Love Began with the First Meeting

Being brought up in a family that was involved in risk management, she had an innate sense of danger. Despite the distance between her and Charlie, she could still sense the danger and threat behind his eyes, which seemed to engulf Allen whole. Rita glimpsed at Allen and slowly said, "I don't know who this Charlie character is, and I couldn't care less if he likes Evelyn or Elsa. It has nothing to do with me. However, he better not cause me any trouble, or else there will be hell to pay!" Yasmin Lu heaved out a sigh. "Rita, you should feel happy. If Charlie pairs up with Elsa, then you don't have to worry about Allen anymore," she said with a knowing smile and pulled Rita to the lecture building with her.

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Elsa sat in the car with her hand holding tightly onto the door, and her body pushed hard back against the seat. Her eyes were wide open with fear as she stared out of the window. Feeling extremely tense, she called out, "Evelyn! Can... can you please slow down?" "It's not fast." Evelyn put on an innocent look. She checked the speedometer, which showed 100 km per hour. "It's already very slow."

Elsa felt like crying. Maybe the speed was slow on the highway, but they were in the city, a built-up area, which had heavy traffic and people everywhere. Evelyn drove like nobody's business, surpassing one car after another and weaving in and out of them at high speed. Elsa almost felt her heart jumping out of her throat.

Charlie was focused on his phone. Without even lifting his head, he said flatly, "Evelyn is already being considerate. When it's just the two of us in the car, she usually drives at over 140 km per hour." Then he lifted his head and glanced at Elsa, adding, "I mean in the city." "But that's over the speed limit! Argh..." The moment she finished her sentence, Evelyn made a sharp turn. A second later, she heard the whoosh of air sound when two cars went too close to each other.

Charlie just smiled. After flicking on the screen several times, he put his phone into his pocket and scooped Elsa into his arms. "Stop looking outside. There's nothing to be afraid of."

Evelyn glanced at them from the rear view mirror and twitched her lips. She mumbled, "I'm not your driver. How can you shamelessly display affection in front of me like I'm not here?" After the complaint, she accelerated. Soon, they were traveling at more than 150 km per hour.

When the car finally stopped at the mansion, Elsa felt like fainting. It wasn't only because of the speed of the vehicle, but also from Charlie's embrace. Although the car had stopped, Charlie still held her in his arms. On instinct, she wanted to get out, but Charlie didn't give her a chance. Strangely, Elsa felt comfortable lying onto his chest, smelling his scent, and listening to his steady heartbeat. Gradually, she forgot time. Suddenly she had the feeling that time had passed too quickly, and she wished that she could stay in his arms longer. When she realized how comfortable she had made herself in Charlie's embrace, she instantly blushed like a boiled shrimp. She glanced up at Charlie, who gave her a knowing smile. Becoming suddenly angry with him, she scoffed, "What are you looking at? If you keep staring at me, I'll slap that conceited smirk right off your face!" After threatening Charlie to hide her embarrassment, she opened the door and got out.

Evelyn also got out of the car. When she saw Elsa's red face, she deliberately poked fun at her and said innocently, "Elsa, my sister-in-law, why your face... looks so red?"

"No, it doesn't!" She stomped her foot on the ground. "And I'm not your sister-in-law!" she exclaimed. When she saw Charlie coming to her, she shot him a glare then turned her head away.

After winking to Charlie, Evelyn happily skipped to Elsa's side and dragged her arm playfully. "All right. All right. If you say you're not, then you're not. Let's hurry up. They might already be here." Then she pouted looking ahead of them.

Elsa followed Evelyn's gaze and stared in that direction. Indeed, a few cars were parked there along with more than a dozen skateboards and mountain bikes.

"Do the members of Madness Is Good all know each other?" Elsa asked. It was then that she remembered why she was here in the first place.

"Yeah. More or less." Evelyn gave an ambiguous reply. "One may only know one or two. Everyone takes one new friend. Like that." She was right. Some of them were her friends, some were Charlie's, and some were Ezra's. That was how everyone got to know each other in a roundabout way.

Thinking of that, Evelyn abruptly stopped in her tracks. She turned to look at the cars, and her face looked like she was bothered by something.

"Evelyn, what's wrong?" Elsa asked, noticing the discontent written on her face.

"Someone isn't here yet. Evelyn feels upset." It was Charlie who answered Elsa. He seemed to be making fun of Evelyn. She snapped back at him, "You're as annoying as Ezra!" Charlie burst into laughter when he heard her reply because he knew he was right.

Elsa was still confused about what was going on and whom they were talking about. However, when she glanced at Charlie, she was dazed when she saw how he was laughing so candidly. She blurted out, "When you laugh, you look awesome." The next moment, her face turning burning red. 'Oops. What did I just say?' she thought.

Under the intent gaze of Charlie, she wanted the earth to open up and swallow her. 00000000