Crystal

chapter 06

"Knock.. knock..." Marco was knocking on the Crystal house's door. He wanted to meet Freddy, Crystal's father, to get his car. His driver took personal time off, so he must take it by himself after he worked on that day.

"Knock.. knock.. knock..." He knocked on the door again when no one came to open the door. He took his phone from his suit jacket pocket to call the house's owner, but the door opened at that time. He saw a young woman with a ponytail in a white t-shirt standing in front of him. It was the first time he had met her. He was stunned, how a woman in a t-shirt and bare face looked so gorgeous.

"May I help you?" Crystal asked him. He was also spellbound by her voice. He was sure she wasn't seducing him. Her voice was so different to all the women who seduced him. He felt her voice was firm and warm at the same time.

"Oh..." He pulled his mind back to their situation.

"Can I meet with Mr. Freddy?" The man in a grey suit asked her while smiling, showing his nice teeth. He felt happy and wanted to know about her. He forgot his main reason why he was there.

"Please, wait a minute." She turned back into the house to look for her father. She walked to the living room at the place where her father was usually there at that time, but she couldn't find him so she went to her father's room.

"Dad!" She yelled in front of her father's room, but no answer, so she walked to the workshop. She thought maybe her father was there with her brother.

"Dad..." She yelled after she opened the connecting door, but no answer. The workshop was so quiet. She couldn't find her father, so she went back to the main door.

"Sorry, he's not here." She said to Marco when she arrived at the door.

"But I have an appointment that we'll meet at this time." He was disappointed. It was not because he couldn't meet with Freddy, but because he must leave that place. The place of the young woman who just took his heart.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" She asked him while looking at him to find out if he was in the right place.

"Uhmm... Yes, I think." Her question and her beautiful dark brown eyes made him doubt that he was in the right place.

"Where is his workshop?" He wanted to make sure that he was in the right place.

"Behind this house." She pointed her thumb to the back while talking to him to let him know the direction of her father's workshop.

"So this is the right place, I think." He nodded his head surely.

"Uhm.. have a seat please. I'll call him to find out what's going on." She let him sit on the couch on the terrace.

"Okay, thanks." He nodded his head and walked to the couch, let her call her father. He was smiling happily because he had just met a young beautiful woman who succeeded in beating up his heart. He never supposed that he would meet her. He supposed that he would meet an old man, the owner of the workshop. For a long time, his heart had not been beating so fast for anyone, since his last love several years ago. Crystal went out of the house after she called her father.

"Sorry, he forgot that he had an appointment with you. If you wait for him, he will come back and arrive in no more than thirty minutes." She felt bad because of her father. He paid attention to every single word that came out of her lips. He was sure she was still young, but she was so mature in a good way. It was his first time he had met someone like her. He couldn't avoid her charm anymore.

"Uhm.. Okay, I'll wait for him." Of course, he preferred to wait for his father with the hope that he would have a chance to have a conversation with her.

"Okay, I'll tell him." She nodded her head and then went back into the house to call her father. She felt guilty. It was not the first time her father had forgotten that he had an appointment with someone. She walked to the kitchen after she called her father. She wanted to make coffee for her father's guest. She was sure that he was a coffee drinker. A young woman's feelings after she met many employees of her father made her recognize the man who drank coffee or not by her feelings. She didn't mean to seduce him with coffee, she really felt guilty about her father's attitude. She hoped a cup of coffee would pay for her father's mistake.

"Huff..." Marco laid his back. He wanted to know about the young woman he had met but she disappeared, went into the house. He took his phone to kill time while waiting for Freddy.

"Sorry, you must wait for him." Crystal said to him while putting a cup of coffee on the table in front of him.

"Oh! It's okay..." He was shocked, he was not expecting that she would come back with a cup of coffee for him. His heart was beating so fast, he was pleased.

"Your coffee." She said before leaving him again on the terrace.

"Oh, thanks." He was still shocked, only those words came out of his mouth.

She went to her room to get to bed after she served a cup of coffee to her father's guest. Actually, he wanted to hold her to chat with him, but he was afraid to want more, what she gave more than his expect. He took the cup and then sipped the coffee.

"Da**!" He sweared after he took a sip of coffee. He felt her care in that coffee. He was sure that coffee was made with an effort, not only by pouring the hot water on the coffee powder. He felt her warm in that coffee. He was imagining if he could drink that coffee every day in his future. He took another sip, the taste of the coffee made him not want to stop sipping it, but he also didn't want that coffee to go so fast. He enjoyed every sip of the coffee.

"Sorry, you must wait for me." Freddy's voice broke his focus on the coffee.

"Oh, it's okay." Marco put the cup on the table in front of him to focus on the house's owner...