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Chapter 4

Simon Wilson’s POV

The sun looked bright that morning, but I felt the air around me felt cool. It looks like autumn is coming to an end. There were lots of fallen leaves along the road I was passing. I was enjoying the very friendly natural atmosphere that day before I found a woman sitting on one of the long benches in the campus courtyard. The sunlight filtering through the leaves illuminated her wavy brown hair, which she let down to touch her shoulders. The owner of the green eyes was focused on looking at the 11-inch flat rectangular object in his hand. Occasionally, he holds a stylus pen in his right hand and draws on the screen of the flat object.

To the point that he didn't realize I was walking towards him. “Hello, Freshia,” I said hello to her.

This is Freshia Ava, my classmate in jewelry design who is now also in her final year and is busy with her final assignment which is a graduation requirement.

She looked surprised when I suddenly greeted her, but when she found out that the person who greeted her just now was me, one of her close friends, she immediately smiled in response to my greeting.

“Oh, hi, Simon.” She said to me who was now sitting right next to her.

"What are you doing here? I see your face is very serious.”

Freshia immediately showed what was written on her tablet screen. "I'm looking for some references for the shape and color of diamond stones that might match the jewelry design I made for my final project."

I just nodded my head, a sign of understanding. Then I said, "What a coincidence, I really want to invite you to a personal exhibition of a diamond businessman which will be held at his residence this weekend. There he will show his latest diamond collection which I heard is a rare diamond. How? Would you be interested in coming to the event with me?”

Freshia showed a happy face when she heard my invitation to come to the exhibition. "Really? Wow, you really are my savior, Simon. Of course, I really want to come to the exhibition. Then, as my thanks and in return for your invitation to the exhibition, I will treat you to lunch today. Can you?”

“Of course I can. But first I have to meet with Professor Collins to discuss my final assignment."

"Ok, alright. I also have to meet Professor Adeline at ten o'clock. Then you can just call me when your business is finished, Simon," Freshia said, to which I immediately answered with a nod of my head. After that, we went our separate ways to do our own things before having lunch together.


One week later, it was the day the diamond exhibition was held. I informed Freshia that I would arrive at her house soon. When I entered the yard of the woman who was going with me, she was already seen ready on the terrace of her house waiting for me.

Her choice of clothing for that evening's event fell on a turmeric-colored A-line dress with a medium cut and a beige fragrant style suit jacket which she left draped over her shoulder, also don't forget a pair of heels in the same color as her suit jacket was already on. on both legs of the ladder.

She also wore a set of earrings, necklaces, and bracelets to support her appearance that night. Ah, she looks so stunning and it made me smile.

When she realized that my black Mercedes-AMG C63 was parked in her yard, he smiled and immediately walked towards me. "Good evening, Simon." She said as she opened the car door.

“Hi, good evening, Freshia. You look so gorgeous tonight."

The woman laughed when she heard the compliment that came out of my mouth. "Thank you." She said then.

I smiled too. “There's nothing left behind, right?” I said it again just to remind her.

She just shook her head. "Okay, then, let's go!" I said then stepped on the gas pedal of the car and drove it out of Freshia's yard towards where the exhibition was.

Freshia's eyes radiated endless admiration when we set foot in a large hall inside a luxurious house where the diamond exhibition was being held that evening. There are around twenty diamond models on display in the hall.

Freshia started going around observing them one by one with me loyally accompanying her. I, who was looking at the woman beside him secretly, couldn't help but smile. I was happy because she seemed to really enjoy the exhibition we attended at that time.

A few minutes later, a voice came from a man standing on a stage in the middle of the hall, who seemed to be the emcee that night. She greeted all exhibition visitors, most of whom were people from the upper classes. I saw Freshia just silent in place. Her gaze seemed to scan the people present in the hall one by one, most of whom already knew each other. That's for sure, considering that this event was a special event that was only attended by certain people from the upper classes.

Including me who is the representative of my family which is one of the owners of a large company known in this country. I recognized some of the people who looked like they were having fun chatting and decided to go say hello to those who were my colleagues.

“Freshia, I'm going to leave for a moment to greet some of my acquaintances who also came here. Do you want to come with me?” I said inviting Freshia to stay with me. I don't want toleave her alone. However, she refused my invitation. “No need, Simon. Please just go. I will go around again to see in more detail the diamond collection on display."

I thought she wouldn't be comfortable if I forced her to come with me, so I agreed that she would go around on her own wherever she wanted. “Okay, fine then. I'll call you later if I can't find you, okay?” I said again and she immediately answered with a nod of her head.

Several tens of minutes passed and I had just finished chatting with several of my colleagues. I .didn't want to leave Freshia any longer and decided to immediately look for it. But I couldn't find her figure after searching all over the room.

Finally, I saw a door next to the main hall where the exhibition was being held and decided to go towards that door which turned out to be a hallway that connected the main hall to a large courtyard next to the house. I found the woman I was looking for was there alone. I took a deep breath, feeling relieved.

She was seen breathing in the night air which was decorated with white droplets falling from the sky one by one. Yes, that day was the first day it snowed. Autumn is really over. I saw Freshia raise her hands to collect the white grains that she had deliberately let fall on the surface of her skin, making her suddenly smile. I also smiled seeing her.

Not long after, the woman squatted down and started making dots from the snow that had piled up on the ground, finally the dots were shaped like a doll. And then, she smiled again when she saw her still imperfect work. Again, when I saw her smile, I immediately smiled too.

In the approximately 3 years I've known her, this is the first time I've seen that side of her. Because usually, Freshia always looks elegant and her personality looks a little stiff. She is a woman who is a bit difficult to predict, but I like her.

After watching it for a while, my gaze began to examine a house that was a little more luxurious than my family's house. I just realized that this two-story house was shaped like the letter L because I saw that there was a building connected behind it which also faced the park where Freshia was located.

It seemed that the building was made up of rooms because I saw many windows in the building. And that's when I realized that in one of the rooms on the second floor of the building, which looked quite dark from where I was standing, there was a figure who appeared to be a man, standing near the window, looking out at the garden.

But I didn't pay too much attention to it because I thought maybe the person was just looking at the surrounding scenery. After that, I decided to get up from where I was standing, approaching Freshia.

“Freshia, what are you doing here?” I said when I arrived near Freshia. Freshia turned to me and was quite surprised by my sudden presence beside her. “Hi, Simon. Sorry, I went outside because I was bored inside and decided to get some fresh air.”

I nodded my head and smiled. "Yeah, it's okay. Wake up." I said as I stretched out my hand to help her up and was immediately greeted by her.

"You should have just approached me earlier. Don't even go out when it's snowing like this. Especially since you're alone." I said back.

Freshia laughed at my ramblings. “For a guy, you're very talkative, Simon,” she said then. I just smiled.

But after that, I felt something strange. I felt like someone was watching us at that time. My gaze immediately scanned my surroundings one by one and found the man I had seen earlier, who was in the room with little lighting, looking at us. It turned out that she had been looking at us since earlier, which meant that she might have been standing there when Freshia was alone in this park.

I also tried to observe the figure who was talking to another man who had just appeared next to her. Then when the man who had been watching us turned around, I recognized who the man really was. I was stunned for a moment after recognizing the figure in the dim room. Worry suddenly rose in my heart. However, I chose not to tell Freshia that, and spontaneously my hand immediately pulled Freshia back inside.

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