I stood there with my brain on overdrive and luckily an idea came in. As my face expresses a shocked expression, I just need to add a scared one at that. "W-who are you?" I asked him which he shoots back at me.
"Paige invited me here. B-but.." I now look at his eyes with tears like I'm totally scared and I saw him flinch. At least I get a reaction from him. I tried to take it up a notch as my voice tremble, "We were about to eat but I forgot my drink in the kitchen but when I come back" by now there are some tears running down my face. I'm just thankful for those acting lessons that I take back then. They're always helpful.
"Please help me." it may sound like I'm begging him but who cares. Right now I need to do this. As I look back at his face he looks at me with both confusion and worry on his face.
We go back to the living room seeing them still asleep. Zeke checks each of his friends while I'm just standing here looking at them trembling. "They're just asleep it's not something serious." I just nod and once again my stomach growls then I look at the pizza and another idea comes to my mind. I need to erase doubts about me and this might be a little crazy but Zeke is helping me get out of it without him knowing. I took a slice from the box and when I'm about to eat it, he shouts at me to stop. Then I look at him confuse and he got this annoyed look on his face.
"Are you stupid? Didn't you think that that might be the reason why they are asleep?" I just smirk on the inside, got you. "But--" he cut me off telling me to just drop it and I did. "Is somebody picking you up?" he sounds so exhausted and tired and once again, who cares?
"Y-yes, I call a friend of mine for help but then I bump into you." he nods and sat down on a chair then massaged his temples. I think his father is still giving him a hard time.
What are you saying KD? We don't care, ok? It's his fault anyway.
"What are you doing here?" asking me while his eyes are closed. I just stare at him, he changed a lot. From that kind of person to this. The question suddenly sinks in and I just answer him with what I told him earlier. "Paige saw me and invited me here. My ankle twisted as my foot is stuck on a tree and he just treats it." Once again he just gives me a nod. Time flew by with none of us talking which is way too awkward. "You're hungry, right?" I look at him with his hand covering his eyes and I answered him with a little yes. I just hear him sigh and got up.
If you don't want to cook for me then don't! I'm not asking you in the first place. Is what I like to say but I'm too hungry to refuse. I haven't eaten since I walked out earlier and how could I eat the pizza with sleeping pills on it? So I have no choice but to follow him silently.
"Is burger ok with you?" he looks at me and I just nod. He then proceeds to get the ingredients and I just look at him while cooking. He always knows how to do a lot of things. I'm glad that some things don't change.
Shut up Kends! You're just hungry. As I am debating with myself on my mind a plate with a burger topped with cheese appears in front of me. My eyes twinkle at the sight of it and I just look at him excitedly and say a thank you. I stop and I realize what I did. Damn those habits!
I don't want to look at him because I felt uncomfortable all of a sudden. Finishing my food a honk from outside came in. Finally! They took too long. I look at him and said thanks and goodbye. As I exit that house Lonia hugs me and Arsyn just opens the door for us.
"What took you guys so long?" Arsyn starts the engine as she answers, "We saw Zeke come in. We just can't barge in like that. So we just waited." I just nod at them and yawn. "I'm tired. Just go back to the hotel." then I remember what happened earlier. "Lonia I'm sorry about what I said earlier. You too Arsyn."
Lonia just smiled at me. "No worries Kends. We were just worried about where you are but I guess it's ok now." Arsyn looks at me, "What about you? Are you ok?"
"I guess I'll live." we all just laugh and fall into a comfortable silence.
Yeah, I'll live.
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(Curtis POV)
I feel a little dizzy when I woke up and hurriedly look for my brother. I saw him sleeping next to me and I sigh in relief. Every one of us is in the living room then I hear a noise coming down the stairs then I saw Vaughn. "Oh, you guys are awake."
It seems like all of us sleep in here. I wake Calvin up and he looks as clueless as everyone here. I can't remember well what happened last night.
Paige brought a girl here then we order pizza and? "Ugh, what happened last night?" Thoven asks the question we all are thinking. Vaughn just shrugs his shoulder, "Ask Zeke. He comes before me."
"Where is Zeke?" Paige then asks.
"Kitchen," answered Vaughn.
We all stand up and my body feels so stiff to fall asleep on a sofa. "We are never to sleep on a sofa again," I stated but in Calvin's word it's whining. They just laugh at me and I ignore them as I went to the kitchen. "Eze~ my body's stiff make me some waffles!" I commanded Eze, fine! I whine. Eze just looks at me annoyed but prepares the ingredients anyway.
He may look annoyed at me but he doesn't have a choice. It's either he does it now or later after tons of insisting. As he was cooking my waffles the guys also come in. "What happened to us?" Thoven asks again. Then my waffles arrived! I dig in as Eze starts to talk. "I come back with you guys asleep and a girl crying worried."
Then Paige butt in with a worried look. "Is she ok? What happened to her?"
"She's the one who probably put you guys to sleep" Vaugh then butts in.
"I think not, the pizza has some crushed sleeping pills on it and she also almost eat it." Eze then continues his story. But again, Paige butts in, "Is she ok?" "Yeah, she's fine her friends fetch her." then they also sat and then eats. This got me thinking that's it's our last day. I better go there, huh?
After I finish my meal I take a shower and go to a secret place here. It's deep in the woods, some may get lost but I know this place too well to be. I'm almost there when I hear noises following me, "Calvin if you want to go here too just come out." then I saw my twin with his hands in his pocket. "It seems like you want to go alone so I just follow."
I just laugh and swing my hand on his shoulder. "Come on! It's better with you there." A couple of steps later we are here in our place. A very beautiful lake with a little treehouse there but what makes me and my twin stop is a girl in a plain light pink dress with twin tails.
"Iya!" I scream and ran towards her. My heart beating fast but at the same time, it felt like it stops breathing. I hug her and so does my brother. "Iya how have you been?"
We break from our hug and just look at her. I'm sure that me and my brother are way too speechless at this moment. Looking at the girl in front of me takes my breath away. And she looks at us both shocked and confuse, "Who are you guys?"
"Iya what are you talking about? It's me Curt and this is Calv. Don't you remember us?" I look at her confused and my heart just tightens at the thought that she forgot us.
"You must mistake me for someone. My name's Lonia"