Chapter 31: Thirty one

I roam around the hotel to think about somethings. And by things I mean Lexus, I wonder what made him change like this? He was so cold when he first bought me and now he's promising to keep me safe? I really don't get it. Not that I don't like it, in fact, I love it. He's become softer.

I turned the corner and ended up bumping into someone. He had a hard sturdy chest and I ended up falling flat on my butt.

"Oh! Are you okay?" He crouched down next to me and I looked at him. A teenage boy, maybe like 16 or 17 with dark brown curly hair, honestly it suited him so much and his black eyes were no exception either. It reminded me of someone.

"Yes. I'm fine. I was spacing out too much." I said and he extended his hand for me to take so that I could stand up. Oddly I didn't find him a stranger so I took his help.

"Oh no no! It's my fault too. I was too busy looking around that I didn't notice my surroundings."

I giggled, "Well, I guess we're both equally at fault then. But were you looking for something?"

"Um," He scratched his cheek, "I'm supposed to start working at McDonalds but I can't seem to find it. It wasn't in the food court area."

"Oh yeah. It's the only one that's on the ground floor."

"Why though?"

"Apparently it was built separately but when the hotel was made they just made it a part of it. There are plans to move it in the food court area but well," I shrugged, "It's still there."

I was curious about it too, so I asked Lexus.

"Oh. Well thanks. I'll go look down then." He turned to leave when I stopped him. I don't know why but I just felt like doing it.

"I'll accompany you there." He looked at me, "If you don't mind that is."

"Oh sure!" He smiled so brightly it was cute.

So, we both made our way to the ground floor. Oddly enough it was very easy to talk to him.

"So do you live around here?" He asked.

"Yeah, sort of."

"Great! How about you visit me every now and then? Since I was transferred from the other branch I don't have any friends here."

"Haha, sure. We're friends now."

"We are right!" He clasped my hands in his and passed me a cute smile.

"Yup. Oh. We're here." I pointed at the McDonald's door.

"Oh yea. Well I better get to work." He jogged a bit ahead of me then stopped, "Oh right!" He turned to me, "I never asked for your name."

"Rosalie Yuki." As I said my name his smile faded for a moment then he gave me a different smile. A bit sad yet happy one, "What about you?" I asked, "What's your name."

"Alios." He said and I felt my heartbeat drop a bit, "Alios Edgard." He then smiled again at me and waved, "Well then Rosy. I hope you come visit me!" And then he left as I processed the data in my mind.

Alios Edgard... Son of Lizzie Edgard. How is this- Alios? What? When I saw him, his curly hair and black eyes, I did think about Alios but to think it really was him. I-

I took a step ahead and then stopped, then took a step back.

For a while, I just stood there and then turned and left.

Everything I was wondering about before had completely vanished and now a new worry was stuck in my mind, in a daze I was back in the penthouse. I walked to my room, still thinking about the sudden meeting with Alios and wanted to just flop down on the bed when I noticed the room didn't have a bed. I looked around and realized I wasn't in my room. But which room is this? I noticed cupboard and the dressing table along with some pages, crayons and color pencils on top of the table.

This must be the last room on the floor. I walked to the dressing table and noticed a paper edge hanging out of the drawer. I pulled out the drawer and then picked up the page. It was a drawing made by a child A very small child but still it was cute and it was neatly encased in plastic. I opened the other drawer and noticed more drawings with tons of empty pages as well but these were not encased in anything.

These must belong to Summer. Lexus has a doting side to him when it comes to her. I can imagine him buying this all for her and he even keeps all her drawings here.

I heard the door open and I looked back.

"What are you doing in this room?" Lexus asked as he walked in.

"I don't know I just ended up here, but! I found these drawings! These are made by Summer right?" I flapped the plastic-encased drawing I had in my hand as Lexus came and stood next to me.

"Yeah, well most of them."

"Oh? But why keep this one encased like this?"

"Well it has a funny memory with it." He chuckled as he remembered and I raised my brows at him, "When the kid who made this drawing she told me, 'this is you, you're a girl."

"Pfft." I almost laughed out loud but somehow managed to just giggle. He took the drawing from me and stared at it with such a sweet expression, such gentle eyes, I had never seen before. I could see the love in his gaze.

It made me happy, made my heart slightly speed up. It made me forget I was fretting over something.

Today I saw a new side to him.