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Chapter 21 - DATES

He didn't know that his ex Brittany was having sleepless nights after seeing him in newspapers dining with the top most boss of hotel OCEAN, one of the most expensive hotels in the country, yet she last knew him as a shabby hobo.

Not only chilling with the boss of OCEAN but the pictures in newspapers went ahead to show Suxes hugging with a well known fashion model in the country, Pinky.

"look!" through the transparent glass walls of the café, a waitress colleague to Brittany saw Suxes coming out of an expensive black sedan which had just parked, dressed well than never before and she alerted Brittany who was taking a customer's order.

Brittany saw Suxes coming; "So it's true!" she exclaimed as she walked distracted with a burger and coffee on a tray.

Suxes decently walked inside the café and found himself a sit at the extreme end. Brittany herself walked to him as if she had come to take his order, but with other intentions;

"What are you doing here?" with a gloomy face she asked.

"I came to eat," he answered softly.

"You can't eat here... this is my work place!" rudely she said.

Her fellow workmate came by her side and informed her the boss needed to see her immediately. Brittany went to meet her boss and left her colleague attending to Suxes.

"So, you hit a jackpot overnight or something!" Brittany's workmate spoke disrespectfully to Suxes," last time I knew you were a shabby hobo eating from garbage...!"

"Excuse me...!" Suxes couldn't stand the insult and decided to leave angrily.

He madly walked out of the café and went direct to the car to drive away. As he opened the car door to get in, he saw Brittany coming out of the café with her handbag looking so sad.

"What's wrong? Can you please tell me whats wrong?!" He asked deeply concerned.

"I'm fired," she said after trying not to say and he insisted.

"Fired!!" he wondered, "for what?" Suxes couldn't figure out the reason as to why Brittany was fired at that moment so, he continued to question perplexedly; "why?"

"From that day you came here with your friend, he (her boss) warned me that, the moment he will ever see you near his café again, it will be my last day at work!" Brittany explained sorrowfully.

"Who does he think he is?!" Suxes got pissed, "so, because of this small business he thinks he can treat people like trash!!"

He was indeed angry to see the sorrow in Brittany's eyes that he barked, speaking in a curt loud and angry tone infront of a woman he had ever loved with all his heart.

"You need to calm down," Brittany asked kindly, "I need to be on my way right now to start looking for another job, I cannot manage bills doing only my evening job," she sadly stated as she walked on.

"No, no no...! wait!, you're not going to look for nothing from elsewhere!" he refused her, "Just get into the car," he opened the rear door, "come on, get inside!"

Brittany stared at Suxes opening the rear door to allow her inside. She remembered when she visited him in prison and rudely told him never to appear in her life again for she was completely done with him after gambling made him loose everything.

'The many times he came to her apologizing and she never gave him a chance, the consistent phone calls he made to reach her and she turned him off after hearing his voice behind the phone'.

'And how she disguised with her workmate late in the nights to spy on him while he was trying to survive on the streets. They saw him eating from garbage because no one could employ him due to his criminal record!'

Brittany remembered all these moments standing besides his expensive black sedan, looking at him caring about her unconditionally.

"Please get in," politely Suxes requested.

Before Kevin spoke to his best friend Suxes on phone, he first and foremost contacted his beloved girlfriend Pinky and asked her if they can have breakfast together.

At her house where she was in a beautiful bedroom laying awake in bed, Pinky was so excited to receive a call that early morning from the thief who stole her heart; Kevin.

She asked him desirously the venue where both of them could meet and Kevin clearly requested if it was okay with her to meet him at hotel OCEAN.

No doubt, Pinky was submissive, "at exactly 10am, I will be there," she promised.

"For almost a hour now the CEO has been standing there!" rumoured workers at the reception, "He maybe waiting for his friend!" "I don't think so..., can't you see he's so much on tension!?" Murmurs saturated amongst workers when they saw Kevin Moore standing at the hotel's main entrance.

Pinky was not so good with matters concerning time management and so, by 11am an executive black SUV parked infront of the main entrance at hotel OCEAN.

As a well known fashion queen, Pinky was another movie to watch when she popped out of the car and stepped on the grounds of the hotel. The innocence within her eyes match so well with her beauty and fashion.

And when she walked towards Kevin Moore who all along was waiting, it was a moment of extreme calmness, honor and butterflies on both shyly smiling faces as he received her.

Kevin Moore was an isolated dude who spoke to only those he knew well and always did staff alone. He never wanted to be noticed even as the boss of hotel OCEAN.

He walked a few steps outside from the entrance to fetch his girlfriend who was almost close to him. By the hand Kevin held Pinky and walked her inside the hotel without minding curious eyes in around.

Everyone within the area who saw Kevin Moore with a lady, especially the hotel attendants, looked so shocked on their faces because they aways rumoured about him being quiet and maybe shy when it comes to women, concluding that it was why he never had no love affair.

Kevin Moore walking freely hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder with the famous fashion model Pinky.

