"Also, did you not notice? It is all because our store is located on the corner of the mall that we are unable to attract many customers. Our boutique looks so tiny from the outside and it is present on the highly invisible range compared to other shops in this mall. If only we could get a big project using this fashion week, we can demand this mall's administrators to put a big banner in front of the mall along with other stores.
It would be advertising for them too, to have such a high demanded designer have a shop in their mall. Now, all I am asking you for one last time, will you submit these designs or not? This is our future and an easy way to get famous," Dina stated and looked at him with puppy eyes.
"I already closed the shop for the lunch break. I have so much work to do. Also, I am too tired to even lift my finger. So, you might have to do it yourself this time. So, how about a no no no no no no no no no no…." Mike shook his head from one side to another continuously.
He went back into the room as it looked like he could not get rid of her anytime soon. He dropped his tired body on the chair and closed his eyes.
'Didn't he just say not even a single fly entered their shop? Then how come he got too tired? Does sitting in one place make people exhausted?' She wondered.
"Mike, what is wrong with you today? Why are you behaving in such an abnormal way?" Dina glanced at him weirdly and asked him.
He sighed and hid his face by using his hands. He did not know how to explain whatever was happening to him or her maternal family at this moment. He was notified this morning that there were tremendous changes that happened at their home.
Moreover, the issue was growing out of their hands, uncontrollably. He doesn't know what has changed it but the change is not that welcoming at the present. One such instance is that the symbol that has been carved behind his back is now visible to everyone. It was well hidden by the magic that his mother cast before he came to live next to Dina.
But now it has got exposed and he was unable to find what went wrong so suddenly. Everything that they had kept concealed or sealed with magic until now, has been slowly revealing one by one to the whole world.
He could not understand if a war was awaiting them or something good was going to happen. Whatever it was they needed to be prepared, before they were thrown in for a surprise attack.
"Is there something troubling you, Mike? You can share anything with me, you do know that right? Did the doctor say, you have become impotent?" Dina asked.
"What? What rubbish are you asking me about?" He screeched and pushed the chair behind in utter shock.
Mike got angered because of her words. He could not believe how she could even come to such a conclusion. He was definitely not impotent but that is the least of his worry now. He could not understand how exactly her brain worked. He glared at her and then sighed as he didn't have any energy to argue with her.
"No. I mean, by looking at your facial expression, I thought it must be either you are having a troublesome day or the doctor announced that you are impotent. And that made your day vexed," Dina tried to explain to him.
"I can very well do… Sigh… Really? At least your first suggestion was a little understandable and practical. Yes, I do have an exasperating day. But why did you even ask me or think that I may be… Imp… Impo…," He couldn't say that word so easily out in the open.
"Impotent! It's impotent…" Dina said as she thought he could not pronounce that word properly.
"I know," He gritted his teeth and continued to say,
"I really could not understand you. There was no connection between what we are talking about and what you had just asked," Mike glanced at her with discontent.
"Hold on! It looks like when I asked you that question, I did not explain enough to make it clear for you. Let me give you an example of why I asked you that question in the first place. See, every time I go to a bar, you would follow me almost all the time. Don't you?" She stopped and looked at him to make sure that he was understanding what she was saying to him.
Once he nodded his head accepting the fact that he did really follow her every single time, she continued to say,
"Then you would somehow use me as bait and get the phone numbers starting from bartenders to the customers over there. Sometimes, you even don't leave those female bodyguards of those glamorous rich socialites. That includes the female security guards employed by the bars as well…"
"Fine... I do that... So what now?" Mike impatiently asked her.
"But think about it, until now, I never saw you go on a date with them even once. And you are still a virgin while I am… Cough… cough.." When she was about to say that I am not a virgin anymore, she stopped and coughed vigorously.
"So, what I am trying to say is that you finally found out about your problem that you can't penetrate and you are upset about that," Dina announced.
Dina tried her best to make him understand the reason behind her question. Instead of trying to acknowledge and appreciate her for showing him concern, her explanation made him really angry. Flames came out of his ears and nose while he opened and closed his mouth.
"You… You… Are you even a girl? Who talks about this kind of thing so openly and that too with a guy? Don't you have any shame?" Mike asked.
Moreover, he could not believe that she would act like she doesn't know the reason behind his missed dates. How could she even ask this question to him? His anger reached the peak and if it was not that she was someone whom he should protect, he would have at least given a tight slap.
"Why do I need any shame when I am talking to you? We are best friends and if I don't discuss with you about this then should go and talk to my neighbor? Oh! Stop! You are my neighbor. So listen to me kid, if you forget then let me remind you. When we were little, we used to take baths together and I used to call you, small Pen…" Before she could finish saying that word, Mike closed her mouth using his hands.
"Shut up! One more word out of your mouth then I would throw you out of this window," He warned her.
He took several deep breaths and counted the numbers from one hundred to one to calm his nerves. Then he explained slowly to her, why he could not go on a single date with any of them.