Chapter 6
- Jc's POV -
[Flashback]
"In the count of five!" I started and the whole crowd joined in the countdown.
"Five!"
"Four!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
After turning off the light, I pulled Primera's waist towards me and kissed her on the lips.
As soon as our lips touched, her face suddenly brightened and gradually faded. The face of a woman I prayed for came back to life. Even though I looked at it dimly because of the light, I was full of intuition about what I saw.
When the light came back on, I stepped back in shock. Why did I see her? At that moment, I didn't think anything about her.
[ End of Flashback ]
What can that mean? I don't seem to understand anything that has been happening these past few days. It's even weirder that I feel for Rhea. I feel like I've known her for a long time and I immediately feel at ease with her.
"How is she doing?" I asked when I saw that Cyrel, her sister, had come out of her room.
"She's sleeping." Cyrel answered as she walked towards me, "She just needs to sleep and rest. She'll be okay." Then she sat in front of me.
"Isn't her condition dangerous? Maybe she needs a doctor?" My curiosity.
"I've done that before and I've taken her to every hospital. But the doctors didn't have a proper diagnosis for her condition." She explained.
"Has she been sick for a long time?"
"Her disease is in-born." She answered and looked me in the eyes very badly, "What happened and suddenly her chest got tight?"
I suddenly became a rock in my seat. I really lost my mind about it. I haven't prepared an excuse.
I just looked at the coffee in front of me to avoid her hair-raising look at me, and that's when I was able to think properly.
Can I tell him the truth? But I think she's going to hit me for sure.
"B-Because our clanmates made fun of her." I apologized while avoiding her gaze.
"Really? What are they doing to her?" She inquired.
Dead. I'm at a dead end.
I can't answer anymore. As in nothing really. She didn't seem to believe what I said. I don't know Primera well enough to know what she doesn't like and what she fears.
I looked at Cyrel again. She was staring at me and obviously waiting for an answer. It's like I'm being fried in my seat.
I breathed a sigh of relief when the door to Primera's room opened and the Sleeping Beauty came out. Cyrel and I turned around together and saw Primera walking towards us.
Finally, my nervous chest also relaxed. My brain is dry trying to think of an answer, but it's good that tje Sleeping Beauty has woken up 😀
"What happened to you and your chest is tight again?" Cyrel asked Primera a bit annoyed, as she approached us.
Primera glanced at me, obviously questioning if I had said anything. I shook my head a little to let her know that I didn't say anything.
"Because they scare me with a frog." She lied.
Cyrel sighed, "Unbelievable. You're too old to be afraid of frogs."
I laughed when I heard it. She is afraid of frogs. She's like a child.
I found out something funny about Primera.
"Alright. I'll leave now." I then stood up while still smiling at the fact that Primera was afraid of the frog.
"Just sleep here." Cyrel immediately answered, "It's too late and it's dangerous outside. Maybe something else will happen to you."
"And where are you going to put him to sleep?" Primera immediately asked her sister before I could answer.
"In the room next to yours?" Cyrel answered.
I just smiled watching Primera as she argued with her sister. And as I observed her movements and speech, I suddenly remembered Crista. That's really how he argues; being calm, philosophical and stubborn. She really looks like Crista.
"Aren't you ashamed?" Primera answered, "It hadn't been cleaned in five years and you're going to put him to sleep in there?"
"Why? You want him to sleep in your room?" Cyrel scolded.
"Sister!" Primera almost raised her voice to her sister, "You invited a visitor inside and you don't have any room to put him to sleep?"
"Is he my guest?" Cyrel scolded meekly, "You should learn how to take care of a guest."
"Did I tell him to sleep here?"
"Are you really lazy or do you still not know how to clean?"
"Sister! What time is it! It's almost midnight. Then I'm going to clean a room that has been eaten by dust for five years!?"
"Do not be----"
"T-Thank you, but nothing will happen to me. I'm a man." I interjected to cut off their long discussion, "I'll just take a taxi home."
