- The Warm Welcome

After nearly a whole day of sleeping, Sylvia woke up feeling refreshed and rather excited for the party. She went to the kitchen and saw that her mother and sister had woken up at some point to eat their share of the food and had went back to sleep. She still had a few hours for the party so she decided to let her family sleep a little longer. The party starts after sunset, when the temperature outside cools down a little. She took a quick shower to wash of the sweat. It was July, and they only had the essential furniture, so she needed to get a fan or any cooler as soon as possible. As it was hot, she didn't change into her usual pajamas and wandered around the apartment in her towel. To let in some air, she opened all the windows, she made herself a cup of fresh iced lemon tea, and went to sit in the balcony.

She took in the beautiful view of the forest and resting area below, while drinking her tea with a straw. Slowly stretching and admiring the weather and the scenery, she relaxed and thought about how nice life would be in China. After graduating she might decide to stay here with her mother and sister. The people were so kind and welcoming, the food was tasty, and the weather suited her mother well.

As she was immersed in her thoughts, she suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. She felt eyes on her, she quickly turned her head to the left only to be met with a pair of beautiful light brown eyes staring at her intently, unblinking. The owner of these eyes continued to stare at her, unfazed. He didn't care that she caught him staring. His face was expressionless...as blank as a white sheet, but one could not deny his gorgeous looks! Sylvia was frozen, absolutely stunned by his features, 'His jawline is so sharp he could literally cut someone', she thought, 'and his defined almond shaped eyes... is it legal for a guy to have such gorgeous eyes?'. As they stared at each other, she heard a voice calling for what she assumed to be the man Infront of her, "Izac, what are you doing out in the balcony?" The owner of the voice came out to see what was occupying Izac, following his brothers line of vision, he saw a beautiful girl standing in just a towel with pandas all over it, holding a glass of ice tea. Her hair was wrapped in a panda towel cap, with protruding panda ears. The two balconies were so close, one could easily trespass into the other side. In fact so close, that he could smell her refreshing scent, 'peaches?', he thought. He stood there, hands in his pockets, tilting his head sideways scanning her from head to toe, not missing a single inch of her body, his eyes finally landing on her exposed decolletage. Following his line of vision she realised that she was still in her towel! She snapped back to reality and in a state of panic dropped her drink, shattering the glass. She jumped back in time to avoid stepping on the glass but some of the pieces that flew into the air, grazed her leg, causing her to slightly bleed. At this moment she heard her sister yelling from her room, "what happened? Sis, are you okay!?" She had woken her sister up. She quickly looked at the shattered glass on the floor, then up at the two guys and blushed so hard. Her whole body turned beet red. It looked like she wanted to say something to the young men but was too flustered that she just gave up and ran inside the apartment, locking the balcony door and shutting the curtains tightly, sealing off any sun light from entering the living room. Heart beating fast, barely catching her breath, she fell to the ground. She had one thought in her mind, 'holy cow they saw me half naked...!!! And in my panda towel!!!'. Frustrated, she grabbed her panda cap and threw it to the ground, her long and soft curly hair coming undone and falling around her beautifully. She looked like a mess.

A hot mess.