He began to sing it, and his younger brother in the next room could hear him hum to the tone of the music. Whole-heartedly he let his sadness out, he used to practice singing when he was in primary school. Ves was shocked that the body she was into was actually good at singing.
So far singing, watching anime, and contributing small amounts to his family's needs were the only things that made him happy because he had no friends. Despite the fact that he was so engrossed with his busy life, the thought of not having someone to talk to succeeded in interrupting him and making him miss Tara and Raylana. Whoever heard his playlists would probably think that Talin's broken-hearted, but he was not, yet all of his liked songs were about the sorrows of a lover.
As he meditated and calmed himself from the stress he could not get rid of thinking.
"This boy's body is mysterious, if he came back to life after that five seconds why would I wake up as him after I died?"
His brows furrowed as Ves reacted to what his mom had said in confusion.
"No! You are hella mysterious Tal, where did your soul go after I took over your body?"
"Arghhh!" Tal groaned and stood up, walked out to his room's door and slammed it.
"Bo..bro" he muttered in shock "what..what are you doing here? He nervously queried.
"Yes baby! There you go" Gayo gladly said. "I was catching pokemons Bro and I hunted one in here. Don't worry, aside from your ugly voice I did not hear anything from your room."
"Did you just call my voice ugly?"
"Yeah keep it up," His younger brother said as he continued to walk searching for new pokemons.
"He's something more than crazy," Ves spoke to herself.
The front door downstairs opened, it was their mom who came home from grocery errands.
"Boyyyysss! Talllll! Ayo!!! Go down please, I bought you guys pizza for snack!" Mrs. Cuevas shouted as she put the heavy groceries she bought on the dining table.
"On our way Ma!" Tal shouted back, dragging his brother with him. Just then after going down something caught Gayo's eyes. His all-time favorite "Biaño's Pizza" it peaked out from the eco bag his mom bought to carry groceries. Excitedness got the better of him, he leaped up with a quick glance at his game, clicked the settings button, and pressed the quit game. He threw his phone onto the couch. He ate so quietly, closing his eyes, and savoring his favorite pizza.
"Slowly Ayo, there's no one chasing after you" his mom jokingly said.
Ves smiled, she remembered that particular day her dad gave her permission to eat junk food. She was so excited to go grocery shopping at that time.
"Son? Go ahead you must be hungry from studying" She handed Tal one slice.
He had been seriously entertained by what he saw with his brother's advertisement-level eating. This time he was eating his pizza laughing. Ves did not expect that Talin's completely grouch brother was also funny and acted like a kid. His brother almost cried as two pineapple pieces of his pizza flopped into the table.
Talin shrugged and got up the moment he finished his pizza. He stretched his entire body and felt some form of relief after drinking a glass of iced water. His whole body was stiff from sitting on his bed for too long. He made notes to study the keywords to freshen his mind tomorrow morning.
After an hour of resting, he removed his shirt and shorts and changed them immediately to his workout clothes. A beam of light cut through his room's darkness as he closed the windows for the mosquitoes to not come in, the light landed on his workout area. It was already an hour after sunset, he looked for the bulb switch and clicked it for a better vision of him working out.
His workout was for his core and legs. He laid out his black yoga mat and tied his shoelaces. His legs were shaking badly out of the intensity of his leg day. After several exercises and its reps, his heart beated a hundred times. Now time for his most hated exercise, the fifteen minutes killer core workout.
Before proceeding to his hated part, Talin turned back to look at himself in the mirror, he did not know how long he stood there staring at his own body because Ves was amazed how Tal managed to discipline his old fat self to get the body that she saw right in front of the mirror. He also noticed how heavy his body had gotten after his cheat day. He felt like his body was shivering. After an unsure track of time, he began to do his core workout. He started with one hundred push-ups and later on one hundred curl-ups. By this time, his upper body began to tremble. He finished his overall thirty-minute workout.
At that moment, his phone rang. He looked at the name that flashed across his phone screen, he softly sighed, it was not Arvin. It was from Andero, his co-worker in his part-time job.
"Hello?" Andero inquired.
"Who's this?"
"Talin my boy! This is Andero, wanna hang out tonight at my uncle's club? There's plenty of hot ladies there" His workmate excitedly said, inviting him to join.
"I don't know bro, I've got a lot of things to do and I'm not into that kind of things." He said as he excused himself from partying.
"But Tal don't you see? You are a "no girlfriend since birth guy" and tonight can be the start of your love life! You need to explore new things in life bro, don't forget you're still a man and a man has needs." Andero tried to persuade his workmate that never resisted his favors back then.
"Sorry bro but I think it's not really me if I join parties like that and don't you think the club opens up a little too late in the evening? You know I've got school tomorrow." Tal stated his reasons.