A Moment in Destiny

“Ooh…” Pippa ran into the washroom.

Vincent was expressionless and looked cold.

Leila continued to open her crabs as if everything had nothing to do with her.

Callum was sweating. “Awesome! Well, can you still eat, Leila?”

Leila shrugged, raised her eyebrows and smiled faintly. “I didn’t take my lunch and I’m hungry! This isn’t the most disgusting joke! Wait for me to tell you all the most disgusting one!”

Vincent’s face fell and he turned displeased suddenly.

Leila glanced at Vincent, thinking that the joke was good enough to prank him but she was just worried that Vincent had never been so badly treated in his entire life. She then spoke to Renee, “Let’s tell you about it next time when we go to eat something that is even more sumptuous than this!”

“Let’s eat!” Leila continued eating.

For a while, there were only Renee, Callum and Leila eating together while Vincent didn’t take his chopsticks but looked into the direction of the washroom. Leila saw his worry but Vincent said in a deep voice, “Leila, I just want to know, do you have a more disgusting joke than that?”

This was the first sentence he spoke to Leila when he came to HH Restaurant, Leila smiled gently and nodded her head, “Yes, do you want to hear it?”

The corners of his lips curled up playfully and he nodded his head, “Yes! I want to hear it!”

“Well!” Leila didn’t care but spoke about it as she opened the crabs. “One day, two brothers went to the theatre to watch a play. Halfway through the play, they argued over the development of the plot and made a bet about it. The eldest pointed to a row of spittoons in front and said, 'The loser has to take a sip from there.' Unfortunately, the eldest lost so he took a sip with a frown. The duo continued to bet on the next episode and this time, the youngest lost. He then picked up a spittoon and gulped down fifteen big gulps. The eldest was astonished and spoke to the youngest in admiration, 'You’re amazing. You just took fifteen big gulps in a row!' The latter shook his head, 'It’s not that I want to drink but the spittle in that spittoon are so dense that I couldn’t stop.”

“Ooh…” Renee and Callum were about to vomit after listening to Leila’s joke. The had known about the joke of “recooking” and had been long immune to it but they always told the joke to others purposely during the dinner in order to disgust people and then enjoyed the food by themselves. However, they didn’t expect to meet Leila today who was a grand master of joking. “Leila, this is amazing!”

Leila smiled faintly and glanced at Vincent but found that he was looking at her with unblinking eyes. His eyes were deep and bright, yet, there was a trace of appreciation in his eyes as if he wasn’t angry at all but curling up the corner of his lips playfully and then said later, “I like this joke!”

Boom…

Leila was dumbfounded and almost choking!

What did he mean?

Leila tried her best to calm down the chaos in her heart and she was puzzled by his sudden comment. She was trying to make him angry but why wasn’t he angry at all? Why did he smile at her?

Was he crazy? Was his brain damaged?

Leila lowered her head and continued to eat.

also a bit surprised, she and Callum looked at each other and blinked, what was going on? The way Vincent looked at Leila seemed different! When he looked at Leila smiling, Renee saw clearly that there was

Renee was confused! What about him and

her. When he looked at her lost in thought, his eyes turned deeper

heard Vincent’s phone

at the phone and didn’t answer it, but stood

to pay the bill!” Renee didn’t forget to say. Looking at Vincent’s defeated look, Renee was greatly pleased for herself and Leila in her heart. But she was worried again when looking at the way they were

urge to slap

the bar to pay the bill, pick up Pippa from the washroom, bring her out of HH Restaurant and finally get into his Bugatti with Pippa sitting in the passenger

HH Restaurant. “Did I cross the

with you!” Leila shook her head. “Let’s go

let Callum go back first and just

back by Renee in the end and both of them held their arms and walked down the street

unsure where her heart had gone

nine o’clock at night without buying anything before Leila took the bus back and Renee went

of the Pearl Community, Leila looked up and saw Bugatti was right in front of the doorway of the building. He was here! However, she went straight into the building as she didn’t want to see him and just pretended not to see the Bugatti.

A low voice that seemed to

seconds before she turned around, looking at a tall man with a cigarette in his hand. She just stared at him dumbfoundedly and her eyes were full of

like this and asked in a deep voice, “Why did you change the

echoed but Leila only gently pulled up the corner of her lips and asked,

changed with those words,

him behind. She was panting heavily for running too fast when she reached the doorway. Upon seeing him catching up from behind, she immediately opened the door panickily

Vincent frowned as she had locked him

didn’t want to have any contact with him from now on, he… the cigarette was still held between the fingers of his left hand. He then took a

she obviously would not open the

and now he remembered her and came back for her. She had her own thought and dignity and she was not someone who just came and

rang, and Leila saw it was

said without listening to what he said, “Go back! I need to

the door!” He interrupted

tone

name in a deep

“No way!”

here all night if you don’t

and her tone was resolute, “I don’t care, I won’t open the door, it is all up to you

stop it? Don’t be childish!” His tone lowered and sounded tired which ached her