Twins Genius: Two CEOs

Apple

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Francisco grabbed his drinking glass and gulped it down slowly. He soon resumed his lunchtime activities accompanied by his clients and assistants. The four of them sat at the same table in one of the restaurants located quite far from the Francisco office.

Sometimes they talk about projects they are working on together. Meanwhile, his secretary who is now sitting right next to him is just silent since he met his client secretary who they had met at one of the restaurants. At that time his secretary accidentally dropped a drink right on his clothes and he was angry instead of playing until making everyone in the restaurant turn to them.

Meanwhile, Carla. The woman who became a secretary of Francisco's client as well as the fiance of a Jordan CEO J Company is now silent to pay attention to the figure of Francisco carefully. While his mouth was chewing on the food he had just devoured, his two eyes continued to stare intensely at the handsome figure sitting right before him. The man continued to focus on the food he devoured without caring about his surroundings including the woman who had been watching him ever since.

"It turns out that in more careful attention, he is handsome.." he thought as he continued to pay attention to it, barely blinking.

"But why the first time we met, I didn't realize it. Yea? Was it because I was so angry that I didn't notice the details of his face?" His inner.

The Francisco secretary who realized Carla was constantly stealing glances at her and then turning her facial water irritated, stared intently at the woman. But unfortunately Carla who he looked at completely ignored him.

...*...

Aphrodite has not been separated from the building she saw. The Francisco office building is right opposite the location of the restaurant where he enjoyed his lunch time with Jordan.

While Aphrodite focused on staring out the window, Jordan was now focusing on her food. The man's attention turned to Aphrodite, who had not yet put the food before him into her mouth.

"Aphrodite?" Jordan called out to her making Aphrodite drag out from inside her daydream and turned her head towards her.

"Huh?"

Jordan grabbed his glass and gulped down the contents of the drink until only a quarter was left.

"Why don't you eat? Don't you like the food?"

"Oh, no."

"Then why? Are you thinking of something?"

"Not really. It is not necessary to discuss, we better just eat," said Aphrodite who then chose to focus on her food.

Jordan then refocused on his food, devouring everything until it was gone.

*

"Alright, thanks again for the time today. Then we'll excuse us." Francisco shook his client's hand, smiling kindly as he moved from his seat.

"Yes. We are also very grateful that you have come all the way here to see us directly, sorry in advance if the place we choose is too far from your office. Our work here is too much and we cannot leave."

"It's okay, it's not a problem."

"Then we meet on another occasion, I hope our cooperation goes well."

"We hope so, too" said Francisco. He shook Carla's hand in turn. After that he left there with his secretary to go back to their office.

"Sir, that woman has been watching you ever since." His brother was at Francisco as soon as they sauntered over to the car and sat there.

"Who do you mean?"

"Who else if not his secretary, Mr. Nat, who sucks."

"really?" Francisco responded casually, taking out his phone as soon as he sat in the car seat quietly next to his secretary.

"Yes. Didn't you realize it?"

"Not at all. Why ignore him anyway? Don't waste your time just watching others. Better just focus on your work, okay?" Francisco turned to him for a moment and focused on his phone to call Aphrodite and ask her if she had lunch.

"But from his gaze he seemed to like the father," his secretary muttered softly but his words were completely ignored by Francisco beside him. The next second his secretary chose to ease his emotions by focusing on the tablet screen in his hand, about to check back the schedule of activities they should do after this.

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"Thank you for having lunch with me, and thank you for treating me. Next time, I'll treat you to lunch" Jordan said as soon as Aphrodite had just finished paying and walked out with him from the restaurant.

"Yes, no problem. Now we're even. Okay?"

"Okay" Jordan answered.

The two of them were now stepping on the sidewalk, walking among the passers-by around them. Her footsteps stopped at the red light and waited for a moment until they could cross over to get to the office.

"Well, then we'll split up here" Jordan told Aphrodite as soon as they arrived at the office and took the elevator that took them to where they worked. Aphrodite came out of the elevator and stood there staring at him. He smiled and nodded his head in response.

"See you later."

"See you."

The elevator doors closed again, Jordan continued his journey back to his study, which was located a few floors above the floor where Aphrodite worked.

Aphrodite walked towards her division. Her phone that was beeping made her attention switch. He pulled his phone out of the pocket in the skirt he was wearing, finding the Francisco number listed there showing the call screen. Aphrodite then lifted him up immediately, and slowed down her steps while glancing at the watch in her hand. There are still a few minutes before the break is over.

...*...

Aphrodite arrived in her room to find Tina who was now waking up and approaching her so aware she had arrived there.

"Where are you having lunch?" Tina asked as soon as she arrived inside.

"I'm having lunch outside."

"You're having lunch with that guy you know?"

"Yes.that's it. I forgot that I had a debt with him, so he asked me to buy him lunch outside."

"So it seems…"

"alright. Maybe next time." Tina smiled at him.

Aphrodite walked up to her desk and sat down in her cubicle followed by Tina who sat at her desk to continue their work because the break was just over.

