Opposite - Meteor garden

Fourteen

"Si..?" Ash muttered. "SI!" She smacked him in the head. Si instantly came back to realization and looked at her, slightly red. "What's wrong with you?" Si stared at her and shook his head. Of course, he wasn't about to tell her everything he just imagined so he cleared his throat. "So?" Ash questioned. "None of your business. Go back inside, it's freezing out here." Ash frowned but his comment made her realize that it was freezing.

"You still have to answer my question."

Si stared at her for a second before he smacked his lips, "What question?" Ash rolled her eyes at his annoyance and waved her hand around, "Forget it. Just go." She turned around and started walking towards her house. As curious as she was, she didn't want to force it out of him. Si sighed quietly as he looked at Ash walk away. He was glad she stopped pestering him about it. It was embarrassing having to see her like that.

"So, what happened?" Meizuo asked Ash. The three guys stared at her while she was walking in, waiting for her response. Ash didn't say anything until she took a seat next to Lei. "He was just pissed that I was wearing this." She pointed at her robe, defeated. "Why would he be pissed?" Ximen fixed his glasses, waiting for a response. Ash's explanation was incomplete, and she knew it. "Could it be..." Meizuo told Ximen, who immediately knew what he meant. Ash ignored the both of them. Clearly they weren't going to be much help. What she didn't know was that they already knew that Si had feelings for her. They laughed with each other quietly as Ash continued to sulk.
Obviously Lei noticed her sulking and was conflicted whether he should say something to her or not.
"What's bothering you?" 

She gives him a quick look and shakes her head. He felt a little disappointed that she wouldn't tell him what's bothering her, but it's not like he can force her to do anything. "Did Si leave already?" Meizuo asked, puzzled. "Yeah. He didn't want to stick around" Ash scoffed "He's so stubborn, he took too long to tell me that he liked me and it was freezing outside." They all gasped. "You're kidding!" Ximen exclaimed as he put down his drink on the table. The color on Ash's face drained a little; she didn't mean to tell them that. She was thinking too many things at the moment that her mouth ran a little too quick. She shook her head quickly, almost giving herself a headache. "You.. You guys need to leave!" She stuttered out as she turned around to walk away before anyone said anything to her. The last thing she needed was for them to start questioning her while she's wearing lingerie. 'I can't believe I'm dressed like this in front of them. What is wrong with me?' 

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"You actually sat there with them in lingerie?" Xiang Lan asked loudly. Ash embarrassingly nodded. She set her head down while she whined out loud. "I can't believe that I actually did that. It's even worse that Si confessed his feelings for me while I was wearing that." She whined "What am I doing? Where did the modesty go?" Lan laughed at her whining. "You have to stop whining so much, it's not as bad as it seems."  Ash whined some more before looking back at her phone. Seeing Lan's laughing face made her even more upset, but she was puzzled at what she said, "What do you mean?" Lan smiled at her and started "Well, if you think about it, the guys saw you almost naked. It HAS to mean that at least one of them became attracted to you." Ash stared at her screen in disbelief. She could not believe that her friend would tell her that, but could she be right? No way! 

Her phone started ringing in her hands. An unknown number was calling her. "Lan I'll call you later. Bye bye." Lan waved at her and hung up. "Hello?"

"*Breathing sounds*" 

"Hello? If you don't respond, I'm hanging up."

"*Breathing sounds*"

Ash hangs up quickly. It's not the first time she receives a call like that. She finds it extremely annoying and she has tried to block the number but another always ends up calling. The calls also aren't long enough to trace, but Ash hasn't thought about doing that because she believes the calls are harmless. She had to admit, however, that getting calls like that every week doesn't feel like a coincidence. 

She quickly snapped out of it when she received another call. Thankfully, from a person she actually knew. "What do you want?" Ash complained to her phone. 

"Is that the right way to greet your brother?"