"Don't chase." Andrew stopped Savannah.
Savannah looked puzzled at Andrew.
That night, Andrew invited Savannah to dinner for Elisa's sake.
Savannah was surprised to learn that he and Elisa had met four years earlier.
Elisa followed her father to a mountain in the US. She accidentally fell into a natural chasm and was rescued by Andrew, who was hiking up the mountain to search for rare minerals.
In order to help the family brand to attract attention in an international jewelry fair, he took the risk of going to the mountains where gemstones might be found. He kept the matter from his family. After all, he was the only son of his family. After rescuing Elisa, he heard that his family was calling his name, knowing that they had gone into the mountain to look for him. So he left in a hurry without leaving any contact information to Elisa.
Later, he began to search for the American-Italian girl he had come across the mountain.
But there was little information. He couldn't find her anywhere in the country.
Maybe she just went to the US for a summer holiday.
Savannah didn't understand. Andrew didn't forget Elisa and even couldn't get her out of his mind. In this case, when he came to Italy and found Elisa, why didn't he meet her and have a talk with her frankly? Why didn't he pursue her directly? Why go around and deliberately approach her to test Elisa?
Andrew didn't look like the kind of guy who was shy about chasing girls.
"Actually, I came to Milan two years ago to look for her, and just before Christmas, I found her." Andrew, knowing Savannah was confused, explained in a low mood.
Savannah opened her eyes wide, even more confused.
"I found her at an all-night bar on Christmas Eve. She was in the arms of a local Italian man on a drinking spree. Later, she tongue-kissed with that man and even undressed in public…" Andrew almost gritted his teeth.
"No way, Elisa's a very simple girl, not like that... In all the years I've been with her, she's never been to a bar or been too close to a man..." Savannah shook her head in disbelief.
"You are just classmates," Andrew interrupted her, "and you don't spend 24 hours together. Do you really have a full understanding of her private life and nature?"
"She really isn't that kind of person! As far as I know, she probably hasn't even been in love! Despite her careless appearance and quick tongue, she's actually a bookworm!" Savannah said firmly.
Andrew seemed to have heard the funniest joke of all.
Has she never been in love? On Christmas Eve, she kissed a man passionately in public, and from her over intimate body touch with that man, he could see she had had more than one boyfriend. How could such a girl have never been in love?
A harder and colder look came into his eyes.
"You may know her face but not her mind. How do you know she's not someone else when she leaves school? There are so many such people," said Andrew with a sinister laugh.
"Could you be wrong? Or is the person just a girl who looks like her?" Savannah defended Elisa.
"No. Her half-blood appearance is so peculiar that it's hard to find one just like her." Elisa was, indeed, wonderfully good-looking, and her clear-cut face and brown eyes were impressing.
Savannah sighed, agreed, and then frowned.
"Could it be that she was drunk that night? Didn't you say it was Christmas eve, and probably she had been drinking and didn't know what she was doing?"
"She wasn't drinking." Andrew said coolly, "I saw her and went over to say hello to her. She looked very conscious when she noticed me."
That night, he saw Elisa running wild with a man and tried to stop her.
Elisa saw him and her eyes lit up. He thought she recognized him, but she just grabbed him by the collar and said he was hot in a frivolous way. She invited him to her Christmas Eve party later...
He knew exactly what she meant by a party, which was the most popular promiscuous party for young men and women during the holiday season. He was even more annoyed and tried to pull her away, but she threw off his hand and ridiculed him, causing her male companion to fight with him on the spot.
After the fight, he was so angry that he left immediately and returned to his country the next day.
"Since you've been confirmed she's a butterfly, why did you let me pretend to be intimate to you in front of her this time? Is it interesting?" Savannah said disapprovingly.
Andrew was silent for a moment, the coolness in his brow deepening.
He still couldn't get her out of mind completely after seeing how promiscuous she was. He always remembered the first time they met, and her clear eyes told him they should have a story.
When he came to Italy for business this time, he found out where Elisa was studying and that Savannah happened to be a good friend of hers.
He called Savannah out and deliberately played intimacy with Savannah in front of her. She should be annoyed and came to talk to him, he thought.
If she really couldn't remember her, he should just let it go and never think about her again.
This time, however, she seemed to recognize him. He saw a completed emotion in her eyes.
But when he asked about their second meeting in a bar on Christmas Eve, she denied it.
Did she behave to be simple and pure in the daytime and return brazen in the wild night?
Savannah asked tentatively when he remained silent, "In fact, I think you should sit down and have a talk with her face to face. Maybe there's some misunderstanding. Even if it was Elisa... It doesn't mean anything, does it? Why don't I go find Elisa and explain our relationship to her, and then you can have a talk…"
"No." Andrew interrupted. "There's nothing to talk about. If she wanted to be honest with me, she should have told me what happened when we met this time. She clearly remembered me but deliberately pretended not to know me. Maybe she felt very ashamed and embarrassed after she was caught by me in a bar two years ago! In short, since she didn't want to be honest, I didn't want to press her. I'm sorry, but I have some business to attend to. I can't go out with you today."