"OH MY DEAR CHILD! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" overly acting of Aunt Claire as she hugged and kissed Mole. She winked at both of her eyes as she kisses both of his cheeks.
Mole was smiling at the overly joyed Auntie. Tuxedo looking at his Aunt being the center of the attention, she pushed her Aunt away from Mole.
He clenched his teeth and smiled at the people who were looking at them. He whispered "Aunt Claire, we are here to celebrate, please behave. You are embarrassing us."
"Don't be so over dramatic! They are looking at us because we are late!"
Aunt Claire escaped Tuxedo and ran to greet the people as she twist her hips side to side with her puffy contour and blushed on.
Tuxedo sighed deeply, Mole seeing how stressed his employer, he walked near him. "It's ok you're not late. Come! There's plenty of food there."
The nurse said as he offer his hand to the lad. Tuxedo grabbed the small hand of Mole and was dragged it. The Maximillians were enjoying themselves but a sharp beady eyes looking at the nurse and the actor hanging out together.
"Is how an employee and the employer interact with each other?" he asked.
As the night was getting darker, a staff came close to the nurse who was watching the people dance. "Sir, your partner already arrived awhile ago."
"Oh! where is he?"
"He's already in your room. I'm just informing you."
"Oh! is that so, well then thank you."
The staff left him. He yawned and stretched a little, he was feeling the exhaustion. Mole decided to go back to his room.
A surprised look masked him. He saw a bag next to a bed. His room is having 2 beds and the person who owns those bags were not there.
He hears splashing in the bathroom. "He's in the bathroom, might as well prepare my stuff to bed." He said.
While he was sitting on his bed and reading a book, a tall muscular man went out the bathroom. Mole gazed to him and he saw Tuxedo with his wet hair and drenched torso.
Mole jumped up and fixed himself from complacent to tensed. "What are you doing here sir?" he said as he avoid eye contact with him.
Tuxedo grinned and said "Am I not allowed here?" he passed through the surprised nurse and sat on his bed.
"No sir, what I'm trying to say is, Why are you here? I thought the Maximillians are having a separate place for you to stay?"
"We ran out of place to stay for one person. I volunteered to go."
"Where's your dog then?" Mole was talking about his assistant that always tailing Tuxedo. "He's in vacation."
Tuxedo said as he secretly crossed his finger. "Don't worry, I'm not here to give you some workloads, I'm here to experience the authenticity of this village."
The nurse sighed deep and so he lean back to his bed and read his book. The actor who secretly peeked at a small chick reading, whispered "Cute"
While Tuxedo was unloading his bags, The nurse saw a familiar item that the actor took out. A brown box with a big label on it.
The actor noticed that Mole was being curious of it. "Want some?" he offered reaching out the box.
"Where did you bought those chocolate bars?"
"From the city, why?"
"Nothing, I just remembered someone."
Tuxedo was planning to tease the nurse, "Did you happen to remember someone?"
"Yeah, A little" Mole took one chocolate bar from the box and ate it while reading his book.
"Who is that someone then?"
"Just someone that I appreciated."
"Does that someone was close to you?"
"I barely know that person so … meh!"
Tuxedo doesn't want to end their conversation, he was feeling that Mole will ignore him and there will be a silence all through out the night.
To break the dead air, He noticed the book that the nurse was reading. "What are you reading?"
"Lifetime, just a book that talks about life and expectancy"
"So you like reading those kind of stuff!"
"Not really, I like reading horror books with murderous pursuit and some supernatural phenomenon."
"Oh! then why are you reading that then?"
"Just to buy some time, I have difficulty in sleeping"
"You have difficulty in sleeping? Why?"
The nurse puts down his book and faced the actor who curiously asking a question.
"I was diagnosed with Insomnia due to stress."
"Yup! You are stressed most of the time"
"Oh! no, that's not it. When I'm working, that is my way of relieving stress."
"Then you are stressed about?"
"Stressed about my life!"
"I don't see how"
"Of course you don't! you are an actor! On top of that you are rich, famous and handsome! Everyone are queuing for you"
Hearing those words, Tuxedo smiled gloomy. Mole flinched seeing the actor's reaction. "I was diagnosed with depression 3 years ago, just because I have it all doesn't mean that I'm perfect.
Sure! I have those things that other people wanted but they don't want this life."
Mole remembered that most of the actors and actresses are diagnosed with mental health deficit. Most of them struggled in being an ideal person for the people to adore.
Some reported of suicide while the others were having treatment and so in the industry of stardom, the stars has their own limits.
Looking at the actor's situation, he approached him and hugged him. "Sometimes a hug is not bad"
Tuxedo just nodded and wrapped his arms to the nurse's back.
"We experienced the same situation, how funny that is." The nurse laughed while hugging the actor.
"People said that I'm blessed, I'm good but I struggled in life. I struggled to the point that even my own family, I hard to trust.
They don't understand that, only I can understand myself. I know your struggles as well, and I know my situation is different from yours but at some point , I see resemblance."
They rubbed each other's back. No one cried but both of them were broken. They are not the only broken people in the event, there are also some people who are now sleeping peacefully.
The night was full of shattered life, The deprived are not caused by their own, they were caused by life's expectancy and life choices. It only grew deeper and causes more pain when insensitive people applied their life to someone else's.
Mole was feeling a bit of tired, He unhugged Tuxedo "Ok! It's getting darker and we have a lot of things to do tomorrow!"
The nurse went to the bathroom to wear his pajamas. After a few minutes, he sleep peacefully. Tuxedo on the other hand read his script for the next shooting.
He was so fired up to work hard because of some inspiring words that he heard from a wise nurse. He was leaning back with his right arm placed at the back of his head.
He looked so dreamy as he read his script. He was wearing a sleeveless fitted shirt and a short. His chest was protruding and his arms were flexing.
As he memorized and visualized his role, he encountered a line "…Morning is full of hope…"
It was a line that narrates his character from the script. Reading those words makes him to look at the peacefully sleeping nurse who faced away from him.
'We fight hopeful for a gift of tomorrow' he thought. Remembering how the nurse smiled at the patient when he was working at the hospital, visualizing Mole being happy when they arrived from their House.
Those feelings made him warm. Butterfly stomach, puffy and red cheeks, fast pulse of the heart were all over him.
The next morning, the hunky man woke up an seeing an empty bed next to him. There were no sign of the nurse in the room.
He looked at his phone and saw that it was 5 in the morning. He stood up and rinsed his face. He did some stretching and some exercises for about 30 minutes.
Suddenly he noticed a covered plate that has a note on it. "To: Mr. Maximillian"
Thinking it was from Mole, he opened it up and saw beacons, eggs and ham with coffee on the side. He smiled and ate those.
For a while, he went out for a walk, He's just out to look for the lost chick. The morning dew greeted him and the sun kissed his skin.
He was looking stunning and everyone who passed through him greeted him with butterflies and heart shaped eyes.
When he was about to go back because he could not find Mole, he went to the kitchen to see what are missing so he could asked for his men to drop by.
In his surprised, he saw a cooking nurse with 3 other old ladies chopping and mincing some ingredients. Mole was smiling all the way as he helped out the ladies preparing for the breakfast of everyone.
~END OF CHAPTER