SOMEONE'S POINT OF VIEW
Finally, I can get home and peacefully get rest. I jumped off to my bed and then lay down.
"This is what I called to rest." I close my eyes and let the air from the aircon touch my skin and feel the moment of silence.
I was feeling the moment when my phone rang.
I took my phone from my pocket and look at my phone screen. My brother message me.
"I'm with them fix yourself before they saw you."
I jumped off to my bed and quickly change everything I got into. I tapped the switch and easily change my room design. I went to the bathroom and clean my face. I even change my outfit so quickly. And pretend nothing happen when I went down.
I saw my brother get in with them. They were looking at me as I went down the stairs.
"When did you get home?" my brother said as if he didn't know I was there.
"I came home earlier after my presscon. Oh, your here Mr. Piercee."
"Hi, Astrid." He waved at me with a smile on his face.
"It's good to see you again, I said, and I went to the kitchen, took a glass of water, and went back to the living area.
"I know you guys know my sister. Ashlynn, these are my friends." My brother introduced them to me.
"This is Jacob; I know you know him since you guys will be partners in your future project, right?"
"I know he even did something earlier that I didn't expect to be done by a guy like him. He seems to be quite a bad boy. Just looking at him, I would say he was kind of a jerk."
"He was, his friends said, jumping to him as they messed up his hair.
"Should I ignore you?" I said while frowning and looking at him.
"No, I assure you, I wasn't a jerk." He even crossed his finger just to prove what he was saying. Should I believe that?
"I'm Kai Spade at your service." He offered his hand to shake hands, and as I accepted it, he winked at me. I just smiled at him.
"Nice to meet you."
"It would be a pleasure for me to introduce myself to a fair lady like you. I'm Lance Arrasus, your future boyfriend." He smirked at me and shook his hands with mine.
"Well, sorry to break your dream in your dreamland, but I have someone special already." Slowly, the smirk faded as he sat on the couch.
"Oh, I didn't know, Lance said with a broken voice.
"Yup, it's just a private but not secret relationship."
"Is that Chen?" My brother said. I hadn't told him about it yet, but my parents knew about it.
"Yup, he's about to go back here to the Philippines for the upcoming event we will have. Mom and Dad knew about it; he even asked them about the courting he does when we are in the U.S."
JACOB'S POINT OF VIEW
Chen? That name was familiar.
"Chen Nixon?" I said, interrupting the conversation between Ashlynn and Kinch.
"Yup, Chen Nixon was my boyfriend." Chen Nixon was a famous model in the U.S. from the Philippines. He even won before, when he was still in the pageant industry, as Mr. Universe 2019 as a representative of the Philippines.
"Oh, you guys look good together."
"We are," she said. Raphael stood up to break the silence.
"Raphael Hendrix, the jolly best friend you will have in our group, is the most reliable person among us. I can also be your food buddy."
I chuckled at him.
"Well, if you will be my food buddy, what can you recommend for me?"
"Creme buns."
"That would be nice." We are getting along with Ashlynn, but there is still one person busy in the corner reading his book.
"Jay!" I shout in his ears. He closes his book and looks at me.
"What?"
"Oh, Jay, you're still breathing." Kinch teased Jay because he was serious about reading his book.
"I am; don't disdain me."
"You are?" I heard Ashlynn say, looking confused about who Jay was.
"Should I introduce myself to you? I don't have time for that, he said while reading his book.
"Stand by for Mars by Caren Rockwell; nice choice of book." We all turned our heads to Ashlynn, and Jay looked into her.
"You know this book?"
"Yup, I was starting to read it. I even have an original copy of that in my room." I saw Jay shaking his head.
"I didn't expect a girl to read this kind of book. Mostly they wanted romance or nonfiction books to read or just watched Korean dramas in their room."
Well, reading science fiction was a good hobby to do in your spare time. Especially some of the movies I watched before were more science fiction; it hits differently when you watch it."
"What movie do you watch already?"
"2001: A Space Odyssey, The Martia, The Right Stuff, Cowboys and Aliens, even the map of the tiny perfect things. I watch those movies; I have a list on the way to watch them."
"Those are pretty awesome movies; they nailed every single scene on those movies."
They get along, so I went to the kitchen and got some juice to drink. I've always been at Kinch's house since we got along. We both have the same hobbies and interests. Well, except for the fact that he was a jerk who was always playing a lot of girls every single hour of the day.
That's why he got mostly like Lance, but the difference is that he said he never kissed anyone of those girls he dated before. Because he was waiting for the right girl to touch his lips. No wonder he was stupid. There are a lot of girls trying to kiss him, but no one succeeds. She eventually breaks up with them and quickly finds another girl to be with for an hour.
We don't even know how he manages his studies, even though he is a year older than us. If we are in our third year of high school. He was in his fourth year; he is our senior, but he acts like a junior most of the time. I saw Kinch coming my way.
"Dude, he said while taking a glass of water.
"Why?"
"Do you think Lance will target my sister as one of his girlfriends if Ashlynn doesn't mention she is in a relationship?
"Well, knowing Lance, he may, but he will feel doubt to make a move about it since she was your sister. Even if I knew I liked my friend's sister, I may feel doubt to make a move about it. Dating friend sister was kind of different. Look at the situation, your friendship with Lance will change once he hurts your sister. So he will think about how he will make a move that he knows he can't hurt her. Then maybe he will change. But to think from that perspective, it was difficult because we are talking about someone other than Lance Arrasus. The most playboy in our school."
"Yeah, that's what I'm thinking when he suddenly says that. I wouldn't know what I could do to him if he hurt my sister. I can imagine what I could do more if I saw my sister get hurt by one of my friends."
Kinch prepares our snacks, and I help him bring them to the living room. They are laughing; even Jay put down his book on his side and laughed with them. Raphael was telling a story to them.
"Then Jacob almost flew in the slides because Trevor kicked his butt out of the slide when we were kids, then his screaming down to the slide. He was like a crying baby who's run towards the back of a girl to hide."
I remember the scene he was talking about.
Trevor was a bully kid who was always after me. Since I was a skinny kid way back then. I am always in the hospital because of my asthma. But later on, when I became a teenager, When I was getting healthy and okay with my aunt, I became part of the basketball team.
Trevor kicked me out of the slides, but instead, I was seated on the slide. I was sliding like Superman. My front body was sliding on the slide when I saw him laughing. When I get up, I don't know, but I just hide on the back of a young girl who's a little taller than me. I was holding her shirt, and then she looked into me and looked back at Trevor.
"Tsk! You're a bad boy. Santa will never give you a gift on Christmas. I will tell it to your Mom later." She said, and then Trevor didn't speak but instead left us.