"Isn't that lady Pinky?!" Not only hotel workers but also some visitors looked amazed to see Pinky with a dude. "Wow..! she's so beautiful!" They got out their mobile phones and took pictures.

Neither Kevin Moore nor Pinky minded people.

In only two minutes, social media was flooded with photos and people where commenting countrywide on the couple. The pictures went viral.

"Who's the handsome lucky dude?" those who never knew Kevin Moore asked in comment sections below the photos on different social media platforms.

Immediately the pictures were live on different television channels; "with concrete evidence the young CEO of hotel OCEAN is now in a confirmed relationship with the top fashion model Pinky," journalists reported.

Up in one of the hotel suites was a television showing yoga classes. On the right hand side, it displayed a rectangular small section with news updates and photographs of Pinky together with Kevin Moore showed.

Monica Yen as always, with her addition to yoga, was busy practicing moves from the television as she followed the instructor. At first she didn't believe her eyes but curiously she walked closer to confirm; "Pinky!" She exclaimed after observing clearly.

This pushed her to pick up a remote control and tune into the full news updates. A video of Pinky and Kevin holding each other's hand was already streaming on television as several journalists embroidered the story.

According to the background in the video, "they're here!" Monica noticed. She never waited a single second to dress up so that she can rush downstairs to take a look at her long lost daughter after a period of twenty years.

In flat sandals and an over coat she entered an elevator. Just on time, Monica Yen was downstairs walking out of the elevator. She anxiously watched from a distance in disguise, scarfing her nose and mouth.

Her pure white eyes turned red due to heavy emotions while joyful tears showed on her eyes.

Four to five hotel clients had delayed Pinky on taking selfies. A child who had a dream of becoming a model when she grows up was blessed enough to be lifted in Pinky's hands and her father blissfully took a photo.

Kevin Moore had given Pinky and her fans space to freely interact. But in a distance from where he was standing, he saw a familiar face of a woman spying on his girlfriend. As he tried to focus on her, The woman (Monica Yen) faced away in order not to be recognized.

At the moment the selfie session was over; "Kevin!" Pinky called his name romantically, "I think we can go now." This got him forget about focusing on the woman. He held his girlfriend's hand again and took her to the private elevator.

Monica Yen walked quickly into the universal elevator which lifted her back to the floor where her hotel suite was. On the same floor stayed her other twin daughter Babara Yen.

From the elevator she hurried to her daughter's suite and knocked. Secretary Jamila was always on duty to make sure her bosses recieve the best of assistance and so, she came to get the door.

As it is well known, Monica Yen's major reason for coming all the way from Buena city to Capricon city was to protect her daughter Babara Yen, from dangers after knowing the vampire demon inside her had finally revealed itself.

Since it was still morning hours, not to doubt Babara was still in bed after going wild the previous night. Monica Yen knocked as she pushed the door. Luckily it wasn't locked and entered her daughter's bedroom.

Babara Yen was still in a very deep sleep due to the fluid which was injected in her body. Monica Yen took some good time looking at her daughter compassionately.

"I never got the guts to terminate your life when you were still a new born baby," she spoke silently within the soul, "I had no guts to do it." "Am so sorry Babara," emotionally Monica Yen gave her greatest regret.

She scuffed her flat sandals two steps ahead and sat down on her daughter's bed; "we must forget the pain and start living because," she spoke in a whisper while touching her daughter's pure black hair, "your twin sister is living."

"I've not even got the guts, for all the years of your active mind, to tell you that you've got a twin sister," deep inside Monica Yen continued to speak, "and she's right here with us."

At the moment Monica Yen was so confused. She was neither happy nor sad even though her eyes kept forming tears while she whipped them with a bare hand.

Up in Kevin's home, the whole top floor of hotel OCEAN, on a glass dining table was different kinds of comestibles; e.g. grapes, salads, chicken and beef meat, bread, beens, fresh juice and hot beverages.

"If there's anything you like that is missing, just mention it comes right away," Kevin told Pinky, "all for you my queen."

Pinky: "You're joking right?!"

Kevin: "I can give you the whole sea."

Pinky: "I can't afford feeding the fish."

Kevin: "you've fed the biggest fish in the sea already."

Pinky: "How?!"

Kevin: "with just your love, the fish will never lack."

Pinky: "So, you stay here alone? I mean... the place is huge!"

Kevin: "Yes but, with you by my side, all this place is going to fill up with as many cute little ones as possible."

Pinky beamed in wonder how serious in a joking way Kevin sounded. She teared off the chicken leg and put it next to Kevin's mouth playfully. Kevin didn't hesitate to take a big bite.

Kevin was a very good copycat. He teared the remaining chicken leg and did exactly the same as his girlfriend. As usual, ladies are reserved when eating. Pinky took a baby bite from the piece;

"Oh, no.., only that!" Kevin exclaimed in a beam.

Suddenly a phone rang. Kevin noticed his best friend Suxes was the one calling; "excuse me, "he requested to answer. On the house loud speakers Kevin Moore received the call.

