Coffee with Love by JET

CHAPTER FOUR

Lee and Yong observe the plants together at Haleakala National Park. The Park is very beautiful, particularly in summer when flowers are blossoming. One by one, they view its  colour, flower, height, and fruit, so as to cross check with the book Lee borrowed from the library. Lee would write down and take photos of any new plant she find is not recorded in the book. Lee seems very happy with this trip. It is as if she is not on the research trip, but a date. They smile and talk and discuss and exchange the images of the plants they used to see in each individual homeland. Sometimes, their shoulders press against one another when they try to have a close look over the plant. Lee then blushes and smiles to herself. Yong is the same, smiles and blushes.

Yong is a well-prepared person. He brings every necessary things with him, plastic bag, hoe, gloves, knife, you name it. It looks like he planned everything in advance and expected for the trip.

After hours long walk through the park reviewing every plants, they sit down on a bench next to the valley, enjoying the fresh summer air. Yong hands his coffee and cake to Lee, and apologises Lee that he could not bring coffee frappe since he does not know how long they have to spend on observing the plants and by that time the coffee frappe would melt into water under the summer heat. Lee hurries to cut his apology, for it has been very kind of him to guide her to the park and spend the whole day with her. That is more than enough for Lee. The two are just sitting next to one another while the sun is shyly setting behind their backs.

At night, Lee reviews the activities she and Yong had done today in her little diary. One by one Lee wrote down everything in it, counting flowers and plants, taking photographs, noting the new plants found, to name a few. Since the day Lee arrived at the new land, Lee started to write her diary so that she would not miss any important events happen in her passage of life. At this moment, Lee stops and smiles to herself. Blushed, she asks herself for the second time-the first time was when she first saw him at the coffee shop-if this man is her white horse prince just like the prince in her favorite childhood story of Cinderella. After that, she writes her report to complete her school assignment.

Turning off the bed lamp, Lee takes out her iPod, turns it on, and listens to Inner Voices' "Baby Girl."

to be continued....