8 Start with just a bite

'Hussssh!' breezy wind whirled around the playground and flipped Maliah's hair. But her mouth is still stuck in the spoon with full of fried rice and a meatball. She stared at Ryan face, it was too closed to her. She wondered how it was happened. Everything was happened unconditionally without any intention.

Ryan can felt Maliah's breathe as her face was too close to his. He also beat an uncontrollable signal for her and spiked his nerves. He doesn't understand his feeling for her.

But 'KRAACCKK!' that cloudy sky messed them. Ryan suddenly changed his bright eyes into narrow gazed as WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, MISS! He didn't understand that she had fallen for the meatballs. He pointed his index finger on her forehead and pushed out for a distance.

"You! It was supposed to be my first bite." he grunted and pull out the spoon from her mouth. 'Sssh!' the spoon swept out with watery saliva. He hang the spoon and watched it uncomfortably.

Maliah watched at the spoon and brought back to her sense. "Sorry! It wasn't my intention to do it on purpose." she mumbled and felt shy with mixed up feeling. She felt disappointed and gazed down on the ground.

Ryan's heart beat was not stable yet. He does not understand still, why he have a beat for her. His body became sweaty and hot. He fan the tiffin-box lid to cool down.

'Pit-pat! Pit-pat!' the cloudy sky squeezed drop by drop. "Hussssh! You sinister! You ruined everything." he snorted and threw the lid to her and walked away. He was doing harshly not on his purposed, it was the reaction of his uncontrollable mixed feelings for her.

Maliah pick up the tiffin's lid and glared on the tiffin-box. "Do I really messed with him? And, why do I felt worried after all?" she mumbled and place the lid on the tiffin-box. She covered it properly and wanted to gave it to Ryan with an apology. She followed Ryan walking a distance. "Max! Max! Wait for me!" she shout out loudly.

He zinged his body again with her voice. "Why is she following me again?" he mumbled and speed up his walked.

With his behaviour, 20's Maliah changed her mood as she thought that he was supposed to stop and asked why she run after him. "That childish punk can't be swayed easily." she mumbled and gasped out kneeling. "Hey you brat! Max! I said stop there!" she yelled out loud and thrown the tiffin-box to his head.

Everyone around them swayed their heads along with the slow-mo of the tiffin-box motion in the air. They dropped their jaw as the action was unexpected from a girl.

Ryan walked speedier and watched back but he could not skipped from it. 'WHACK!' on his head and slipped his steps. He rolled on and lay on the ground.

"Opps! You just slipped your steps!" she grinned and walked toward him.

"Crazy! You're so annoying! Just leave me alone." Ryan yelled at her and rubbed his painful head. He sat on the ground and flip off the dust.

Maliah lend her hands to lifted him. "Here, take my hands. I saw you were slipping with misstep. So, I came to help you. Am I a good bestie for you?" she lifted her and blinked innocent as foxy.

Ryan aimed toward her foxy eyes with his two fingers and said, "Bestie of the hell. You totally changed me." He looked up at the sky and gasped out WHY HE WAS SEND THERE AS HIS MISSION. He murmured, "Why me? Why here? And why with her?" he looked back at her again. "So? Why are you following me again? I thought that you're happy when I left you alone." he stated.

"I came to you!" Maliah stated and continued with an explanation, "Ahh! I came to my masters as he didn't finished his tiffin. If it wasn't emptied, my mom arise different questions." She gave him a cute face as HE CANNOT LEAVE ANYWHERE IF HE DID NOT FINISHED IT.

"Okay! But let's changed the spot." he hissed and move on his way of college canteen.

(Inside the college canteen)

Maliah followed him and sat together inside the college canteen. "But, why do you suddenly want to change the spot?" she stated and looked around.

"It was disgusting to share one spoon together." he sternly moved to buy his foods.

"Waah! Is that an egg roll? Just shared one to me." she smiled and took one piece of rolled from Ryan's plate.

Ryan watched her enjoying her tiffin-box. His eyes was capturing on her lips how she insert the food inside and chew upto blown out her cheeks. She became cute in his eyes. He watched her carefully and swallowed inside his throat. "What happened to me?" he murmured. He shut his eyes at once and gasp out to embraced himself.

"What!" Maliah hissed with her full of mouth and looked around. "Is there anything wrong with us?" she asked.

"Nope!" he gasped and continued, "Do you like the meatballs that much?"

Maliah lifted up her hand with thumbs and claimed, "Yeah! It's my favourite and mom made in the morning, especially for me." Then, she continued on eating.

"Aah! That's why, you had stolen my first bite." Ryan got the point why she was mischievous before.

"Of course. And I didn't do it on purposed." she stated.

He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why don't you say that before? Do I snapped your tiffin-box by force?"

"No! No! Not like that! I'll gave it to you every but just spare me for this one. Sorry!" she apologised and never stopped until she emptied the tiffin-box.

Ryan ate slowly and watched her. But his mind always arise a question mark WHY HE FELT UNEASE WITH HER. He tried to bust it off but could not swept away. He recalled Maliah's face closest scene to his and speed up his heartbeat. "Stop!" he yelled out nowhere.

Everyone around there were murmuring and watching at them as they had a fight and Maliah did something wrong to Ryan.

Maliah looked at him with mouthful and chewed. She looked around again as there must be something that definitely made him annoyed. But she found none. She gave him an icy eyes as ARE YOU MAD. "What?" she questioned.

"What?" Ryan shot back straight as he did not understand himself.

"Nothing is wrong around here but you shouted 'STOP!' at me." she claimed and packed her tiffin-box. She felt annoyed with everyone gazed when she was about to stand up and walked away. 'What's wrong with them! Why their eyes were meditating on me?' questioned inside her head. She watched around but stopped at Ryan's face. 'Ah! You! The Stop! It made me this!' she focused in her mind.

'Eh! Eh!' she sobbed childishly out of blue and stared at Ryan. "What's wrong with you these days? Aren't you happy with me that much?" this cunning 20's Maliah would never gave up easily if someone put her into fishy place.

"Maliah! It's nothing. I was just..." Ryan was confused to explained how it was happened.

But Sean came out of nowhere as he thought that THAT DEFENDER DIDN'T TREAT HER WELL AND I'M HERE FOR YOU...