I feel awkward in the atmosphere. They still argued because of me.
Cyrel: No, I insist, okay?
Primera: Alright, I'll take you.
They both answered at the same time.
Suddenly I was stunned and glanced at the two of them trying to smile. Aren't they done arguing yet?
The atmosphere was so intense. Both of them were good at debating and no one wants to lose.
The two briefly looked at each other. They both frowned but Primera seemed tired of arguing with her sister.
"Sister..." Primera spoke weakly.
"You're going to send him home this evening? If something happens to him, will you come with him?" Cyrel explained further.
"He can't sleep here." Primera replied, "Next time, okay? I'll clean it so when he visits again, he can sleep somewhere."
"I will remember what you said." Cyrel said that he was obviously agreeing to let me go home.
"I-I'll go first." I said goodbye. I'm shy..
Primera just smiled at her sister and she accompanied me to the door and left their house.
We walked silently to the jeep waiting area while I bowed down smiling 😁
"Why are you smiling?" Primera asked when she noticed that I was grinning.
I'm still laughing at the fact that she's afraid of frogs. That's why I can't stop smiling. I don't want to tease her.
"Are you afraid of frogs?" I asked with a laugh and glanced at her face to see her reaction.
"Don't get me started." Her annoying threat.
I suddenly burst out laughing because her cheeks were so red. I don't know if she is holding back annoyance or shame. I just couldn't help it anymore and I really laughed.
"What's so funny!?" She said annoyed. Now it was obvious that she was holding back her anger.
"Primera, the dota girl, is afraid of frogs." I laughed teasing her. Her face is like a volcano about to explode .
"You gay, stop if you don't want me to break your neck." She still threatens to stop.
I suddenly stopped laughing when he called me gay again. I looked at her seriously and pulled her arm closer to me. Our faces are so close to each other that our noses are almost touching and I can feel her every breath.
"Who's gay?" I asked him weakly and seriously while staring into her eyes.
She didn't waver from what I thought and she also looked me in the eye, "You."
We stared into each other's eyes for a few minutes and this girl was just really weird. Most of the time, the reaction of women who are stared at so closely by handsome men is to blush and be thrilled. But this one, it's like she's going to kill me because she looks at me so badly.
"You've been calling me gay for a while now and I'm just holding back. If you don't stop and I run out of patience, you're going to pass out again." My weak and serious threat.
"Are you scaring me?" She answered while crossing his arms, "Just try and I'll kill you."
She didn't seem afraid of what I said. That's why I will take what I said very seriously. It's up to you if you faint again, as long as I really kiss this squirming girl.
I slowly lowered my face, and brought it closer to her lips. She didn't even move a bit. She was really waiting to see if I would do it or not.
After a while, I noticed something moving behind her. So I carefully moved my eyes a little to see what it was.
Looks like I've seen something crazier than me kissing her
Instead of hee lips, I brought my lips to her ear while smiling and whispered, "What's behind you?"
"Huh?" She was surprised because of what I said unexpectedly.
"I said, what's behind you?" I whispered in her ear again.
She turned behind him. And when she saw what I was talking about, her eyes widened and she tried to run behind me while he kept screaming.
"AAAHH!! FROG!!"
"HAHAHAHA!!" I burst out laughing. As in, I was holding my stomach so hard from laughing. I almost rolled on the ground. Her reaction was so funny that she almost went crazy.
"Four!! You're annoying!" Sh yelled at me angrily at the same time she hit me hard on the back.
"Who knows if there was a frog wandering around here." I laughed as I answered.
"Take it off!!" She screamed even louder as she jumped towards us.
She was pulling my arm back while screaming so I was also pulled back. Her hand was sweating cold and shaking. It's like she really saw some element of the world that can destroy her thinking. I'm still laughing while she was about to be admitted to a mental hospital.
Because I was deafened by the loudness of her scream, I picked up a rock and threw it at the frog and luckily it went off the waterfall.
