You Are The Apple of My Eyes novel Chapter 682

When Leon walked into Michelle's room, he felt comfortable and cool.

"Leon, please sit down for a while. I'll just go to the balcony and make a phone call." Before Michelle had the chance to go out to the balcony, Leon reached out his hand and stopped her.

"Wait! It's hot on the balcony. Why not call here in the room instead?"

"No, it's not. It's windy outside," Michelle insisted. He could no longer think of anything to say to keep her from going outside. With a resigned sigh, he said, "Okay."

However, when he caught a glimpse of her bare feet, he couldn't help but stop her. "Wait, put on your shoes."

Michelle looked down and saw that she wasn't wearing any shoes. She flashed a sheepish smile and looked for her shoes.

She only found one of her slippers. "Where's the other one? Why can't I find it? I remember seeing it at..."

She racked her memory for a long time, trying to figure out where she last saw it but failed.

Leon lowered his head and placed his palm on his forehead. As he did this, something under the bed caught his eye. He crouched on the floor to have a closer look, and there he saw a slipper with a cartoon image of a rabbit on it.

"Found it." He reached out to grab the slipper and walked to Michelle. Then, he proceeded to go down in one knee. "Lift your foot."

Michelle's face became flustered, her heart pounding violently against her chest. Leon's gesture shocked her so much that she became stiff.

'I saw this in TV series.

This is something that only couples do!

Why is Leon doing this?'

She pursed her lips and held her breath.

"What's wrong?" Leon looked up and saw Michelle staring blankly into space as though she was daydreaming. He called out her name again.

"What?" Michelle snapped out of her dazed state. "Lift your foot," Leon repeated.

After a slight pause, she clumsily lifted her foot.

Leon reached out his hand and held her ankle, which, upon closer look, was fair and bony. Michelle watched as she felt the warmth of Leon's palm transmit to her skin. Her heart skipped a beat, and blood started to rush to her face.

She covered her mouth hurriedly and almost yanked her foot out of Leon's hand.

"Don't move, Michelle." Leon gripped her ankle tighter to keep it still. "When Nini was a child, she preferred walking barefoot instead of wearing shoes, even when walking on the beach. Every time, I had to help her put on her shoes. There's a lot of things you can learn from her, but not wearing shoes shouldn't be one of them."

He slid her shoe to her foot.

Compared to Leon's wide palm, Michelle's foot was akin to a child's. He looked at her toes and thought they were quite cute.

Upon hearing Leon's story, Michele felt disappointed.

She realized that it wasn't only couples who helped each other with their shoes, so did siblings.

She knew that he treated her as his sister.

'A sister's better than nothing, ' she thought.

When the realization dawn upon her, her heartbeat began to stabilize, and her body started to feel less stiff.

"Done!" Leon stood up. "In the future, remember to wear your shoes. If you keep walking barefoot, you might step on broken glass or something and hurt your feet."

Michelle asked, "But don't you think it's comfortable to walk barefoot? Don't you know Mr. Barefoot?"

Leon chuckled. "Mr. Barefoot is a man and a god. Even if he walked barefoot, he wouldn't get hurt. You, on the other hand, would cry if you stepped on broken glass."

Michelle stuck out her tongue playfully. "Then I'm Miss Barefoot!"

"I can't argue with that, Miss Barefoot." Leon flicked her forehead with more force this time so that she would learn her lesson. "Just remember to not walk barefoot again, okay?"

Michelle pursed her lips. "Okay. I won't walk barefoot anymore in the future. But Leon, I really have to make this phone call."

"Okay." Michelle went outside to the balcony and closed the door before calling someone.