Chapter 148 Very Fresh
They played until Twelve O’Clock when everyone began to prepare to leave. Knowing they would drink, those with cars didn’t drive. Only Melody Yoody had a driver, but not wanting to flaunt her leadership status, she had let the car wait for her and was now joining everyone else in hailing a cab home.
Out of respect for their leader, the first taxi they stopped was for Melody Yoody. With so many classmates, it wasn’t convenient for James Brown and Melody Yoody to share a ride, so Melody got into the cab with two other girls and waved goodbye to everyone.
James Brown and Emily Johnson were the last to hail a cab. Except for the driver, it was just the two of them.
"James, you and Melody..." David Johnson probed tentatively.
James Brown chuckled and replied, "Nothing much, just catching up on old times."
"Oh, that’s good then. I was afraid you’d fall for her again."
"How could that happen?"
James Brown smiled, but he felt an unexplainable sensation in his heart. When they were younger, he’d managed to woo Melody Yoody with tricks and sweet talk. But now, it seemed Melody had taken the initiative, leaving him completely passive.
Before seeing Melody Yoody, his heart yearned for her, to the point he dared not even look at her. But upon actually seeing her, he felt an instinctive resistance. This feeling was inexplicable, and even James Brown couldn’t understand it. By status, although Melody was a township chief, James Brown’s rank, when considered properly, was much higher than just a division-level cadre.
If it came to background, now that he was retired from Hawk Squad, if he wanted to get something done, he could definitely converse with many of the heavyweights in the Capital of SSUP, something Melody Yoody’s family background couldn’t compete with.
Melody Yoody hadn’t changed; James Brown even felt that she now wanted to be with him more than before since she had grown up and could make decisions on her own.