The next day, Sean woke up and had his breakfast, and he heard the doorbell ring, he went only to see Skyler and Lemon both with flowers, "You must be Cindy's brother, hi I'm Skyler Mazer, your sister's CEO" Skyler introduced himself, "Sean, good morning, can you give this to your sister? Tell her I said hi…" Lemon said, "Here, a flower as well for your sister. I apologize, I didn't bring a gift for you. Next time, I'll bring you one," Skyler said with a smile. Both Skyler and Lemon stare at each other. Both with glaring eyes, "yeah, I'll tell her, she is sleeping, I don't want to wake her up…" Sean lied, "that's alright… I'll see her in the office, it is nice to meet you… Sean, right?" Skyler said, Sean nodded, and Skyler left.
"Who was that? Is he your sister's boss?" Lemon asked, "Yeah… let's go outside, wait for me. I'll get dressed quickly," Sean went back in and placed the gifts, and immediately got dressed. After, they went outside and finally they went to Lemon's apartment at the center of the city.
"So, about your sister, is she single?" Lemon asked, "We have been through that, Lemon." Sean complained, "Well, I just want to make sure, after all, your sister's boss is always clingy with her, so that made me feel like he is trying to claim her…" Lemon explained, "He is not her type…" Sean responded, "Well, how about me?" Lemon asked, as he placed his arm around Sean's shoulder, which made Sean blush, "You are not my sister's type either…" Sean explained. "Then who?" Lemon asked with a hint of frustration in his voice, "Cody Park, the webtoon artist, singer, and animator…" Sean explained, "That pink-haired Korean-American dude? My sister read and watched his entire works for 3 weeks at home. I always got sick and tired of it, they are all obsessed, and won't your sister want some lemon rather than strawberry?" Lemon asked, "My sister always gives me the lemon candy while she enjoys eating the strawberry, probably that's why I like you…" Sean blurted out, "What?! What did you just say?" Lemon was surprised, "You…r name… your name Lemon… and the fruit as well…" Sean immediately said, "I thought you said you liked me… because my older brother is gay and we are only two boys in the family, I got to continue the bloodline so no gay stuffs, I can't imagine myself with a dude, I mean I respect other people's choice in their life, it is just I can't see myself doing it" Lemon explained.
Sean looked at Lemon, with almost teary-eyed as if the world crumbled in front of him, like a glass broken into a million pieces and pierced his heart, his crush since college just told him he doesn't have a chance, even the slightest.
"Let's just play, we get so deep in the conversation that we forgot what the point of us being here is," Lemon said, and Sean nodded. They played some of the SkyMaze games, and Lemon has won, "Hey, you are not yourself… is there a problem?" Lemon asked Sean, who had been in a daze, "Oh… I was thinking of what you have said earlier," Sean said with no hesitation, "Ahh, the gay part? Why… are you gay or something?" Lemon asked, "No, I want to ask about something, well, I read it online… There is a high percentage chance that a friend would fall for his friend. If that were me, what would you do?" Sean asked, "That's an interesting question, it made my brain worked up, hmmm if you fall in love with me and I found out, I would say, I'll give it a chance, well not publicly introducing you as a boyfriend but what will be the difference on having a male lover versus having a female lover, I will have a personal experiment on that hoping to conclude into a much better understanding in human relationship" Lemon explained, "So you will treat our relationship like a test subject?" Sean asked, "Yes, that would be the case." Lemon replied. Sean couldn't believe what he said; he just continued to play instead.
"Hey, wait up! You are playing all by yourself, you just asked me that question to distract me!" Lemon quickly played, and after a few rounds, Sean won non-stop, "Let me win…" Lemon pleaded, "Okay as long as you stop asking and stop wanting to date my sister" Sean looked at him with seriousness, "Yeah fine…" and after that Sean let him win 5 times, it is not about because they are friend that is why he needs to win but because their wins are counted by SkyMaze and they can also be part of the prototype testing, or pre-testing of games before the launch which can also benefit them because they have free access of the game's limited edition items and free purchases in every event items.
Lemon and Sean were watching movies, and Sean was happy about it; after all, he could spend time with his best friend.
Sean received a text from his sister,
Cindy: The boss wanted to see me tomorrow, tell him I'm not dating him, that I like someone else, understood? Don't mess this up!
Sean: Okay
Sean sighs, "Hey, can we watch some of those Cody Park animations? To make me understand why my sister likes him…" Sean requested of Lemon, "Sure, my sister has tons of collections, I'll ask her…" Lemon went to his phone, his sister replied and sent him all the links, "Here we go…" Lemon played the animation series of Cody, the two were mesmerized how handsome Cody is and how he draws, sings and dubs his animation, "Must be auto tune, let us hear his live video" Lemon said as he played Cody's live performance, and he sound even better, "how does he sounded more like an angel in his live performance… must be back track" Lemon said, and played another video where Cody was singing in the park with his grandma the video was taken by a fan, "this guy has no weakness at all, oh wait a second, he is dating someone… but his lover is a non-showbiz, tell your sister she got no chance" Lemon said, "Do you think she doesn't know?" Sean replied as he looked at Cody on the TV. "Well, now we know how high my sister's standard is," Sean said, "The closest to Cody is that sky blue-haired guy…" Lemon said, "You mean Sklyler Mazer?" Sean replied, "Not the CEO of SkyMaze."
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