THE BAD BOY OF MANHATTAN
Chapters 15. Do You Have Crush On Her?

Emma stared blankly ahead while stroking her chin. Today he couldn't concentrate on giving Elric the subject matter. Even to respond to the child's teasing alone he was lazy. The shadow of her depressed mother's face last night filled her head. Then a message from her father asking her to talk about their divorce.

The girl exhaled a rough breath. Then it gritted its forehead which started to pulsate. He did not realize that Elric had noticed his movements.

"Hey, Emma .. You're not paid to relax here" Elric chirped as he tried to distract Emma.

"Hm ...." Emma murmuring. "It looks like today I can't concentrate. My head hurts," he said.

"Well, you want to get fired, huh?" elric. He really doesn't like to see Emma moody like this. Elric seemed to lose something that comforted him and something that could throw his sense of boredom into this house.

"My head hurts, Elric!" hardik Emma grimaced and pinched her head.

Elric. He then ran his wheelchair to a table next to one of the bookshelves. There was an object resembling a tablet with a concave screen. He shifted his palm from right to left a few centi above the screen to unlock it.

"Yes, Elric?" Lupita's voice sounded from inside the tablet.

"White water. One glass. Take it to the library, "Elric's orders make Emma who is looking down on her head, looking up at him.

Moments later Lupita came into the room with a glass of water. "For whom?" ask Elric.

Elric moved his chin towards Emma. Then give the glass in his hand to the girl. "Thanks, Lupita," Emma said with a smile.

"Thanks, Elric" said Emma. He then took a capsule of headache medicine from the bag and swallowed it with the help of water.

Moments later, Emma's headache begins to subside, however, the effect always makes her a little sleepy. Plus he was sleep deprived because all night he sat in front of the supermarket until five in the morning.

"May I lie here for a while? You can have lunch or play a game or whatever. We start the class again in thirty minutes" said Emma, putting a small pillow on the couch and without waiting for Elric's approval, she laid her body down. He felt his eyes begin to feel heavy.

Elric approached Emma who began to close her eyes. "Dome!" call him.

"Hmmm," muttered Emma who was already unable to resist her sleepiness.

Elric hissing. "It's very sad" he said, noting Emma's pale-looking face. Honestly, crazy girls are beautiful. Only, his appearance was indeed ancient. What kind of clothes he was wearing. A shirt with floral and large collared motifs, combined with a large boot and socks. Then the sweater looked too big for his thin body. In her eyes Emma looks like a farm boy in her forties.

Elric shook his head as he rolled both his eyes when he heard Emma's subtle snoring, signaling the girl had fallen asleep. He ran his wheelchair out of the room.

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Emma slowly opened her eyes as she felt a soft touch on her cheek. Lupita, the Bradley family assistant, smiled at him.

"Miss Lopez, let's join dinner" the middle-aged woman asked.

Emma frowned. "Eat dinner?" tanyanya. He got up from his lying position and sat down while waiting for his brain to return to normal work. Emma immediately took the phone from her bag. His eyes are perfectly round. "Eight nights?!" his screeches.

"Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. Bradley's out of town. It's just me and Elric. Comeon?" bring Lupita.

Emma scratched her hair. It means he has been sleeping for six hours from two in the afternoon. Why didn't Elric wake me up?

He followed Lupita into the kitchen. At the dining table, he sees Elric sitting in his wheelchair and busy with his gadget. The child only saw it at a glance and then returned to the screen of the gadget.

"Why not wake me up?!" groused Emma. Elric just turned his shoulders without looking at Emma.

"Elric said let you sleep in peace" said Lupita, preparing a few pieces of cornbread and fajitas, chopped meat and vegetables with grated cheese, Elric, Emma's plate and his own plate.

Emma hissing. This boy was still trying to provoke his emotions. He stared at Elric who was enjoying his dinner with his face indifferent. Emma chewed on a piece of cornbread as she turned her gaze toward the door when someone appeared from there and made her almost unable to swallow her food. Yep. Hellbound bassist James Howards, who made the heat mixed with cold, immediately ambushed into Emma's body.

"Hello, everybody (everything)," said James cheerfully. "Ah, Emma .. are you still here?" he said as he walked over to Emma who looked so nervous.

"Mrs. Howards, you want dinner?" ask Lupita.

"Ah, no .. I'm here because Nathan called me to watch this kid," he chuckled as he ruffled Elric's hair which instantly made an evasive gesture. "But, it turns out that Emma is still here, a coincidence ...." James laughed happily as he tilted his head at Emma who pretended to be busy with her fajitas.

"Why should I be watched?" elric protest.

"Because ..your father loves you very much, El," replied James.

"Yeah, right (yes, yes)" Elric said.

Emma quickly finished her meal and said goodbye after thanking Lupita. But, James hurriedly chased after her and offered to drive her home. Emma, who initially refused, eventually collapsed because James continued to force her.

"James, I'm coming!" exclaiming Elric made James and Emma step stopped.

From the expression on James' face the man seemed to object. She wants Emma to have a night out in Manhattan. "You're here, Elric," he said.

"I'm bored. I'm going with you." Elric insists. James could only sigh heavily. Of course he could not resist the wishes of Elric, his godson.

Disappointed, James was forced to let Elric in his car to drive Emma to East Harlem. Along the way, only the sound of the game from Elric's gadget sitting in the back seat.

James glanced at Emma who was sitting beside him. The girl was looking out the window. However, his concentration was scrapped as the voices from Elric's gadget grew louder. James clucked while looking back where Elric was sitting. "Elric, can you stop that? It's noisy," James complained.

Elric just throbbed and raised his eyebrows. Then he turned off the gadget and followed Emma looking out the window. James shook his head slowly while folding his arms in front of his chest.

Arriving in East Harlem, James came down to drive Emma to the entrance of the apartment building. While Elric looked at the two from the car with a smudged face. After Emma enters the building, James sits next to Elric after previously changing the full-self driving system to an autopilot to run his car.

"You're planning on dating that crazy girl?" accuse Elric.

"Who's crazy girl? Emma?" asked James while chuckling.

"Yeah!"

"What do you think?"

Elric hissing. "What do you like about Emma? She's ugly, old-fashioned, the way she dresses, my God. He was also fierce, chatty and annoying. Plus ... she knows you are famous, and rich (plus again ... she knows you are famous and rich)," he said. "Aren't you afraid of being taken advantage of?"

James looked up at Elric's words. Just this time he heard the boy was so detailed in judging a person, from his character to his way of dressing. "She's a beautiful and nice girl (she's a pretty and nice girl), Elric," James said.

Elric shook his head in disagreement with James' opinion of Emma. "Anyway .. she's too young for you (she's too young for you), James. Plus ... I know you are a womanizer (plus, I know you're a playboy)" he continued.

James is back. He tilted his head to look at Elric's visibly irritated face. "It's just my feeling, or it's true. Do you have a crush on her (you have a crush on her), Elric?" james asked suspiciously.

"What's? Me? No, no, no way (what?me? no, no, no way!" refute Elric quickly.

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