Anoush's POV
For countless moments I stared at her again who was now greeting Gizle Smith and ushered inside.
The musicians started playing their instruments, a sign that Gizle had entered. But I was not interested in her, but only with Amelie.
When Amelie faces me, she immediately turned away and left her post.
Confessing to someone is not that hard, but being afraid to lose that person after the confession is...
And what I feared had happened.
"Mr. Harper? Are you all right?" I sighed and turned to face Gizle.
"I'm sorry, what were you saying again?"
"I greeted you, but you seemed busy with somethi--with someone else." My brows furrowed.
"I'm sorry, anyway shall we sit?" I asked to change the subject, I assister her in her seat.
"Again, I'm Gizle Smith, nice to meet you." I nodded and shook her hand.  "Anoush Harper, nice to meet you too." I introduced.
"Shall we eat?" she nodded and started eating, I followed too.
I searched for Amelie's whereabouts and saw that she is now talking to her co-worker.
I just resumed eating. "So, how's your life?" I looked at Gizle.
"Good."
"Good? Why not great?" she asked and I stopped.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I'm just asking you why it's not great. You're too mesmerized by her so you're floating around with just my simple question." My forehead furrowed even more.
"The way you stared at her, I knew there was something."
"What are you sayi--"
"It's fine with me." she cut me off. "Really..." she said in assurance. I was silent and didn't know what to say and think.
"My older sister just forced me to date you, and it's also embarrassing to refuse the president's son so I agreed for us to date," she said smiling and I remain silent.
"Even if I say I'm single, I still don't have the right to date anyone else, especially you." she grinned.
"I'm in love with someone else," I was surprised at what she said. "Yes, but we're not ready yet so...you know, we're still single until now."
"But, why did you date me if you're not ready yet? And what about the one you love?" I'm happy that she's not angry even though she already knows that I love someone else. She's not a hindrance, but her situation is also troubling.
"You're got hypnotized! Didn't I say that my sister just forced me and I'm also ashamed to refuse?" she said laughing, I winced because of stupidity.
"Sorry,"
"It's okay, that happens when you are in love, anyway." I looked at her again and smiled.
"I guess, you're right." she laughed softly at what I said.
"I explained everything to Danreb and he's okay with it. It's just a friendly date anyway." I just nodded "My sister doesn't like Danreb, so our love story is really a  bit complicated." got sad and just sighed.
"I'm sure your sister will also accept him as long as he exerts his efforts. Maybe your sister is looking at what is more worthy for you." I just said.
"Hmmm...maybe." she sighed.  We resumed eating, but before I could swallow again she stopped eating and looked at me.
"How about you? You're the president's son, but you can't fight for the person you love?" I frowned.
"You're mesmerized too! I'm just the president's son, not the president, so don't think I'm powerful." she laughed.
"Okay, fine! Fine! You are not powerful!" We both laughed.
"I can fight for her," I said calmly. "But how will it work if I'm the only one who's fighting for us? What's another reason to fight if she gives up at first?"
"Have you two got together?" she asked and I just shook my head.
"She sees and thinks herself too low. That it's wrong because I'm the president's son, I'm the boss, while she's just my matchmaker."
"I don't want her to think like that because no matter how far away we are, we still did meet. I don't underestimate her or her work, actually I'm even impressed with her dedication to her work." I sighed.
"She's scared. She's scared of a lot of things, just like she thinks you're too good for her and she's too bad for you because she's just a person. She can't afford to be hurt now so she doesn't want to try."
"That's why I don't want to let everyone know that I'm the president's son because everyone thinks of me as powerful. I don't want Amelie to think of me that way, I'm afraid that she will be gone just because of being a damn son of a president."
"Do you think she loves me? She's just really scared?" I hopefully said.
"Of course she loves you! You're the one who said she's really scared. She didn't reject you, didn't she?"
"You slow-witted! She already rejected me! She doesn't want to be with me because she's scared, that's rejection!" she then hit me.
"Hey! I mean she never said she didn't love you! She didn't reject your feelings!" I smiled at that fact.
"What are your plans now?" she said excitedly. I just shrugged my shoulders and she got annoyed so I laughed.
"What? You're crazy, I thought, after you find out that she loves you too, you'll fight for her now!" she shouted.
"I don't want to force her. I know she's having a hard time right now because of me and I don't want that."
"When I take action or try to insert about us, she just avoids me, she always pushes me to you," I added.
"Aww...just understand. I suggest that don't be importunate first, I feel when you do that she will have realizations later on. Because if you're far away, she can think properly because there's nothing bugging in her mind."I just sighed.
"You're only going to be away for a few days. Maybe after our second date?"
"Do we have a second date?" I asked in surprise and she immediately hit me.
"You're crazy! Aren't we friends now that we're already spilling some secrets? Of course, we have a second date, friendly date!"
"So you're saying that after we shared secrets, you immediately considered me as a friend? I didn't even know why I shared my secrets to you and have a conversation like this." I teased.
"Because you trust me, this kind of face is a trustworthy one. So we're friends if you don't want to or if you want to." I just sighed in annoyance.
"Fine, I'm just warning you that it's hard to be friends with me, I want you to know that I only have two friends and then you add yourself, so three."
"Wow, your life is so ugly, you're unfortunate in love, and you only have three friends," she said sarcastically.
"Let's eat quickly, I want to go home. I'm irritated by your stupidity there, you're just wasting my useless time." I said.
"Wow? K fine, you're useless to talk with so let's just hurry."
We finished the meal and danced.  While dancing I was looking around in Amelie's direction but she also left a few minutes ago.
"Don't even look, you see she's gone now. I'm sure that she just wants to get some fresh air and maybe come back later." I sighed at what Gizle said.
"I just can't help it. I'll try my best next time not to look at her too much." I said. We just finished the dance and decided to go home.
"So what now? Do I even need to drive you home?"
"No, I have a driver so I'll go home first." I nodded and she left.
I was left alone here so I looked for the staff and they immediately came to settle anything.
"Ahmm...do you need anything else, Sir? You can go home first, don't worry we'll take care of the rest."
"Nothing, I just want to stay here for a while." The staff who had just talked to Amelie before nodded.
I just kept quiet while waiting for her to enter. I stood up immediately when Amelie came in and immediately approached her.
But I stopped when she just passed me as if she didn't see me. So I immediately grabbed her and pulled her gently to stop her from walking.
"Oh, you're still here, Mr. Harper?" she asked in shock and turned to face me.  "Go home and rest, we'll take care of it," she said smiling, my forehead creased.
"Let's talk," I said and she was stunned but also smiled immediately.
"Rest, I'm sure you're tired tonight." Then she bent down and was about to leave when I pulled her again.
"Babe, please..." I whispered in her ear and she stopped.