Rolling her eyes and sighing in frustration, Ann sat next to Elsa, grinning like a loon. "Elsa, Umm… Could you do me a favor? Can you ask Charlie if he knows my eye candy? I want to get close to him!"
Anna rolled her eyes and said, "Ann, now is not the time to talk about this."
Ann pouted her lips and scoffed, "Oh! All right." She sat up straight and faced Elsa. "I'll give you two choices. You can either ask Charlie yourself, or we'll help you?"
"Ask what?" Elsa had no clue what Ann was going on about.
Olivia helplessly sighed, "Ask about his family background, of course… You can't marry a person without even knowing who he really is, right?"
Elsa shied away instantly, lowering her eyes and mumbling, "I'm not marrying him. What does his family background have to do with me?"
Olivia, Ann, and Anna exchanged glances and suppressed their laughter unanimously. They knew what kind of person Elsa was. They knew that Elsa wasn't thinking about whether she and Charlie would fit each other, but how they could be together given the vast difference between their backgrounds. It was like thinking about how to run before even learning how to walk properly. Elsa didn't know what true love was or what it could do to a person. Nothing in the world could have prepared Elsa for it when her time came.
*
It was already quite late in the night when Charlie went back to the hotel. He opened the door to find Evelyn playing computer games in his room. Surprised, he asked, "Weren't you supposed to go shopping with Bess?"
"I did, in the morning…" With eyes glued to the screen, she continued, "We went to West Street and then had lunch at the Falloon Mall."
"You were at the Falloon today?" Charlie was taken by surprise because he assumed Evelyn and her friend were eating desserts at West Street. He coughed to clear his throat, making a big effort to be more exuberant, adding hand gestures and varying the pitch of his voice.
Not that Evelyn noticed anything as she was preoccupied with an important Boss Fight in the game. Suddenly, she jumped up and held her hands up in the air in a victorious motion. Having successfully killed the Boss, she collected all the items, but unfortunately, there was nothing of value. After groaning in displeasure for a bit, she turned to look at Charlie and said, "Guess who were there with me? Well, of course, besides Bess? Elsa and her roommates!" Needless to say, she completely disregarded the two annoying people, Allen and Rita.
"Elsa is also in T City?" The smile on Charlie's face faded, disappeared, and was replaced with a frown.
Evelyn's soft lips stretched into a playful smile, revealing her perfectly aligned teeth as she nodded.
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