Kris was the first one to be awoken from the bang. Usually, he would wake up right away, but somehow, he felt that he had a good night sleep. When did his bed get so tiny?
Kris tried to move but his arm was heavy. He opened his eyes to see a woman on his bed! He got off the bed to the side and Lena"s body suddenly woke up like a ghost.
"AHHHH!" Kris screamed.
Lena turned to face him and screamed very loudly too. James who was still outside thought best if he did not go in. He will stay outside.
"Why are you screaming?!" Kris shouted at her.
"Because you are screaming."
"Why are you here?!"
"This is my bed!"
Kris stopped and looked around the room. He ruffled his hair. This was not his room. He gave Lena a deadly stare. Lena jumped from the bed, standing on the opposite side of Kris.
"Don"t look at me like that, I didn"t do anything!"
"What did you do!!"
At this point, James opened the door. He knew that something was wrong with the situation. Lena quickly moved behind James. She poked her head out.
"You fainted in my hallway and I dragged you inside. You were like a zombie and you choked me and then you called me mom and then you hugged me and then you dragged me to sleep and then that"s it!" Lena said all that in one breath. She tucked her head back, making sure James was her s.h.i.+eld.
Kris was trying to remember what happened. Lena stuck her head back out.
"Except that part... where I dragged you in." She stumbled to say that out. She had promised herself to put the blame on James last night but it already slipped out of her mouth.
From all the experience Lena had with Kris, she knew that he gets aggressive whenever he touches a woman.
"You called me mom too." Lena reiterated that part.
"Get out!"
"But this is my--"
"OUT!"
Lena dragged James and shut the door behind them. She looked up at James and then back at the door. "Do you think he"s mad?"
Lena was going to walk to the door and put her ear on it but it suddenly opened again. Kris stuck out his hand.
"Give me your phone."
"I don"t have mine."
James quickly took out his cellphone and gave it to Kris. "Pa.s.scode is 1015." It was the birthday of his daughter.
Kris abruptly closed the door again. James looked down at Lena. She was still wearing the clothes she had on yesterday.
"Did you change your bandage?" James asked.
"Ah.. no." Lena looked down at her wound. The skin has healed but she still needed to clean it until it fully heals. An infection would cause the wound to be reopened and take longer to heal.
Lena grabbed the first aid kit from the living room and entered the bathroom in the hallway. She cleaned and changed her bandages. She looked at her neckline and luckily, there were only some slight redness and no bruises. They were barely noticeable unless you looked very close. When she came out, her bedroom door was still shut tight.
"What is he doing?" Lena went to the door and put her ear by it. She could hear the water of the shower running. "He"s taking a shower?" Lena looked at James. "What is going to wear?"
James shrugged his shoulders. Lena shook her head and went into her kitchen to brew herself some coffee. This is going to be a while. Her coffee finished brewing and she gave one to James. She walked to listen to the door again, and the shower was still running.
Lena sighed. "Is this how it feels when you wait for me while I get ready?" Lena asked James. He nodded slightly.
They both drank their coffee and stared at the bedroom door, hoping that it would open any minute. Lena"s doorbell rung and James went to see who it was.
"It"s his Secretary."
"Let him in."
Collin walked into the apartment with a set of clothes. "Oh, Miss. Shen is still here?"
"This is my apartment. And your boss is in my room. How do you think I am going to get change? Call my secretary with my imaginary phone and hopefully, she flies over and gives me clothes?" Lena responded.
Collin cleared his throat. He walked towards the bedroom, a.s.suming it was the correct one because Lena kept staring at it like she wanted to break the door down. He knocked on it.
"It is me." Collin spoke.
Kris suddenly opened the door. His hair was still dripping wet but he had a long towel tied to his waist. Lena popped her head out to see that.
"Hey! That"s my towel!" She pointed out.
"You"re still here?"
"Why do you guys keep asking me that? This is my home. I just moved in and then I got shot so I never unpack much stuff. All of my clothes are in there!"
"Oh. Why didn"t you knock? Do you have another room?"
Lena just stared wide-eyed at Kris. "Is he f*cken kidding me?" Kris grabbed the suit Collin prepared for him and walk to a different room to change. Lena stomped to her room and slammed the door.
Collin looked at James and he just shrugged.
Lena quickly took a shower, but also made sure her wound was still fine. Her day was already starting later than she had planned. She got dressed and walked out the door. Kris was casually drinking her coffee.
"You are still here?" This time she asked the question.
"I was waiting for you."
Why does she feel like the situation got flipped? Kris placed his coffee cup on the table. He stood up to Lena, making sure there was a good distance between them.
"I want to apologize to you."
"Huh?" Lena was a bit of a shock. Last time she asked for an apology, it was… problematic. Did he learn how to apologize?
"I am sorry. There are…" Kris cleared his throat and try to think of the proper way to say it. "Some things that I need to do before I can talk to you about what happened this morning."
Lena could tell that Kris was struggling to get the word out. She recalled how he called her mom yesterday too. Was her heart too big? "Ok."
Kris nodded and he walked out of the apartment. Collin stood up and bow to Lena.
"Kriss… he had a relapse from his sickness. He needs to go see his therapist first. I do hope that Miss. Shen doesn"t take what happened today to the heart. Sorry again." Collin stared out to Kris who had left already without him. "He needs some time before he can talk to Miss. Shen about it."
Collin bowed again and left. Lena stared at the door for a while before she broke eye contact with it.
She looked at James who was standing alert, waiting for her next command. Lena recalled that James told her that some people use anger as a way to deal with trauma. "Just what trauma haunted Kris?" Lena wondered.
"Let"s go."