Tulips

25. Who was more surprised?

Freen.

"Surprise!" Freen sprung from behind Heng.

Heng looked at me unsurprised. He then looked at Nam who was smiling.

"I told you."

"Hi, Freen. It's been a while."

"Hi Nam. Yeah. Hey, I'm not here to make you jealous or what." I put an arm around Heng's neck, lowered him while taking off his hat and mess his hair. "I'm just his sister from another mother."

"Stop messing my hair!" Heng cried.

"Yeah, I know. I'll never be jealous of you, don't worry." Nam said still smiling.

There's something about her smile.

"Don't mind me, you two. I'll leave you love birds alone. I'll just unwind on my own."

"You bet." Heng said with annoying smile.

Nam kept looking around and then at her phone. We have already checked in and was about to board when someone spoke from behind.

"I'm here!"

That voice sounds familiar. I turned to see who it is and my eyes went wide seeing Becky smiling behind me. She's wearing a spaghetti strapped cropped top, an elephant pants, sandals with shades on top of her head.

Oh shit. She look so good.

"I made it."

I looked at Heng who was laughing at me.

"Surprise! Right back at yah!" He kept laughing so I punched him in the arms.

"Ouch! Are you really a girl? Damn, you punch like a man."

Heng just ruined my supposedly vacation to unwind. I can't believe she's coming with us. What should I do? I can't back out now. Everything was already paid and I even upgraded Heng's hotel for this.

It's our turn for our tickets to be check. Heng and Nam went first. After the staff checked our ticket we walked on the ramp. A hand hold my arm making me stop walking.

"I know you don't want me here. But this is a vacation, let's not ruin it. Let's forget about things and just be civil with each other like friends. Deal?" She said sticking out her pinky finger.

She looks like a kid sticking out her pinky finger. She's right though, Heng did surprised me with taking Becky along but she's already here. So why ruin the vacation?

I then wrap my pinky finger to hers. The contact made us look at each other. Then she smiled. Her smile is infectious that it made me smile too. I wonder if she felt something when our fingers touched.

We boarded the plane and surprise, she's seated next to me. I looked at Heng who seated across from us. He was smiling as if he's waiting for me to look at him. He gave me a thumbs up and then looked ahead. He's dead after we got back.

I became nervous as my thoughts flew elsewhere. I was thinking of things to do there, yet It eventually leads to thinking of her.

What will happen now? Later? Tonight? Shut your brain from thinking of anything else. Focus on the vacation not on her! My brain reprimand me.

Ughhh What vacation!? How can I focus when even the small things makes me anxious. Like when she fell asleep on the plane. I was attentive enough to catch her head from falling towards the guy next to her. I even let her head rest on my shoulder instead of the guy's. When the stewardess gave me water but I gave it to her first. When we landed, I took her bag first instead of just taking mine.