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.

at Leila smiling, Renee saw clearly that there was warmth in his eyes and there was no sarcasm in his smile, and when he glanced at herself, he would

Renee was confused! What

her head, eating silently, didn’t even know that Vincent was gazing at her. When he looked at

she heard

phone and didn’t answer it, but stood up and walked towards the

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 getting

to slap Renee to death

to the bar to pay the bill, pick up Pippa from the washroom, bring her out of HH Restaurant and finally

out of the HH Restaurant. “Did I cross the line,

nothing to do with

shopping!” Renee smiled, “I’ll let Callum go back first

the end and both of them held

her heart had gone

buying anything before Leila

the building. He was here! However, she went straight into the building as she didn’t want

low voice that seemed to have mixed with anger rang out behind

on the spot for several seconds before she turned around, looking at a tall man with a cigarette

impatiently when seeing her look like this and asked in a deep

voice pierced her eardrum and echoed but Leila only gently pulled up the corner of her

met his handsome face and when she saw his expression changed with those words,

the doorway. Upon seeing him catching up from behind, she immediately opened the door panickily and entered, shutting Vincent out after

frowned as she had

was why she changed the lock? That would be fine if she was simply sulking at him, but what if she didn’t want to have any contact with him from now on, he… the cigarette was still held between the fingers of his

she

to the knocking and smiled bitterly. What did he mean? He had left her and her friends with Pippa and now he remembered her and came back for her. She had her own thought and dignity and

and Leila saw

while before she picked up the phone and said without listening to what he said, “Go back! I need to prepare my thesis and we’d better not meet for the next

door!”

tone

name in a

“No way!”

all

I won’t open the door,

lowered and sounded tired which ached her heart when