Since the voice was loud and clear all around the luxury suite, Pinky was comfortably listening and admiring the standard of technology.

"Hey dude, where are you?" Suxes talked excitedly behind the house speakers. " guess what, I have a surprise to show you!"

"Come to my place," responded Kevin Moore.

"Am already downstairs, you need to come over!" Suxes said.

Kevin stood up from the dining table, "excuse me!" once again he requested his girlfriend Pinky; "keep enjoying I'll be back in a few minutes."

Kevin Moore went out and left Pinky alone in the home on the table filled with foods. In order to chase boredom, she stood up and started touring inside the home which was had luxury furnishings everywhere.

She looked at the large stunning art pieces hanging on the walls and smiled at them. Pinky went on to walk slowly by slowly, passing her hand on most of the items in the house appreciating the beauty.

On the other side was a transparent glass wall and outside was a wide swimming pool with a shade on the left and in the shade was a white square table which had a set of four chairs and flowers in well organized vases.

While she was still admiring the beauty outside through the glass wall, the entrance door opened. She turned her face over her shoulder and here was Kevin, not alone but with three others; Suxes, Brittany and a girl child.

Pinky came foward smiling to show Kevin's visitors that they were most welcome. When the young girl noticed Pinky, "mom, its Pinky!" She was so surprised and at the same time excited to see her.

The young girl walked hands akimbo to imitate Pinky on how she does it on television fashion shows. It made all of them laugh.

"What's your name?" Pinky bent down to reach the young girl's height and asked.

"My name is Nicole," the young girl replied.

"Wow! Nicole, you're such a beautiful talented girl with a beautiful name," Pinky complimented her.

"Thank you!" smartly Nicole appreciated and said, "I want to be a model like you."

"Trust me, "Pinky promised her, "you can become anything you want in life as long as believe."

Seeing her daughter happily interacting with a famous country fashion model, Brittany was covered with extreme joy. She looked at Suxes, the father to her daughter. Suxes looked back at her like; "Yeah, I'm the man you abandoned".

Pinky raised up to face her boyfriend Kevin and the visitors; "I believe you know Suxes," Kevin said, "and she is called Brittany, Suxes' wife to be with their adorable daughter."

"You people have such a brilliant child and not married?!" Pinky jokingly wondered, "we need to talk about this after dining."

Pinky walked to the dining table followed by Nicole, her mom Brittany, Suxes and then Kevin Moore from behind. Pinky carried Nicole into the chair and the rest found their selves comfortable one after the other.

"Looks like you knew we were coming for you to set such a heavy dine!" stated Suxes blissful.

Kevin and Pinky smiled it off.

There was no more conversations. Breakfast commenced with only the cutlery and plates talking. Jaws crushed the delicious comestibles for some good time on the dining.

After the breakfast meal, Nicole was watching cartoons on a very wide television and the parents were at the pool side on the white chairs under the shade having a conversation.

Suxes: "she hated me so bad!"

Pinky: "it was a necessary process."

Brittany: "I didn't hate you! I was just confused."

Suxes: "but you knew I've always been a good man to you!"

Brittany: "imagine you being thrown out of the house with a nine month old pregnancy, no job, the man responsible is in prison; all this because he was a reckless gambler!"

Pinky: "I can feel the pain."

Suxes: "I've always said it and am saying it again, I am truly sorry to take you through all the suffering."

Brittany: "I'm sorry too for not forgiving you for the many times you came apologizing to me."

Kevin Moore walked in and said, "I also want to say sorry for all the things I've not yet told my girlfriend Pinky but, I promise to tell her each and everything, hope she won't abandon me!"

Pinky stood up with a pretty smile on her lips and said to Kevin, "I promise, nothing will ever make me abandon you," straight in his face and they shared a kiss infront of Suxes and Brittany.

"Wow, when did you learn to be romantic like that?!" wondered Suxes.

"One more thing," Kevin Moore stated loudly, "I want to see my friend Suxes marrying you Brittany this very week."

"What!" Brittany shouted.

"Yes!" Kevin emphasized, "and I don't want him to use any of his money to organise the wedding... I'm facilitating everything from the cake and the wedding gown."

Kevin Moore knew how much his friend loved Brittany and the only gift to give him as a token of appropriation for all he did for him was to make his dream of uniting with family come true.

Suxes stood up in great pleasure, walked towards Kevin and gave him a very tight hug to show gratification.

"I was planning on how to get down on my knee and ask her to marry me, thank you Kevin!" In great pleasure he whispered close to Kevin's ear.

"You have to thank yourself most because you worked for it," Kevin whispered to him too, "besides, you're the most kind human being I've ever met in the entire human society."

Suxes was officially back with Brittany, looking foward to getting married so that they can raise Nicole in honor. For the case of Pinky and Kevin Moore's, their romance was getting to the next level. This breakfast meeting brought them more closer and free to eachother as lovers.

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