Two faces
911 Words
The boy notices me looking at him.
He lifts his head up and moves his glances away from phone now looking at me.
I didn't show any reaction to him but I was still in a cold sweat.
Keeping the phone inside his pocket he walks towards me and asks:
"Are you my client?" He asked me with a confused face.
"Y-Yes." I reply to him.
He saw me like a stranger and yet behaves sweetly. Perhaps he doesn't recognise me being his classmate.
And how would he? I look completely different from my usual self, All thanks to Xuan.
But at any rate, I shouldn't be exposing myself, if he finds out about my identity then there might be a chance he spreads the word out in school too.
The first thing that the service asked me about was age. I could only try the service if I'm eighteen, or above. But I lied about my age being eighteen since I'm actually seventeen.
"Oh that's great! I'm glad I didn't mistook you. Shall we go and grab some coffee inside? We can discuss what to do next at the café." He said as he pointed his finger towards the café beside us.
Surprisingly he talked like a normal person.
I expected him to be more shy and awkward judging from his behaviour the previous day.
Or could it be a lie that he's allergic to girls? Perhaps he's a p*****t who actually likes touching girls and nosebleed and use his fear of girls as an excuse to run away.
But thankfully, the rental boyfriend service prohibits both the client and the boy, not to touch one other intimately so I guess I'm safe?
"So shall we go in?" he asks me.
"Yeah sure."
And saying that, we walk inside the cafe.
"—RING RING!"
Opening the double door we walk inside as the bell on top of the entrance rings making a tingling sound.
The cafe's interior was beautiful with well polished tiles, and tree like texture on it. Sparkling with from the lights that fall from the ceiling and the sweey fragrance of the coffee.
Me and Yan take a seat next to the window sitting face to face.
He picks the menu and reads through it. Although I did notice it previously at school, but upon taking a closer look at him, he looks much more handsome then before.
Someone as cute as him couldn't be a p*****t. If he actually was then he could've easily gotten himself a girlfriend with that cute face of his.
I pick up the menu and read through it as well.
"So have you decided what to order?" He asked looking up at me.
"Not yet..."
"I see. Keeping that aside, we didn't introduce ourselves yet."
"Yes."
"My name is Luke Pearce, and I'm your trial boyfriend for the whole day. It's nice to meet you!" he said as he places the menu on table and introduces himself with a smile.
"My name is Chuxia Ye. I look forward spending the day with you Luke Pearce."
I lie to him about my name, as I didn't want him to recognise me.
Of course he lied to me about his true name too, he introduced himself with an alias as "Luke Pearce" despite of his actual name being Yan Xia.
"Just call me Luke, it's fine. And you've got quite a pretty name Chuxia Ye."
"Shouldn't you be dropping the formalities too?"
"I'm sorry, I look forward spending the day with you too Chuxia."
As he says that, I slightly move forward and stretch my right hand towards him giving off a slight smile, expecting for a handshake.
If he really is allergic to girls then he surely won't shake his hand with mine but if he isn't then he would.
"......"
He goes silent and takes a moment to process what I want. I notice a droplet of cold sweat sliding down through his ears.
But eventually he moves his hand forward and shakes mine with a slight smile too.
To which I was kind of surprised, and just when I start to think he was lying about his fear for girls I notice something.
"Luke."
"Yes?"
"Your nose is bleeding..."
He blinks his eyes, once and stares at me dumbstruck, To which I smile awkwardly.
"Ahaha...excuse me Chuxia, Perhaps this place might be a little too hot for me. I'll be back from the washroom"
He awkwardly laughs it off, stands up and walks towards the washroom.
"Huff..."
I give out a big breath and lay my head on the table exhausted.
"So he wasn't actually lying about his fear for girls... He's probably doing this job either to communicate better with girls or to pay off his debt."
—I say to myself while my head is down.
"I wonder what he's currently thinking..."
He must probably be embarrassed for bleeding in front of me. He must've thought I misunderstood him for a p*****t.
[And Li Su was right. In the washroom Yan Xia was standing in front of the mirror while the tap was still pouring out water.]
Darn it....I made the same mistake again." he said after staring at himself in the mirror and splashing water on his face feeling embarrased.
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