When the frog was out of sight, she let go of my arm and squatted behind me with her face buried in her palms. I was still laughing when I turned and watched her. Her knees were shaking and her arms were sweating profusely.
I stopped laughing when I saw her condition. She is really serious that he is afraid of frogs.
"Prim, are you okay?" I asked as I softly stroked her hair.
She angrily slapped my hand away from her then stood up silently and walked in the other direction without a single word.
"Wait. Primera, where are you going?" I called her with a smile as I followed her.
But she didn't even turn around or answer. It looks like she was pissed off.
"Sorry Primera. It's just a joke. Don't take it seriously." I growled while still tailing her.
After a while she stopped and faced me, almost stabbing me when she glared at me, "And you think that's a good joke? I almost died from being so nervous, you gay!"
I bit my lip at the last word she said. My patience is about to run out. If she repeats it one more time, I won't be able to hold back.
"That's why I'm sorry, right? Because it's not funny." I answered holding back my annoyance.
"You know it's not funny, why did you do it!? You're really annoying gay-----"
She stopped talking when I grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to me and kissed her...
On the cheek..
Her eyes widened in obvious shock and she stared blankly at me.
I smiled at her then calmly replied, "You thought about the lips. I don't want to make you nervous again."
She made me feel so weird when she smiled so sweetly like the smile of a happy angel. I saw her face light up because of the sweetness of her smile that illuminated her face. I don't understand how I feel. My hand was sweating nervously as if my blood was rushing to my face as if I was the only one who didn't know.
I just turned around and walked away from her.
"Four, at----"
"Thank you, by the way." I said before she finished what she was going to say.
"For what?" She wondered.
I stopped walking and looked at her slightly, "At least I feel better."
There was that very sweet smile of her that almost ruined my thinking, as her answer to what I said. I immediately took my eyes off of her before I completely panicked and started walking again.
I stopped walking and turned to him with a smile when I heard him sing again. I really can't turn my back on her when she sings because of her voice is so cold. It's like being cradled while breathing fresh air.
"Why did you stop?" I asked when she stopped singing, when I could look at him.
"I've been singing for a while but I haven't heard you sing yet." She reasoned as she stepped closer to me.
I turned around and continued walking, then answered, "I'm only singing to one woman."
"Who is that?" She inquired.
I looked up at the sky and answered, "She's been dead for two years."
"Is that so?" Her sad answer.
I turned to hee when the tone of her voice suddenly became sad. She was stooping and seemed to be sulking.
Fine. I'll give it to you. After all, it's just a song. What is wrong with this girl and I feel guilty when I reject her?
I looked at her with a smile when she suddenly interrupted my singing by inserting another song.
I laughed briefly after the song. Besides being a good singer, she also knows how to choose what to sing.
"Why are you smiling?" She frowned at her question.
"You ruined my moment." I answered with a smile.
"Your song is so ugly. Don't be sad today." She's still right.
I just smirked and replied, "Just go home. Maybe your sister is looking for you."
"So you're letting me go." She answered.
"It's too late. Something might happen to you." I continued.
"I'll take you to the jeep waiting area first." She insisted.
Her head is really stubborn....
"Not anymore. I can do it." I answered with a smile, "Besides, it's close."
"You said that. If something happens to you on the way, don't blame me." She reminded me.
I grinned from ear to ear, "Nothing will happen to me. Don't worry."
I heard him stop walking then replied, "It's up to you."
I just nodded without looking at her while walking straight, "Be careful on the way home."
"Good night, Four. Take care." She answered.
I stopped walking and faced her, "Just Jc."
"Huh?" She wondered.
"John Carlo Laporre is my real name. Just Jc." I explain.
She smiled then replied, "Rhea Castino by the way."
"Nice meeting you, Rhea." I replied, "Visit the party house whenever you want. All drinks are free as long as for you."
"Really?"
"Of course. For you."
"You said it. Don't take it back."
"As long as for you."