Female Novel
Chapter 30
The car didn’t stop at the hotel they were staying in. Instead, Sophia asked the driver to stop when theywere a distance away from it, much to John and Zack’s surprise. After the car had stopped, Sophiasmiled at them before going out of the car. “I’ll be leaving now. You guys go ahead without me.”
John looked back and said nothing. After Sophia had closed the door, he told the driver to start driving.Zack looked at John from the rear-view mirror to see that he was scrolling through his phone. Then,Zack looked at Sophia from the side mirror. She looked like a naive lady with her getup, and slowly, shefaded from their sights. “Is Sophia worried someone might bump into us and take it the wrong way if wego back together?”
John said nothing, so Zack continued, “I mean, she has a suitor staying in this hotel too, so it’s notgreat if he sees us together. I can understand why.”
John slowly looked up at him. “What are you trying to say?” novelbin
“Nothing.” Zack chuckled. “Just saying.”
John sneered at him, but he said nothing.
On the other hand, Sophia slowly went toward the hotel, since it wasn’t too far anyway. It was livelyhere; there were hawker shops and stalls set up everywhere. Sophia went around, but before shecame to the hotel, she bumped into a familiar person. Seeing that Trevor was buying souvenirs ofsome sort from the local vendor, Sophia went up to him and patted his back. “Hi.”
Trevor was surprised, so he looked back and stared at Sophia for a few moments before recognizingSophia. “Oh, it’s you. I didn’t recognize you.”
Sophia smiled. “Are you buying something?”
Trevor quickly paid for his stuff before facing her. “When I came back to the beach with the gastricmedicine that night, you were gone.”
Sophia was still smiling. “I was hospitalized. Internal bleeding, so I stayed there for a couple of days.”
Trevor was shocked. “That sounds serious.”
Sophia nodded. “It’s chronic. I just got discharged today.” It was late, so she looked in the hotel’sdirection. “Do you have anything else to do? Why don’t we go back together then?”
Trevor quickly said, “Oh, sure. Let’s go.”
With that, they sauntered back to the hotel. When they came to the front door, Sophia noticed the carstopping not far from the front door; it was the car with John in it. Sophia couldn’t see who was in there,but she didn’t care. Then, she asked where Trevor had gone over the couple of days, while heanswered everything excitedly.
When they came into the lobby happily, Zack and John were inside too. John was speaking on thephone beside the bonsai at the front door, while Zack stood not far away. Sophia saw both of themwhen she came in, but she pretended not to see them. Since Trevor was talking about some interestingthings he saw, she chuckled. “Really? That sounds interesting.”
Trevor was smiling too. “Are you free tomorrow? If you are, we can go out together. There’s a placehere that has great scenery, so why don’t we go there tomorrow?”
Sophia pursed her lips. “Oh, um…” She glanced at John and Zack; the latter noticed her gaze, so hetugged at John’s arm, signaling him to look her way. When she went past them, Sophia nodded. “Sure.What time tomorrow?”
Trevor was delighted that she agreed. “Let’s make it earlier. It’ll be too hot if we go late. I’ll give you amorning call at around five tomorrow. What do you say?”
“Sure.”
After that, Sophia heard Zack say, “Did you hear that? They’re going out together, alone!” He didn’tbother to lower his voice.