A waiter came to deliver the coffee. After serving the coffee, he went over to resolve the dispute and whispered, "Sorry, our shop is still open. Can you please keep your voice down?"
"This shameless woman tempted my boyfriend! And you are still enjoying coffee. Damn your coffee!"
No one knew what had happened, but cries of surprise came from the crowd. Men and women kept talking about the dispute.
...
Collin suddenly had an instinct. He stood up, and the doctor beside him also stood up. The doctor asked, "It seems that some people are quarreling over there. Doctor Mueller, you are going to have a look?"
"God. When did you become so gossipy?"
Collin turned a deaf ear to the doctor and walked through the wooden tables. He lowered his head and stepped over the threshold made of semi-circular fake wood. Then he saw the chaos in front of him.
The waiter was wiping the coffee dripping down the table with a towel, and the woman in the grey sweater was standing there silently wiping her computer.
The girl was still cursing angrily. In front of her stood a man who tried his best to placate her. It was the young man that Collin saw a few days ago. He was still in a white shirt today, and he looked like a student who had just graduated. Now the look on his face showed terrible embarrassment.
Collin stepped closer. He found that this young man looked nice and clean. He was handsome. Collin could find the vigor and enthusiasm of a young man in his eyes. He could tell at a glance that the young man had not been tortured in social life.
"Didn't you tell her?" The woman said in a smoky voice, frowning slightly. She threw away the napkin in her hand and turned on the computer again, looking at the man.
The man held the hem of his white shirt awkwardly, "I ... didn't tell her. I..."
Filled with coffee, the computer went black. The woman turned to look at the girl and then at the man, "Do you want to have it fixed or just pay for it?"
The girl seemed to have heard something ridiculous. She said with an incredulous look. "What did you say? Pay for it? Don't you feel ashamed to say that?"
The woman wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly took off the glasses. Her empty eyes were fixed on the girl's face. Then, she looked at the man and said, "I need to use the computer. It's urgent. If you pay for it, give me 1,000. If you don't, I'll call the police."
The man looked at her computer hesitantly and asked, "Roxy, I'd better have it fixed."
Did he call her Roxy?
Collin was surprised that this man called the woman in black-framed glasses so politely and carefully as if he was on thin ice.
Was it because the woman gave him money?
Collin did not want to see the young man's mistress fight with his girlfriend. But Roxy's eyes were too empty. He wanted to see what it would be like when her eyes showed other emotions, such as surprise, anger, grievance, and sadness. Anyway, he wanted to see emotion but not emptiness in her eyes. Now her eyes were so empty that he felt like she was not looking at anyone.
"Why? Just let her call the police. Just call it! I'm not afraid of you. I can't believe a mistress can be so arrogant like you!" The girl shouted, "Your computer isn't worth 1,000 at all. You actually asked for 1,000. Are you going to shake us down?"
"Stop shouting!" The man became more embarrassed. "We are in no relationship at all. You misunderstood."
"I misunderstood?" The girl sneered, "Fine. If you think I misunderstood, why don't you show me the evidence? Show me the evidence that you didn't have sex!"
The waiter said in a weak voice, "Please stop. Don't fight like this ... can you go to the private room or go out to talk? We still have the other customers here..."
"Alright, let's talk outside." The man apologized in a low voice, then took the girl's arm and walked out.
But Roxy sat in her chair without moving and said to the man, "I'll leave her to you. I'll fix the computer first. Call me when you make things clear to her."
The girl was probably enraged by Roxy's attitude and went crazy on the spot, "What do you mean? Tell me, are you still secretly contacting each other? Are you trying to go public with your relationship? Simon Walters, tell me, what exactly do you mean?"
The man called Simon hurriedly grabbed her hand and walked out, "Stop talking nonsense ... I said that you misunderstood..."
"Let go of me!" The girl was still shouting, "You bullied me! You actually cheated on such an ugly woman ... You bullied me ... You bastard!"
The café finally became quiet. The waiter cleaned the floor that had been stained with coffee. He handed a tissue to Roxy to wipe her neck.
Roxy didn't seem to care about the coffee stain on her. She just stared at the computer in front of her. A moment later, her phone rang. It was still the old-fashioned phone. She picked it up and said indifferently, "My computer is broken. I'll fix it later ... Yes, I got it."
After she hung up the phone, she raised her head slightly to look at Collin. He had been standing there for a long time.
Roxy wondered if Collin was a doctor, for he was in a white coat.
Roxy blinked and looked down again as if she had seen no person. Her expression did not change at all. When she took her empty eyes off him, Collin suddenly had the urge to go to her.
But he stopped out of reason.
Roxy liked drinking coffee and eating instant noodles, and ... she might seduce the girl's boyfriend.
He couldn't be with such a woman. Compared to Roxy, Kiki was pretty good.
Collin had left his colleagues for a long time, so the doctors walked out to check Collin out. They saw Collin was staring at a girl who was putting her computer in her bag. They couldn't help but ask secretly,
"Is Doctor Mueller interested in her?"
"Really? Love at first sight?"
"Come on, ask her for her number!"
"Are you being shy?" The doctor with glasses said, "Then I'll get it for you."
Before Collin could say anything, the doctor with glasses had walked to stop Roxy, who was about to leave with her bag. Roxy had taken off her black-rimmed glasses. She did not look very old and was probably in her early twenties. And her skin was not fair. She probably stayed up late a lot, because she had dark circles under her eyes. Although she was not ugly without any makeup, she was not a beauty anyway.
The doctor with glasses was surprised at Doctor Mueller's unique taste. He held his criticism back and said to Roxy, "Hello, may I have your phone number for my friend?"
Roxy stopped, followed his finger, and looked at Collin.
Collin just looked at her and pretended to confess, wanting to see how she would respond.
Unexpectedly, Roxy looked back and said indifferently, "Let him do it himself."
The doctor with glasses hurriedly waved to Collin, "Come on!"
Collin walked over. As he approached, he found that Roxy was smelling him like a little animal. Having a sniff, she raised her head and met his gaze with her empty eyes.
Collin found it hard to describe the feeling of looking into her eyes. Her eyes barely focused. She just took a glance at him. Then she lowered her head and handed her old-fashioned phone to Collin, "The phone number."
Collin fell silent.