Felicity suddenly asked Chris to meet her in a cafe near their school. The name of the place was Friendlies Cafe. It was already past five pm and Chris was already at home. However, because it was his secretly loved childhood friend calling, he didn't hesitate even once to change his comfortable singlet and boxer shorts to decent shirt and pants. He rode his bicycle and pedaled for the destination with haste.
'Her voice cracked as if she's just cried.'
His well-featured face creased in worry. He couldn't wait to arrive at the place to see her. His unease almost made his bicycle flew.
'That bastard Floyd probably did something bad to her again! Damn! That guy! I want to kill him and bury him alive! How dare he to always make her cry!'
When he arrived at the cafe and pushed open its door, he was still gritting his teeth.
"Chris, I'm here!" A crisp but feminine voice called out from his left side. His head automatically turned to that direction because the voice was so familiar that it was already engraved with its owner in his heart.
"Are you alright?" That's what he asked the moment he took the seat opposite her.
The beautiful girl with long flowing hair and a fair complexion only inferior to Sofony Mendez smiled. She didn't answer his question. She only said, "While waiting for you, I already ordered for the two of us. I know you don't like purely sweet stuff so I only ordered some bittersweet cakes and strong coffee."
Chris had yet to recover from the taxing cycling he did to reach the place. It took him a few minutes to catch some breath and also wiped his sweat. After that, he studied the expression of the person in front.
'She really cried.'
Something sharp seemed to tore through his chest.
He bitterly smiled. Just a while ago, she clearly evaded his question.
"Didn't you like what I order? Wait, I'll call someone to order some more."
Chris hurriedly interrupted. "No need. I like it. You perfectly know what my stomach prefers. Thanks."
'Perks of being childhood friends.' He self-mockingly thought.
"I'm relieved. Great. By the way, I saw your ranking this morning. You did well. Haha. Unlike me who is barely in the hundreds." Felicity laughed.
He shook his head. "I'm sure you could do better than that. Something must have distracted you. I remember when we were still in junior high. You always ranked around the twenties."
"Good old days. Haha."
Chris sighed. It's always like this. Every time she cried or felt hurt, she would call him and ask him to accompany her in this kind of idle chat.
'But she would never tell me what caused her to cry or feel sad. She would just rant about random things. Why?'
He honestly didn't know what to feel about it. But he would always find himself going whenever she called. He could not leave her alone. If it's his only worth in her life, it's okay. He wouldn't ask anymore.
Who asked him to fall in love with her?
Up high in one side of the cafe, the hands of a grandfather's clock on the wall moved seconds after seconds. The two sat there with a still empty table in between. One person mostly did the talking while the other made sure to not miss listening to her words. Like this, more than ten minutes passed.
.....
Sofony was in the cafe, it's her shift. But for some reason, she's stuck at the counter. Since she had nothing to do, she sighed and let her mind wander to who knows where.
Many things started to change for Sofony this past week.
Her man was still the same, sleeping with her every time they were together, making love with her in all places and positions possible inside her house. Sometimes he did her in his car and it was one heck of an experience for her, especially when they did it in the middle of the street when they get stuck because of the heavy traffic. Her cheeks always burned and her heart always raced at the thought of how it happened one afternoon in the middle of a busy street. That time she berated herself so much for being that accommodating to his whims.
The guy always marveled at her equally endless stamina. Every night when she arrived home from work, he would make love with her, taunt her for begging, but admire her for matching his appetite for sex.
Even now, she didn't know much about him. His system said he's called Young Master Gio. But that's it. He's never moved past being a stranger to her. A rich man in mid-twenties fooling around with an eighteen-year-old girl.
But he's the only stranger she allowed to touch her, she didn't know why. It was really a very mysterious thing.
At school, the system no longer issued her the peeping tom task. However, it made a long-duration mission of not ever deleting the videos she captured using her phone. She shrugged and hardly cared about it.
The system was immoral so probably it liked secretly stashing records like that. To this, she had no opinion.
About the main mission, after she settled her financial problem, she started investigating it, and discovered so many odd things about the girl named Felicity.
Felicity Dimatrionez. Eighteen. Eleventh-grader like her, a First Year Senior High Schooler. Beautiful. Fair-skinned. Long-haired. Candidate for the Goddesses List which Sofony suddenly became part of, albeit listed as the newest addition.
This Felicity was quite popular. However, most of her reputation came from being the school's greatest playboy Floyd Cruz' official girlfriend. Many students wowed to how she managed to keep a tight hold to this well-known rich player. However, there were also many who were mocking her behind her back due to the fact that she was just the official girlfriend, but not the only girlfriend.
Due to capturing a few scandalous videos of Felicity, Sofony managed to glimpse at one part of the truth. The girl was very loose. Sofony knew she's in no position to make this kind of remarks because she had also spread her legs for the same physical satisfaction. However, she was just really speechless by how Felicity could do it with several men not her boyfriend. The mystifying part was these men were her boyfriend's group members!
As she thought of this, Sofony's head started to ache. One time she was urged to buy an invisible listening device from the system and later on found out that this group was perfectly aware of Felicity's deeds. She even had eavesdropped one time that they sometimes held a group sex party wherein Felicity was the only girl present.
How Sofony feared it but here's a girl so courageous to take on so many at once. Damn it! Even Sofony couldn't help but curse out!
She even sometimes wondered if this Felicity was the real host of her Immoral System!
To this reply, Sofony almost fainted on the spot.
However, the system was not yet finished.
Sofony almost declared war with the damnable thing. It's true she's allowing a person she didn't truly know to invade her home and body, but that was not a ground to call herself a whore. She's not selling herself! She's merely paying for her sins. After all, she appeared that night in the hotel with a very dubious motive. At least she's aware it's wrong to mess with a guy like Gio and the reason she's catering to his needs for that thing was to... Ah, that's it. It's her retribution.
The system laughed.
A waiter innocently walked past her and saw that Sofony was having a very bad expression.
'So bored because the manager doesn't let her work?'
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