My Guardian Angel

36: Scared of a spider?

"June?"

I woke up to my name being called and looked up when I saw the light enter my eyes, remembering that I was not at home. I blinked my eyes and shook my head, clearing the sleep from my eyes and realizing that I had been hugging Jasper and leaning on his back this entire time, sleeping peacefully. I smiled underneath; well, turns out that part had turned out exactly how I wanted it to.

I nodded, hiding the grin, "I'm awake. Are we there yet?"

"Yes, we are. It seems like you had a sleep better than the night before," Jasper chuckled. I giggled and stepped off the bike smoothly unlike before, when I'd been stepping on it for the first time ever.

"Actually, where are we?" I asked, looking around in curiosity. I do know where dad's main office is situated at and I've went there once, but this place was nothing like that. Strangely, it had very few office buildings and more street shops instead. Thus, there was a lot more crowding here. Dad's main office and most other branches are situated at very popular city centres where crowds were less. Anyone could easily identify that it was a very busy city's centre filled with various business groups. "I thought you knew?" Asked Jasper. I started to reply with what was in my mind, but stopped when I realized that I would have to explain everything that I just thought about and that would be very tiring. And who cares, actually? Jasper has indeed come for his official work and I'm following him to wherever that's situated. I'm far from my older self which would've immediately thought of the possibility of him bringing me to some creepy basement or something.

"I know. I just asked," I said simply, and he nodded, "Well, if you were referring to this place's name, it's Main street. Just a half an hour drive from our town."

Half an hour? It felt like two hours. Maybe it's because I slept.

"Oh, I've heard that before," I said, honestly clueless of where the heck this place was but saying that just to appear as if I had some idea about it. We started moving to the office and I hesitated a bit when I saw the busy crowds in front of us, remembering the incident nearby hotel Emerald. Jasper paused and turned to me. When he realized what may have went through my mind, he extended his hand out to me and I caught it eagerly.  The chill that went through my hand as it touched his made my heart warm and assure myself that when he's nearby, nothing and no one would hurt me. We passed through the crowd without any trouble and delay. We still didn't leave each other's hands though.

I noticed that the difference while we walked was really evident now - when we first met, he used to walk behind me like every other bodyguard did, like an ideal gesture of 'protection'. As we got closer and became friends, we started walking with each other instead but even then I liked to keep a good amount of distance so that incidents like that old lady calling us a couple wouldn't happen again. Oh well, look at how everything has so changed quickly now. We're not only walking side by side, close to each other, but we're even holding hands, even though that held a purpose in this situation and I felt glad for that. In fact, I felt glad about everything - about accompanying him here, about getting to ride on a bike behind him, about holding hands with him through a crowd. The earlier me wouldn't have felt the same. The earlier me was dumb and egoistic. But Jasper brought about this positive change in me and that's why I feel so much better than ever before. I used to be so pessimistic earlier, always thinking about negative stuff. Not anymore.

Honestly, even if a random old lady called us a couple now, I wouldn't mind.

Let's not go that far, June, I reminded myself with a light chuckle.