When There Is Nothing Left But Love (Ashton And Scarlett)

A few of them looked at me in confusion. “Are you constipated?”

No one but Nora was capable of making such a crass comment.

Rolling my eyes, I resumed my seat and replied, “I bumped into a friend that’s all.”

My reply seemed to have piqued her interests even more. “What friend? Is it a he or she?” Is he handsome?”

Oh dear…

Tessa’s gaze fell on me; her lips pursed with traces of disdain.

I lost my appetite after taking a few bites when Nora suggested a karaoke session on the second floor.

Everyone agreed to her suggestion. After all, they did promise themselves to play hard after returning home from Western Europe.

The second floor was full of private rooms for karaoke with a big pool hall in the middle. Customers who did not fancy singing karaoke could spend time playing pool out here. I regarded this to be a very thoughtful design.

I was terribly tone-deaf and could neither sing nor dance. Tessa seemed to view karaoke singing in the same light. But it could just be that she didn’t like it at all. For all that I knew, we both disliked the rowdy environment.

After spending some time in our private room, I excused myself to get some air.

to get out of her way so she could spend some private

and reserved. I couldn’t help but suspect something was wired wrongly for him tonight to subject himself to such discordant singings by a

in groups and maybe two or three women in between. Pool was not

searching for a while, I found a bench on the side and

to me. It took me a few seconds to turn around and realized

few exchanges throughout the night; thus I was a little taken by surprise when she sat down next to

the man from just now?” she

in her direction and realized she wasn’t even looking at me. Her gaze was falling right ahead at those playing pool in front

The man?

dawned on me which man she was referring to, I pursed my lips and hesitated for a brief moment before I

hands as she spoke, “I believe in letting go of grievances among people. I can get

by her statement

we hang out with the same group of people and are bound to gather every so often, we

eyebrow raised, still puzzled by her

and retorted, “There’s no need to be arrogant,

trapped in your own pre-conceptions. I don’t see you as an enemy

friends!” she exclaimed while holding out her hand. “Give

took over my phone and did a few maneuvers before handing it back to me.