Chapter 197 - Break Up With Her

"B, look.." Harry suddenly pop out from behind Lisa and give her a box of the present with a cute ribbon. "Happy birthday." He kissed on her cheek, and Lisa took the box. She places it at her laps, and Harry sits beside her at the bench.

"Thanks.." She said, and once again, she was surprised by Henry's present who give her a bouquet of the yellow rose. "Happy birthday, Lis." Henry handed her bouquet of roses, and Lisa smiles happily.

"Thank you, Henry.." She smells the bouquet and averts her eyes to Harry at her side after that, "See..this is the way to treat a girl. You should give me a red rose." She nudges at Harry's arm, and he only smirks at her.

"Don't judge on my small present, B. Open it." Harry took the flower bouquet from her hand and gave it back to Henry. Henry squints his eyes and sits beside her. He is waiting for Lisa to open Harry's gift.

Once she opens the box, her jaw almost drops. "You like it, don't you?" Harry lifted his eyebrow, and Lisa was almost crying. "What the hell are you giving me? Trash?" She doesn't know whether to cry or to laugh.

"Hey, that harsh." Harry took out the circuit from the box and turned on the simple button at the side. "Hello. My name is Akiera." a robotic sound suddenly greeting them, and Lisa immediately turn to look at him.

"This is.."

Harry nodded his head before Lisa could finish her word. "Yes, for your robotic competition. I make a simple coding, and I think we can upgrade it later. The voice is also from your voice recording."

Lisa gasps and hugs him tightly. "Oh my god!! Thank you, D! I love you so much."

"Yeah, I love you too."

The love that Lisa state is obviously a different love than Harry thought. That's when they start to build the AI system from scratch until she won it on the innovation competition using Akiera's name before they change it into Kiera years later.

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"B, why don't you just live with me? You can save your living cost if we're living together." Harry lay his head on Lisa's lap. They are literally watching a movie together at Harry's penthouse.

"Well, I just live in the next building.. after all, most of my living cost is provide by my company." She casually says it while eating the chips.

"And you're working with me. Come on, just move in here, and we can go to work together, lunch together, and even have much time together." Harry gave her a big smile, and she only shakes her head.

It's not that she hates that idea, but if they were about to live together, she afraid that she will unconsciously reveal her real feeling toward him. She has loved him for a long time, and she knows that Harry doesn't feel the same way as her. It's already hard for her to hide her feeling so that she'll not lose what they have now.

And if they were to live together, everything will be only hard for her. What if Harry found himself a girlfriend? And seeing him with another woman is a big 'NO' for her.

"Harry, if I remember correctly, I mostly sleeping here, and I can count on my finger just how much time I return to my apartment. Anyway, I'm going to find myself a housemate so that I don't feel like this is my home."

Harry immediately sit up. "You wanna find a housemate? Why, though?"

Sighing, she says, "I gotta earn some money and pay my liabilities. I don't want people to say I'm a fungus who stick at you and eat all your money."

"B…you're my everything. I don't mind what people say.. my money is yours, and you can use it anytime you want." Harry states and still hoping that she will drop the idea of finding a housemate. That house was bought just for her, and everything inside it is base on what she likes too.

Shut her eyes, Lisa try to not misunderstood his word. He was always a sweet talker to her. Some kind of prince charming that every girl wanted. Handsome, understanding, and very kind. Unfortunately, his sense of love is very…. shallow.

She also did not push him and let him the first one who breaks their relationship and upgrade it to the next step. Even though she keeps giving him a hint, he still dense, and nevertheless, she still loves him the most.

"D, I can't…one day, you will find yourself a girl and marry her, at that time, what will I be? I want to stand on my two-foot okay? I can't always be at your side. I can't always come here, one day we will part our way just like how Henry and we did."

"Fuck them all. If someone were to marry me, that girl needs to accept you in her life, and I would not abandon you just like that."

Lisa rub her forehead. She doesn't know what else hint she should give to him. 'Come on, I have some dignity too, idiot!'

"B…promise me…you will not leave me." He reaches her hand, and Lisa smiles at him. "Of course, you dummy."

'I have loved you for the whole life, how can I just leave you like that?'

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Click!

"B, I brought your favorite pasta," Harry said while opening the door. The moment he saw another girl standing at the living hall, the box of dinner he bought suddenly fall on the floor.

The girl was only wearing her towel, and they both look so shocked. Harry immediately took the box on the floor and averted his eyes elsewhere. "Where's Lisa?" He asked, and the girl suddenly falls back to earth after seeing such a handsome man just entering the house.

Harry's face likely struck her, and she thought she was in a dreamland. "She's-"

"D!" Lisa walked out of her bedroom and saw Harry still on the floor, looking at the side. While her new roommate was standing there like a statue.

"Uh, Sophie…I think you should wear some clothes now." Lisa tap on her shoulder, and that girl named Sophie immediately run back to her room. Her face was flushed red, and the moment Harry stand up, he also blushed.

And that's when Lisa's heart suddenly felt uneasy. "You're okay, D?" She asked and helped him to take the box from his hand.

He shakes his head, "I'm fine. Who's that?" He cleared his throat and went to the kitchen, followed by Lisa.

"She's Sophie. My new roommate. A college student." She gave a simple reply and went to sit on the stool. She could see Harry somehow smiling.

"Sophie, huh?"

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"Hi," Lisa just got back from her work, and it's already late at night. It's been months since she had a new housemate, and Harry was often hanging out in his house ever since.

"Hi.." Sophie reply, and she slowly walk to her. "Um...Lisa..can I talk to you for a moment?" She said, and Lisa looks at her with creased on her forehead.

"Yeah, sure. What is it?" Lisa put down her handbag and went to sit on the couch while Sophie also sits on the opposite couch.

"Well, actually…Harry and I are now going out. So, can you…not to clingy to him?" She started, and Lisa was totally dumbfounded.

She silent for a few minutes before she says, "How long has it been?"

"Since two months ago. Harry told me that we should keep it a secret because he doesn't want you to break your friendship with him because of this. And I think it's impossible since you were always clingy to him, and I kinda hate it..whenever he comes here, the first person he always greets is always you. I feel like I'm not the girlfriend and he always gives you the best, so please..can you back away?"

Lisa couldn't hear the next word she mumbling, and staggeringly; she stands up and runs away from the apartment. She broke into tears and wandering alone in the city for hours until finally, Harry found her.

"B! What are you doing? Why are you like this?" He worriedly pulls her hands from crossing the road and look at her foot. She was running out of the house without wearing any slippers. And she didn't even bring any bag or purse with her too.

She didn't say anything as she crying louder when she saw his face. Not knowing what to do, Harry carries her as he always does in their teenage year. Like, lug a big koala.

"B, I'm here..what's wrong? Tell me, don't cry, please.."

"Break up." She murmurs while still crying, and Harry frowned a bit. "What?"

"Break up with her!! Break up!" She punches his shoulder a few times before Harry calms her down.

"Okay, okay..as you wish..please, don't cry.." He rubs her back and kisses her head before she hangs down her head on his shoulder. She doesn't know when, but she falls asleep after that.