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They went inside the café at Kaye's invitation. They went inside and settled on the table near the kitchen door.
Z looked at Kaye with pursed lips. The kiss still lingers in her mind. Those seductive, full, and demanding lips against her thin, hungry ones.
They sat facing each other, with J in the middle of them. They kept staring back and forth until the poor guy in the middle couldn't help but cringe.
He thought to himself, 'Ugh, that was blergh! But I'm glad I was able to take a video. LOL! This is going to be a lot of fun. Maybe I'll release this scoop on their wedding day.'
J smirked at the thought, but then he saw the door burst open, and he saw a woman that took his breath away.
'I'm in love.' he thought as he put his hand on his best friend's shoulder.
The woman was stunningly beautiful. The two girls beside him are all beautiful, but the woman he is gazing at holds the crown. A bit shorter than Kaye, curvy, and sexy to the right angles. These girls are no match for the thicc woman who is now looking at him with a raised eyebrow.
Z, confused, just looked at him and followed his line of vision. He swears that he saw in the corner of his eye that she made a face, but he couldn't care less.
Z stood up to greet her, much to his surprise.
"Good evening, Cassie!" She greets, which makes him barf at her politeness.
To be honest, this is the meanest, if not the rudest, of them all, and seeing her now is quite shocking. She's only ever been this polite in front of his parents.
"I see my dear little sister is back." Cassie nodded at Z as a greeting.
"And who is this strange-looking guy staring at my...?" She asked, pausing to grab and squeeze her boobs to emphasize.
Z quickly turned away and coughed while Kaye bawled, "Oh my god, Cassie!"
He chuckled at what took place. He stood up and introduced himself in an intentionally low and heroic voice: "Hi, I didn't know that beauty makes up your blood."
"I'm Jeremy James Scott, 24 years old, a few hours older than this person here," he said, pointing at Z.
"I'm already an adult with a full-time paying job and living at her house; my brother from another mother. We're roommates, best buds, Capricorn, and most importantly, single; I've never been divorced, and I'm actually looking for a hot momma to take me in." He said it in one take as he held out his hand for a handshake with the other hand in his stomach, bowing like some sort of nobleman.
Z cringed at her and she couldn't keep the grimace from showing.
Cassie just studied him up and down and shuddered in disgust before looking at Z.
"I'd like you to throw this kid out, and he's not stepping back here anymore. He's on the blacklist." She deemed it in a cold manner and turned around to go back to the kitchen, giving J one last scrutinizing look.
J hollers, trying to look hurt, "Oof, feisty!" Both the girls rolled their eyes at him.
They all watched as the buxom woman swayed her hips as she walked away.
"Sorry, bro, but you have to go." Z tapped her best friend's shoulder, gestured to the door and shook her head in regret.
"Hey, don't take her joke seriously. She clearly liked it." He said it with a smug expression.
Z facepalmed and said, "I think we should go."
"No wait, I'm going to ask for her number." He pleaded, and they just gave up. He's a lost cause.
He saw Kaye bring out her phone. "Oh, yeah, speaking of, I got a notification that you followed someone, Z. Now that's some news." He snickered while wiggling his left brow at his friend.
"And that's funny because..." Kaye raised a brow.
"Don't get me wrong. This young lass here, my friend, may have a lot of followers, but she hardly follows anyone back," he said as a matter of fact. He knows how private Z can be, and her social media account speaks for itself.
Kaye's brows scrunched even more.
"And isn't it unfortunate, though? She doesn't post any selfies, right?"
"That I agree with." Kaye agreed.
"You see, if you follow me, you'll get to see a lot of her pictures and selfies. Plus I'll let you in on a secret as a bonus." He said, wiggling his eyebrows at the strawberry blonde girl.
"Drop it, J. Do you think I don't get what you're trying to do here?" Z dismissed the idea and shuddered at the fact that she might see some embarrassing pictures.
Kaye thought for a while while gazing at him, then decided, "Alright, let's do it."
"Heh, that's more like it!" They followed each other on instabram. J quickly scanned the following tab. "So who's your sister here?" Aha! There you are. HAHAHAHA. Request sent." While Kaye skimmed through all his pictures.
There she saw the other woman, who was also on Z's account. She decided to browse them more tonight and hid her phone. "So, what's the secret?" Kaye asked skeptically.
"Uh, not that big of a deal, but our shy Z here has two accounts, and that's what you could say is her private one, so yeah, you're special." J winked at her as she browsed Cassie's profile to no avail since it was set as private.
Kaye blushed at what he said but still tried to ask Z, "So, why are there two, and what's the other one?"
Z just brushed her shoulder off and said, "Nah, it's just an account I use for work related stuff. Not really a big deal." Z still couldn't look her in the eye.
Both of them were trying not to think about the kiss.
Kaye sulked at her reply, and he just laughed it off. "Are we ordering or what?"
"Sure." Z replied, turning to her best friend, "And you, why are you here?"
"Well, first of all, you ditched me for this girl here." He looked at Kaye and made a face. "I know you haven't had dinner yet and you said you were on the way home, so yeah, I decided to come here to crash your date, WHICH, I'm glad I did." He chuckled and thought about Cassie and the video.
"So, should we go somewhere else?" He looked at Kaye to confirm, "You live here, right? I'm really craving something different that you won't find here. You are too, Z, right?"
"Stop messing around; we can just grab anything here, and I'm exhausted already." Z said coldly, not wanting to stay much longer because she couldn't stop thinking about the kiss.
"Z doesn't seem to like it, but if you insist, then I can have my sister fix us something," Kaye told him.
"N-no, it's nothing like that. I just don't want to trouble you." Z exclaimed immediately.
"We're about to close soon, but it'd barely be an inconvenience, and this guy here will pay for the food," Kaye uttered as a-matter-of-fact.
"Hey, I never agreed to that but if Cassie joins us then I'm willing to pay for anything." J crossed his arms looking proud at himself.
"Why don't you go inside and invite her yourself? I'll vouch for you if she gets angry. Though you got to ask my brother for permission first. He's back there at the bar."
J looked over and saw Oliver. "Really? you never told me he was your brother."
"You never asked," Kaye shrugged.
"Welp, here goes nothing." He stood up and went to talk to her brother.
"Hey! uh, Oliver?" He looked at the nameplate pinned on his chest. The guy is almost as tall as him, only a little shorter.
"'Yes, How can I help you?" Oliver asked, waiting for his reply.
"Hey, the name's J and I'm a friend of Z and your sister. I would like to invite you guys for dinner together with Cassie and I insist." He flashed a bright smile.
"We close at 8 so yeah I think that's okay. You can just wait at the table and ask for someone to take your order."
"Would you prefer we have dinner here or outside?" J asked, his smile not leaving his face.
He raised his brow, "I'm not gonna ask why you are asking for my opinion but anywhere is fine."
"So, uh, I'd like to ask your sister as well, Kaye told me I can go inside if you allow it." J tried to feel the guy out if he'd go nuts over such a small matter.
Oliver studied his face, looked up and down, and with a raised brow he said, "Suit yourself. But don't say I didn't warn you alright?"
"Got it, thanks!" He gave him a friendly salute and headed to the kitchen.