A Love Trap

'This is the most efficient way to make Fiona shut up!' Ashley thought with a victorious smile visible on her lips.

Seeing the way Ashley treated Fiona, Ellie rolled her eyes at her disapprovingly.

However, Ashley just grinned back mischievously. 'Got a problem with that?' she thought.

The trio ran into Rita, and she was looking a lot less confident and much less cocky than she had been yesterday.

Ashley gave her a vague glance, thinking, 'It looks like the tides have turned, after just one day. But it's wrong to gloat over other's misfortune.'

Sensing Ashley's gaze on her, Rita looked at her with a blank expression on her face and then looked away.

'She must hate me very much.

But it's not my fault. She brought it all on herself!' Ashley thought.

The time had passed in the blink of an eye and it was already dusk. The three girls stood in front of the Luo Group's building preparing to bid each other goodbye.

"Ellie, Ashley, see you tomorrow," Fiona said cheerfully, waving to them.

Her house was in the opposite direction to where Ashley and Ellie lived. But since the girls were all good friends, they would always walk out of the company together and then go their separate ways.

"Bye. See you!" Ellie and Ashley replied in unison.

They watched Fiona for a brief moment as she walked down the street and then they too headed to their apartment.

Ashley and Ellie rented an apartment in close proximity to the company. It made it more convenient for them to walk to and from work every day. It would normally only take them around ten minutes to get home at strolling pace.

On the way home, they chatted happily with each other.

All of a sudden, Ellie stopped and asked, "Now, can you tell me how on earth you managed to pull that off?"

a stern look and an expression that implied, that she wasn't going to give her any other choice but

didn't dare try to hide it from her any

I visited the Star

there together, but then I couldn't go because I had something else that I had to do. And you went there by yourself,

back. I ran into someone- a beggar,"

eyes, they were so kind and shone so brightly and beautifully. I guessed that he would have been hungry, so

contact information with a vagabond?" Ellie raised her voice and stopped on the spot, while she held Ashley by the arm. She gaped at her and then frowned and said, "Have you

Ellie?" Ashley said through

had drawn the attention of the

thought of her, she felt

herself and after a few moments she said, "Okay, I'm ready now. Go

Anyway, a long time has passed since that day that I ran into him and to be honest I even forgot about him. Then recently, he sent me a buddy request and I accepted. It turns out that he isn't a beggar after all.

got mugged. He lost everything and that was why he was in such a bad way. Later on, he managed to contact his relatives and

good with computers and offered his skills to me

shrugging

wonder she locked herself in her room after work yesterday. And here I was

What if he was a bad guy? Bah! He came to J City to visit his relatives

in unnecessary risk. Thank goodness that nothing

looked like a really nice guy. I bet he isn't the evil person that you imagine him to be,"

judge a person by his appearance. If there were no bad people in the world, then we wouldn't see policemen everywhere," Ellie snapped in a sulky

as she shook Ellie's arm. 'I didn't have the heart to ignore him because he has the most beautiful eyes, ' she thought.

get home, but since they kept stopping to talk about Ashley's new friend, it took them half an hour to

instant Ashley walked into the house,

could be calling

down at the caller ID on the

into the kitchen to start cooking dinner for them. Whereas, Ashley sat

she answered the phone, an irritated voice screeched back at