The moment Gellyn left, Timothy couldn't remove the smile off his face. Goodness, gracious! He has been smiling since this morning and his secretary was wondering why he's in a good mood today. Even at the board meeting this morning, he was focused on the entire 2 hours and even has the energy to demonstrate his other plans for the new batches of the products.
After the meeting, Timothy slumped himself to his sofa and immediately contacted his friend Denver. So far among his other friends, Denver is mature and not stupid and crazy like the others. "Yes, buddy?" The voice from the other line asked and Timothy told him the whole story.
"Really? You meet that lady in the black dress from the university?" Denver's voice was still amazed upon hearing the King of Bitter Gourds stating everything in a detailed manner.
"Yes, Denver. And believe me, she's still a graduating 23-years old student and from the Philippines. Gosh, I felt entirely focused on her the entire time and I forgot my bitterness."
"Dude, only two words that describe how you feel right now." Denver was now trying to hold his laughter from the other line and Timothy took his seat; waiting for his friend's reply. "What is it?" A bit of annoyance stuck in his mind when Denver replied: "It could be that you like her or felt the sense of interest. It's not love because you only met her today."
Timothy bit his lower lip before speaking, but now his voice was back in the old way. Cold. "I doubt about like and love part Denver. You guys know that love just comes from those who believe in it and fooled by it."
"O Theé mou! Now you got your old voice back. Tsk Tsk Tsk."
Timothy clearly heard his friend sighed in the other line. "Tell me honestly man, what really happened between you and Francine?" A sound of seriousness can be heard from Denver. "I'll tell you some other time man, even after a few years had passed. What she did to me is making me angry and grumpy, like I wanted to kill or fire somebody now!" And there he yells. Just remembering the past makes him rage and he doesn't like it. Fuck this!
"Tell me about it later, I feel like what you told us before was not enough. There is something more that we should know about what really happened so that you can finally move on from the past."
"I'll try, but my anger is my issue right now. Mom and Dad would definitely interrogate me like before and I hate it!" Timothy doesn't know that a tear dropped in his cheek and he quickly wiped it out. "I know man, why don't you try to hang out with Gellyn? Maybe she could at least help you unwind things from the past. It's not that bad to risk, it's what businessmen do, right?"
Timothy felt that he somehow was relieved by his friend's statement. "I'll try, it depends on my mood on what will I do to her. By her presence earlier, she makes me forget about my anger issues."
Denver chuckled. "I guess it was a good start for you man. Just try to get to know her in 3 months, maybe some magical thing might appear between you two."
"Oh shut the fuck up Denver, it's not like and love. I only find her interesting."
"Oh please, everything started in 'interesting' feelings, my friend. And remind me to slap you when you got the L-word towards her. Later, bitter gourd!" His friend hangs up the call and Timothy was thinking about what will he do the moment he and Gellyn would meet up again. I am starting my plans now, let's see if she can survive.
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Gellyn was now reviewing her subjects for tomorrow's quizzes when her phone rings and it came from an unknown number. "Hello?"
"Hi, mooie dame! It's me, Timothy. Caught you by surprised?"
Gellyn hissed before responding: "No I wasn't. I'm busy studying that is why."
She heard him chuckled in the other line. "Really? So you forgot about meeting me tomorrow at 2 pm?"
"No, I haven't. I have my notes about my schedules so I wouldn't forget."
"Uitstekend! Save my personal number. And I'll be picking you up tomorrow right after your schedule at 12 noon? I'm not in my office tomorrow so come with me, Begrijp je?"
Gellyn sighed. I guess he has a change of schedule. "Ok, noted sir."
"Then again, I'll see you tomorrow." With that he hangs up. Gellyn immediately saved his number and just named it: Mr. Aillspawn. Suddenly, Gellyn widens her eyes due to realization. Oh my God! He's picking me up in school?! What the hell is he thinking?! This is totally going to be a hot topic if anyone would see me! She was panicking inside as she was thinking of the possibilities after her friends and school mates would find out. I'm so dead!!
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"Hey girl, you have been staring at your phone since we went to your classroom. Is everything alright?" Ella asked her. Why would she be ok when there's still no text or call from Mr. Aillspawn. She's dead nervous! "Well, remember that I went somewhere else yesterday?"
