I Am Yours, Mr Chevalier!
Part 8's
Laras ran small towards a cafe that is still in the campus environment. The campus is quite crowded with students who pass by.
The girl's steps came to a halt when she saw a long-haired blonde who had just stepped down from her car. Reflexively Laras turned his body trying to dodge. But just as her feet were about to step, the girl was startled by a long-haired blonde figure that appeared out of nowhere.
"Hey .. The barrel!" call the figure who is none other than Benjamin Chevalier.
"Damn!" screeches slowly. Looking around, there were some students who heard Ben calling him and now they were looking at him with a probing gaze.
Ben stepped half-run towards Laras who had not yet turned his body to answer the man's call.
"Hi Ben's." Barrel grimacing. "Sorry Ben .. I gota go, my friend is waiting for me." The girl waved her small palm to say goodbye. The man was about to hold back, but the girl's pace was so quick and a moment later had passed from before him. Ben raised his eyebrows in wonder. Then shrug his shoulders. Then step into the building.
Laras threw his body in the soft cafe chair, Catherine who was sipping coffee noticed her best friend was astonished.
"What's wrong?" tanyakanya.
"I'm surprised, I haven't seen Ben Chevalier in the past, but why do I see him so much lately?" The barrel asked.
Catherine chuckles. "You're the one who never paid attention."
"Hmm .. true as well. "The mangosteen-beard sign agreed with Catherine's words.
"Are you not related to him?"
catherine asked suspiciously.
Barrel chuckling. Waving her palm the sign of the girl did not seriously respond to her best friend's question.
"That's impossible, a celebrity like her, with an ordinary girl like me?" Back Barrel chuckles. "Only in fairyland."
Baras sipped the coffee Catherine had ordered for him. "I didn't tell you that I work at her grandmother's?"
"Aah!" Catherine snapped her index finger. "That's it .. The modern-day Cinderella story will soon be written."
"Yes, yes of course .. in your dream." said Laras. Both destroyed.
The afternoon was spent chatting warmly in the cafe with refreshing views of lush trees scattered throughout the campus area.
***
Laras steps in a hurry to enter Madame Rose's pink-painted house. He immediately opened the coat that wrapped his body and hung it on the pole where the coat hanging near the kitchen. Look at Lupita who has finished preparing lunch.
"Sorry Lupita, I'm late, I just finished college at 12:30" Laras said as he tidied his work uniform.
"You just take Madam's lunch straight to her room" Lupita said.
Laras nodded. He immediately brought a tray containing lunch to Madame Rose's room.
A few minutes later Laras returned to the kitchen with an empty tray.
Lupita who was enjoying her lunch waved at him.
"Well, can you help me deliver a bottle of wine to Benji's room?" he said, pointing at a wine bottle and its glass on the table.
"Ben is here?" asked Laras a little surprised.
The girl just remembered that every weekend Benjamin would stay at Madame Rose's place.
"Yep, he's staying overnight."
still carrying. "Where is the room
Ben?" tanyanya.
"You just go straight from here, then turn left, walk a few meters, there's a black door, well." Lupita.
Baras new twice weekend working in this house so still not too familiar with the ins and outs of this large house. The barrel knocked on the black door slowly. There's no answer. There were sounds of electric guitars coming from inside the room. The girl then knocked back. This time a little hard. The guitar stops. How long the door opened from inside. Ben's handsome face with his random shoulder-length hair poking out. His facial expression was fleeting and it was nice to see Laras standing in a tray that contained a bottle of wine and a long-legged glass. The girl looked nervous.
"Hey Laras, let's go in" Ben said, opening the door wide and letting Laras in.
Barrel smiled. Then go into a room filled with guitars and amplifiers. The girl placed a tray on a table adjacent to a long sofa.
"Sit here for a while" Ben said as he stepped towards the sofa and sat on it. His right hand grabbed the wine bottle on the table and poured it into the glass.
"Emh .. I still have a lot of work, Lupita is waiting for me." Laras told a lie.
Ben chuckles. "Come, it's lunchtime, Lupita must be resting, just relax Laras, and Rose is not a fierce employer, is she?"
Barrels choked. The girl racked her brain to find another reason to not stay close to this man for long.
"Come on, accompany me for a drink!" ben exclaimed at Laras who was busy with his thoughts.
"Emh .. sorry Ben, I really have a lot of work to do." After saying that sentence, Laras rushed out of the room. Ben swung both hands up, astonished by the attitude of Laras who had this second time to avoid him.
***
"See you tomorrow, Lupita," Laras said as he poked his scarf around his neck.
Today the girl's work is done.
His face looks tired.
"Take care, Barrel." Lupita waved her hand towards Laras who started to move away from the kitchen.
The barrel turned towards the corridor where Ben's studio room was located, the black door was tightly shut. The girl breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, will I take you home?"
"Geez!" Laras is suffocated when he sees Ben suddenly standing before him. The man chuckled.
"Geez, Laras .. You look at me like you're looking at an alien" Ben said.
Baras held his chest that was beating loudly. Either because of surprise or because of being near this man.
"So, I'll take you home, I happen to be going to the Rebellion studio in Time Warner, I think there's still a way with Tudor City from here, '" Ben said.
"No, no need, Ben .. thank you, I'm on foot," said Laras soon. Sending this man home means his life will be more runyam if again caught by the media.
"You sure?" ask Ben.
"Yeah, I'm okay, thanks .. see you, Ben."
Laras stepped in quickly leaving Ben who could only be fixated on looking at the girl's departure.
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