...*...

"Where are you going?" Francisco watched Aphrodite from top to bottom, the woman who became his wife was now wearing neat clothes like she was about to go somewhere.

It's Sunday, though, and the two are enjoying their weekend time with quality time together at home without doing anything other than enjoying the beautiful day from early morning starting from waking up to the hour as it is today.

The clock on the wall shows at four in the afternoon and they have since enjoyed a variety of films that they play on television. But after a while, Aphrodite decided to prepare before she left.

"The food supply in the kitchen is up. I want to go to the supermarket to buy new supplies" he replied.

"Then let me come with you. I'll take you away and I'll bring you all your groceries, okay?"

"alright. Let's go."

"Wait, I want to change clothes first after that we leave by car."

"Hurry over."

"Just calm down, I won't be long." Francisco got out of his seat and went upstairs to change his clothes before they left.

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Francisco and Aphrodite walked out of the supermarket after nearly half an hour of spending time buying everything they needed. They had time to double-check all the items they needed in the list of groceries that Aphrodite had made. And after making sure everything they got, they then went out of the supermarket to go back to their homes.

Francisco brought all their study stuff into the car. There were two large white plastic bags that were very heavy under Francisco and he put them in the back seat. After putting everything down, they are ready to go home.

"Well, is there anything else you need?" Francisco asked Aphrodite, who was still standing by his car and had not yet gotten in. The woman was still silently struggling with the small note and pen in her hand, crossing out some items from her grocery list leaving only one more thing she had yet to get.

"There's one more thing I want to buy. But I think I should look for it somewhere else."

"What's that?"

"Cake. You remember that cake we ate a while ago? At first I just wanted to try it and after I knew it was so good, I wanted to."

"Alright, then let's go and buy it. Where did you buy it?"

"Ng.. I guess let me buy it myself so it's faster. It's not too far from here either, so I'd better go alone and you wait here, okay? I'll be back as soon as I'm done buying the cake I want."

"You're going alone?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"All right, I'll wait. If that's what you want."

"Then take care of our groceries and don't go anywhere, I'll be right back."

"Yes. You speak as if I were a child, haha.." Francisco chuckled in response to Aphrodite's words.

The next second Aphrodite went away from there, walked for a while and then turned to arrive at the fork in the road. He crossed the street, passing through several shops, one of which was a fruit shop.

While walking through a fresh fruit shop, he accidentally saw a woman of his age who was helping the old grandmother help pick up some apples that fell from the place of sale.

Aphrodite stopped her steps as soon as one of the apples rolled towards her and stopped right in front of her. Aphrodite squatted down to grab it.

He paused for a moment to look at the woman who was struggling to help the old grandmother pick up all her apples. Among all the passers-by there, only that woman would help the old grandmother with all her heart. Some people around the brand just keep going without caring about both.

"I must help them" murmured Aphrodite who felt sympathy. Rushing he walked, helped grab all the apples down there and helped the old woman and grandmother.

The woman was stunned when she found that Aphrodite also helped her with her grandmother.

"Thank you for helping" she told Aphrodite as soon as they finished picking it all up and put the apples in the basket the grandmother gave her.

"It's no problem, after all, you seem to have enough trouble picking up all those apples just by yourself." Aphrodite smiled wryly at him.

"Yes, people do not care about the situation of the grandmother who was in distress like that. If it wasn't me or you, there probably wouldn't be anyone else who cared to help her."

Aphrodite simply smiled in response to his sentence confirming what had just been ejected from her lips.

"Thank you for helping grandma." The old grandmother said she made her attention to the two who were now smiling after collecting all her apples and putting them in a basket.

"Not a problem, after all we can not stand still to see there are people who are in distress. Especially if that person is a grandmother." The woman smiled warmly at him. For some reason but seeing from the appearance and style of speech of the woman made Aphrodite feel as if she was looking in the mirror. The way she dresses and the style of her speech really feels similar to her.

"As a thank you, grandma wants to give this to you." The grandmother rushed to take two plastic bags and put some of the fruits she sold in there until the contents of the plastic bag were full.

"We don't need this Grandma, we help because we want to. Not because of hoping for a reply," said Aphrodite who was nodded by the beautiful woman beside her.

"Rubber. And again, if grandma gives us this much fruit; then what about Grandma's sales?" The woman chimed.

The grandmother turned moody, her head bowed lethargic at the words of Aphrodite and the woman beside her.

"You refused it too? Is it because all of the grandmother's fruits are sold on the streets so you also think that these fruits are not fresh? It seems that people today prefer to buy fruits in supermarkets that are guaranteed everything. It's impossible to buy fruit on the side of the road like this" he murmured. The grandmother's words managed to make them both feel bad for refusing.

"N-not that way, grandma.." the woman tried to explain.

"We don't mean to offend grandma. We did help out on a sincere basis, and didn't expect anything in return."

"really. Therefore we reject it, Grandma," he said chimed in.

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