Lee Jin Ho ignored the surprised reaction from Tan Ja Nin. He took the paper bags that were full of grocery items from her and told her. "Please open the door.""O-okay!" Tan Ja Nin opened the door with the key card on her hands.
She came in first then Lee Jin Ho followed. Lee Chin Mei tailed in afterwards.
"I didn"t know that you already have a girlfriend. Why didn"t you bring her into our villa and introduce her properly to us." Lee Chin Mei asked. She sounded like an old sister who nags his younger brother. The truth was, she was a 9-year old younger than Lee Jin Ho.
"I am planning to do that, however since you just came here unannounced, you knew it earlier."
"Are you living together?" She asked as she looked at Tan Ja Nin who was busy was.h.i.+ng all the meats which she will put in the fridge afterwards.
"Not yet!"
"So you"re planning to live together in the future?"
Lee Jin Ho was quite annoyed with all his sister interrogation.
"Why are you here by the way?" He asked.
"Why, it"s because I miss you so!" Lee Chin Mei said and hooked his hands into Lee Jin Ho"s arms.
"Do you need something?" Lee Jin Ho asked. If her sister was acting coquettishly with him, he knew that she needs something from him.
"What do you think of me?" Lee Chin Mei pouted her lips. "You haven"t visited the villa since you came from Hong Kong!"
"How did you know that I went to Hong Kong?" Lee Jin Ho was surprised.
Lee Chin Mei got startled. "PA Jin told me."
"Since when you became close with PA Jin?" Lee Jin Ho asked. Even if PA Jin didn"t tell him, he knew that PA Jin didn"t like his sister because she was always acting like a brat whenever she visited him in the office.
"You haven"t introduced me properly to your girlfriend yet." Lee Chin Mei said, trying to divert thr conversation into another topic.
Lee Jin Ho"s twitched his mouth and looked at Tan Ja Nin. He never asked her yet to be his girlfriend and he didn"t know if she will acknowledge him.
"She"s Tan Ja Nin"
"Tan Ja Nin? Is she the twin sister of Brother Ji Nan?"
"Uhm!"
"Wow, finally I got to see her" Lee Chin Mei exclaimed and strodes towards to the kitchen. "Big sister!"
Tan Ja Nin looked at Lee Chin Mei and saw her smiling face. "I can finally put a face on your name."
Tan Ja Nin knitted her brows.
"I often heard your name everytime my brother was with his friends when he was in highschool. They usually hangout in our villa and you, Song Dei Si and Ho Min Lin were their favorite topics."
"O-oh!" Tan Ja Nin said.
"I thought you have a big crush on Yan Mor Tee? What happened that you ended up with my brother?" Lee Chin Mei bluntly asked.
Tan Ja Nin face blushed. Lee Jin Ho wanted to dragged his sister out of his pad.
"Don"t you have anything to do?" Lee Jin Ho asked.
"None. Today"s Friday. I am planning to do my homework on the weekend."
"Are you not going out with your friends who loves to party around?"
"Nah! I don"t like to party anymore!"
"Wow! That"s quite a news. How come that you suddenly don"t like partying?"
Lee Chin Mei shrugged her shoulder. "She"s pretty!" Lee Chin Mei said as she continue looking at Tan Ja Nin.
Tan Ja Nin was amazed by her att.i.tude. She wasn"t afraid to give her personal views about her in front of her. She was so straightforward.
"Big sister! Do you have anything to do tonight?"
"Ah I"m going to cook our dinner!"
"Why are you cooking dinner for my brother? Are you being bullied by my brother?" Lee Chin Mei asked.
"I think it"s normal for a girlfriend to cook for her boyfriend sometimes." Tan Ja Nin said.
Lee Ji Ho smiled when he heard her answer. So she did not deny him in front of his sister. He must treat his younger sister then for barging in. At least, he was able to claim that Tan Ja Nin was his girlfriend and she did not oppose it. He was afraid of asking her to be his girlfriend for the fear of getting rejected again.
