Love for a Billionaire

Chapter 16

The crowd slowly diminished as if it were traffic and the children could no longer be heard.  It was the end of the lesson and the few mothers who remained were there to babble and spread rumors into the void.  The road gave no sign of a car or policeman which unbalanced the passage of cars and the children running pell-mell looking for their mother or father.  The last three women stood near the cafeteria across the street waiting for her children to stop playing.  It was normal for those women to do so.  They took their time using the children's excuse to get started on the new gossip to report.  "I had an interview a week ago" announced the woman with golden hair who with a rustle of her hands made it fly backwards, the woman next to her who was covered in strong make-up and with a crazy smell of cherries said a jolt realizing that the woman was telling the truth with her final nod, "Has that kid done something else?"  asked the woman in front of her who once again looked at her face covering her plump lips with her thin red lipstick.  "Ha-eun is more famous than a brand. The teacher Minatozaki preferred to have a serious conversation once and for all without justifications. I don't justify my son as a saint but it's too much for him, in the end it was a small stunt" she said finally making her reasoning convincing, "Dear Hee-sun, you are a good mother but that brat is really impossible to stop" said the woman with the mirror putting it in her purse, "Ye-jin also had an interview. Even she ran away from class. But she was totally hypnotized by that kid, what's his name... Haruta?"  the golden haired woman asks, “Her name is Joong-suk, and for that matter Min-young, your daughter is never carried by others she is the one who does it” Hae-sun said with a mischievous look making the woman mute.  "Speaking of talks, isn't that Teacher Minatozaki?"  the woman in the mirror asked with a strange frown, "How come you still find yourself standing there standing straight in front of the entrance door?"  the woman in the mirror wondered aloud once again, "I don't know, Go-eun, ask her," Min-young said, eliciting a giggle from the woman next to her, "No, I don't want to, Byung-hun already has his problems with teacher Minatozaki, I wouldn't want to invade her privacy and risk some bad reaction" the woman replied all of a sudden, immediately understanding that the women were getting up with the intention of going to talk to him, when the principal Son Chaeyoung had come to ask something .  The argument was light, the women expected to go home together, but after that brief conversation the two went their separate ways.  The three women quickly walked down the steps of the bar and then walked over to the woman getting a good view of her children playing near the school's railings, "Teacher Minatozaki?"  she asked as if she had never seen Mrs. Hee-sun all this time.  “Oh, good morning sir,” the woman said kindly, producing an affectionate smile at three.  "Where are you going, Mistress Minatozaki?"  the golden-haired woman suddenly asked, getting a grim look from the woman with the mirror, "I'm going to a coffee shop nearby. I want a good coffee" Sana said nervously, getting smiles and understanding nods from the three.  "Then we'll leave you to your café" concluded the woman who had spoken from the beginning, making Snaa breathe normally, giving a light farewell and leaving once and for all.  "We have to follow her" said the same woman as soon as Snaa left, "True, the cafeteria is here in front of the school how come she would have to go to another cafeteria" said Min-young with an annoyed look, "I'll have my driver. Is that okay with you?"  Go-eun asked, making the answer obvious to the two who nodded in satisfaction.  It took her two seconds to get the driver out and announce the news.  The man took the address scrupulously and gave one hundred percent for this mission under his own name.  Now all that was needed was to know where Sana was going.

Sana had had a phone call from Tzuyu during lunch time.  She urgently asked him to meet her and she Sana couldn't help but accept with kindness and a bit of perplexity.  He looked as worried about the call as if she had a grape in her mouth.  She hurried to talk to the principal for the next teacher conference to decide on the time of the next school trip, and soon after she walked to the cafeteria Tzuyu requested.  He knew this coffee shop well since it was the one near her house, it was a few meters from her apartment and she honestly was fine with him that Tzuyu had chosen that place.  But at the same time she was confused by her sudden phone call.  As soon as she entered the door she heard the classic bell that indicated someone had entered.  The elderly man greeted Sana with a sweet smile, realizing that the man with the red roses on the table which was a little hidden due to the opaque white booths was looking at him in a mysterious and excited manner.  "I'm here" she announced with shyness in her voice as her body expressed absolute superiority as if he owned this place.  Sana walked towards him, placing her purse on the soft fabric that covered the entire one-metre-long seat.  It did not have a circular shape, it stopped straight up to the wall and then on Tzuyu's side there was another longer seat with the same soft black fabric.  The marble table shone, covering its greenish color over the entire area, while in a small part there were red roses that bloomed an intense red on the table that contrasted the strong color.  The doorbell rang along with loud noises and a rush that was impossible to understand or see.  Sana resigned herself to looking at the small group and stared reassuringly at Tzuyu.  "Did you have something to tell me?"  Sana asked full of anticipation trying to understand what that cynical expression wanted to demonstrate in front of her, "I'm sorry for what I did that day. I was out of my mind, I overdid it with those pills to calm myself down a bit..." "Lo I know, your secretary told me everything. I understand that the meeting with your parents is quite difficult for you to have" Sana interrupted with a comfortable smile, "So you're not angry?"  she asked the man, raising his eyebrows at the woman's sudden declaration, "No... I was just worried about you. You seemed different from the other times. Why were you so nervous about that meeting?"  he asked once again, moving closer to the table, "I had a meeting with my parents and they were inviting me, through a phone call, to become compulsorily engaged to a woman. She is quite famous and for them she is a woman from the era of golden and impossible to oppose both for her beauty and for her majestic intelligence" he said casually as he began to describe the woman.  Boredom seemed to eat away at him as soon as the subject started seeing her parents' description of her.  "I understand, and why don't you go out with her, she seems like a good girl to me" Sana said trying to encourage him, while he stared at her with a confused look, "Sana I'm inviting you to go out on dates with me, because I find you interesting and I have a certain feeling different from what a simple friend feels. Do you understand Sana?"  He said, grabbing Sana's hand gently.  The air became more intense having a strange atmosphere as Tzuyu's sweaty and nervous hands also grazed her white knuckles.  Tzuyu smiled insecurely as her body swayed along with her head, confused by Sana's sudden silence.  “I understood your statement, and even though you are a truly kind, intelligent man with a rather impossible to resist charm… I still have no feelings for you, I barely know you…” “That's not why we're going out for appointments. I myself assiduously ask you to come with me somewhere. Seeing you makes me happy, Sana" he interrupted with a serious voice and quite different almost from his normal voice, she seemed ambitious and ready to fight for something.  Sana's eyes dug into hers trying to find Tzuyu's true emotions which rarely came out of her mouth but cold expressions came out of her face.  "I will try to accept your feelings once I have felt them too. For now I would like to see you again this Saturday" Sana concluded, taking the roses with subtlety and elegance.  He looked at Tzuyu's happy look and after a brief greeting tried to escape from the cafeteria, "Sana.." Tzuyu said in a faint voice, taking her arm carefully and turning his head, "Let's go eat together. There's a excellent diner that also prepares lunch similar to the American one. They just opened it, it's beautiful. We can go there now if you want" said Tzuyu, removing his hand from his arm, a little embarrassed but at the same time content, "Tzuyu, I can't, I have to go home and correct some tests for a third grade class. I really have to go. Maybe next time" she replied, making Tzuyu remain frozen, letting Sana's scent flood his nostrils and her presence continue to exist underneath his illusion.  The exit bell rang throughout the cafeteria.  For Tzuyu it was heartbreaking not to be able to see Sana anymore.