Ethan's pov
"Please don't tell to my Mom where am I going now," I begged Hanjie, my hair stylist. I was talking to her because I needed to look attractive later where I was going. I didn't want to look like a commodity in the market that was ignored.
"We don't have a problem with that, Sir. Besides, why would he ask me where you are?" he made a point but you just don't know what he can do. Mama even outsmarts an investigator if someone is to be found or made to do something.
"Well, you know her. And her instinct for being an investigator." I joked with Hanjie.
"There, it's all over! You look gorgeous as always." he patted the brush and put away the things he brought.
"Thank you Anjie! You are really good and reliable. I love you...." I hugged him causing him to be surprised.
"You're welcome Sir." he also hugged me "So.." he added.
"So..?!" I asked him back
"I heard about the engagement and the wedding is coming up. I haven't heard anything about who will fix you gay!" This shit is gay.
"Of course it's you! You are the only one I trust when it comes to my stylist and makeup! It's you and I won't hire anyone else." I just smiled at him.
"Shit! Amazing! It's that you?" I looked at the door when Liam suddenly spoke while he was leaning against the back of the door.
"I don't think so! Maybe you're just daydreaming." I answered philosophically.
"Lol! Even now I saw that he looked like a human," he said and he laughed along with it because I made him suffer
"Yes, is it? If you're so insulting, you think you've made your shape look good, boy!" when I replied to him, he just smiled.
"Are you ready?" he grabbed my waist and walked towards his car. While we were quietly making our way to Liam's club, a song suddenly played on the car stereo "Sana'y Na lang.."
🎶 I did everything 🎶
🎶I gambled even though I knew I would lose🎶
🎶 I spent all my time with you 🎶
🎶 Just to make you feel that I love you like that🎶
🎶 But it's like you don't have all my troubles🎶
I just bit my lower lip because I didn't want to cry. I just remembered Matteo, sad to say but I still miss him...
🎶 I wish I never met you again🎶
🎶I hope I'm not with you anymore🎶
🎶You just hurt me🎶
🎶I hope I don't love you anymore🎶
I didn't realize that the tears that I had been holding back were starting to fall. I quickly wiped it off and pretended Liam didn't see it but it was too late when he looked at me.
"You cried a lot. We're not in the theater to make someone cry," he said to me.
I can't hold back all my feelings now, especially in the song by Bandang Lapis, the message of the song is very painful.
"Why is that? I tried my best to make him love me. I gave him everything... He wants!" a silent tear rolled down my cheek. "I loved him more than I love myself but... I keep hating myself because why is he the one I choose to love? There are so many men in the world! Why am I begging him not to leave me? Why am I suffering? Why am I hurting now?" My tears are still flowing down my cheeks.
"You know the one who is your friend's mother snatched you!"
"I can hardly accept that Cindy is still my partner with Matteo. With so many people why is she still? I helped him stand on his own feet, but that's how he will repay me, betraying me." I heard gossip about the two of them, they had a relationship and I trusted them too much but what did they do to me? They took advantage of my weakness! I will make their lives hell.
"I told them, Allen." I stopped crying because of what he said and I just looked at him.
"What do you mean?" I wiped my head again on my face.
"You don't need me to know what I said to her. Just try your best to move on Ethan, not what you pretend to be to someone who just turned on you from the beginning. Forget about what they did. I'm just here whenever you need sympathy." His litany made me feel better.
"I told you before I don't trust Cindy but you insisted that she's a good person," he added emphatically and I could see the anger in his eyes.
"I didn't know then that they are just playing with me! That bitch played me! But he played with the wrong person." I felt my tears fall again.
"Then don't waste your tears over those kinds of people!" he answered. His grip on the steering wheel turns his hand white.
"I'm sorry." I just said while sniffing.
"You shouldn't be the one saying sorry. You are more than a friend to me. I treat you like my own brother! But for the sake of our friendship, I didn't destroy them. I left them with something, something that will remind them of what they did to you, the biggest mistake of their lives." he just smirked. I don't know what this man was pointing out.
"Aw... I love you, Liam! You know that!" I just gave him a wide smile that made him smile back.
"I love you too. Stop crying fix your face it makes you uglier. It's a waste of what you paid your make-up artist if the make-up on you will be erased." he said while tickling me.
"Stop tickling me! Maybe we'll go to heaven if you don't focus on driving." I hit his hand.
He immediately followed what I told him and a few minutes passed. I can hear the music from where he parked his car. He owns this club of course he has a VIP Parking lot.
After we entered the entrance of the club we went to the VIP section. The rest of the Gang is waiting there. Liam and I arrived late because we had to eat before going there. Just when I was about to say hi to the whole gang someone hugged me behind my back.
"Why didn't you even call us? We are all worried about you. What happened to you in the province." It was Nikko. Nikko is my super best friend. He is the type that even though we don't hang out or talk every day, deep down we care so much about each other. He's the one who isn't a hypocrite in the group, if he doesn't like something or notices something in us he'll tell you right off.
"Owww. Nikolai! I miss you!" I immediately hugged him and all of a sudden it turned out to be a group hug. Hahaha silly! Everyone joined in. This is how we are when my cousins get together, always happy, no-kill of joy, and even more sulutera/ or in the group.
"They say I miss you? I miss you there and you don't even show it," he said angrily.
