Criminal Love

4. The Makeover

It is 8.50 am and Yue texts Dylan to let him know she's almost ready; they were supposed to meet at 8.45 because today she is getting her agreed makeover. She is nervous about this: cutting her hair, buying new clothes... What kind of clothes does he want her to buy? In Florida, most women wear revealing outfits that Yue is not so sure about. Evidently, the hot weather is the perfect excuse for anything.

Panting from getting ready in a hurry, Yue opens the front door and finds Dylan leaning on the wall in the hallway. She is startled and springs when she sees him with an arched brow and crossed arms. Why does he look so good in the morning?

"You're late..." he pouts and gives her a judgmental once-over. She is wearing a big black t-shirt, shapeless jeans, and worn-out sneakers. Gosh, if this is her outerwear, what's her underwear like? Not that I care about what's under all that fabric...

"It's just 10 minutes! I couldn't find the car keys..." Yue closes the door with the keys in one hand and her purse clasped under an arm. They walk to the elevator side by side and when it arrives... "Wait! I forgot my water! I need to drink my vitamin water..."

Dylan sighs in frustration while Yue runs back to the apartment. A couple of minutes later, she comes back with the bottle in one hand and the car keys in the other. Dylan looks at her with a funny face as she approaches him...

"What?! What are you looking at?" He is irritating indeed at times! What is it about him that makes sweet Yue feel hopeless?

"Where's your purse, Shen Yue?" he asks in a patronizing tone, crossing his arms and shaking his head.

Yue looks down at herself and... No bag. "Argh! I must have left it on the counter when I went back to get the water!" she replies frustrated and heads back to her place.

Dylan quickly catches up to her and takes the car keys and the bottle away from her hands. "Otherwise, I'm sure you will leave one of these inside..." He chuckles. This woman is clumsily adorable!

Yue comes back with her purse and exhales desperately, but while walking and crossing the strap of her bag through her head, she stumbles and falls with her bottom on the ground... Boom! hears Dylan and jumps around to see what happened.

Yue whines and looks up, blowing her hair away from her face. "Hmph! I hate my life!" she shouts. Thank goodness there's no one else on that floor or she would feel even more embarrassed.

Dylan holds a laugh inside when he sees the poor woman on the floor, what is it with her? "Shen Yue!" He rushes to her and helps her up by pulling her hand. "Seriously, you are a disaster waiting to happen! Are you sure you didn't leave the stoves on?" he jokes.

However, from Yue's face he deduces that she might have...

"Oh, geez, Shen Yue! I'll go check. Wait here." Dylan gives her the car keys and the water and begins to walk towards her place.

"You need the code!" Yue hollers without looking at him.

"I already know the code!" he conceitedly responds.

What?! How does he... Oh, whatever! If he wanted to kill me, I'd be dead already!

"Is the cat supposed to be locked up in the bathroom?" Dylan yells from inside Yue's apartment.

"No!" she shouts back. Shoots, poor Whiskers! I better find him a place...

Dylan comes back and tells her she didn't leave any stoves on, but the poor kitty was going to spend the whole day without food or water in the washroom if he hadn't gone back and noticed Whiskers was nowhere to be found.

They call the elevator and hop inside when it arrives...

"I'm such a mess! I need to find Whiskers a family... That's what I always do."