Me After Meeting You

“You’ll face retribution!” Billy said discontentedly.

And retribution came quickly indeed. In the form of Silvia and the others running over. They had been playing a game, and Silvia was trying to escape from her punishment.

She had been chased into a tight spot by the others, and her eyes gleamed when she spotted the three of them. She quickly ran over and grabbed Amber. “Amber, help me! They’re bullying me!”

“You’re shameless! You lost a gamble and now you’re trying to act dumb! Amber, you can’t help her!”

The crowd swarmed around the two women. Before they got close, however, Ian let go of Amber and coldly retreated a few steps. The others didn’t notice his abrupt behavior in their revelry. The pitiful Amber was swallowed up by the crowd of people, their dragging and pulling only intensified her dizziness.

She felt like she was in a spaceship soaring through the sky, the g-forces sending her stomach turning and tossing as a resplendent starry landscape appeared in front of her eyes. She waved her hand around helplessly. “I’m about to vomit.”

No one heard her, and she started dry heaving. Silvia noticed Amber’s plight at this moment; but she was trying to escape her own plight, so Silvia immediately yelled out, “Amber’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!”

Amber was stunned speechless.

She was dazed and dizzy, but her mind was still clear. When she heard Silvia’s slander, she tried to punch Silvia, but ended up hitting her shoulder in a drunken haze instead.

But Silvia was committed to her lie. She turned pale with fright and exclaimed, “There’s a baby! Don’t make any big motions!”

By the time she said this, everyone had stopped moving, so her statement seemed particularly loud against the silence.

Billy tried to confirm that he hadn’t heard wrongly by turning to Ian. “You’re a father now?”

Actually, he really wanted to ask if the baby was Ian’s, because he knew that Amber had been with Calvin before this.

And when he considered the timing of things, it seemed to work out very well! But he was afraid of receiving a beating, so he had phrased his question neutrally.

Ian ignored him-he didn’t need to respond because Amber vomited, and as she vomited she also listlessly scolded, “Silvia, you’re a pig!”

After Amber finished vomiting, she finally passed out even as she thought about how ‘impressed’ she was with her own alcohol tolerance.

When she regained consciousness again, her ears were filled with buzzing chitter-chatter, as if she were in the middle of a flock of ducks.

“You’re awake.” Silvia’s huge face appeared in front of hers, as if magnified.

Amber had a big headache now, and she stretched out one hand to cover her eyes. “Where am I?”

She felt the other side of the bed sink down, and then Trysta’s voice rang out. “My home, of course! Are you still drunk? You really sleep soundly after drinking.”Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.

Only then did Amber put down her hand and look at her. “What time is it?”

“Eleven.”

“At night?”

Silvia looked at her superciliously. “At night?! Even if you sleep soundly, do you really think that you could’ve slept that long? Why not just sleep till the end of time at that point?”

Trysta smiled and calmly replied, “But then what would happen to Mr. Axton? He’d lose his fiancee that way.”

Amber froze for a moment as she recalled what had happened last night in the garden, and also Ian’s unusual heartbeat.

Even while drunk, she could tell that he did indeed have an intense emotional response.

‘But why? Was it because he had been provoked by Calvin, so much so that his emotions had finally emerged from the deep?’

After Trysta’s mention of Ian, Amber started pondering last night’s events very seriously. Before her thoughts could get very far, however, even more people came up to her to talk about Ian.

One said, “Amber, where did you find such a boyfriend? He’s so adorable!”

Another asked, “Ah, are you really pregnant? It’s true, isn’t it? If your child looks like the father, then please arrange a marriage between your baby and mine!”

Amber was shellshocked!

She remembered the mess that had taken place before she vomited, and she looked tenderly at Silvia as she gently asked, “Silvia, I’m pregnant?”

Silvia’s heart trembled as she wiped away the non-existent sweat on her forehead. “I was joking!” She grabbed Amber’s wrists and coyly replied back, “I know that you were just drunk. I’m sorry, will you forgive this baby?”

Then she mimicked a baby’s face, making everyone laugh. “Amber, I feel like you’ve been corrupted by your fiance. Look at that tone you used with me-it’s frightening.”

Amber immediately clarified, “He’s not my fiance … what could I learn from him?”

Another classmate interrupted. “That’s right, how is Dr. Camille’s Mr. Axton scary? He’s as suave as anyone else, alright?”

Then she looked at Amber briefly before saying, “When he was playing games, he never lost. So, everyone heckled him, and do you know his response?”

She coughed once, and then imitated Ian’s tone and his cool expression as she said, “It’s fine if I lose, but my punishment has to be for me to kiss Amber, or for her to kiss me.”

“….”

Besides her pitch, that female classmate had really imitated him to perfection. Her impersonation instantly caused a hubbub to break out as everyone fell off the bed, laughing.

Amber started sweating when she heard this story about Ian Axton-after all, she knew Ian best out of everyone there. He was totally lacking in shame, and to him, kissing was a minor thing. At least he had exercised some restraint and not said something even more shocking.

To top it all off, Ian had never been penalized; his intelligence was one thing, but Amber’s male classmates were also very protective of their female cohorts. How could they allow a mysterious “fiance” who had sprung out of nowhere take advantage of one of their class’s idols?

Yes, Amber felt that her male classmates were very adorable!

Amber was satisfied with their behavior in her heart, but after satisfaction came exasperation: in a single night, she had not only become “pregnant” out of nowhere, but also found a fiance. Her decision to invite Ian to this sort of gathering as her plus one had clearly been a mistake.

But what could she do now? She couldn’t explain the situation away, so she could only let it be.

And she had still succeeded in her goal.