"Your plastic friend, tweaked by Nikko! It's a pity to see because Nikko is almost bald. Then Matteo did nothing but stare as he watched the two wander into your condo."
"NIKKO!" I said to Nikko. "Is that why you have a scratch on your face?" I asked him.
"That bitch deserved every bit of it! Who does she think she is ruining other people's lives? The nerve of the low-life pathetic bitch showing in my office after what she did to you." he gulped down a glass of beer and I knew that Nikko was right because his face was almost red
"I'm sorry guys... I'm sorry if I didn't tell you, where I went. I miss you all." we all started drinking and dancing to the music.
"Y-you know Allen." Sam is drunk too. Now she slurs her words.
"Can you still do it?" I asked him while holding a glass of wine.
Do you know that Cindy the bitch talked bad behind your back all the time? I wasn't sure if I should let you know that you always take her sides. He is good at manipulating people. She also said that Matteo is just forcing you to be with you!" it was like a needle had pierced your chest. If this was true I swear I could kill someone in this hour.
"Hey! You're not supposed to tell her that. That'll make her sad!" Nikko reprimanded Kaya. But the alcohol is too strong for me to understand what's happening now or I'm just going crazy. I saw Sebastian's bulk...
"Hey!" I heard something. But I don't know who he is.
"Hey! gay! shouted the man again while approaching me.
"Where the hell have you been?" he asked me.
"Are you drunk? You're stupid Ethan!" His shouting caused us to get all the attention of my friends. And who is he to yell at this man? But his perfume is so familiar. But I can't remember who owns that perfume...
Wait... Holy shit!
"SEBASTIAN!" I asked him and just looked at it.
"Fuck you!" I think the alcohol is taking over me.
"WHAT!?" He bent slightly so that he could twist his face to me.
"I SAID FUCK YOU, ALL OF YOU FUCK YOU!" I shouted at him. "You're such ang asshole! Do you know how far I fuckin walked today? Is it the right thing for a sane fiance to leave his fiance in the middle of nowhere?" I still kept my eyes on him.
"I came back. I came back because I saw you left your cell phone and wallet inside my car," he says.
"Hey wow!" I clapped my hands three times." If you came back, I wish I wouldn't have walked for hours in the middle of the heat to an unknown place!" I punched him this time and my chest gradually tightened. I want to cry because of earlier.
"It's your fault too because you didn't wait for me where I dropped you off earlier," he answered sparingly.
"Well, you're a fool. What if you don't come back, the darkness will overtake me and I'll look pitiful in that stranger of mine." my blood boils more and more for this stupid man.
"Are you okay?" he asked me.
"You're asking if I'm okay? Get out of my sight, will you! Your face makes me sick even more!" wait did I just seriously date that? Seriously if drinking makes me this vulgar and gives me a higher fighting spirit I would drink every day.
"Let's go you're drunk. I'll take you home." he suddenly grabbed my hand but I stopped him.
"Don't touch me! You didn't even apologize for what you did. Were you born stupid?" oh my My attitude, I don't know myself anymore. I'm a bit dizzy from my drunkenness. I looked behind me and saw my friends who were just staring as they stared at the man who was talking to me now. I know that they are all surprised because of what I expect of this man now.
"By the way guys... This is Sebastian Vincent... " I poked him. " What's your last name again!? Oh, wait I remember... This is SEBASTIAN VINCENT ASSHOLE.. my fiance is useless!!" I can feel Nikko stop me but he knows me.
"I'll take his home!" I heard Liam answer. Go, Liam, don't let this go.
"Maybe you're not stupid. You heard what he said? I'm his fiance? So I'm taking her home!" alas, the idiot took a power trip.
"You said it yourself Bro, fiance just you and you are not his wife yet. So I'll take him home!" Liam answered! Yes, but Sebastian starts to drag me toward the exit. It's embarrassing to many people and especially to my friends. I saw Nikko stop Liam after us. I wonder why!
Sebastian opened the door for me and my eyes widened as he immediately closed it. When he got into the driver's seat, he came to me to fasten the seat belt.
"Can you drop me off at my parent's condo? I want to be alone." I know I'm very drunk because my eyes are almost spinning but I want to be alone tonight.
"No! I'll take you home!" he answered.
"Can you just at least let me be by myself tonight?" he ventured to agree.
"I SAID NO! NO MEANS NO! Don't you understand?" My chest is tight, I try not to cry but I can't. I'm so excited and take Matteo, Cindy, and this whole arranged marriage with you.
"WHAT!? ARE YOU GONNA WALK ME AGAIN?" I said with a disgusting voice!
"NO!" he answered sparingly
"Why can't you even give it to me once? Am I always the one who begs?!" tears kept rolling down my cheeks. "I'm fed up. Can't you just give it to me now?" I sniffed. Trying to stop my tears but I failed terribly.
"I feel like I just want to die! You know the feeling that you did everything to show him that you love him, but it's still not enough? My only mistake is that I truly loved the wrong person! I LOVED HIM THE WRONG PERSON! But why do I still love him so much? I don't care. I'm a fool!!! I don't want to. I just want to die, I can't take this pain anymore." I could feel a single tear slide down from my eyes, followed by another one, until soon a steady stream of salty tears flowed its way down my cheek, releasing the sadness and sorrow that has been held inside me all this time.
"Who hurt you?" I heard him ask seriously.
"He's DEAD TO ME!" Sebastian just said as he focused on driving.