"What about it?" Riane asked in curiosity. And Gellyn could feel the tension of her friends that are so curious right now. "I actually met Mr. Aillspawn, and he was going to be the participant in this private task." With that, her friends' eyes widened and their mouths were hanged open due to surprise. "Hang on, Aillspawn? As in Timothy Aillspawn from the LDR Products & Enterprises?" Ella clarified. Gellyn bit her lower lip before nodding in response.
"Isn't that the guy who's the guest speaker of the seminar?" Melody asked. "Yes! That's him!" They all faced Elma who is now looking at her phone and they all cornered her; curious enough to what she just discovered.
"Girl, you can call yourself lucky! He's the youngest bachelor in the whole world! Imagine, for the whole 3 months, you will spend your afternoons with him." Her friends squealed in excitement for her. Why would she become excited when she was actually nervous! Goodness, so what if he's a bachelor? It's not like there's something's going to happen while I'm with him. "Oh, you guys might be overthinking. There's nothing special actually." Gellyn and her friends are walking towards the entrance hall, still talking about her encounter with Timothy.
She halted when she saw a Ferrari F60 America has stopped right in front of the quadrangle and many students seem to be curious about who's the driver. "Wow, shiny car. I wonder who's professor owns it." Jyne asked. All were left their mouths hanged open when someone went out of the car who's wearing casual attire with sunglasses on, and his hair was well-brushed.
The man was scanning every student he sees and he stops his scanning the moment he landed his eyes on Gellyn. He removed his sunglasses and revealed deep blue eyes and starting to walk in their direction. "Are you Miss Gellyn Pacala?" He asked with a smile and instantly her friends were now looking at her. "Yes, that's me. Who are you?"
The man chuckled and offered his hand for a handshake. "I'm Viktor Winterfeild, the friend of Timothy Aillspawn. You see, he asked me to pick you up because he was currently busy right now. But don't worry, I promised my friend to safely fetch you up and drive to where he is now. So, shall we?"
Gellyn looks at her friends and they were giving her two thumbs up and good lucks. Gellyn heaves a deep sigh before following the guy and off they go. Goodness, why did I followed this man than calling him by myself? Darn it!
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"Man, are you sure that he would be fine of picking her up?" Denver asked Timothy while he was sketching something.
"Yes, Denver. In fact, Viktor told me that he wanted to see the girl that I find interesting. And he told me that he would test me if I ever get mad at him and I don't know the fuck why he did such as lame testing."
"So, like testing the jealousy level of the bitter gourd, Aillspawn? Now that's what I called interesting." Mercury, their other friend said as he was using his binoculars while he was enjoying the view of the sea.
"If I would be in Viktor's shoes, then I might do the same to you, King of Bitter Gourds." Luke chuckled and he just glared at him. "Seriously Luke, I would never get mad about it. Besides, who am I to be jealous?" He shook his head and continues to sketch the drawing, and he was also preparing the other materials for the circuits of his new product with the help of Denver and Luke.
"I sure hope that the materials I bought for this product of yours would work. If not then I'll go get a new one for you man." Mercury said he stops his gaze to the car that's entering the private beach. "Speaking of our friend, he's here." Their gazes were shifted to the car coming on it's way to the cottage and stops.
"Sup people! I safely bought Miss Pacala." He opens the door for her and Gellyn went out of the car and Timothy's stare turns into a glare when Viktor placed his arms around Gellyn's shoulder. "See? I bought her safely. And I did order lunch for all of us since I'm not in my cooking mood today."
"Your arms Viktor, take those off. It's annoying." Timothy's voice was like he's going to eat somebody and that made Viktor smirked. "What did you say, Timothy?" And now he was teasing their friend. The fuck?! Can't this idiot understand what I just say?! "Don't make me repeat, you annoying Swiss!"
Viktor couldn't help but laugh as he removed his arm on Gellyn. "Seat here, Gellyn" He motioned her to the seat beside him, and when she was seated. His friends immediately introduced themselves to her.
"Hi! I'm Mercury Flamehart."
"My name's Luke Montgomery."
"I'm Denver Zimmerman, please to me you."
"Hello, nice to meet you all." She flashed a smile and that made Timothy to felt annoyed. Fucking annoyed! She's supposed to smile at me, damn it! Why did I invite these morons?! Argh!
"Just don't mind us here. Timothy was just asking for assistance, you can do your work if you want." Luke winked and she nods.
