Bab 16: HIS NAGGING

Irene had just woken up and began to open her heavy eyes. The surrounding seem blurry to make her opening and closing her eyes a couple of times. As soon as she came to her senses, she continued to hold the aching head. Her forehead was also furrowed because of that.

"Arghhh!" She gasped in pain.

Her hands could feel the bandage on her head at that moment. Back to remembering what happened to her before that. She pretty sure that she is fainted in the arms of that Mr. Victor as she only remembers that very clearly. Her face redden now even in sickness that she is feeling.

Leave that thought, she tries to sit leaning on the bed that she is using. Her eyes now darted around. A room she has never occupied before.

"Where am I?" She's asking to the air. Confused.

She also inspected herself. Her clothes also already changing. Well, the dress that she was wearing before already damage in her hand anyway.

Just a few minutes later, Victor entered the room. Irene's eyes were big and round.

'He isn't the one that changing me right?' She prays that what she is thinking is not the case here or she will be so embarrassed to face the man. Even when she know that her messy condition before probably forcing the man to do so.

Victor that coming inside the room haven't said anything yet to Irene, but it was clearly visible on his face that displayed relief when he saw the girl finally waking up from sleep. She is out for so long making him worried resulting him to stay next to her all the time. He just out for a while just now to clean himself. If not for that he will never leave his eyes from watching the girl.

"You're finally up. Don't move too much or the stitches probably open." He finally breaks the silence, talking while walking closer to the girl that looking with curious eyes at him.

"What happen?" She asks when Victor already stands closer beside her.

"What do you think? You're fainted after we got out of the hotel so suddenly. Turns out that your head is injured from the attack." Victor voice sound so cold and Irene can detect it. She is now remembered that one of the gangsters, hit her hard on the head.

"You're not the one that's changing me, right?" Curiosity brought her to ask.

Victor smirks. "Is that important to you now? I just told you about your head got stitches and you worry about something else?"

Irene is not answering but unconsciously, she brought her hands and hugging herself while her face looking all shy and uncomfortable.

'Cute.' Victor hasn't said it out loud for sure.

"Don't worry. A nurse that coming with a doctor before is the one who is changing you. I'm not the kind of person that do that kind of trivial things anyway." He explaining.

Then, Victor deliberately gets closer to Irene's ears.

"I'm a type of person that will make you undress yourself in front of me." He whispers.

"W.. w.. what do you say?" Irene is questioning while stuttering. Is not that she doesn't understand, but, how can that man tease her while she's still sick like that.

Victor laughs a little after looking at the girl's condition after his teasing. He is actually didn't know what he was saying actually. Just trying one of the many joke that his best friend, Ken, told him before.

He then approached the over bed table on which already been placed with porridge, fruits and medicine that the girl needed to take.

"Enough of that. Eat this porridge while it's still warm. After that, you can take the medicine so that you won't feel too sick."

Irene did not object and immediately began to lift the spoon and began to eat. As she started eating, then she realized that her stomach felt really hungry. How come she didn't feel that before?

"Eat that slowly will you. There's a lot of this. Tell me if you want more." Victor said after seeing the girl eating quite fast.

With that Victor take the chair and sit while looking Irene who was eating. He actually holds himself up to talk to the girl about her action back then. Regardless, he must let the girl eat in peace first before he told her what was inside his battling mind.

But, Victor's sharp gaze did not escape Irene's knowledge. She eats while also stealing a glance to the man's face that's looking straight at her. She can feel that he got something to say as the man seem looking at her but actually stuck in daydreaming.

Irene tries to ignore the man and continued to eat. But, she failed to do so. Her heart screaming to know what he's going to say.

"Do you have something to say to me?" Irene finally talks.

Victor escaped his daydreaming, rubbing his face a little. He knew he couldn't hold it much longer.

"Why are you doing that before? Why not trying to escape? Why try to fight the gangsters when you are not even in their level?" Victor bombard her with questions that sounded to her like nagging.

Irene puts down her spoon for a moment. She is smiling.

"Why huh...?"

Silent. She's thinking very hard to find the reason.

"I also don't know about that. I just thought I should do it. There's a lot people inside. Even the kid. I guess I can't think very well and let my emotion take over my mind. But, I don't have any regrets."

"They have guns Irene! Each one of them. You could get killed and not just this bleeding head." Victor voice is now getting high.

Irene a bit shocked by Victor behaviour, but she can feel the anxious and care in his every word. Which, not everyone that encounters her life, showing that.

"All this time you are being bullied and you just do nothing but when things are more dangerous than that, involving other people that you don't even know, somehow you want to fight? Are you trying to be a captain marvel or something? I can't understand your way of thinking at all." Victor said sound annoying. He didn't realize his saying could offend the girl.

Irene is hurting more than the hurt that visible in her head. Her anger now arising.

"Are you deliberately saying that to make me angry? Who are you to talk to me like that?" She is also raising her voice. Not scared at all as she always does when she in front of the man.

"What? Isn't that the truth?" Victor did not want to give up. He actually wanted Irene to realize that he didn't want her to be hurt. Her being hurt makes him crazy. Irene certainly has some sort of weird effect on him. His mind and heart arising new feeling that he never had or used to before.

But, maybe his way is not acceptable to the girl. He is not good to express himself anyway. Of course, all that resulting them to quarrel now.

"This is my own life and my own choice. I can do whatever that I want and you can't say anything about it. I never ask for your opinion anyway. Why you're so interested by what am I doing with my life?" Irene counter back. She deliberately emphasized the verse 'my life' so that the man could stop dispute her.

"Don't you ever think what will happen when the guy pointing you with the gun? If I don't move fast enough, you will be shot probably to death." Victor hasn't done yet.

"Ah, is that so? So what? If it's my fate to die then I die." Irene said it like it's nothing important.

Victor appropriately headed towards her and holding her arm with his sharp gaze and angry breathing. Frustrated by what Irene just saying. Doesn't she see that he is worried sick about her?

"Thank you very much then for saving my life. Is that what you want to hear?" She's still furious. She can feel Victor tight hold on her arm, making her flinch as its hurt a little. But she refuses to back off.

Realizing. Victor let go of her arm. But his face still looking dissatisfied.

"You should remember that you are still too weak to care for other people." He still provoke her.

"Shut up!" Irene cannot take it anymore.

"You're annoying."

"You're annoying me too."

"Stop copying my line."

"That's what I wanted to say after all."

Their quarrel now sound childish, which, they do not even realize it.

"You stupid girl."

"Are you done with your nagging old man?"

What the hell? That 'old man' words definitely preaching inside Victor even cold heart. He knows their age difference is a bit far, but he is just 28 years old anyway. Still hot and handsome. But, how come he is now sulking by that kind of words? This is not his regular self at all.

With that he just walked quickly out of the room without saying anything.

"Ugh! This driving me crazy." Irene watches the man leave and then take back her spoon, to eating the porridge that now already cold because of that Victor. She eats the porridge quite aggressively now as her anger to the man is still there. Without her realizing it, she is also making the man gone crazy.