Kevin turned to see it was Eric's mother, Emily Bruce who had patted on his shoulder.
"Oh it were you Mrs Bruce!"
"Then who did you expect me to be? Huh!"
"Umm..Ahem..N..no one!"
"Oh I know!?".Mrs Bruce said by whispering on Kevin's ears.
Kevin got scared for a moment. His face turned pale thinking that Mrs Bruce had somehow had known about everything that happened in his room with Eric.
"I know that..."
"You..you know that?".Kevin asked by stuttering his words.
"I know that you expected me to be some young, gorgeous girl! didn't you?!"
"Um..haha..Yeah! You're right Mrs Bruce!".Kevin felt relieved after knowing that Mrs Bruce had not known any of their encounters from before.
"But I'm not less pretty either! You know! I still look very young and beautiful! Isn't it dear?!"
"Of course Mrs Bruce, If you were my age, I surely would have dated you! I mean! I think we are not still late for it?!"
"Oh my goodness! This boy!".Mrs Bruce said by gushing over Kevin being dazzled.
Kevin took one of Mrs Bruce's hands, then kissed on it with extreme fondness. Suddenly someone took her hand, very delicately from Kevin.
That 'someone' was no one else but Eric's father, Arthur Bruce."Oh, guess you're unfortunate young man! Because..her heart belongs to me, isn't it dear Emily?".Mr Bruce said being flirtatious by gently kissing on Mrs Bruce's hand.
"Oh come on!".Mrs Bruce said by frowning her eyebrows.
"What is it darling? Aren't you happy because I interrupted both of you!?".Mr Bruce asked with innocent, doe eyes.
"That's not it dear! We were just having fun and you took all of our conversation seriously!".She chuckled.
"So does that mean you're not angry at me?"
"Of course not! And my heart only belongs to you, got it".She said by poking on Mr Bruce's nose affectionately.
"Well Mr Bruce she's right, her heart would always belong to you, cause my charms aren't as enough as you!".Kevin pretended to make a disappointed face towards him, then without him noticing he winked at Mrs Bruce.
She smiled at Kevin while watching him make Mr Bruce amazed by his words like he did back then, when he was only in kindergarten.
"This boy! He never misses a chance to make me feel impressed with his words"
"Well! what could I do! I'm just too good with my words-"
*hug*
Mr Bruce pulled Kevin into a tight hug. As they were hugging each other, Kevin struggled to breath as he squeezed his face under his arms. Watching at Kevin, Mrs Bruce laughed out without having a control in herself.
"What is it dear? Why you laughing at me?".Mr Bruce asked to her being puzzled.
"Oh no it's nothing, just look at Kevin's face..it's all red..your strong arms are making him difficult to breath!".She continued on laughing.
Soon enough, Mrs Bruce held a control on her laughter. After hugging for a while, Mr Bruce released themselves, then by patting on his head and kissing on Mrs Bruce's forehead lovingly, he left from there to join Kevin's father, Patrick Herbert for having business related talks.
"Well..dear, where's Eric gone, I didn't see him in the ceremony, where is he?".She asked by looking around.
"Oh! He just got too much drunk before the ceremony..so..y'know he got passed out and-"
"Passed out?!".She said by making her voice a bit louder.
"Oh, there's nothin to worry about! After he got passed out, I took him to my room and now he is restin there, everythin's fine"
"Oh this kid! Can't he just control himself! I'm sorry dear, He must have caused a lot of trouble to my B'day boy, Isn't it!?".She said by caressing her hands on Kevin's face.
As Mrs Bruce touched him on face, suddenly the kiss from before popped up in Kevin's mind. Those lovely eyes of her which resembled Eric, when looked at him with deep affection and the warmth that he felt when Mrs Bruce touched him on his face, all made him to think about Eric, when he kissed him.
Kevin felt somewhat flustered at that moment and blabberrd as he spoke "Um..no Mrs Bruce..He..he didn't cause any trou..trouble to me"
"Kevin, are you alright, what happened? why are you stuttering with your words dear?"
"Um..nothin..maybe it's cause..I'm drunk too! hehe!".Kevin said by blabbering his words, because what he said to her was a total lie. Meanwhile, he didn't even touch the wine bottle.
"Oh, you too! My goodness! You all are alike!"
As Kevin was talking with Mrs Bruce, from his back, someone suddenly tapped on both of his shoulders. Kevin got so much scared that he screamed out loud. All the guests looked at him with tensed expression on their faces.
"C'mon Kevi-Kevi it's me!".Lucas whispered on Kevin's ears.
"Oh! It were you! Phew! I got scared man! I thought I was 'bout to get a heart attack"
"Really! I'm sorry for that!"
The guests were still staring at Kevin and Lucas tensely of not knowing the reason for Kevin's scream from before, but it didn't bother them, they were busy in having their conversation.
Watching them being unbothered, Mrs Bruce said to the guests by waving at them with an assured gesture.
"Sorry Everyone! There's nothing to worry about! You can enjoy your meal and have fun!".All the guests returned to what they were doing and continued having fun.
"Oh my goodness! You boys! All the guests were looking at you! You should have apologized for ruining their vibe, y'know!".She scolded both of them.
"We're sorry Mrs Bruce".Kevin and Lucas apologized to Mrs Bruce very obediently being childish.
"Ah! Kevin, about Eric, I'll just send his guard to your room, he'll carry him to the car"
"Okay Mrs Bruce".Kevin said with a pleasing smile.
All the guests were done with having their meal. At that moment, the hour and minute needles of the tall and huge clock in the hall of mansion came together over the position of twelve with making a loud chime.
Eventually, the party came to an end. All the guests including the Bruce family and Stanley family, left the mansion by giving affectionate goodbye hugs to Mr and Mrs Herbert, but Lucas stayed their with Kevin and watched all the guests leaving.
After the guests left Eric's bodyguard went to Kevin's room, then carried Eric to his black limousine. While Kevin and Lucas watched him being carried by his bodyguard.
"Ahem! Poor Eric! He got too much drunk that he even got passed out!".Lucas said with a smirk.
"Cut the crap Luke! It's all your fault! It all happened only because of that stupid dare of yours!".Kevin said aggressively.
"Well, who knew he would have passed out like this?".Lucas giggled.
"Urgh! You!"
Kevin folded his wrist and was about to smack Lucas on his head, but suddenly he grabbed on his hand and aksed.
"What were you and Eric doin in your room before?"
Lucas released his hand and looked at Kevin with cold eyes, awaiting for his answer.