The Bodyguard System

What surprised Jaden was the fact that among the eight people that were currently waiting, two of them were extremely familiar to him.

They were actually none other than Scarlet and Sylvia. Jaden was obviously surprised to see them here. The same could be said about them as well, as they had not expected that they were going to meet with Jaden here, after such a long time of being apart.

The moment that they saw each other, Jaden did not have much of a change on his expression other than raising his browse slightly due to the surprise. As for Scarlet and Sylvia, the two of them possess tremendous changes, obviously shocked to see Jaden here.

For Sylvia, even though she was surprised, she smiled at Jaden. But for Scarlet, things were completely different. The moment that the surprise on her face dissipated, she glared at Jaden, before looking in another direction.

Jaden was immediately stumped upon seeing her reaction to his appearance here. As far as he could recall, he could not remember having any conflict with Scarlet. After all, when he left, the two of them had still been in good terms, and they did not even argue.

Despite not understanding the reason why she seemed to be angry at him, Jaden did not intend to pursue this issue. In any case, after he stopped working as a bodyguard for the Johnson family, he did not see any reason for him to bother himself with Scarlet, unless necessary.

As long as he could remember, he had not done anything wrong to Scarlet. For that reason, even if she was angry at him, he would allow her to do that. In any case, it was not his fault, right?

"It is nice to see you again." Jaden said with a smile as he shook Sylvia's hand.

"Yeah. Though, I do wonder why you never came to see us for all these 2 months. It's like you completely vanished, and even forgot about us." Sylvia commented.

"I was there, it was just that I was busy with something else. But believe me, if you were in a problem, I would have shown up and helped you out of it." Jaden responded.

"I am tempted to believe you, but somehow, I'm finding it difficult to believe you. After all, we have not communicated for the past 2 months, and I wonder how you will be able to know that I am in trouble. Forget that, I'm trying to say that it will be difficult for you to be able to know if Scarlet is in trouble." Sylvia stated with a little smile on her face.

At the same time as she said those words, she glanced at Scarlet from the corner of her eyes. She was clearly trying to provoke Scarlet.

Upon hearing her words, Scarlet was obviously irritated. She responded in a grumpy tone, "Who cares about him? I don't need his help in case I am in any kind of problem. He can continue doing whatever he is busy with."

When Sylvia heard Scarlet's response, she could only smile wryly at Jaden. Then, she said, "She has been like this ever since you left. For the past 2 months, she has been a completely different person from how she was before."

Scarlet showed a hint of a hesitation on her face when she heard Sylvia talking about this. But in the end, she did not say anything, but looked at Jaden while pretending not to be looking at him.
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"Ah?" Jaden showed a puzzled expression on his face as he looked at Sylvia, before shifting his gaze to look at Scarlet. He was obviously not understanding what Scarlet was trying to imply here.

Upon seeing the confused expression on Jaden's face, the two ladies could not help but feel that Jaden was a block of wood. And, a young man who was seated next to Sylvia could not help but comment at this moment.

"Simply put, what my cousin is trying to imply is that you somehow affected my little cousin here. I don't know in what way, but she is definitely affected without you being around." The young man said.

It was only after this young man had spoken that Jaden finally realized that he was together with the two ladies. From the proximity that he was sitting to them, as compared to the others, it was clear that he had to be here together with them.

And from his words, it was proved that he was actually related to them, and he was even their relative.

"Hey Castro, can you at least shut that loud mouth of yours? You always keep talking nonsense each and every time about me." Scarlet immediately retorted.

"Hahaha!" The young man, Castro, simply laughed upon hearing Scarlet's words.

Jaden could immediately pick up the implication of what Castro had said. It seemed that somehow, Scarlet was having feelings towards him. But it was a bit that he could not reciprocate them, because until this day, he did not have any romantic feelings towards her.

Maybe if her attitude had been better at the very start when they had met, perhaps there was a possibility that he could have been interested in her romantically. But that attitude of hers had turned him off, completely eliminating the possibility of the two of them being together.

It might be true that she had changed along the way, but it was not enough to be able to convince Jaden, especially considering that the matter of love was something that was related to the heart.

Jaden simply shook his head, as he was not willing to comment on this. Instead, he simply sat next to Castro. Castro was a young man with green eyes and medium length blonde hair just like Sylvia's. He possessed a lean physique, but his appearance was well maintained.

Jaden could not help but wonder if the Johnson family only possessed people with good appearances. If Jaden could compare himself with Castro at this moment, he could say that he was lacking in terms of appearance.

"What are you doing on this floor? Could it be that you came to the wrong one?" Castro inquired.

Castro understood that this floor was only meant for those that had come here to have the songs that they had composed to be reviewed by this company. It was not impossible that Jaden had a business in this company, but maybe he was supposed to be on another floor?

After all, on this floor, all that was done was basically the reviewing of the song compositions and so on. But there was nothing else other than that on this particular floor.

"I just came over to have my song reviewed. I composed it a little while ago, and I'm trying to see if it can meet the standards for this company to take it, before finding an artist to sing it." Jaden responded casually.

The three young people were surprised upon hearing that. Of course, it was completely unexpected to them that Jaden was here for that. That was especially unbelievable for both Scarlet and Sylvia.

They had been together with Jaden for several months, but he had never told them that he was actually a composer. But other than that, even if it was true that he did not have to tell them about it, but at least they could have seen it before.

But when they thought about the fact that he was quite good at playing a piano, they found it inconceivable that he was actually capable of composing songs as well. According to his age, just by what he had shown when it came to playing the piano, it was clear that he was supposed to know other things better, right?

Just how the hell did he manage to learn many things at the same time? His driving skills were extremely good, and so were his fighting skills. They would definitely find it difficult to believe that he was also good at composition, to a level that they could not comprehend.

In the end, the two ladies decided to convince themselves that perhaps Jaden was just trying to learn about composition. If he was an expert, they would not know what to say now.

"That is completely unexpected to me. Nonetheless, I'm quite curious, what category of song did you compose?" Castro was the only one that spoke.

Sylvia had already told him about Jaden. Castro came over during the time that the Johnson family was fighting against the Williams and the Browns families.

Both himself and his parents lived in a first tier city, but he was sent here in order to help. And after that, he did not leave, but instead, he decided to stay here, because he was just joining the community after graduating from the music school.

He had majored In composition, but he did not want to start in a big city. Instead, he thought that it was going to be good if he could make it big in a small city, before finally moving back to a big city.

Simply put, he wanted to gain experience while in a small city, before taking his career seriously in a big city. That was the exact reason why they were here today. He had submitted his song for reviewing, and they were waiting for the results.

"It is a pop song." Jaden said without giving any further explanation. But it seemed that Castro was a chatty type of person.

"Oh, it seems that we are both focusing on the same category. What theme did you write about?" Castro asked in an excited tone.