Chapter 28: Shoelace
"Look out!!" shouted Emma as she pulled away the man in front of her. At the same time, the big boxes from the top falling down toward them. Everyone in the garage looked at them when they heard a loud noise.
Emma who managed to grab the man sighed revealed as she saved this person on time. If she was late for a second, then this is surely hit by these big boxes.
"What happened??" asked Alex, approaching Emma and the man who Emma's saved.
"The boxes from the top have fallen down. I managed to pull him before the boxes hit him," said Emma.
Alex looked at the man.
He is Russell, a clumsy and tall man. Russell scratching his head with an awkward smile toward Alex. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't pull that one. Thank you for saving me."
Emma smiled again. "Emma, my name is Emma..."
Russell replied with a smile.
"Well then... If there is no one injured and everything is alright, you two can get back to work. We still need to move these boxes to the hall in one hour," said Alex.
"Yes, Alex!"
Alex nodded when the two hunters knew what they had to do. After that, he walked away to see the other boxes.
Emma and Russell then continued to move all the boxes onto the big trolley before another hunter took it to the other hall. These boxes contained food and clothes for the survivors from last night. They will need these to keep surviving in the Royal Organisation until they've been sent to their other family members.
Emma and Russell keep talking to each other while they move the boxes. There would be a time where a loud laugh comes from them. The other hunter didn't pay much attention to them as they have another job to do.
After all the boxes had been sent, Russell sighed relieved. His backbone was almost snapped as he kept moving the boxes without stopping. And all the boxes he carried were most of the big boxes. Of course the little boxes would be left for Emma to carry. Russell would not let Emma carry the big boxes since she was a woman and to be precise, almost like a frail woman. How could Russell be so cruel to let a woman carrying a big and heavy box while he was carrying the small one?
"I'm going to get you a drink. You sit over there first and I will bring you the water. Okay??" said Russell.
Emma shifted her gaze toward the metal chair at the corner of the garage, then Emma looked at Russell again. She smiled as she said, "Okay!"
Russell walked away with a smile when he heard Emma's words. He thinks that Emma was actually a cheerful person with a free-spirit attitude. She was friendly and it was easy to be friends with her. Besides, she likes to smile and it makes it easy for Russell to approach her.
Russell thought it was a good idea to be friends with Emma. He never saw anyone who was free-spirited like her.
On the other side, Emma was already walking to the metal chair and took a seat. She uses her right hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead. It was a good thing all the big and heavy boxes were carried by Russell. If she is going to carry all that, then she will suffer tonight with her body sore in every inch. Emma doesn't want to suffer like that.
But even so, Emma is still getting tired after carrying all the small boxes all by herself.
"I'm so tired!" whispered Emma as she closed her eyes, wanting to take a short nap.
"Here you are!"
Emma opened her eyes as she heard someone was offering her something. The first thing she saw after she opened her eyes was a bottle of water in front of her face. Emma tilted her head to look at the person who was kind enough to give her water.
Elvin only looked at Emma with a blank face as he was waiting for Emma to take the bottle.
"Thanks." Emma took the bottle and immediately opened the bottle.
Elvin takes a seat beside Emma and slowly watches the girl drinking her water. He can see that Emma was sweating too much as her shirt was wet with her overflowing sweat.
"You really work that hard. You shouldn't force yourself to work. You have to take a rest," said Elvin, shifting his gaze toward the new lorry that was sent to the garage.
"It is okay. I like to work here. I don't have anything to do anyway so it's best to waste my time here," said Emma. She put the bottle beside her and leaned over to the chair.
"In my revision, yesterday's mission was your first time, right? Did you feel it was fun??" asked Elvin.
"Fun?? Urmm.. Maybe, but I don't feel any fun in it. I'd almost get kidnapped by the vampire if Mark didn't save me. That vampire was stronger than what I think,"said Emma.
"Seems like you need to learn about fun. Killing a vampire was fun, okay. But I can understand it since this was your first time on the mission. Next time, it would be harder and you couldn't find any fun in it," said Elvin, already grinning.
"I can find the fun for myself. Anyway, what are you doing here? I didn't see you in the first place," said Emma.
"I just came in here when I saw you sitting alone here. I saw you are the only female who was working hard here."
Emma smiled a little. "Nah, I'm just doing my job here since I don't know what to do next."
"You are done here? So, how about following me to the hall where we give the survivors their food and clothes. I'm sure we can help more people there later," said Elvin.
Upon hearing Elvin's words, Emma suddenly became excited. She looked at Elvin with sparkling-like eyes. She lifted her hands toward her chest and she almost looks like a little child who gets a candy from her mother. The word excited was written all over her face.
Elvin chuckled when he saw 'the excited' Emma. "Of course."
"Then let's go!!" shouted Emma excitedly as she stood up.
Elvin looked at Emma with a gaped on his mouth. Didn't she just look tired just now? Why did she be so energetic so suddenly? Was she really that happy to be able to help other people?
Emma didn't wait any longer as she took a two step forward than Elvin. But unfortunately her luck was so bad today that she didn't realize she was already stepping onto her untie shoelaces. Without anything to get hold on, Emma fell to the front.
"Arrgghhh!!" Only a scream filled the garage hall.
Emma closed her eyes as she was ready to fall on the floor but then after two minutes, she didn't feel any pain on her body and she realised that she didn't fall straight onto the floor.
Instead, she can feel a strong and muscular hand holding her by the waist. The grip became more tightened when Emma opened her eyes slowly.
As soon as she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the brown chestnut of Elvin's eyes that was watching deeply through her eyes. It seems like he was looking straight into her heart, which made Emma out of breath for a second. Those eyes could really make her melt. Those addicting eyes!
[Good Heaven, please bless me! I'm going to die if he is going to look at me like that again!!!] Emma just blinked many times because she doesn't know what she needs to say. Besides, his face was very close to her face. If she moves any inch again, then their lips surely gonna touch.
Elvin coughed a little before he pulled Emma until she was in the standing position.
Emma also coughed to swipe away the awkward feeling.
"Are you okay? How could you fall like that when there is nothing in front of you."
Emma looked down and saw her shoelace was untied. She frowned a bit. Damn you, shoelace! You make me embarrassed myself in front of him!
>If the shoelace could talk, maybe it would say:Sorry, master. But shouldn't you be happy because you can be in this moment?<
Emma immediately kneeled down on one knee and she tied the shoelace quickly.
Elvin watched Emma as she just tied up her shoelace without looking at him anymore. When Elvin saw that Emma tied the shoelace in the wrong way, he also kneeled down in front of Emma.
Emma startled when Elvin suddenly took the shoelace from her hands. She startled for the second time when his forehead touched lightly onto her forehead. Emma could feel that her face became hot, hot like it was burnt by the sunlight.
"If you tied your shoelace like that, it will untie again. For your safety, you should tie it like this. I'm sure you will not fall again." Elvin continued to tie up the shoelace while Emma watched him there, in a completely frozen state.
After Elvin tied up the shoelace, he stood up. While Emma standing slowly like how a sloth moving and surely, she was looking somewhere else because of the embarrassing feeling.
"Thank you," said Emma, shyly.
If Becky was here, she was the very first girl who would show Emma her vomit reaction. Since when did this girl become so shy?
"Let's go. I will lead the way. You will follow me from behind."
Emma nodded at the instruction.
And then, in a minute they already vanished from the garage.
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bbeatyybrr Russell :Eih, where is Emma? Didn't I tell her to wait here? Did she go to the toilet?*Holding two bottle of mineral water.*
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