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As she was looking at them while they were busy assembling the two items on the table, she couldn't help but admire how handsome his friends looked right now even though they were all busy. Why does he get so many handsome friends?
"Can I ask? What are you guys making?"
"It's the newest product that we are making. And after we assemble the sample products, we will do the testing later. Would you like to help us out?"
Gellyn excitedly nods. "Sure! That sounds fun!" With that, Timothy smiled at her as he continues to assemble the bracelet. Gellyn observes how he was so serious in making this new design and was amazed since there were 2 bracelets. One silver with flower design and one pitch black with leaf design. Gellyn took out her notebook and wrote down the behaviors that she noticed to Timothy right now.
She was listing every attitude and mannerism that she sees. Later on, she noticed that Timothy and his friends are now done. "Alright! All done, I sure wish they will work." Timothy was happily looking at the bracelets on the table. "Wow, they look amazing." She complimented as her eyes were still admiring how beautiful these couple bracelets look.
"Well, he was after all inspired, am I right my friend?" Luke smirked and Timothy glared at him. "Oh shut up, it's nothing related to it, you moron!"
"Hahaha, it's nice to hear that from you, my friend. And right now, Vladimir is coming." Viktor said and in instant, they saw another car stopped and comes out a man with dark brown hair and he too looks handsome.
"You must be the girl that our friend has been talking about. The name's Vladimir Romannov. Cousin of Viktor, and here's your lunch. I did prepare everything for you all. And Aillspawn, just pay via bank account, you know what's my account."
"Thanks, Vlad, why don't you join us?"
"Nah. I'm busy today at the restaurant. Hey Viktor, 7 pm sharp at the restaurant later or else Uncle will kill me for your absence."
"Yeah yeah sure thing Vlad. I'll be there, you know how I love watching the new view today. And believe me; I might just binge-watching for them all day long." Viktor smirked and Vladimir seems to get his point as he let out a chuckle. "I guess spring is about to come soon enough. Well, see you guys soon. I'll be on my way now, and nice meeting you, Miss Gellyn Pacala." Vladimir went to her and kissed her hand before leaving. And she felt aback by that sweet gesture. Vladimir bids them goodbye and droves off.
"That punk, how dare he does that stupid gesture. How annoying!" Timothy shook his head as he places all the foods on the table while Gellyn and his other friends placed their things to the next empty table. "Wow, Vladimir never misses impressing us all," Mercury said as he was now munching the steak.
Gellyn grabs some rice, beef steak, and cheese sticks. "Yum! These are all delicious! I sure wish my friends would be here with me to taste these mouth-watering foods." Gellyn was enjoying eating the foods. And later on, Timothy's friends have been asking her some random questions.
"So Gellyn, how old are you?" Mercury asked. "23 years old, Sir."
"Nah, don't call us those. It's so formal, if you were with us just talk casually since it's only us here and we're not in our companies so no pressure." Mercury winked and she just nods.
"Are those your friends earlier when I fetched you up?" Viktor asked. "Yes they are"
"Do they belong to the same course as you?" Luke asked. "Well no. The 6 of us were all in different courses actually. One from Performing Arts, one from the Fashion Department, one from Nursing, One from English Literature, and one from Multimedia Arts." Strong friends huh? 6 different courses and one big group of friends, sounds awesome. Timothy actually admired how she was confident to answer his friend's questions.
"May we know their names?" And now Luke asked out of curiosity. "Sorry, but I'm not going to tell you the names of my friends. All of us made a deal of not sharing our names to other people unless it's important of sharing it." She smirked and Luke sadly scoffed. Very good my sweet. Now you got me more interested in you. "Aww, I sure wish I meet your friends. I'll be fun if they are here." Mercury pouted and Gellyn laughs. By that, it caught his attention. Sounds like music for me. "Sorry, as I said, it's a no."
"Damn, alright, we have to do the testing now. I still have to go to the event at 3 pm." Luke said as he stands up. Gellyn looks at Timothy and asks. "Event? What's his company anyway?"
"You see, Luke owns a modeling industry. Wanna know these guy's works? Mercury owns an electrical engineering firm. Viktor and Vladimir own several restaurants. And Denver is a CEO of publishing houses." Gellyn's mouth hangs wide open upon hearing him said those. Damn, all of them were not just handsome but also rich! And she felt suffocating due to the thought of thinking about Timothy and his friends are not just ordinary people.