What are you talking about? Cleo said, acting as if he was oblivious and started walking faster ahead.
It wasn't difficult for Luke to catch up to him since he had long legs. "You can't hide it, Cleo. I know you do like her. You never know that you might have a chance."
Cleo stopped abruptly after Luke said this. "You know you may be right." He started thinking back to when Ashley had given him the cloth and told him he was handsome in the suit. It gave him a weird feeling inside his stomach. It was both a weird and warm feeling.
"You know, she said I was handsome." Cleo said aloud.
"Eh?" Luke looked back at his friend.
"She said I was handsome after I wore that suit Harvey gave me." Cleo explained and continued walking ahead, this time slower with a slight smile upon his face.
Cleo looked a bit flabbergasted at this but walked along with his friend. "Man, you sound like you're getting big-headed."
"I just can't forget what she did. I simply can't." Azumi declared when she, calex, and lucas where in her limo. She sat in the back seat while calex and lucas sat on the side seats, playing chess. She was referring to Ashley's overly friendly relationship with cleo.
"Oh, just forget it, Azumi." Lucas commented after hearing her say this many times throughout the night. "Forgive and forget. It's simple. Don't be like my father who doesn't forgive or forget anybody who does shit to him, no matter how small."
"Yeah, and the poor fools all end up dead." Calex added. "Hah, checkmate!" He pumped a fist up in triumph earning a menacing look from lucas.
Azumi looked out the window and scrunched her face in annoyance at lucas's comment. "Humph, I won't until Ashley apologizes to me first."
Lucas shook his head in defeat, not bothering further to change Azumi's stubborn mind.
"You know, it's kind of lonely without Ashley here. I'm so used to all of us being together." Calex commented after a bout of silence in the vehicle. Usually there would be no bouts of silence when Ashley was present.
"It doesn't make a difference if she's here or not." Azumi retorted loudly. "She can go about as she pleases and I'll do the same without her, thank you very much."
Calex rolled his eyes at her comment. Looking out the window he spotted a familiar carrot top in the distance. "Hey, look there. It's Cleo." He pointed out.
"Maybe you should stop the car and go get him, Azumi." Lucas teased.
Azumi caught sight of Cleo walking by himself. She decided to ignore his appearance and turned to look out the other window. "Don't be stupid. I wouldn't stop for him."
During this time, Ashley was not present with the B4 because she decided to visit Harvey at his mansion instead. She had a great urge to catch up with him about topics she could not speak about earlier. They sat outside under the awning in his brightly lit outdoor patio area.
"You know, you haven't spoken to Azumi since Friday night. I think it's a good time for you both to make up and forget what happened." Harvey brought up the incident at the party. He felt it needed to be addressed sooner than later.
"I can't forgive her for what she did." Ashley answered instantly. "For the first time in my life, I really felt so angry at her when she spoke to you like that. You're her senpai and yet she was so rude to you."
"Well, you didn't seem too happy either when Cleo kissed Azumi." Harvey mentioned.
Ashley looked down at her cup of tea and started stirring the spoon, swirling the liquid inside. He saw her hesitation. "You… like Cleo a bit, do you? It's kind of funny seeing you and Azumi like this because of him. And it just so happens you're both too stubborn to look each other in the eye and admit this."
She lowered her head so that Harvey could not see her eyes. He thought he said something wrong and quickly asked her what was the matter. "What did I say?"
"I'm surprised at you, harvey." She said quietly. Raising a hand to shield her eyes so that he wouldn't see the tears glistening in them, she continued. "I know you're smart enough to figure out what my true feelings are but… you still insist that I try to pursue someone else. Someone who I don't feel as strongly for…"
"Ash-Ashley's…" Harvey was surprised at seeing her like this. He felt the pit of his stomach sink when she started sniffling. At the same time, he heard the sound of thunder cracking and spotted rain starting to fall. Getting up from his chair, he went over to her and tried to get her to go inside for cover. She refused by swiping him away.
"No!" Standing up from her chair, she faced him with the tears now flowing freely from her eyes. "I don't get you!" She yelled at him. She grabbed her purse and went out in the rain without a coat, not caring if she would get wet.
Now fully worried, Harvey only had time to grab his coat from the back of his chair and take it with him to cover her when he caught up. "Ashley, wait!" He ran after her in the rain which was now coming down harder than ever.
"Ah, hell. It's raining. I hate the rain!" Cleo cursed to himself as he had a few blocks left until he would reach his home. He and Luke had already separated ways when Luke took another route to go home. Cleo wished that he had listened to his father earlier who threw an umbrella at him saying it would rain that day. Cleo threw it back to him and yelled at him for throwing things in the house.