So, his name is..

"Helloo..... hellooo sister in law, my dear pretty big sister in law." Chaca waved her hand in front of Alice face.

"hey, what are you thinking ?" Sasha poked Alices cheek. They actioned woke Alice up from her flash back of her dark and painful memory.

"Come on... tell us how you know my brother name .." Cacha fired another question.

Alice knew clearly that she could not get away from this question. she chuckled softly then continue her story.

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Alice forgot about the incident and that man. However, Few days after that incident, Alice was about to have dinner in a restaurant by her self when she bumped onto one of her university friend Tara. Tara also had dinner in that place but she was not alone, she came with her colleagues. Alice estimated it was around ten people of them.

Alice and Tara went to a same university X, a famous one in N city, but they were not from the same faculty. Tara was from business faculty where as Alice was from design, fashion design. Alice decided to learn about fashion since she was passionate about it, since young she loved to draw about dress.

As far as Alice concerned, Tara and her only met few times. The first time was during welcome party for new overseas student organised by the Asian student association. Second time was may be at the university canteen, Alice was not sure about it. This meeting might be the third time.

"Alice ! are you by your self ?" greeted Tara.

"yes. and you ?" Alice replied indifferent.

"I am with my colleagues, come, join us."

"no thank you, I don't want to distrub you." Alice rejected politely. She was very surprice that Tara was so friendly, she recalled that they were not close at all and they didn't talk much during previous meeting either.

"of course no, come, join us, don't be shy" Tara insisted, she came over to Alice then grabbed Alices' hand, pulled her up from her chair to join her colleagues. She had no choice, She just followed Tara.

"Hey Guys.. this is my uni friend Alice.."

Tara introduced Alice to her colleagues. Alice said hi to them politely and on by one they said Hi back and mentioned their name while waving hand.

"Hi I'am Sam.."

"Harry.. is my name..."

"Sue..."

until the last person

"Nick..."

Alice was saw the man and was stunned a little. It's him, that man, the man that took her that day. So, his name is Nick.

"oh.. It's you.." Alice said unconsciously.

Nick nodded and smiled then he continued talking to a man next to him.

"Do you know Nick ?" Tara asked as she took a seat in front of Nick and Alice took the seat next to Tara.

"Not really..., I meet him once few days ago.."

"wow ! well, we have this dinner to welcome him. He was sent from our office in country A to setup system for our new subsidiaries company, he is a software designer, an IT guy" explained Tara.

"He came about two weeks ago, he is very nice, very professional" Continued Tara.

Then the waiter came and took the order.

It waa a steak restaurant so Alice order medium cooked rum steak steak with vegie and mash potato and beer. While Tara order sirloin beef steak with salad only and beer. Alice heard that Nick asked for lamb chop with salad and fries but he only ordered Orange juice for the drink.

Unbelievable, young man coming from country A order juice, Alice was amazed.

"He said he is a Banana" Tara said in low voice. It seemed that she could read Alice mind.

"Banana ?" Alices was confused. what banana ? that banana ? of course he has banana, you know all man has banana" Alice also made her voice lower.

But apparently, Nick was still able to hear their conversation. he frowned and threw a glance to her.

"yes Banana... act and speak like westerner but he's 100% Asian.."

Alice : ☺😂😂😂

Tara : 🤣🤣

Nick : 🤨🤨😔

Alice finished her food quitely, she didn't talk much as she didn't know anybody except Tara. On the other hand, Nick engaged serious business converation that Was alien for Alice with a blonde middle man who was their branch manager.

The dinner finished around 9 o'clock then they said good bye to each other. That night, they coincidently learned each other name. But Alice got more benefit, she now knew more about Nick while he only knew her name.