Life is valuable to be angry at someone

knock knock !!

Lin shiyu opened the door and looked up at Lu chen. For once there's no sweetness in her gentle features.

"You look like you are about to hit me" he said grinning at her. She didn't smile.

"I will if you don't leave" she said with lethal calm. He made a show of being scared. But she didn't smile. So he stopped and smiled at her.

"I want to talk to you"

"I'm not interested" she said and was about to close the door when he edged his foot between the doors.

"I never thought you could talk to your superiors like that you know..you were quite daring when you were talking to him back there." he said admiring her. she swallowed and looked up at him.

"Will he punish me?" she asked in a small voice. He smiled "So you do fear him....then why did you talk like that?" he asked raising his brows at the sulking women before him. she sighed and came out of her room and closed the door.

"I was angry" she said in a steady tone. he looked at her for a moment without saying anything. Then he nodded

"Let's go for a walk..come" he said and extended his hand. she looked at his extended hand and then back at him.

"I can walk just fine without holding your hand"she said and started walking to the stairs. He laughed and caught up with her.

"Are you afraid that once you hold my hand you can't let it go? Is that why you are not holding it?" he asked as they made their way downstairs. she smiled and shook her head at him.

"Do you flirt with every girl you come across?" she asked still smiling.

"Only beautiful one's" he said proudly.

"I see...." she said smiling widely.

"You look good when you smile miss Lin" he said looking at her. She stopped smiling and he grinned at her.

"You're such a sweet talker..do you know that?" she squinted at him as he sat down on a bench. He patted the space beside him asking her to sit there. she slowly went and sat beside him. For some time they were silent. Then he asked

"What's the deal with colonal Liang and Song lin?" she stiffened and shook her head.

"Nothing"

"Oh common.. anyone can see that something's up between them. That is why you reacted so much when talking to Ji zue didn't you?" he asked as he looked at her. she said nothing. He sighed and pinched the space between his brows.

"Ji zue wanted to know...whether colonal Liang means something to her." he tried again. She was silent for a moment.

"Its not my place to tell you that...that is between song lin and the colonal." she said as her eyes went distant. He nodded and didn't ask anything.

"I remember telling major Ji that there's only one person Song lin tries to impress...tell him that colonal Liang is the one...that is as far as I can tell you" she said. He turned and looked at her. she seemed sad he thought.

"You always worry about her..."he observed. She smiled and said after a heartbeat.

"Looks like major Ji is also worrying about her now" Lu chen laughed and after a moment she joined him.

"Not angry at him anymore?" he teased her. She shook her and stood up

"life is too valuable to be angry at someone for a long time Mr Lu.." she said quoting the same thing he once told her. He looked up at her surprised. The afternoon sunlight bounced off her hair making her face look bright and her smile as she said those words could light up the whole world.

"You look beautiful shiyu" he blurted out. Her smile faltered and her heart skipped a bit. But she just bowed and stalked off. He smiled at the retreating figure....

* * * * *

Tears streaked down her face as soon as she sat in the car. Song lin drove the car to the nearest garden and stopped there. She didn't get down nor did she move. She sat rooted to the spot. She tried and failed to stop the tears. she kept seeing the same scene and kept hearing the same voice again and again.

you're filth!!!

same ah!!!

The only sound in the car is her hiccups as she cried her little heart out. After an hour she looked at herself in the mirror. At her tear streaked face. Her hair is messed up and she looked like a ghost.

You look like trash...Song lin thought to herself.

"I should have expected it. I should've got used to it by now. I shouldn't have take her words to my heart. She never believed me anyway. Why should I care to explain myself when she's not even ready to hear me." she said out loud to no one particular. But tears came pouring down again even as she told herself again and again that she shouldn't care. she sighed and turned the car around.