《Flowing City》冰 δ 月光之尘

6、第 6 章

　　Lance! How could it be him!

　　He was so handsome in his grey leisure suit, different from the kind she saw everyday work, he seemed warmer today, she saw a faint smile appear on his lips. he was mild and so breath taking.

　　Cynthia felt her heart beat so hard and so fast.

　　\"Why are you here?\" lance asked still with his breath-taking smile on his lips.

　　\"I just have a walk, and find myself here in the wood. it\'s very beautiful, isn’t?\"

　　\"Linger by the night before spring festival? Why don\'t you stay with your relatives, your pap, you mom, your brother and sisters?

　　Cynthia low down her head, she felt she couldn\'t control her tears drop down from her eyes, and her heart was aching to stop beating. She thought she had been used to the loneliness she had suffered all along, but when he asked so gently, all her grievance flooded.

　　Lance didn\'t ask more, just drive her to the mountaintop without say any word in their way,

　　Stopped at the beautiful white roman style villa on the mountaintop, she was amazed to find lance lived there.

　　\"Do you come here everyday? It’s so unbelievable.\"
　　\"I only live here on the weekend, I have a department in the urban and live there.\"
　　\"But it\'s wonderful!
　　\"You like it?\"
　　\"Yes.\"
　　\"Would you like to share the spring festival here with me?\"
　　\"Really?\" she felt she must not be so senseless, \"but don\'t your parents, you sibling mind it. Anyway it\'s a festival for the whole family, you needn\'t pity me,\"
　　\"Like you, I have none of them.\"
　　\"I heard you have a grandfather.\"

　　Cynthia felt regret when the words flip out.
　　\"He lived in Los Angeles.\" he didn\'t want to say more about his grandfather.

　　Cynthia couldn\'t believe that she was wearing Lance\'s bed gown, bared feet step on the white long fur carpet, red flame in the fireplace warm her, she leaned by the side of the fire, staring at the ceiling, all the furniture and decoration in the hall were all roman style, and a elegant black piano stand by the corner.

　　All it was like a dream, lance was having shower; she dazed and waited him.
　　Lance stepped out and found Cynthia was sleeping, he taking her to her bedroom.

　　Sparing spring festival was really a intimate thought, but he persuade himself that he’s just lonely, especially in this special days, he need someone accompany with him, she’s a good partner, she’s not beautiful, but beauty is too cheap for him, if he want, he can got thousands with his money, but he had got bored of them.

　　Cynthia was different, she’s plain, soft, silence and tender. Just the one made him felt relax.

　　It was raining slightly on the spring festival, Lance played the piano in the morning, and they had a walk in the wood in the afternoon, Lance hold the yellow umbrella for her. The intimacy between them made her flushed. All those were in dream.

　　Servants was absent in the day after spring festival, Cynthia do the cooking for him, the yellow dim light was very gentle in the dinner room, soft music accompanied, they said few when having dinner, in a moment, she felt her lonely heart was filled, and warm, a slight warm she had never felt, she wished these holiday days would never end.

　　They seldom say any words in these days, but she know the meaning of anyone of his expression, just a eye sight, she could know what he want and got it for him. She like the feeling stay by his side, he’s like a king, and she’s his maid, no other wish.

　　Cynthia arrived at office very early, tidy up Lance\'s office and the big office, prepared a cup of hot coffee for Lance. With the anxious passion, she felt she had waited for him for a long time, when he appeared at the door, she was happy to jump. But when her zealous eye met his cold eye lights, her smile froze and the turn out into a polite greeting.

　　Lance just turn his back coldly, walk into his office without any additional emotion showed to her as if he could not see her there. But she was there.

　　Cynthia felt her heart was aching to death, how could he has changed attitude just in a day as could as this, she find the Lance she love so much had disappear, now the man she faced is another man, this cold man as he was described in this commercial circle. She felt so cold, but she need to pretend just nothing had happy, pretend she could not felt, cold not hear.
　　He was so grudge, not even a smile, or she doesn’t worth it?

　　She was just nothing; nothing different from the other girls around him.
　　She ought to know that Lance was not the man she had illusion in her mind, the man she dreamed was never true, how could she, how could she still have dream in him, but she could not help, her heart was aching.

　　He was just the cold man, she saw when the first time she saw him, nothing will change,

　　As days went by, the day she returned to school is nearer and nearer, the day she send her paper would be in the weekend, perhaps she could do a part-time job, but it\'s no possibility to be his secretary again, she treasure this days she spare with lance, even the way he see her like she was transparent.

　　She did all things carefully, arrange the meeting, neaten the files, and put a cup of hot coffee on his desk before he began to work. No matter how late he worked over time, she was there accompanying him and buy the snack for him, neaten the files and the office after he work off, she did her best to fulfill her duty and rarely say a word.