Ecstasy

Chapter 6 (Is This Lady A Gold Digger?)

  "Huh?..ahh..you can't." Noah stuttered.

  'is this lady a gold digger?..' he grimaced.

  "It's bank accounts, and you can have all the money." Joel replied, staring at Emily unwaveringly.

  "Mbo?!!!" Noah turned to his boss with disbelief, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

  'is he crazy?..he's going to hand all his money over to a woman he doesn't even know..' Noah felt like hitting his boss' head and resetting his brain.

  But doing that would not only get his ass fired, it would also get him locked up in the prison for the rest of his miserable life.
 
'b-ba-bank accountsss? ...like with an S?!!.' Emily almost threw up.

  'he must be very very very rich!' she bit her lip.

  Emily stared intently at Joel for a while and sighed.

  "I was joking." She twitched up her lips.

  'you didn't disappoint me.' one side of Joel's mouth curled up in a smirk.

   He knew that she was joking. He was simply only playing along.

  "Aigoo." Noah breathed out a sigh of relief.

(A/N: aigoo means OMG. It's used to show surprise, relief, shock or irritation. In Noah's case, he was relieved.)

  "I don't want any money." Emily tossed away the cheque.

  "Eynnn?" Noah stared at her astonishedly.

  'everyone wants money..." he thought.

  "I don't want it." Emily shook her head.

  "Wae?" Noah asked poutily.

(A/N: wae means why and it sometimes means what.)

Emily clicked her tongue. "Why do you rich people think money is everything... Tsk tsk tsk."

"What do you want then?" Noah asked.

  "I live alone. And like this...." She paused, staring at her bandaged arm and leg. "...I can't live alone like this, it won't be convenient." she sniffed.

  "So....erm...you are saying that..." Noah began to talk.

  "Go live with your family." Joel cut in.

"I can't." Emily shook her head vigorously.

  "Then?..." Joel arched up his brows, gazing coldly at Emily.

  "Let me live with you till I'm healed up." Emily licked her lips feverishly as she stared at the statue-like god that whose cold gaze was piercing through her skin.

  "As com-pen-sa-tion...." she added slowly.

  "Nugu?" Joel furrowed his brows.

(A/N: nugu means who)

  "Ummm,na." Emily stammered,pointing to herself.

(A/N: na means me)

"You can't." Joel waved her off.

  He looked up at Noah, "take her to her house, give her money if she changes her mind."

   He took a peek at his dazzling wrist watch and stood on his feet. He then took long strides towards the door.

  Emily stared earnestly at his back. "Jebal."

(A/N: jebal means please)

  Without looking back or even stopping for a second, Joel reached for the door knob, urned it and walked out of the ward.

  Noah bit his lip as he watched the pretty pitiful lady on the hospital bed. He helped her get down from the bed and handed the crutch by the bedside over to her.

  "Kamsahamnida." Emily let out a faint  smile.

(A/N: kamsahamnida is a formal way of saying thank you)

She twitched up her lips as they walked out of the ward. "Errr, but I don't know your name..."

Noah smiled. "Ahhh... I'm Noah."

Emily returned his smile with a broad one.  "Emily. I'm Emily."

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Noah broke the silence as he drove out of the hospital. "Please don't be mad at boss."

Emily shook her right hand. "Ahhh, ani. I'm not mad at him."

  "He's always like that. It's his personality." Noah sighed.

"Ahhhh...." Emily nodded her head thoughtfully.

  Noah spent the rest of the drive receiving directions from Emily while she spent her's giving directions to him.

Emily pointed at a junction right before them. "You can drop me off here. I'll find my way home."

  "Wae?... let me drop you at home." Noah protested.

  "Aniii... it's okay here." Emily smiled hesitantly as Noah parked the car by the roadside.

   Noah opened the door for her and watched her as get out of the car with inconvenience.

He smiled worriedly, "be careful."

  "Nde." Emily smiled and closed the door with her right hand.

"You really don't want the money?" He asked.

"No..." She replied, smiling.

Noah thought for a while before nodding his head, "okay."

"Kamsahamnida." She bowed her head repeatedly as Noah drove off, waving at her.

She waited till the car was out of sight and sighed. "Huff..."

She turned around and headed to one of the places she worked at, Hot'n'Chilly.

   Emily worked per time at five different places; a cafe, a restaurant, a drive-in, a diner and a bistro.

  Hot 'n'Chilly was a cafe she worked at in the morning as a server.

She grinned immediately she slip open the glass door and entered the restaurant. "Annyeonghaseyo!"

(A/N: annyeonghaseyo is a formal way of saying hello.)

  "Annyeon Emily!" Without looking up, Madam Ma, the restauranteur grinned. She knew Emily's voice so well.

  She gasped as soon as she looked up at Emily. "Aigoo!"

"What happened?" She shrieked.

Emily pressed her lips against each other. "Ahhh, this?.."

"I got hit.." she smiled sheepishly.

"Aigoo!" Madam Ma exclaimed.

"I've always told you to be careful. You are too clumsy." She scrunched up her face.

Emily scratched the back of her head.  "I-was a bit care-ful."

  "So, the driver was blind?" Madam Ma frowned.

Emily gulped. 'if that driver was here right now, you wouldn't have said what you just said.'

"Erm... I came to ask for a few weeks off."

Madam Ma smiled at her motherly.  "Aishh!... you shouldn't have troubled yourself coming here to say that."

  "Spend as much time as you want at home okay?..." She said, patting Emily on her back.

  "Nde." Emily smiled at her in appreciation.

  "Kamsahamnida." She bowed her head, said her goodbye and headed out of the cafe.

   As soon as she left Hot'n'Chilly, she went to the four other places she worked at; Xi's Snack Bar, Forks'n'Fingers(a diner), Smiley Drive-in and B-exclusive(a bistro) to also ask for a few weeks off. She had no time to mull over her heartbreak .