Trouble Honey
Refusal

“I have some students who are close to me, I think I will introduce you to him next time. There's Dean, he's a friend of this girl. The type of young man who is always spirited in any condition, and another Bestian he is also his close friend.” Joan quickly gave a very convincing answer to Maria. Instead of answering the suspicions that Maria blatantly spoke of just a moment ago.

“Oh, ah, Dean? You mean that one? the blonde bratty right?”

Jiyya's eyebrows are contorted to hear that the woman knows her childhood best friend. “He has a much better understanding than that.” Jiyya muttered, answering the sexy woman in a tense tone of voice. It feels strange to hear Dean know someone Jiyya doesn't know. Moreover, this foreign woman seems to have a close relationship with Sir Joan.

Fortunately Jiyya's words were not realized by Mary, although Joan could hear them. Mary instead continued her discussion of the two names mentioned by Joan. “And Bestian was if not wrong that handsome young man right? the student you said went abroad? Unfortunately his association was not true and he joined the defectors—”

“Maybe you better not talk about things you don't know in detail. Your assumption is not all true,” cut Jiyya with a voice that is so crisp and firm. There was almost no emotion he let out along with his counter-comment to Maria's opinion. But Joan clearly understood the situation, this clever girl was trying to defend Bestian. The young man he loved though clapped one hand.

As for Jiyya, these were just the words she used to say to the people who always said bad things about Bestian. So that the girl can easily adapt and unconsciously often use it to be a defense argument for Bestian. Jiyya had always been unable to accept hearing others ridicule Bestian when that person had not even known her well. He couldn't accept it, strange indeed. The man himself never cared a bit about her. But why did Jiyya have to come up like this to defend him?

When Joan could see the action shown by her students. He felt a little annoyed by this situation, even though he could not do anything. After all, Jiyya's heart since the beginning was still tethered to the young man. So it's only natural that Jiyya suddenly becomes very emotional when someone makes a bad comment to the man she likes.

“I think it's time I go.” Once again Jiyya spoke up. The girl nodded her head while giving a gesture of respect to Maria “I'm sorry.”

Joan watched the girl walk away from her, her heart suddenly tearing apart again. Maria also looked at the direction of the girl's departure and then she went back to Joan, but unfortunately the man's facial expression was a little beyond her expectations. Isn't that view like the view is not willing to let go? Did Joan have more than just a lecturer and student relationship with the girl? Maria's eyebrows lifted.

“Yah...” muttered the woman pretending not to understand the situation. She hoped Joan would invite her to enter her apartment and they would spend a hot night by chance Maria had just returned home from the set. “Now we live together. How about we go to your apartment and talk a lot? There's so much I want to tell you,” Maria continued.

Joan closed her eyes for a while, and the man looked like he was holding back the annoyance that Mary had never seen before. Even as the man opened his eyes again and looked at Maria, she felt that something was wrong between her and the girl.

“Joan?” call Mary again. Indeed, he was very upset when he realized that the man he craved for did not give him more attention. Especially since he realized that the direction of the man's eyes was directed at his own students.

“Ya?” he replied in a tone that was more like being lazy to listen.

“How? we can go to your apartment, right? I've missed you so much you know," demanded Maria again.

Joan only sighed before she shook her head firmly. “No Maria,” reply is short but firm. “No to today, I'm too tired for that. Moreover the idea of two with you in my apartment is not a good idea.” This time even Joan used a very striking phrase of rejection.

Maria's eyebrows contorted deep. He could not accept the fact that Joan had rejected him in such a rude manner. “Didn't you say the wrong thing? why are you suddenly like this Joan?”

But the man chose not to give an answer. For him pretending to be good in front of Maria was the most exhausting thing. For now it seemed like he had to learn to behave naturally like before. He would also discuss the subject of Mary with his parents. So they stopped to poke Joan with this troublesome woman.

The reason why Joan was kind was because Mary had power, and her parents forced her to give her the attention and everything she wanted. But the longer, Joan felt it was all really sickening for her to live.

“See you Maria.” Rather than continuing to exchange words and argue Joan would rather resign from the woman's presence as soon as possible.

This time Joan had something more important to take care of. Something he really wanted on the basis of his own volition and not the coercion of others. Something he really wanted to get for his efforts. Everything about it made his originally lonely life more meaningful and lively. He did not expect that the sense of attraction he had could change his life this significantly.

“Joan! I warned you. If you treat me like this you'll regret it!” Behind there Mary's voice shrieked, but Joan was not willing to take a headache. She was tired of being the woman's puppet. He was already lazy to respond to the cheap drama that the woman always brought to bed. Assume that Joan loves him and things like that. It makes the man disgusted.

“Just do what you like. I don't want to care anymore,” whispered Joan inwardly, while her steps attempted to reach out to Jiyya who had just run away from her.