Star And Mr. Moon - [When Silence Speaks Louder]

CHAPTER 34 - If It's Not You

"By the way Chan, how is Lunar doing?"

Just when everyone fell silent, Zee's grandma voiced out those questions to kill the silence.

"She was doing great, but she's taking a nap at this hour"

Uncle Chan answered Mrs. Ping a.k.a Zee's grandma questions with a smile on his face. For y'all information Lunar is the name of Uncle Chan's wife a.k.a Lia's mother. She was a kind and soft spoken angel but sadly she was someone that is disabled, more precisely she can't walk as she was paralyzed from her waist down to her leg.

And Lunar is one of Mrs. Ping patient, this is how Uncle Chan and Mrs. Ping became friends.

"Well then, maybe later we could greet her as well, i also want to see how she is doing"

Zee's grandma said again casually.

And after a moment there staying and chatting there. All of them finally decided to go to their room.

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It's been about 3 days and a half there staying at the mansion and guess what... Zee still hasn't moved from his position now. Zee and Lia still got no progress, since it was like Lia was avoiding Zee every time he tried to chat with her....and to be precise Zee also didn't know how to make their relationship at least have a step ahead from this current situation.

And finally, after the 3 days of no progress, it's finally the day where both Zee and Lia visit the new cafe that Uncle Chan is talking about. Zee thought that this is the best chance for him to get closer back to her. Since you know ..for now he cannot just jump into the things that he wants to explain... it's like he needs to gain Lia's trust first. So she could actually listen to what he was about to say.

It was the best chance now because they've been left alone there, in the cafe. As they arrive at the place, they get inside the cafe and throw their eyes on the surroundings. Looking at the wall and the interior of the cafe.

After gaining his courage, just by then Zee took an action to take one step further, to open one conversation with Lia.

"Right now...are you feeling much better.."

Zee finally voiced out once they were standing in front of the big empty wall.

"Hum?"

"I mean...you got into an accident before...is it still hurt?"

Zee said again as he hesitantly made eye contact with Lia.

"Well I'm okay now. It's almost a month after all. It was all good now. Even my arm cast got taken off much sooner than usual"

Lia said again as she slowly walked to the other walls, she didn't look at Zee though, her eyes were still roaming around the cafe interior.

"What about you?"

Lia suddenly said after a moment of pause. Zee that at first looking down to his feet quickly turned to Lia to just ask him that question.

"... what's with me?"

"...How are you doing... you didn't seem to go back to Bangkok that day"

And for a short moment Lia takes a glance at Zee.

'so she still cares...'

Zee thought that inside his head as he felt a little lighter than before.

"Well... there's a bit of an issue...that requires me to stay here..."

Zee stated as he scratched the back of his head, truly he wants to explain further. But it didn't seem like Lia was bothered to know more about that. Or Lia just assumes that...Zee would not tell her anyway... with the excuse that Zee didn't want her to be worried...