Chapter 209: Reunion

"Why didn’t you come for me?"

She hit his chest.

"How long did it take you?"

"..."

"C’mon, answer me."

Elias couldn’t really give her an answer. He also had never been this speechless in a while. He just held her, feeling the body heat he had once begun to forget how it felt like.

"Yvonne." His voice was louder this time, like he was logging back into reality. Into the present.

"It’s me!" She pulled back.

He cowered down to her height, raised his hand and touched her forehead. The spotless spot that was supposed to have a scar. Anything to show that what happened had been real. Nothing.

She giggled, wiping tears from her eyes.

"But you got shot here." He poked her forehead.

"I know. Must have missed a vital spot." She laughed. "It was gone when I woke up. Nothing. Like a bad dream."

She hugged him again, this time, her hand around his neck. He straightened up and her legs left the ground.

"This is bullying, Yunno. You don’t have to make the height differences that obvious."

She jumped down and took a step back, then she raised her leg to his face.

The onlookers gasped, but at this point, they were just background irrelevant noise.

"See? The ring you made in the desert. I still have it!" The ring shorn and expanded, covering her shoe.

"Oh..." He touched it.

"And back again." The show returned back to being a ring in her ankle.

She dropped her leg, expecting him to say something, but he seemed more dumbfounded than she had expected.

She titled her head. "You’re not still thinking I am a ghost right?"

"Oh...no." he answered. "If you’re a ghost, then that one would also be one." He pointed behind.

She looked at his back, at who he gestured too.

"Elias won the height competition among the three of us." He shrugged.

Her mouth dropped. "Quil?"

"Yvonne." He chuckled.

A smile stretched across her lip. She dashed past Elias, towards him and crashed into his arms that he almost fell. Her hug almost suffocated him.

He hit her hand as his face turned blue. "I’m dying."

"Oh my god! Didn’t you get splitted in half?!"

"That’s a terrible thing to say."

"But you did!"

"Shut up!"

Coco, who was watching the scene, slowly frowned. She didn’t know when she took a step forward, until Fayera cut her hand.

"She’s not taking him away from you. There is a difference in how she embraced Elias and how she’s embracing him."

"That’s not..." She glanced at Fayera, then her face slowly turned red. "I’m not interested in him!"

"Is that speech given to convince me or you?" Fayera asked.

"..."

Meanwhile Quil was getting choked to death.

"Elias help me..."

She pulled Quil by the wrist over to where Elias was standing, then she threw her hand around their shoulders and hugged them both.

"I never thought I’d see you both again."

She broke into tears again.

"I thought...I was alone. I missed..."

"Yvonne." Another voice called. She raised her head.

It was the prime minister, her father. He was in a state of shock, seeing her smiling for the first time since she was smaller.

"Oh father," she broke away from the boy’s embrace, rushed to him and hugged the fat man.

"You’re yourself again." He shed tears of joy.

She hugged him tighter.

Meanwhile Elias was staring at the man with a narrowed gaze. "I think I have seen him before."

"Since when did you start recognising people?" Quil asked.

After the father and daughter had broken apart, the prime minister shuffled closer and took Elias’s hands in his.

"Young master. We met again."

"Uh. I guess you were right." Quil muttered.

"Father," Yvonne moved closer, peeping between both of them. "You know him?"

"Yes, he came to the Torzi empire with the last sound league master, may heavens bless his soul." He smiled. "How have you been?"

Elias finally remembered. "The fat man during that breakfast?"

"Yes! The breakfast that was ruined."

"What breakfast?" Quil asked.

"When I went to your house."

"My house—Right! My house." He turned around. "I’ll be back!"

They watched him dash off, before the prime minister narrowed his eyes. "Is that the first son of the Dashad household?"

"Yep." Yvonne grinned.

"He was alive?"

"Apparently."

She took Elias’ hands from her father and began to lead him away.

"I have got to show you around. The competition will not begin for another hour or two."

As they walked away, they walked past the students where Yvonne casted them a smile.

They had expressions.

"What the hell is wrong with her?!" Bora frowned.

"She must be his friend." Mimi muttered.

"She’s pretty." Tiana gasped.

Rolarza just watched them for a moment, then quietly muttered. "So she’s the number ten he mentioned."

Tyler and Claude led the rest of them to greet the royal families, while the Torzi empire students just watched Yvonne like she was performing a clown show.

Gena was even more in a state of shock seeing her elder sister hopping around like that.

"She’s happy? Because of that blind bat?!"

"You said he’s hot." Tony muttered.

She glanced at him.

"Your words, not mine."

Nether eyes followed them. "Did she say his name was Elias?"

"He’s obviously taken." Tony said.

"What?"

"He just let her touch him like that. He’s comfortable with her. He likes her. Then, there are a lot of them glaring at ’her’. They want him," he looked up from his book, at his sister. "You’ll have to go to the back of the line."

She scoffed. "Who’d refuse a princess over the prime minister’s daughter? Besides, he’s already drawing the short straw since he’s blind. He should be grateful that I’m interested in him. Not everyone gets that chance."

She stomped off towards their direction afterwards.

Tony sighed.

"You should have just stuck with lusting after Tyler."

He frowned afterwards.

"Those students unsettle me. I definitely do not want to fight him in this competition."