My Guardian Angel✔️

23: Why on earth am I cursing a mall?

Mrs.Smith greeted me at the reception with her usual wide smile and bright, gleaming face. She seemed more than ready to give me a tour around my father's hotel, but unfortunately, I wasn't in the mood for an inside tour - I'll do that sometime later. Right now, what I needed was some fresh air and an escape from the freezing air conditioner for sometime. I need to see the streets around here, as well as buy an outfit for me so that I wouldn't have to use Jasper's shirt for a lot of time and wear it out.

"Hey, June, had a good rest?"

"I did, and I'm much better now," I replied with a nod. The closeness I had felt with her at first, especially after she told me everything, was suddenly a bit hard to regain and I was trying hard to think of something to ask her back when she suddenly sighed heavily.

"You know, you've really changed a lot. Back then, you were the most talkative kid I'd ever known."

I smiled at that, not just because of nostalgia but because the sigh Eli had heaved meant that she realised why this change had taken place in me. People change over time, especially from being a kid to a teen and further to an adult. And the most evident change? Their way of talking. Some people tend to become very talkative and outgoing over time unlike their childhood days while some others, like me, become a bit awkward and shy with people we're meeting for the first time or after a long time - like an ambivert. Some others lose their entire interest in talking and become completely introverted and won't talk much even to their friends or family. I don't have an example for such a person, though, and the only introvert I know is Dorian but he talks a lot with us. That makes him far from being a completely introverted guy. He's an ambivert who's more to the introvert side, I guess. I'm the type of person who gets intensely awkward whenever I'm talking with a person but suddenly has nothing to talk about. I just can't find a good topic then.

"Who says that she still isn't?" Said Jasper as he approached us, glancing at me and winking, "She just needs time to get used to you again, Mrs.Smith - then she'd never stop talking. You'll probably regret what you said, then."

Ah, let the party start, I thought, rolling my eyes away from Eli while smiling widely at Jasper. He smiled back in the exact same way, and though we both knew what our 'wide smiles' meant, Eli didn't. She just shrugged curiously at what Jasper said and said, "Really? Is that so, June? But nevermind what this guy says; I won't get tired of you. In fact, I talk a lot too. You can always tell me anything you want to, and spend hours with me. I don't mind."

"I told you, you'll regret it later," Jasper warned her again, and this time, I just nudged him with an annoyed look. He chuckled at me, whispering, "What? I'm just stating a fact."

"Anyways, how's your school life?" Eli asked me, leaning forward on her arms in interest and gesturing for me and Jasper to be seated on two chairs in front of her. Well, that's a hell lot of a story, Mrs.Smith. But I was happy that we finally got something to talk about. School is something I can ramble on about for hours without getting tired or awkward, and I know that most adults - except our own parents - love to hear about our school life and listen to all the studies and 'other stuff' we have over there. Eli too loved to listen to school stories; I know that from when she babysat me and I always told her my stories at kindergarten. Yeah, I was a star at my kindergarten class. Much smarter and talkative, like she said. Every single one of the kids there were either my friends or enemies. No in-between.

"Perfectly alright," I said, absolutely not meaning that, "I've got great friends here, great rivals, great teachers, everyone."

"Great rivals, huh?" She snickered, probably remembering my days back in kindergarten when I was a a very villainous and active little girl, "I see you haven't changed at all, young lady."