (Darling): Darling, we're going back to the shoot, I'll call you later...
Shuji: All right, darling...
Erika (Darling): I love you, darling.
Shuji: Darling, I love you too!
Shuji canceled his girlfriend's call and continued cooking their breakfast.
"We haven't gone in for a few days, there's still an audition going on," Lixue said initially, she just got down.
"It's traditional for Sakura to look for a model using a TV network or reality show. Season 3 should have been season 4, but it was stopped because the network changed, so it took longer." Shuji answered and put down the cooked dish.
The bodyguard stood up and made two coffees. Shuji sat across from Lixue and fork what he cooked.
"Why did you have breakfast here?" Lixue said she was just looking at Shuji.
"I practiced, can I use the gym at the resort?" Shuji asked as he took a bite of his food.
"Yes, the bodyguard we met mentioned it to me," Lixue answered and stood up to get a fork before returning to her place to serve the dish.
"I want to study the basic self-defense you taught me by myself." Shuji just said and sipped his coffee.
Lixue just nodded and glanced at the coffee. She smiled at the person who had put the cup in front of her and Shuji frowned.
"Thank you!" Lixue replied gratefully before holding the cup and sipping the coffee.
Shuji's eyes widened at what he saw. Shuji confessed to himself, just days after he met Lixue he felt different every time he saw Lixue talking to a man. Shuji shouldn't feel that because he has a girlfriend.
"Come on? We practice tomorrow morning we're going back to Manila, we should use a yacht because pirates might block us, we'll just get on a plane and we'll take him with us." Lixue said and pointed at the bodyguard.
"Who is he?" Shuji asked Lixue.
"A close friend of our family," Lixue answered and they walked out and walked back to the training room.
They practiced until noon, then went back upstairs and had lunch.
Shuji went to the swimming pool to take a bath when a woman approached.
Shuji just shook his head to himself.
"Hi, cutie?" the woman approached Shuji and he smiled afterward.
Shuji ignored the woman, unaware that someone was watching them from afar. Shuji called his girlfriend before he sat down on the edge and dipped his two legs in the pool. The woman just stood beside Shuji with a surprised look on her face.
Calling...
Erika (Darling): Darling..
Shuji: What are you doing now?
Erika (Darling): I'm here in the dressing room, I'm guesting on a network.
Shuji: Leatrice and I are going home, darling...
Erika (Darling): What time, where will you land?
Shuji: I text you, darling what time will we land at the airport tomorrow.
Erika (Darling): Okay, I'll wait for your text.
Shuji: Okay, darling...
Shuji didn't know that the woman next to him had left and his replacement, Lixue, came to take her place.
Shuji immediately hung up when his girlfriend said that the bodyguard was calling.
"Oh..." Shuji said shocked when he saw Lixue next to him.
"The girl who approached you was bored, you're crazy! Hahaha...be careful when you're not with me, you know someone is stalking you." Lixue laughed and got down as she signaled to open the pool where they would connect to the underwater pool.
Those guests, and tourists in the pool looked at them when people rushed to their place, the bodyguard blocked it and said that it was only an exclusive pool for their boss.
Shuji went down and swam after Lixue.
Shuji didn't know it but he approached Lixue and they came up to breathe. Before, Shuji moved his lips to kiss Lixue and she responded when they both dived.
"It shouldn't be but..." Shuji gasped as he turned his face away from Lixue.
"But?" Lixue asked knowing what Shuji wanted to tell her.
"I have a girlfriend and I love her but my heart is falling for you and I don't know if I can stop it from not loving you, I don't want to hurt the woman's feelings," admitted Shuji to her he nodded his head, there was a small hole for the person who was swimming to breathe.
"Please feel who you really love between Erika and me and who should own your heart, Shuji I won't wait just approach me or the godfather if I ever leave your house and think carefully for you won't hurt either of us," Lixue answered, she then smiled even though she felt a strange heartbeat when she and Shuji got close.
Lixue swam back to the other pool Shuji followed her before she even went up to the other pool where Shuji hugged her in the back.
"Don't go agree with his courting you," Shuji whispered in Lixue's ear.
"You can't stop me from letting him date me and you can't stop him, you know why," Lixue said softly, she removed Shuji's two hands and went up and went back inside the resort.
Shuji also went up and the tourists and guests looked at him, he just ignored it and took the cellphone and clothes he had left on the side before he left and went back inside the resort.
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