"Wait for me outside.'
Bang!
Without giving Susan time to respond, Ian slammed the door shut in her face and proceeded to get dressed.
Delighted, Susan hurried downstairs to the kitchen to retrieve two eggs she had boiled earlier before waiting for him at their rendezvous point.
Not long after, the sound of the door opening prompted her to look up, only to have a handsome young man clad in a white shirt meet her gaze. Looking like he had just stepped out of the pages of a comic book, Ian descended the stairs with grace and aplomb.
"Are you all set? Let’s get going, or we won't be able to catch the minibus to the market."
Urging him, Susan beamed as she handed him the two hot eggs still in her hands.
Ian did not refuse.
The pair soon arrived at the bus stop. Due to the market that day, many villagers already stood in line.
I didn't think it would be such a long queue! Would he feel irritated?
Familiar with his aversion to crowds, Susan began to worry.
Fortunately, the villagers parted in the middle to allow the two university students to ascend the minibus when it arrived. They were still very impressed with how Ian made the farmer a third more than he would usually earn with the sale of timber.
"Have your nephew sit over here, Ms. Jadeson. It's a prime seat on this bus."
fine too, Ms.
think twice about paying
the window. Although the softness in the seats was
she asked after a while.
"I'll have them now.”
without a word, Ian finally picked up an
mention it
to make that day an exception for Susan's sake, he took the peeled egg handed by
ask the question his fellows were dying to ask. "What's the age gap between you and your nephew, Ms. Jadeson? You
arrival, the villagers had assumed that the
discover through the Villagers' Committee that they were aunt
"We-” Susan began.
not related by
voice interrupted her by answering the question
the voice fell, the minibus rang with the
related. Could that mean that the rumor of them being a couple is true after
eyes of their fellow passengers changed. Although they
turned a deep
soon as the minibus rolled to a halt at the station outside the market, feeling on the verge of dying of utter
the other hand,
minibus, the massive crowd jostling each other in the cramped market and the rampant presence of live poultry wailing on both sides of the street
terror.
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