Chapter 35 - The Widened Pupils I

"Hi." The beautiful woman with perfect make-up wrapped in half-open dresses greeted.

Hendra lazily glanced as he didn't care.​​

Tania turned her chair towards Hendra. She slightly tilted her head so that she looked even more beautiful with her hair loose against the table, making sure her face catched the man's eyes.

"Oh my God... My handsome friend, what's wrong with you?" Tania tried to make her expression as attractive as possible so that Hendra would turn to her.

Somehow, she failed.

"What else this time?? Your secretary is not even with you?" Tania added, capturing Hendra's gloomy atmosphere.

The man took a sip of his drink.

"Go on... You bother me."

Tania sweetly smiled, holding back her patience. This man had said the same thing for a thousand times. It was also as much as this woman ignored him.

Tania, a high school girl he met on the school's roof when she was at her lowest point in life prompted the courage to jump from there.

"Wait, if you intend to end your life, I'll go from here first."

The young man had absolutely no interest in her getting ready to jump off the rooftop, not even persuading her to stop.

"Why did you even go?"

'Why doesn't he persuade me? I really need support tho.'

"What else?! Of course, I don't want to be a witness to your stupid behaviour. You're the one who died, but I'm the one who will be interrogated for hours."

For some reason, talking to Hendra at that time made Tania lose her resolve. She glanced down.

The eaves of the roof were so scary. She then moved away.

"Won't you persuade me? Tania felt she needed help, at least a little persuasion.

"You've lost your courage, huh?!" Said Hendra with a condescending expression.

"Make sure you jump after I finish down the stairs." He added.

The young man didn't care at all. He just left the girl. Tania, who was starting to be afraid of herself, ran after Hendra.

With her spontaneous footsteps in tune with Hendra's, Tania was determined to always be near the Wenceslas's heir.

Unlike his peers who admitted that they care, in fact, just pretending, she was the one who was truly honest and sincere.

Tania was born in a celebrity family. Her parents were both artists that filled events on various television stations everyday.

When her parents divorced, the media made it a hot potato to heat the atmosphere, including domestic violence received by her mother and his father's infidelity.

Tania, the school star, had become a school disgrace. Everyone talked about her family. Even her friends who were always nice, became rude and dared to express hatred towards Tania.

Since meeting Hendra and starting to follow him, no one has dared to sneer at Tania openly. They were even considered as the school's couple goal as their parents' divorce case subsided.

"Ah, you should use a grown man expression next time."

No matter how, Tania must succeed this time or Hendra would fall prey to the others.

"Sort of go with me... you've been teasing me," Tania whispered, bringing her lips closer to Hendra's ear.

Mahendra spontaneously caught the girl's face with one palm and pushed her away.

Tania found her friends at the end there giggling, waiting for her failure.

"Have you forgotten my principle? I always volunteered to help you. Unfortunately, if you refuse, I'm ready to disturb you." Tania played with her hair, still trying to find a gap so that Hendra at least glanced at her.

The man paused, staring blankly. He dug up his messy brain these days.

"You asked me to accept your help, don't regret it."

Hendra threw away his jacket, feeling uncomfortable with Tania's dress. The woman walked after Hendra with a proud wave of her hand, sending a message of victory to her friends.

Since the man opened the car door for Tania until they arrived at the door of his family's hotel room, Hendra's voice was not heard at all.

The woman talked a lot, trying to attract Mahendra to comment on what she said. Unfortunately, Hendra consistently ignored the woman.

"Come in."

Hendra instructed a shocking command. It was too sudden when he opened the door to his private room on the executive lounge floor.

'Isn't he allergic to being in the same space or room with women?' Tania thought.

She was well aware of Hendra's other side that was hidden from many people, including herself.

Tania's heart skipped a beat when the man turned on the room light. He then sat on one side towards his grey bed. A room with a grey-white interior, a place that described its owner's personality, as was a mysterious person.

"Do you really want to help?"

Hendra's words made Tania flushed. She was indeed between too happy and scared. Whatever happened, she couldn't predict. Tania didn't even understand why she felt happier than afraid.

Tania shyly nodded slightly—a statement 'yes' from Tania.

Unfortunately, a different expression was depicted by the man sitting on the sofa. He looked full of concentration, as if looking for ways to solve math problems presented in the final exam.

"Lie down there and close your eyes." Hendra asked.

"Ah, what??" Tania was shocked.

She wasn't sure what Hendra just said. Yet, her firm determination about this man trumped any logic. She just did what he wanted.

Hendra was silent. The man's silence seemed to stop the world for Tania. But not for Mahendra, the man was really making observations, a crazy experiment for himself.

The clink of the clock on the wall became part of the rhythm of his observations. Initially, Hendra firmly held on the sofa where he sat, maybe he could be scared or worse, faint.

Fortunately, it didn't happen.

The room wall also showed no change, or fading away like the one he had when he was with Aruna.

'What's wrong with me?'

Hendra was looking for his terrible fear. He was actually just fine. His heart didn't rustle at all.