Chapter 70 - Attacked

Satisfied with Zhang Min's reaction,Ah Hai made his way to the VIP ward where Shi Ai had been staying these last few days.With a brisk knock on the door,Ah Hai opened the door only to close it with a snap.He should've waited for the answer instead of just going in.What was Shi Ai thinking?Changing her clothes in the middle of the room with even the door unlocked?Ah Hai felt a rage build up as he imagined if it had beena doctor or some unknown man coming in.The little girl had no sense of self protection.Ah Hai's imagination had turned so far as to think of ways to torture any male who saw the pretty naked back.Shaking his murderous thoughts off,Ah Hai knocked on the door once again and waited for a reply.

Shi Ai,who had realized that someone had been on the door,was a little scared at first as she answered the knock to enter and then her face turned red as a tomato as she realized it had been Ah Hai.However,in the next instant,Shi Ai had run off the bed and attacked Ah Hai by jumping straight into his arms.Her thin arms wound themselves tightly around Ah Hai's waist and her fair face was buried in his chest.Shi Ai who had been on an emptional and physical roller coaster throught these days,sobbed hard as she felt safe in the arms of her Knight.Looking down on the head that barely reached his shoulders,Ah Hai felt a little lost.He had never consoled a woman before,as far as he could remember.And this little girl was sobbing bucketfuls of tears.When he had seen how she had held herself together when she had woken up,he felt that she was exceptionally strong but now it looked like it was a facade.

At a loss on how to handle this attack of tears,Ah Hai awkwardly wound his arms around the little girl and patted her back in what he assumed was a soothing motion.Feeling even more safer once she felt the strong arms around her,Shi Ai shed even more tears.They were tears that she had held together for so long.All her worries,her happiness,pain,the feeling of being scared,all came out in those tears.But the most prominent feeling that Shi Ai had was relief.As the time for discharge had come closer,Shi Ai had been scared that she would not get to see Ah Hai again.That maybe he had gone without a goodbye.Zhang Min had told her how Ah Hai had arranged blood donors and the ambulance.Shi Ai had also wanted to thank him for being her guardian angel time and again.And then his going away had made her want to weep only.But she knew how Zhang Min and his mother had worried and she did not want them to worry some more so she had kept her tears to herself.Adding in the fact,the loss of her precious ring,Shi Ai was suffering an emotional breakdown.

Finally after a few minutes,Shi Ai's arms around Ah Hai's waist tightened and her fingers clutched  at the back of his shirt.Of their own accord,Ah Hai's hands were now patting Shi Ai's head,down the silky hair.Realizing the position they were in,Shi Ai,who was red from crying and now blushing was redded than a tomato and as suddenly as she had attacked,escaped from his arms and buried her face in a small towel.Ah Hai who was known to have countered hundreds of attackes,was left standing in the middle of the room with his hands hanging awkwardly in the air.

Ah Hai looked down at his shirt where a wet patch could be seen and then looked at the little girl who now had her face buried in a napkin.It seemed he had been discarded as a tissue.Shaking his head,Ah Hai went and sat on the chair,while he waited for Shi Ai to collect herself.

After a few deep breaths,Shi Ai felt the silence and thought to herself,"You scared him away.You stupid girl."The thought that he had left her again,made Shi Ai carefully peep up from the napkin.He was sitting there,staring at her.His thin mouth was raised a bit on the side as if he was smiling.

Encouraged to see him sitting there,Shi Ai gave him a small smile and a shy "Hello.."

Ah Hai's smile widened a bit as he replied in his deep voice,"Hello.."

However,after this simple greeting,Shi Ai felt even more uncomfortable and shy.But deciding to plough on she complained, "I thought you left without a goodbye.This is why I was over whelmed when..when you just came.I am sorry about the shirt though..I will have it dry cleaned.You can just give it to me."

In a sardonic tone,Ah Hai,whose eyebrows had been raised by this remarked,"I had no idea that this little girl had grown so much in these few years.We meet after such a long time and the first thing you tell me to do after 'Hello' is to take off my shirt.Interesting kid you have become.Very Interesting."

Shi Ai did a perfect impersonation of a gasping fish at this reply,with her mouth falling open.