Twins Genius: Two CEOs

One step

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Jordan stared at the souvenir shop in front of him. "It turns out he still remembers our fond memories" he murmured softly with a smile. Jordan put his phone in the pocket of his pants and stepped in to do what Aphrodite had instructed him to do.  The first thing he felt when he entered the store was the same atmosphere he would not be able to forget. Jordan was silent in his place, he looked around the shop and it still looked the same. Nothing has changed a bit from the shop she used to visit with Laura when they were together.

"What are we doing here?" Jordan asked Laura as soon as they got in there. Laura looked at her lover with a smile.

"I want to buy something for us to wear together. We buy a couple to mark that we're a couple" he said.

"uh? I don't think it's necessary, what else?"

"But want to do it." Laura pulled Jordan away. Jordan was a little bit behind him.

"Look, how about this? Maybe it's good for us to wear together?" Laura showed me a simple bracelet with the initials of the name in the middle. "L for Laura, and J for Jordan." His speech.

"I didn't say I wanted to" Jordan said. Laura snorted at him.

"So you don't want to? All right, forget it. Let's get out." Laura turned moody, she pulled Jordan's hand out but Jordan held her back first.

"I'm just kidding." Jordan said. Laura turned her head towards Jordan, the man was now smiling towards her.

"Then let's buy it." Laura pulls Jordan's hand in the other direction of the store and looks for a souvenir that suits them to wear.

"What about this?" Jordan shows a simple bracelet, but looks beautiful and luxurious with a blend of colors. Laura looked at the bracelet in Jordan's grasp. "Beautiful," he muttered softly while smiling.

"This will definitely suit you very well, let's see." Jordan put his bracelet on Laura. Beautiful, the bracelet looked perfectly fitting and fit for Laura. "seen? I told you it suits you." Jordan that.

"I like it." Laura looked at the bracelet in her wrist.

"Then we buy this one."

"Np. Then let me choose for you too." Laura switched focus on the other bracelets that were there and chose them for Jordan. After finding a suitable one, they decided to go to the cashier to pay for it.

They stood in front of the cashier's desk while the cashier's desk clerk wrapped their things. "You guys are a really good match." The cashier said as he smiled at them. Laura and Jordan simply smiled in response to her words.

Jordan shook his head slowly trying to resuscitate himself from daydreams. Since then the shadow suddenly reoccurred in his mind making him unconsciously daydream and pay attention to the cashier table occupied by a different female employee.

"Now is not the time to remember the past, but it's time to fix it!" Jordan muttered, soon he stepped in search of Laura's whereabouts. At times his attention was distracted when he found a souvenir that caught his attention, he unconsciously stepped up to find Laura who was not far from where he was standing at this time.

"It turns out he's here, '" he thought as he watched Laura who was busy looking for the item he was about to buy. Jordan moved slowly pretending to look for objects he wanted to buy, occasionally he continued to step eroding the distance between them until the distance with Laura was really close to each other.

*

"She should have come." Aphrodite looked up, she looked at the screen of her phone showing her history call with Jordan just a moment ago. Aphrodite was still on the toilet and waited for a moment to make sure they had enough time to be together. Aphrodite stood in front of the sink, staring at herself through the mirror reflection before her. "I have to be here for a while until he calls me back and tells me whether my plan is working or not."

"I hope it works."

*

Laura continued to step while paying attention to all the beautiful knickknacks in front of her, she was still confused to choose which one to each other. After all, everything looks beautiful. Laura was about to take a look at the other side, but when she turned around she accidentally collided with Jordan who also turned around along with her.

"Sorry, I didn't see." Laura hung up her words as she looked up and found Jordan standing right in front of her. They look at each other. "J-jordan.." Laura muttered softly, she was glued to her place without a word.

"Remember what I said! Don't make him run away from you because you look like you're going to ask him something. You have to stay calm and act normal, I'm sure he won't run away from you." Aphrodite's words on the phone came back to her mind, making Jordan realize what he had to do.

"Alright, stay calm." Thought Jordan while organizing himself.

"Laura? I didn't think we'd meet here." Jordan smiled knot. Laura just kept silent and looked at him without meeting, she was still shocked by what she had just seen. His brain is still trying hard to digest every event that is happening right now. "You want to buy souvenirs too? Who are you here with?" Jordan shifted her focus to the souvenir before her and tried to be casual. Jordan turned to Laura again as she realized there was no answer at all from her.

Laura was about to turn around and leave but quickly Jordan held her back and clasped her wrist.

"Then what if he ran away from me again like back then? I should what?" Jordan asked Aphrodite across the street.

"Hold him and say…"

"You don't have to run, if you're uncomfortable, let me go." Jordan followed every instruction Aphrodite gave them on the phone.

Laura stopped instantly when she heard Jordan say, she turned her head towards the man. Jordan smiled faintly before finally stepping away leaving her. Laura was still silent, she looked at Jordan who continued to step up until her figure was lost among several other existing customers.

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Aphrodite was agitated, she stared at her phone screen many times; ascertaining whether there was a new message from Jordan or not. "He hasn't contacted me yet" murmured Aphrodite. Shortly a notification of incoming messages on his phone made Aphrodite spontaneously open it.

Jordan:

I've done everything you've instructed me to do, and this time he didn't run away from me. It seems to work.

