Who's this he asked me while still eating the food and then I looked back at him and said it's my papa.
He smiled and said then you should first attend it what are you waiting for he said.
I smiled back at him and said yes I should be then I stood up from my chair and went into the room and picked up the call and said Hello pa.
Xiao Shiza he said in his voice. From the past few years I haven't heard his voice. Hearing him after soo long made me remember my childhood days when I used to wait at home for pa to come back home from his office and take me to eat ice-cream with him but suddenly at this very moment it made me feel that I am reliving all my old childhood memories again.
Then after getting lost in my own thoughts I got back into the present and said pa you don't know how much I missed hearing your voice and tell me how is Xin Xin doing I asked him very excitedly.
Then I took a pause and asked how's Ma doing is she still angry with me.
There are still many regrets in my past that I had made. Still I think that if on that day I didn't lie to her and didn't hide my maths test paper from her then things must be different now but there is no space for regrets as those all were my past mistakes and we can't do anything about our past the only thing I can do is make my present better cause future is very unpredictable and I never thought about it never. All I have in my hands is my present neither past nor future.
Then pa said only one thing to me. He didn't answer the questions that I had asked him he only said what he wanted to say and he said come back Zhao Shiza we need to do or discuss something.
His voice is very strange today. Pa never spoke with me in that tone. His tone today is very still stable and calculated which seems like he is holding something back in him. He is not talking to me with his heart out like he used to do always. Today is really something off with him really I could sense it I really could.
Pa what happened why are you speaking like this I asked him.
Why don't you wanna come back home? Did you lose yourself in Shanghai he asked.
No pa you are getting me wrong I wanna come back I really do wanna come back but the way you are speaking is soo different today pa I asked him.
Just come back I don't have more to say to you we'll talk when you come back he said and then he just hung up the call.
And I was left clueless there cause pa never did this with me. He never behaved like that with me. He didn't even say bye bye to me properly. He is soo different today that I just think that today I talked to my pa or some unknown person.
The warmth of love is missing his care is missing the excitement in his tone which used to appear whenever I talked to him but I can surely say that today something is really very different. I really don't know for what thing he is calling me but I must say that I need to head back home as fast as possible.
Then I came out of the room and Yuan was still there at the dining table. He hadn't eaten his food.
I came to the dining table and sat on my chair and then suddenly I noticed that he didn't even finish his food it's left the same on the plate from when I got up from the dining table to talk to pa.
Yuan why didn't you finish your food I asked.
Cause you weren't there so I waited for you he said.
I smiled and said Yuan you didn't need to wait for me after all we both finished our food when we were not together I said while grabbing my chopsticks to eat my food.
He looked at me and said but atleast we can when we are together.
I almost choked on my food and the chopsticks were about to slip off from my hands and I said Yuan sometimes you suddenly start sounding like soo much Margherita pizza.
Aren't you craving for your Margherita pizza for soo long he asked with a mischievous smile on his face.
Yuan stop it I said and then I rushed to finish the food cause right at this moment it became a little hard for me to stay stable because my blushing blush was getting bigger and bigger which I needed to control cause I can't let him know it.
Then when I finished my food he asked me what did your pa say after talking soo long with you. Do you feel good? I know you never mentioned much about your family to me even I also didn't. We just only know each other's family names and the number of family members we have but I saw the happiness on your face at that very moment when your pa called you. The happiness which was priceless even I can't make you smile the way you did today soo I just wanted to say to you that you should make my girlfriend smile this much always and if you let her down even for one second he said.
But before he completed his sentence I said in the middle of it then I'll be doomed don't worry I know the consequences of making Mr Xu Yuan's girlfriend unhappy soo your wish my command Mr Xu I said it very dramatically.
He sighed and said you should better.
Then I said Yuan my pa wants to see me soo I am going back to my home in Chongqing so I am going to book tickets for the train so I am just informing you this and yes I need to mail Miss Song as well to get leave for about three to four days I said.
Why three to four days? You are going to see your family after four long years atleast you should take leave for ten days he said.
Then I smiled and said Yuan what do you think I am an ordinary human being who just works in a company as an intern they'll throw me out of my job if I take this much leave. I am still on my internship period there I didn't get appointed as a permanent designer there I said.
Then you just tell the CEO of the company that you are Xu Yuan's girl then they won't dare to throw you out from there he said it very dramatically the way he used to say in his dramas when he acted funny and chaotic there.
Xu Yuan's source it's really not a bad idea but I don't work on sources but don't worry if your offer is valid for a few more days then I'll think about it I said.
He laughed a little and said ok I am going to book tickets for you tomorrow I am checking the trains and then he started searching on his phone.
And I said Yuan you are soo eager to send me off do you have any kind of hidden motives behind it I asked.
He smirked and said ofcourse my hidden motives can't be disclosed that easily to you so don't think about it more cause the more you think the more confused you get and you are still a kindergarten kiddo to understand that he said and then he tapped on my forehead and went to wash the dishes in the kitchen.
Wait Yuan today is my duty to wash the utensils I said.
No need you need to do packing for yourself. I have booked your train for tomorrow evening soo get to bed early soo that we can get your stuff from your dormitory in the morning and then you can catch your train to Chongqing from Shanghai in the evening everything is set and scheduled you just need to follow it so that you don't land yourself in any kind of chaos he said while washing the dishes.
Then I also got into the kitchen and snatched the dish from his hands and said you always say that atleast let me do it today equally I said.
Then like that while snatching every single dish from his hands to wash it off I won over this game but in my Mr Heart it's still not at ease cause I still keep wondering what happened that pa called me back to Chongqing from Shanghai soo suddenly but I think I will only get the answers to my questions when I finally reach there and then.....