#svtshortimagines #junhao (#40)
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I was walking on the way to the kitchen. Everything seems good, since I did my best not to bump with him around this Mansion of his. But I guess, in the end of the day, I still met him.

"Oh! Fancy meeting you here! Finally, I saw you," he said while waving his right hand.

He is only wearing a plain shirt and black pants. His hair doesn't have any gel on it, probably, he stayed all day at home. Tsss, he used to go home until midnight after going bars, club and hotels. What's with him right now?

Whatever. I don't want to have further business with someone low like him.

"Master Junhui," I greeted him in polite tone. I still need to respect him as part of my duty being their household's maid. "Young master, do you need something? This slave will grant your errand."

My eyes lifted up, checking his reaction while my head is down. His eyes went round, his lips let out smirks and his left hand held his chin. And then, it took some seconds before I heard him laugh.

"Hahahaha, why are you acting like this? Although I am literally your master, Isn't it weird if you talk to me in polite way? I mean, I believe we fond to get close enough to call us as 'Friends'?"

Friends?

Great. A master calling his maid a 'Friend'.

Besides that, after taking my first kiss, he had the guts to call me friends? Tsss, ridiculous guy.

He played with my heart, he saw me as his toy, he kiss me whenever he likes to and now he is acting as we are friends. In this case, I should thank master Minghao. Why? Because before I let myself drag into this man, I finally knew his purpose for approaching a mere maid like me.

It was all because of that bet he made for himself, to make fun of Minghao's mom and to avenge his own pathetic life as a man who didn't gets love from the people surrounds him.

And here he is, using me as his bait.

I lifted my eyes and looked at his eyes with some fierce of determination: an eyes I mirrored to him for the first time.

"Do you need anything Master? If you don't, please excuse me. I need to finish my work in the kitchen. Have a nice evening."

There are only about five steps I should take to pass him. However, in my own view, it seems like I need to run in kilometers just to walk away from him. My first three steps felt heavy, as if I am carrying a ten wheeler truck on my back.

I need to endure this.

Please, just two more steps and I am done.

"Hey you!"

Well, I don't think I could.

He grabbed my wrist, pulled me, world was revolving until when it bacame stable, I saw his face right in front of me. So he managed to stop me from fleeing.

Ugh, why does my heart beating so hard?!

I think, because I am scared? No! Because I hate him! I hate him in a whole! Everything about him is disgusting!

"You are avoiding me, right?" he said, and I heard a few heavy breathing between those five words he let out.

Again, I lifted my sight to his eyes.

This man, surely, he let me saw different faces using his eyes. I saw his lustful eyes before, his sadness, his tears, his sympathy, and now, his angry eyes that shoot me right into the place I am standing. It feels like I am sinking in a hole.

Snap out of it! I must stand strong. I must!

"Master, can I have a favor?" I muttered.

He still didn't let go of my hand. But his grip loosen and the corners of his lips slightly went up.

"Yes, anything. If you want to have a chat inside my room and enjoy the night with me or even spend it together until morning, I will do it," he replied, grinning  right in front of my face.

"Can I talk to you right now? Not as maid to master, but as human to human?"

"H-Ha? W-What do you mean?"

"Just say yes."

"O----kay. Then what?"

I gather my strength and brought my chest up and down. And then...

"You sh*t. Do you think playing with people feelings sounds fun? Jerk, freak, evil, low, unlovable, no words can express how damn you are Junhui."

His eyes widen, his lips crooked as he is supposedly frustrated. "W-What did you say again?"

I yanked his hand away from my wrist and stared at him, like a human who didn't matter if she encounters a beast who can attacks her anytime.

"You approached me to play and to tease master Minghao and his mother."

"D-Did my brother, Minghao, told you that? Huh."

He tilted his head and held his forehead. Junhui didn't deny it. It means, I heard it right. And that fact, hit me inside. A very hard one.

"You are pathetic. The way you act and you talk, are so childish. That were the reasons why people don't waste their time to care nor love you. Because, a trash, can't make itself lovable."

"Stop it," he mumbled. When I looked down I saw his hands clenching into a fists.

"So, please, don't act like I am so special. You are just using me to filled the hole your mother must give to you. Don't make me sympathize you anymore because I--"

"I said shut up!" he screamed.

My hand feels numb. My feet almost stumbled on the ground. And my heart skipped a beat.

He pulled me closer, with his hand clutching over mine. When I lifted my head, I saw his face, about an inch away.

He is biting his lower lip, and if I am right, I saw it bleed!

His hand is shaking, and his eyes are unstable.

"I don't need your sympathy!" he yelled. "I just---!"

Two warm things beside my waist pulled me behind my back.

I even heard the swoosh sounds on the air as I was grabbed backward, away from Junhui's grip.

I was get pulled from his hand and from his.

When I almost think clearly, that someone get me from my back, I felt something above my shoulder.

"Stay away from her," a voice I heard near on my own ear.

There is a man who pulled me, back hugged me, and even put his chin above my shoulder. And after seconds, I realized who he is. It was...

"What are you doing Minghao?" Junhui asked, looking at us.

M-Minghao. Does it mean, he is hugging me right now?!

I looked down and saw his arms around my waist. Now! I am getting goosebumps all over my body! I can't breathe! What should I do?!

"I am getting her away from you," Minghao said. His breath, I feel it brushing on my skin, making me shivers.

"Huh," Junhui smirked. "Do you mean, running her an errand?"

"No. I am doing this as her friend."

Friend. Minghao called me, his own friend.

"Friend?" Junhui chuckled. "A friend giving her a back hug?"

"Then I will change the term. I am doing this to protect the girl... I think I like."

My eyes widen.

'I think I like'

'I think I like'

'I think I like'

It keeps on repeating inside my head.

"What? D-Do you like her? A maid?!" Junhui stuttered.

My mind is blank. I can't think right now. Wait, wait. I-- I don't know!

"I think so," Minghao replied. "I always watched her. I think of her before I sleep. I don't want her to get played by you. I like how warm she is. And most importantly, I want to protect her. I think, that made me come in a conclusion that I like her."

My knees weakened, same as my arms are.

"Then!" Junhui shouted. "It is not about liking her or what. We are still her masters. And also, I need to talk to her more, right now. So stop this bullsh*t and give her to me."

I woke up from my unstable mind and looked at him. Still, at the end, Master Junhui consider me as a plaything?

"No way," Master Minghao declined. "Let her choose." Master Minghao pulled his hug away from me. And then he asked, "Choose now. Me or Junhui? Who do you want to serve?"

I looked at Minghao, then at Junhui.

I clenched my fists, before I answered, "Master Minghao, take me away from here."

Minghao smiled at me and took a glanced at Junhui.

I didn't know what kind of reaction Junhui has since i didn't bulge to look back,  and also, what kind of life will happen to me after choosing which master I want to serve.

But for now, I want to disappear.

Minghao held my hand and said, "Let's go."

Then, he pulled me away.

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