Aphrodite smiled knot reading the message just sent by Jordan, the plan was successful. "Thank God this all went according to the plan I made. Now I can get out." Aphrodite put her phone in a bag and stepped out of the toilet.

*

"Where are you now? Still on the road?"

"No, I'm in the elevator now. And it just so happens that the elevator is empty." Jordan stepped inside the elevator door in front of him and immediately pressed the five-numbered button there which inwardly led him to where Aphrodite and Laura were. "Then what's your plan? What am I supposed to do?" Jordan asked as he waited for the elevator door to open.

"First make sure you're at the store we're at. After that you go in and look for him, you have to make this all seem like it was never planned before."

"OK, then?"

"Keep close to her, until the moment she regains consciousness. You make sure he won't run from you."

"What's? But..how?"

"Listen to me and remember what I said! Don't make him run away from you because you look like you're going to ask him something. You have to stay calm and act normal, I'm sure he won't run away from you."

"All right, I'll remember. Then what if he ran away from me again like back then? I should what?" Jordan asked Aphrodite across the street.

"What's? After that, I have to go? That so?"

"Nl." Aphrodite.

"I don't understand this plan you're making, how is it going to work out to get me closer to her?" Jordan doesn't understand.

"Listen. To get you closer to her, you have to move smoothly. There is no need to rush, the most important thing is to make sure he does not go once when he sees you. The most important thing is for Laura to feel that you're not going to keep chasing her and find out what happened to her a few years ago. Understood?"

"Yes, I understand."

"If this plan works, call me immediately so I can get out of here quickly."

"All right." Jordan hung up his phone with Aphrodite, and he got out of the elevator when the door opened again.

The memory of what happened a few minutes ago was repeated in his mind. Jordan was silent, after he finished sending Aphrodite a message, he immediately put his phone back in his pants pocket.

He was silent for a moment, before he turned his focus to Aphrodite who had just come out of the toilet and was talking with Laura there.

Jordan again shifted his focus and began looking for souvenirs to buy, he took two beautiful bracelets and immediately paid for them at the cashier table and left.

*

Aphrodite and Laura stepped out of the gift shop and headed back to the restaurant that Laura meant. Arriving at the intended restaurant, they immediately ordered food for their lunch. Sometimes they chat and talk about funny things that make them laugh decorate their waiting moments.

His phone rang making Aphrodite's attention switch on the flat object. Quickly he opened and read the message that had just entered on his phone.

Jordan:

I bought something for Laura, can you give it to her? I'll give you the goods tomorrow at the office.

Aphrodite immediately replied to a message sent by Jordan, she immediately agreed to her request after it returned to focus on Laura who was telling a funny incident that had happened while in the kitchen.

*

Jordan gave a rough sigh as he arrived in his used car in the existing parking lot, currently sitting in the wrong driver's seat. His head was perched on the steering wheel right in front of him. "Hopefully this plan of Aphrodite succeeded" he murmured softly. He changed his position so facing the driver's side seat, staring right at the direction where the small paper bag containing souvenirs he bought was put there.

"I'm gonna go to great lengths to get you to come back with me and explain what's been going on all this time."

His attention was seized as his rumbling stomach suddenly rang. Jordan immediately drove his car out of the parking lot and went from there to fill his stomach.

"I'm just waiting for instructions from the next Aphrodite." Jordan memonolog while continuing to drive his car until arriving at the restaurant where he was directed.

*

Francisco stopped his car right in front of the restaurant where Laura worked, he asked them to drive him to the restaurant because there was business that he had to finish. Laura closed the car door and stood there for a moment.

"Thank you for today." Laura smiled happily.

"I also thank you for spending time with me. Next time, how about we go together again?"

"A good idea. Then I'll go first."

"Np. We'll go home first."

"Do you not want to stop by first?"

"Maybe next time, I'm tired. Francisco must also be tired after exercising, plus I have to prepare the ingredients for dinner."

"Alright, then be careful on the road."

"Yes. We're saying good."

Laura nodded her head. Francisco then drove his car home.

"How was your day with Laura? Where the hell were you guys?" Francisco asked after a moment of silence. He glanced at Aphrodite beside him.

"Fairly tired because. We went around the mall after lunch together. Oh yeah, by the way you've had lunch? You didn't forget lunch because you were too cool to exercise with your assistant, did you?" Aphrodite.

"I've eaten. My assistant reminded me."

"Thank God I'm relieved to hear it, at least you didn't forget to have lunch."

"Yes. What are you cooking tonight?"

"I don't know, I still don't have a plan. You alone? Is there anything you want? Let me cook it for you."

"I don't know, all the food you make is always good. So I'm confused to ask to choose." Francisco smiled in praise.

"You could have, the food made by Laura was even more delicious. He is a chef."

"But to me the food I made was better, because it had a secret spice that Laura didn't have for me."

"What?" Aphrodite raised her eyebrows.

"Love."

Aphrodite chuckled in response to Francisco's remarks just now. "You're really ludicrous, your words make me laugh." His speech.

"Why? It's true, isn't it?" Francisco just smiled.

Along the way they continued to discuss many things about what they both passed throughout the day, occasionally Aphrodite chuckled when she heard the funny events experienced by Francisco when she was not there, fransisco heard the story of Aphrodite.

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