"Are you okay now?" I asked worriedly while caressing his back and he slightly glanced back at me and a small smile formed on his lips as he wiped the small amount of water that left on his mouth.
"Yeah Lei Baby, I am okay and go eat now I know you are hungry already," he said and he chuckled after hitting his annoying joke and I gave him a death glare which he laughed on silently.
I can sense a little bit of awkwardness in the atmosphere for a long five minutes but not until I noticed that one of the guys who were sitting in front of me were glancing at me.
I glanced back at him and his cousin and suddenly, Gio's eyes widened like realization hit him for a second and he looked at his cousin who was just sitting next to him but before he could speak, I am the one who already moved first to shoo away the awkward atmosphere.
"Is it true that tomorrow will be a one on one match?" I asked and all of them looked at me.
"Oh about that, I forgot to inform you, Baby that our uh-" Xian said in a disruptive manner as he cut out his statement and looked at MJosh who was busy eating and he continued speaking. "Our so-called match was postponed," he continued and I think I was just the only one who was surprised on that news because I even had a mental block because I stopped playing my spoon.
"Postponed? Mind telling me why?" I asked and curiosity was audible on my tone.
"My Babe Princess, our march was postponed because the coach said that since Intramurals were approaching already. Then he said it is better if we will have a game match on that event and for the better audience's viewing, right Bro?" He explained and he even looked at Xian who just responded by nodding once.
"Yeah, that's right." Xian agreed shortly.
"Then… there's a big chance of you guys that your game will be featured on the school paper's Sports page!" I said exaggeratedly and I heard them chuckled. I suddenly felt Xian, right hand hold my left one underneath the table where the two can not see it.
That simple move of him made my heart beat rapidly and I felt that my mind was kinda floating because of what he did. Uh… can he stop flirting with me for a while if that was the term of what was doing right now?
"My archery game scene too?" Gio asked hopelessly and I nodded slightly like I am unsure about what he asked which made his face turn into a sad reaction.
"I can say, yes and no? Because every Intramural is you don't have a game match in your sport category. So how can we feature how you play? You just do every time is to wear your sports attire and walk like a model every event like that." I stated but he looked like he didn't want to give up on that part.
"Well, there is a chance that Xian will be featured also and I am sure that I will get featured again since he will be my co player and I am the captain in Archery here in school." He said confidently which made the two guys laugh at him, especially MJosh.
"You want to join his team? Aren't you afraid that you'll experience losing a game?" I asked Xian surprisedly while he was still holding my hand tightly and me, trying to tease Gio and I didn't disappoint.
"Hey Leiva!" Gio shouted with a complaining tone. "What are you talking about? I've never experienced losing a game for your information. USTA Fire Archers team never loses even though I am still a Junior High School." He continued like was literally annoyed already and I laughed on that hardly to the point that Xian needed to let go of my hand to calm myself.
"Okay, okay, okay…" I said and Gio just glared at me. I looked around and I just realized that even though this area is a quietly secretive area, some students are watching and glancing at our directions like they were literally star strucked and I even saw some of them gossiping or talking ears to ears.
"And for your 'more' information, MJosh' team which is USTA FireBall Players was once experienced of losing a game. Duh," he said like a cossy b*tch.
And I can feel that Gio was really triggered on what I stated since he was involving his cousin already who just did is to stare, listen and eat his food. And why did he open up that topic a year ago? MJosh was still so young to have that position that's why USTA once experienced being lost in the game of the basketball category for the Inter High school competition.
"Hey, mind you. It's just happened once and one game, we recovered in the next rounds of the game too. So in the end, we were still the one who won and we became the champions and I was just stressed about the USTA FIre Kickers at that time." MJosh said defensively which is true because they still won despite of them being pressured already, a lot of students were heard being disappointed too about what happened but MJosh was still indeed a great captain.
"But… it can't change the fact that you never experience losing a game right, Mr. France?" Gio asked straightforwardly on Xian and I can sense when this conversation will flow already.
This m*ther f*cker is really crazy sometimes huh? Why the hell was he trying to compare Xian and MJosh like Xian was already in Senior High school. He is in his Last year of being a high school student then he is comparing on his cousin who was still in Junior High school? This wrench…
Gio had even the guts of smirking towards MJosh huh? How can this kid be cruel to his kind cousin? And that thought I just made a facepalm using my left hand since Xian was not holding my hand already and I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah," Xian answered coolly and he continued eating so I am.
But this nosy kid here even did chew his food in a fast way so he can have time to ask questions again to bully his cousin. I wonder what was on MJosh' mind right now to get revenge to his wicked cousin.
"Does your team at your previous school have experienced losing already in a single game?" Gio asked and I noticed how this relaxing area was already being crowded because some sets of chairs and tables here were already occupied and we were on the side where other sets of tables and chairs were surrounding you in a small number.
Why the hell that this balcony crowded again? Where is the myth that when you eat in this area, you'll get cold? Well that is one of the myths here and I don't know the explanation of that myth and why the hell there is a myth about this eating area.
Life is really weird… I guess.
I noticed how Xian stopped on what he was doing, which was eating the steak he ordered. And he stopped just to feed Gio's curiosity and Xian even leaned at the back of his chair and looked at Gio intently and I don't know why I was really stunned at the way he acted gracefully.
"As far as I can remember when I was the captain of the previous school where I study. My team never experienced losing a game. But now that I left I heard rumors that the team always experiences losing a single set of games. Well I don't know if it's true," he said, explaining to answer Gio's question and while looking at him talking, I find him hot while explaining to the point that I'll be out of breath.
I wonder if Xian will be an instructor and suddenly a memory hit me that he offered to tutor me regarding our lesson in our subject Mathematics. Would it be alright? Can I have a normal understanding while him, teaching me and me just staring at his handsome face?
I shook my head on that idea which made me back to reality and Gio still being nosy was the one that I heard again, him asking a question.
I slowly went back to face my food but I was surprised when I caught MJosh staring at me like was reading my mind so I made my eyes grow but to my surprise he just chuckled and his eyes were like it had a glotters that while he was laughing his eyes were sparkling.
Wait what? Did I just see MJosh eyes being amused at me because he had the beautiful smile on his face and his eyes dancing in joy?
"Really? They were losing already? Then damn Bro! It's their loss that you left your previous school." MJosh commented as he joined the conversation of the two and when I looked at Xian, he was staring at me attentively too, like he saw me as a precious, expensive and beautiful gem which could be stolen by someone at any time.
Are my eyes still good? Because I am seeing unbelievable and unusual things again. This is so wrong...