Love Began with the First Meeting

Finishing the beer bottle bottoms up, Quintin opened another bottle of beer and drank it up in one gulp. At this moment, Charlie's words were still lingering in his ears. "Quintin, she hasn't really left you." Deep in his mind, Quintin knew from the bottom of his heart that what Charlie had reminded him was true. He had registered an account at the user terminal as soon as Charlie started the beta testing of the game. But had he done that for the mere purpose of stirring up troubles against Charlie? Of course, aside from that, Quintin had many other reasons why he created that account. Seeing that Quintin was crazily drinking, Shaun blurted out with a slight sign, "You've been injured, so don't drink that much. It would be bad for you." After pausing for a split second, he added, "You could stay at my place tonight if you don't mind." "Yup, anyway, I will feel more comfortable to stay in your place than to stay in a hotel," Quintin replied after swallowing a mouthful of beer. Soon afterward, he took some cash out of his wallet and tossed them on the counter. Then, he left hastily with Shaun. It had been a little late at night. Their car was whizzing past under the faint street lights as they sped their way across the silent streets. As Quintin looked out of the window at the dim lights, a faint smile flashed across the injured corners of his mouth, which made him look a little evil. "What do you think..." Feeling a little pain in his jaws, Quintin stammered before he finished his words while staring at the night scenery outside through the window. After some more thoughts, he continued, "What do you think Charlie will do if I take Elsa away?" Shocked at the sudden question, Shaun threw a cold look at Quintin before he kept his eyes off him and looked ahead again. Then, he replied casually, "You will die for doing that!"

His eyebrows knitted a little, Quintin questioned, "Do you think that he can kill me?"

"No, he can't!" Consequently, Shaun gave Quintin a short answer, but soon, he continued, "But, Charlie's father will be the one to put you to death."

Realizing that what Shaun had said was indeed true, Quintin was awed into silence. With a restraint on his emotions, Quintin closely questioned again, "Do you think that EMP will kill me only for a young girl?" He was just confused about how it would be possible for that to happen. His father must have loved Charlie that much if he would do that for him.

With a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, Shaun responded casually, "What I know for sure is that Elsa has already met Charlie's parents. It is said that Charlie's father wishes to meet Elsa's parents too." Thereafter, he cast a look at Quintin whose face was twitching, and asked smilingly, "So, do you think he will kill you if you do that? Tell me."

With scorn on his face, Quintin indifferently had his head tilted to the window side. Looking at the dark and faint streetscapes, he said in a cold tone, "I dare not offend the XK Intelligence Agency."

Upon hearing this, Shaun only pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders, deciding not to say anything more. With the awkward conversation halted, the atmosphere inside the car fell dreadfully silent, while Quintin was lost in wild thoughts about what Shaun had said to him. He knew that whether Charlie's father was well impressed by Elsa or not wasn't that important. But since Charlie's parents wanted to arrange a meeting with Elsa's parents, Quintin judged that Charlie's mother undoubtedly liked Elsa a lot. As long as Charlie's mother had a good impression of Elsa, it would be natural and easy for Charlie to be together with Elsa if only Elsa agreed. But even if Elsa disagreed, Charlie's father would do everything possible to convince this girl to be with his son. In addition, considering that their family was such a powerful one, Charlie's father would surely do anything for his son, no matter what it would take.

Considering all these, Quintin firmly inferred that he would be haunted by nightmares and pay heavily for what he did if he dared lay his hands on Elsa, the girl who had left deep favorable impressions on Charlie and his family.

On the following day, when the sun hadn't risen yet, Olivia woke up early in the morning.

As she opened her eyes and tried to get up, she felt a severe headache. As a result, she groaned in pain and held on to her throbbing head. All of a sudden, a cushion flew towards her and beat her exactly on the head. As a consequence, she yelled even louder, "Damn it! You even hit me with this? Seriously?" Holding the pillow up with her hands, Olivia scolded while gritting her teeth, and then she threw the cushion back towards Ann.

Hit by the cushion, Ann got up and sat on her bed in a daze like a zombie. With blurred and sleepy eyes, she glared at Olivia and said, "Hey. I didn't sleep until it was nearly dawn. Can't you just keep quiet and be considerate for once?"

"Why didn't you sleep? What the hell did you do last night?" Still bearing the pain in her head, Olivia was shocked to hear that Ann had slept that late. After some moments of daze, she looked sideways through the window and found that the day was just dawning. As the early morning light penetrated through the window into their room, she suddenly turned her eyes wide open and grumbled, "Oh! That's impossible. That means I have been sleeping from last afternoon till this morning."

To look after her, Ann had slept very late last night. Now, she was still very sleepy. As she heard Olivia's screams, she stared at her in great astonishment and wondered how it was possible that Olivia had forgotten all that had happened last night. However, in her efforts not to shock her friend, she pretended that she didn't know anything that had occurred yesterday, and so she responded in a feigned manner, "Yes, you have even slept so long. We thought that you might have been sick. Thus, we went to fetch our school doctor late at night and asked him to check on you. Fortunately, the doctor told us that you were not ill at all." As soon as Ann finished her words, she lay down again on her bed and then continued, "I slept so late because of you, but now you are here shouting and yelling even before the dawn breaks. Don't you feel sorry for me?"

Olivia was confused by Ann's words. In reality, she didn't get used to sleeping long, and to be sure, on ordinary days, she couldn't even manage to sleep so long from afternoon to the early morning of the next day. While she was being puzzled a lot by her long sleep, she shifted her attention towards the beds of Elsa and Anna that were now empty. As she saw their quilts were put in order, she guessed that they should have gone for their classes. With that, she mumbled to herself, "I can't believe I've slept for over 10 hours. How ridiculous and inconceivable it is!" With her eyebrows furrowed, she seemed to be still recalling something at the back of her mind.

No matter how hard she tried, however, all she could remember was that yesterday, she asked her professor if she could leave the class because she felt sick. After that, she remembered that she went back to her dormitory. Upon her return to the dormitory, she didn't see anyone there. Then, she went right to her bed and got some sleep. As these memories flashed back in her mind, Olivia felt rather weird and confused as to why her roommates were not at the dormitory yesterday. She remembered clearly that they didn't have any class yesterday. 0000000☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