"I see" Lee Chin Mei said and she started wondering.
"You can cook for your boyfriend too!" Tan Ja Nin said
"I don"t have a boyfriend yet!" Lee Chin Mei said.
"No one would want someone like you to be his girlfriend. Brat!" Lee Jin Ho chimed in.
"Oh really. Then why do I have so many suitors in school?" Lee Chin Mei shot back
"They are blinded by your innocent look. Let them find the real you and for sure they will start looking for another girl!"
Lee Chin Mei gave him a glare. "Are you really my brother?"
Lee Jin Ho laughed. "If you have a lot of suitors then why don"t you have a boyfriend yet?"
"So it"s now okay with you if I have a boyfriend?"
"Nah!"
"Then why asking me why I still don"t have a boyfriend if you"re still now allowing me to have one!"
"I was just bluffing you!"
"You"re so annoying! Big sister when did you start dating and have a boyfriend?" Lee Chin Mei suddenly asked.
Tan Ja Nin was surprised with her question and so was Lee Jin Ho. He waited for Tan Ja Nin"s answer because he also wanted to know.
"Lee Jin Ho is my first boyfriend!"
Lee Jin Ho was stunned. He knew that he was the first man on her life but he didn"t expect that she never had any boyfriend before.
So they were like each other"s first relations.h.i.+p. He never had a girlfriend before Tan Ja Nin.
"What?!" Lee Chin Mei exclaimed. "So you are like my brother! He doesn"t have any girlfriends before you."
"Ohh..." Tan Ja Nin was surprised too.
"You must be fated with each other. I knew my brother was head over heels with Song Dei Si and you were on the same boat for Yan Mor Tee. But those two people that you both liked ended up together, and now you have each other. Isn"t it called destiny?"
"You talk a lot!" Lee Jin Ho snapped!
"With sense." Lee Chin Mei shot back.
"You really followed the conversations I had with my friends before. Isn"t it some kind of invasion of privacy?"
"Invasion of privacy. My foot! You were all talking too loud that I can make a minutes of your conversation with them!"
"And you were just only 13 years old then when they still hangout at our villa."
"Yeah, it was stopped when you suddenly went to UK!" Lee Chin Mei"s beautiful face suddenly clouded with a sudden sadness.
"Are you disappointed because you can no longer eavesdrop in our conversation?"
Lee Chin Mei did not answer. She always love hearing stories from his brother"s friends. The truth was sometimes she felt like she grew up with them. She knew how his brother loves Song Dei Si. She knew how Tan Ji Nan chased Ho Min Lin, she knew how Yan Mor Tee had a relations.h.i.+p with Song Dei Si and broke up with her. She knew how Lu Jiosheng got betrayed by his fiance....She lowered her head when a sudden pain crossed her pretty face.
"Are you still not leaving?" Lee Jin Ho asked his sister.
Lee Chin Mei looked at him "It"s too early. I will leave at the same time with big sis!"
Lee Jin Ho glared at Lee Chin Mei. This sister of him was really pain on his &s$. He was planning to talk to Tan Ja Nin to ask her to stay for tonight again. But Lee Chin Mei was ruining his plan.
"Okay, if you don"t want to leave yet, a.s.sist your big sister in the kitchen. You need to wash the dishes later too!"
Lee Chin Mei eyes has widened in disbelief. She never washed a dishes on her whole life of existence. But soon realized that her brother was purposely p.i.s.sing her off for her to leave now and she will not let him get on with his plan.
She made an evil grin.
"Okay! I think I must learn how to cook too. So when the time comes that having a boyfriend is finally legal I can cook for him too!"
"In your dreams! You"re going to be an old maid" Lee Jin Ho snapped.
It hits Lee Chin Mei nerves.
Old maid?
She felt a pang on her heart.
Could be...
Because she don"t have any plans of marrying somebody else if it"s not with her first love.
Yes with her first love who doesn"t have any clues that she loves him for too many years now.
Her first love who doesn"t know that she exists.
Her first love whom she met when she was only 9 years old.