Back From a Far Away Place(5)

11

I knocked hard on the door three times, and there was suddenly a dead silence inside.

A few seconds later, Ethan asked as if he had just woken up, "Who is it?"

"Open the door." I had run out of patience and knocked on the door a few more times in a row. "Now! Right now!"

After I heard a series of rustling sounds, Ethan came close to the door and said pitifully, "I haven't washed up yet, nor have I put on my clothes..."

He was finding an excuse! I roared at him in a low voice. "Is it you who haven't put on your clothes, or is it Adrian who hasn't put on his clothes?"

I didn't know what they were busy with. After another two minutes, the door finally opened from the inside.

Ethan was standing straight against the wall as if he were a child waiting to be punished for doing something wrong. Adrian was smoking at the end of the bed with open legs.

The white smoke wreathed before his face so that he looked solemn and indifferent. His tie was loosely wrapped around his neck and he