You Are The Apple of My Eyes

Chapter 682 Seniority

When Leon walked into Michelle's room, he felt comfortable and cool.

"Leon, please sit down for a while. I'll just go to the balcony and make a phone call." Before Michelle had the chance to go out to the balcony, Leon reached out his hand and stopped her.

"Wait! It's hot on the balcony. Why not call here in the room instead?"

"No, it's not. It's windy outside," Michelle insisted. He could no longer think of anything to say to keep her from going outside. With a resigned sigh, he said, "Okay."

However, when he caught a glimpse of her bare feet, he couldn't help but stop her. "Wait, put on your shoes."

Michelle looked down and saw that she wasn't wearing any shoes. She flashed a sheepish smile and looked for her shoes.

She only found one of her slippers. "Where's the other one? Why can't I find it? I remember seeing it at..."

She racked her memory for a long time, trying to figure out where she last saw it but failed.

Leon lowered his head and placed his palm on his forehead. As he did this, something under the bed caught his eye. He crouched on the floor to have a closer look, and there he saw a slipper with a cartoon image of a rabbit on it.

"Found it." He reached out to grab the slipper and walked to Michelle. Then, he proceeded to go down in one knee. "Lift your foot."

Michelle's face became flustered, her heart pounding violently against her chest. Leon's gesture shocked her so much that she became stiff.

'I saw this in TV series.

This is something that only couples do!

Why is Leon doing this?'

She pursed her lips and held her breath.

"What's wrong?" Leon looked up and saw Michelle staring blankly into space as though she was daydreaming. He called out her name again.

"What?" Michelle snapped out of her dazed state. "Lift your foot," Leon repeated.

After a slight pause, she clumsily lifted her foot.

Leon reached out his hand and held her ankle, which, upon closer look, was fair and bony. Michelle watched as she felt the warmth of Leon's palm transmit to her skin. Her heart skipped a beat, and blood started to rush to her face.

She covered her mouth hurriedly and almost yanked her foot out of Leon's hand.

"Don't move, Michelle." Leon gripped her ankle tighter to keep it still. "When Nini was a child, she preferred walking barefoot instead of wearing shoes, even when walking on the beach. Every time, I had to help her put on her shoes. There's a lot of things you can learn from her, but not wearing shoes shouldn't be one of them."

He slid her shoe to her foot.

Compared to Leon's wide palm, Michelle's foot was akin to a child's. He looked at her toes and thought they were quite cute.

Upon hearing Leon's story, Michele felt disappointed.

She realized that it wasn't only couples who helped each other with their shoes, so did siblings.

She knew that he treated her as his sister.

'A sister's better than nothing, ' she thought.

When the realization dawn upon her, her heartbeat began to stabilize, and her body started to feel less stiff.

"Done!" Leon stood up. "In the future, remember to wear your shoes. If you keep walking barefoot, you might step on broken glass or something and hurt your feet."

Michelle asked, "But don't you think it's comfortable to walk barefoot? Don't you know Mr. Barefoot?" This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.

Leon chuckled. "Mr. Barefoot is a man and a god. Even if he walked barefoot, he wouldn't get hurt. You, on the other hand, would cry if you stepped on broken glass."

Michelle stuck out her tongue playfully. "Then I'm Miss Barefoot!"

"I can't argue with that, Miss Barefoot." Leon flicked her forehead with more force this time so that she would learn her lesson. "Just remember to not walk barefoot again, okay?"

Michelle pursed her lips. "Okay. I won't walk barefoot anymore in the future. But Leon, I really have to make this phone call."

"Okay." Michelle went outside to the balcony and closed the door before calling someone.

He looked around the room and noticed that the decorations here had a style similar to Nina's room. At first, he thought it would have the same style as the living room, with lots of rabbit ornaments.

However, when Leon looked carefully, he saw that only the pillow on the bed had a rabbit design sewed onto it.

Above the headboard, there was a picture frame nailed to the wall. It contained a photograph of Michelle and Nina, standing on the side of the road with sunlight casting down on both their faces. In the background, there was an ice cream cart.

Nina wore a black dress, which flowed down to her thighs. Her legs were long and thin, while her black hair fluttered against the wind. Even though her face looked hard and cold, a faint smile still managed to linger on her lips.

On the other hand, Michelle was wearing a white T-shirt and dark blue denim pants that exposed her legs. Compared to Nina's, her legs were short.

Despite that, the smile on her face was so alluring that it was hard to look away from it.

Their styles seemed to contrast each other and yet still looked complementary.

There were also solo and group pictures on the wall. Leon knew they were friends of Michelle and had met them all in the past

In one photo, Nina was smiling, which made her stand out among the other handsome men and women.

Leon took photos of these pictures.

"Leon, do you like these photos?" Michelle asked behind him, just finishing her phone call. "You don't have to take pictures of them. I have the originals right here. I developed these photo in the studio after Nini left."

"Okay, send me the original photos, especially this one,"

Leon said. He didn't delete the photos he took. He pointed at the photo above the headboard.

This picture felt particularly special for him since he thought this photo contained Michelle's most beautiful smile.

"Okay." Michelle sat on the edge of the bed and scrolled through her phone's photo album. One by one, she sent the photos to Leon. "By the way, Leon, Debra has sent someone to repair the air conditioners for us. But it may take a while since her house is a bit far."

"That's fine." Leon saved the pictures on his phone and set his favorite photo as his wallpaper. Looking at it, a small smile formed on his face.

"This is Nini's room, so is the next one yours? The one I slept in?" Leon asked.

"No." Michelle shook her head. "Nini and I had been sleeping in the same room all the time. However, after she and Uncle John had a fight, he moved in here to woo her back. He was so bossy he made me sleep in the next room."

"Uncle John?" Leon raised his eyebrows. "I don't recall you calling him Uncle John, just John."

"That's because I was angry!" Michelle pressed her lips together and sighed. "My cousin married James, so I should call John Uncle since he is James' uncle. But Nini said I could call him just by his name since I'm her friend and John is her husband.

This way, James would have to call me Aunt."

She smiled.

It seemed that the idea of raising her seniority made her really happy.

Even the smallest things could make her smile.

Michelle's smile was so infectious that it also made Leon smile. "Do you want others to call you Aunt?"

"Of course!" Michelle nodded. "But I don't know how."

"Why not? You can marry someone with a high seniority." Leon looked at her with mischievous eyes. "For example—"

"No way!" Michelle jumped out of her bed and stared at him with dagger eyes.

'How could Leon let me marry an old man?

I don't want to marry someone as old as my grandpa."

Even if she wanted to raise her seniority, she didn't want to be a grandma.

Leon had gone too far.

Michelle's sudden reaction puzzled Leon. 'Why didn't she let me finish?

Why can't she marry me?

If she marries me, she'll raise her seniority.'