Chapter 12: Aerugo City - The City of Envy
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While they were on their way to the hotel, Sierra thought the whole city is no different from a business district in her previous life. There are restaurants, shops, hotels, mall, and buildings everywhere, but compared with Avaritia City where almost every piece of furniture and products were made of gold, this place is much humble and will be more comfortable to live in.
Entering the lift to arrive at their floor in the hotel, there are two women inside laughing and chatting with each other, not even minding the two who just entered.
“You are so funny, that's the only trait you have that everyone in our circle liked,” said the woman on the right.
She is kind of pretty and a sophisticated looking woman with her high-end tight above the knee, red dress partnered with black stilettos, and a black shining crocodile-skinned handbag.
“Well, what do you know? by the way. Did you make a mistake while posting in your onthegram?” asked by the woman on the left while smiling.
Others cannot be able to distinguish whether if it's a real smile or a sarcastic one. This woman has the exact same style of dress as the other one but it is in a different color, she partnered it with red wedge heels and a red leather branded handbag, she's also pretty but had a mature and professional aura in her due to her black-rimmed glasses.
“Why, what's wrong with it?” asked by the woman on the right, flustered.
“You look so haggard and all, I thought maybe you post the wrong photo,” the woman on the left answered casually as if unconcerned.
“But I never posted a photo without wearing any makeup-” she was not able to finish her sentence when the woman on the left cut her off.
“Oh, you’re wearing makeup? I thought you’re not, anyway, it’s not about the looks, at least you are confident in yourself. You are the only one in our circle who can do that. I can't even bare to post that kind of photo. Well, it's not as if I have one,” said the woman on the left still smiling kindly but the eyes cannot hide that triumphant feeling she has.
When Sierra and En arrived at their floor, they step out simultaneously and walked through a long corridor passing by a woman banging on one of the rooms they walked by.
“Eduard, come out this instant! I know you are in there!”
The woman keeps on shrieking and making a scene and only stopped when the door opened and a man walked out.
“What the f*ck is wrong with you?” the man angrily shouted.
The woman breaks herself in and started to search the man's hotel room.
“Where is that b***h? The b***h you look at this morning. I knew you wanted me to go shopping alone and you went back to our room because you plan to meet that b***h, right? Where is she?” the woman said hysterically, still doing her best to search every nook and crook of the room.
“What are you talking about? And who are you referring to? I wasn't able to look at another woman as I'm too busy looking after you,” the man confusedly asks and doesn't understand the situation
Sierra wasn't able to conclude the fight between the couple in the other room, because they already arrived at their accommodation.
As they entered their hotel room, Sierra let go of En and hurried to the living room to flop herself on the sofa.
She was already hungry, she was tired of their long walk and didn't want to get in the way while En is cooking, it will only prolong the time of her dinner time if she bothers him.
She planned to take a nap while she's waiting for dinner but she had no idea that as soon as she closed her eyes, she will immediately drift off.
“Sierra”
“My child”
“I've been waiting for you”
“Sierra”
“Sierra”
“Sierra”
“Sierra, wake up! Let's eat,”
Sierra slowly opened her eyes when she realized that the soft gentle voice of a woman was changed into a sweet baritone voice of En.
It's the first time she didn't felt like waking up because of a dream, she wanted to hear that woman's voice all day long and feel as if she will not get tired of it, that voice is giving her the feeling of comfort and love that was starting to vanish deep inside her, it's a completely different feeling when she was with En. it's like a feeling that was already imprinted in her soul
‘I dreamt but this time it's not about that man named Evander anymore, but it’s about a woman I didn't know' she thought to herself but didn't further dwell on it and quickly dismissed the thought in her mind, thinking that it's just a dream and it'll be a waste of time to further think about it.
She stood up and cling on the arms of En once again, smelling the aroma of a man's natural scent in him mixed with a delicious scent of food coming from the kitchen.
En lead her to the kitchen and assisted her to sit in one of the bar stools in the kitchen counter and then present the dishes in front of her
“It’s not much, but I hope it's to your liking,” he shyly turns his head away due to embarrassment.
En had long been practicing to cook waiting for this day to come that he will finally be able to make use of it but as soon as when he's right in front of her, showing her his skills, he became too conscious, thinking that maybe he made some little mistakes that he didn’t realize doing making the food taste bad or maybe it didn't suit her taste. He was nervous.
Sierra found him pretty cute that she pinched his already red cheeks
“Cute,” Sierra said and the way En saw it was as if a kid was calling an adult cute, he finds it so adorable that he wants to bite her.
The food was great and delicious, Sierra didn't expect that En knows how to cook since he looks like a person who was raised with a golden spoon. They ended the dinner harmoniously and sat on the sofa after to digest their meal, En proposes to watch a movie and so they did.
The movie is pretty boring for Sierra, to be honest, it's a cliché type of movie where you will already expect that the ending will be a tragedy. It's a good movie to watch if a person is suffering from insomnia.
It didn't take too long before Sierra fell asleep.
Closing her eyes, the same dream just a while ago emerges in her slumber state, a woman calling her over and over again appeared in front of her, now that she thinks about it, the person who was calling her when she was in her death bed during her previous life has the same voice with this woman in her dream right now.
Looking at her, Sierra cannot recognize her face because it is quite blurred, but she can see that she has long black hair, she was wearing pajamas and barefooted.
“We will meet again,” she said and reached her hand to Sierra.
“I’ll be waiting for you.”
- Writer
