Downpour

CHAPTER 16 "Looking at One star"

Yuan Mendez' POV

It's Sunday, Ivy has an appointment at their factory of the cosmetics brand they are distributing, so I went early to pick her up.

"Yuan! You're early today."

"Yes, Lady Min, I have to accompany her to the factory this afternoon. Is she already awake?"

"Ahhh! She's not yet... I saw her around 4 am at the archery range I think she wasn't able to sleep at all..."

"I see... Have you gone upstairs on her room?"

"Ahhh... no, you can go upstairs and knock..."

"Will that be fine?"

"You can try, you're her boyfriend after all..."

"Right... I'll go upstairs"

I went upstairs and knocked for a couple of times, waited for a response, but there's nothing, so I started to get nervous

"Lady Min?" I looked for her as I hurriedly went down the stairs

"Yes dear..."

"Are you sure, she's inside her room?"

"Yes..."

"But no one's answering..."

Lady Min lost her composure and called another maid to get the keys... we rushed upstairs to open the door...

"Has this ever happened before?" I asked Lady Min as she was trying to figure out which one of the keys she was holding was for this door.

"No...Here's the key"

"Okay..." I took it from her hand and opened the door...

It was my first time entering her room, it was huge! And on her queen-sized bed she was sleeping soundly...

"She might have taken 2 sleeping pills and drank some wine..." Lady Min said as she looked at Ivy's side table with a bottle of strong sleeping pills and an empty bottle of wine...

"Ivy..." I called out her name...

I sat on her bed and went closer...

"I'll leave you two for a moment"

I nodded...

"Ivy..." She was indeed sleeping soundly, It's the pills, taking 2 pills would surely knock her down...

I almost didn't want to wake her up, something must've been bothering her which kept her awake so she took the pills to sleep and to forget. But she has an appointment and she'd definitely don't want to miss it...

"Ivy..." I held her hand and gently caressed it...

"Ivy..." I whispered into her ear...

Her eyes opened and looked at me...

"How did you get into my room?!"

"I-I'm sorry, I asked Lady Min for the keys... I panicked because I was knocking earlier but you were not answering so..."

She sprung up and sat then she massaged her head.

"Do you want me to get you something?"

She held her hand up to stop me from talking, I was taken aback

"I'll go and prepare wait for me here..."

She went to her bathroom. While she was preparing herself, I looked around her huge room, she has a living room which I passed before I actually reached another room to where she actually sleeps. I looked around for some photos but she only had one, where she and her father looked so happy. I stared at it for a while.