Chapter 2- Stupid Cupid
"So you're eating in a haunted house?"
"...you're phrasing it like I'm the weird one here"
"Cause you are, just come over to my place and let's eat dinner together"
"I already told you that I ordered delivery"
"Just cancel it"
"Are you insane?"
"I have your favourite sweet and sour pork ribs"
"I already canceled it so where was your house again?"
"I'll send you the address"
I hung up the phone and opened the delivery app again to cancel my order, it hasn't been 10 minutes so the restaurant hadn't accepted my order yet so cancelling it wasn't a big deal
After that I went out and got inside my car to drive to my brother's address
My brother has multiple houses and apartments so he often has to send me the address if he wanted to eat together and I consider that a hassle
I once scolded him for having too many houses, it's not like he could live in them all the time and he doesn't use them even if he's in the area opting for hotels unless he extend his stay into months
The address he gave me was a familiar one, he wanted to give me this house for my 3rd birthday but I outright refused. I was mature and wise for my age, I knew that my brother worked hard to buy this house when he was 13 years old by toiling beside our father in the company for months on end without any rest, so I refused the house and just chose a toy car as a birthday gift. At that age I thought my brother deserved the house more than me
I also saw that he liked that house and is his most used one up to date
It was quite far from my neighbourhood and was farther from the city center, so I had to drive for more than 45 minutes to get there
While driving I was starting to think that the sweet and sour pork ribs wasn't worth it anymore, especially when I got stuck in traffic
I stared deadpan at the arguing couple Infront me disrupting the flow of vehicles
Apparently from the snipits in the conversation I just heard
The girl was caught cheating and when the guy confronted her about it she hit him with 'I cheated because you cheated' bullshit, exact words of the guy
But the girl refuted with 'I have the screenshots of your private messages you bastard' and the guy started hitting her with classic 'How dare you go through my phone, you're not giving me privacy'
The girl wasn't one to back down and hit him with the 'I wouldn't have to if you have been faithful you son of a bitch'
I looked up at the roof of my car and started doubting my life choices
The arguing couple wasn't the main concern here, it's the idiotic impulsive action that the arguing couple committed
Apparently having had enough of the girl's 'insane unreasonable action' the guy ran off with his car and the girl chased after him, seeing him speeding up and getting away she accelerated and hit his car, busting both their cars and inconveniencing innocent civilians
Fucking amazing
"You're fucking insane!"
'Both of you are insane'
"Oh yeah?! Then you haven't seen anything yet!"
'Please don't do anything more'
"You're goddamn crazy! you destroyed my car!"
"Serves you right! You probably fucked numerous girls inside your car anyways! I was doing the car a favor having had enough of you dirtying it's seat!"
'Wow, she's completely unhinged'
"Are even in your right mind! Don't act like the victim when you cheated as well!"
"CHEATED?! I never cheated you bastard! Michael was just a friend!"
"A friend that knows the way you taste! Like the fucking song Señorita!!"
'Don't drag that song into this, what an insult'
"Y-"
Before the girl could continue their ridiculous charade the police arrived and took them away
I finally breathed a sigh of relief when the vehicles was towed away and I could finally go to my sweet and sour pork ribs
'It still hasn't turned cold right?'
***
Kaiser looked at his watch for the umpteenth time, his whole body was exuding the aura of 'anxiousness and impatience'
'Why is she not here yet? Her pork ribs are gonna get cold'
Looking at the empty dining table his brain suddenly started spiraling at high speed thinking of the worst case scenario
"Did she die on the way?"
"The fuck you mean die?"
He swerved his head and smiled in relief when he saw that Elaine was safe and unharmed standing by the doorway glaring at him
"What took you so long? I was going to re-heat the food if you arrived a few minutes later"
She rolled her eyes seemingly annoyed at the question
"A crazy cupid thought that it was a good idea to put two incompatible people together, that's why I'm late"
He looked at her with confusion
"Incompatible people?"
"Yeah they were siblings"
'step-siblings' she wanted to add, from the shouting between the two, she discovered that their parents once had a relationship with eachother and that's how they met, but their parents later broke up and that's when they started dating so basically they were 'ex-step siblings'
Kaiser blinked at her reply
"How are they incomp- nevermind, how did they inconvenience you?"
"They drove their cars and decided to crash together in the middle of the road"
Startled he stood up and approached her with worry
"Did you get hurt? Are you okay?"
She shook her head
"I'm fine, I was fortunate anyways where's my sweet and sour pork ribs?"
He sighed and just led her to table and started serving her the sweet and sour pork ribs while she served herself rice
Smelling the tantalizing scent of her favourite food she was incomparably happy and started devouring her meal
Looking at her eating so happily he smiled with gentleness and tender affection
"This is soo good, did you hire another chef?"
"No I cooked it"
Hearing that she choked on her meal as if she was incredibly shocked
Kaiser immediately handed the water while patting her back looking exactly like a worried mother duck
He practically almost raised her so it wasn't an inaccurate description
He was probably more of a father and mother than their actual parents
After getting rid of the meat that went down the wrong pipe she looked at him in shock
"Kaiser you know how to cook?"