“Are you in love with someone?” Marlyn asked without so much ado. “What?!” Lexy almost fell off the chair she was sitting on. Her elbow slid off from leaning on the table. But her voice did not come out loud. “Are you in love with the man you slept with and gave your first time to?” Marlyn did not change his tone. He wasn’t accusing or judging. He made his words appear as if he was merely asking for the truth directly from the person concerned. This made Lexy very confused as to why Marlyn would suddenly ask such questions. “Can I ask why you’re asking me all about this out of nowhere?” Lexy swallowed her spit. She was somehow guilty that Marlyn seemed to realize Lexy was hiding such things from her very best friend. Marlyn had always been right beside her. Even when others found things to get busy about, Marlyn had never left like any of them, even for the most crucial reasons. They were not supposed to hide anything from each other. That was a pact they both had agreed upon. And
“I’m so sorry for telling you all about just now,” Lexy hurriedly apologized. “It’s just that I did not want to entertain the emotions and thoughts I had for this man. I was just after losing my virginity to someone that would satisfy me. Someone who knew what to do to make me feel good and never regret doing it for the first time. I was never ready to fall blindly. I was even determined never to cross paths with him ever again.” Lexy spoke with so much sincerity. “I thought, if I myself did not talk or think about it, it would pass away like nothing or no big deal. But when I saw him again…” Lexy shook her head. “Especially when I saw how he also longed to see me, his kisses showed hunger. I thought I was alone, torturously suffering. I could not hold myself back. I closed my eyes and dived into his bottomless pit of promising embrace and everything he had to offer.” Marlyn huffed pretentiously. He was blatantly showing his dissatisfaction that his friend, his best friend, was hid
Later that night, Marlyn made a call to Ethan. “Did you happen to hear the conversation between your girl and me during lunch today?” Marlyn did not beat around the bush. He was getting ready to send the whole file, uncut, to the man on the other end of the phone call if he said he did not get the call. Marlyn was considering the man might have been busy, and answering the call during lunch break might have been difficult, so he asked casually. “Thanks, Marlyn!” Ethan expressed his gratitude as soon as he answered the call again. Ethan had been itching to call Marlyn ever since that call ended, but he kept reminding himself that he gave his words that he would wait for Lexy’s best friend to call him, not the other way around. Marlyn did not know his phone number because Ethan asked for Marlyn’s contacts before they parted last night, but Ethan made sure to send a very short message introducing he owned the number of the sender. And Marlyn was able to make that call during lunch thr
Marlyn’s words kept buzzing in Lexy’s ears the whole night and even as she attended her classes the next day, she was not able to focus on her lessons. Lexy was too excited for the morning schedules to end so lunch would arrive and she gets to meet her best friend and ask him more about what he said over the phone to Lexy last night. But something came up before she reached the cafeteria where Lexy was supposed to meet Marlyn. “Who’s that?” someone asked its companion as they walked by the hallway of the building, heading to the school restaurant. Lexy was checking her next schedules for the day, specifically the ones after lunch so she could estimate the time she was going to spend with Marlyn without being late even for a few seconds on her next class or whatever was on her itinerary. It happened yesterday when she and Marlyn neglected to notice that they had been staying too long on their lunch break as they chatted like they were still on school break. Their conversation became
Ethan did not even ask where they were going. He silently took Lexy’s lead and realized they were heading to the school cafeteria. He did not mind. Because being with his baby girl would practically do more than just fine. All that matters most was being with her. Lexy was still blushing despite pretending to be nonchalant that the attractive and eye-catching man walking beside her was the very reason her foolish heart was frantic at the moment. She tried to look cold like she would usually be, but anyone who knew Lexy well would notice the difference in her behavior compared to how she would usually do. “Is he who I think he is?” asked Dina when she noticed Lexy looking a bit off, but not in a bad way. It was even amusing to see her in such a fine kettle of fish. “Hi!” Ethan answered when Lexy did not say anything. His smile broadened recognizing the other girl’s face from the footage camera he had seen countless times before he found Lexy. Dina covered her mouth with both hands
“What would you like to have?” Ethan gently held Lexy by her left wrist and guided her to the food counter. “Anything…” Lexy answered. She tried to make her voice sound casual, although her heart was wildly pounding. She really hoped they were somewhere else where she would feel comfortable. And that meant to say, somewhere with a lesser crowd if not none. The school restaurant was just too full of people, making Lexy feel like she was constantly being watched. Well, she was right to feel that way because there were indeed sets of eyes keenly watching the two of them—a feeling Lexy had never had before. Or, if there may have been, Lexy had never noticed them. Ethan must have felt the way his baby girl was somehow uncomfortable. So he asked cautiously.“Would you like to eat somewhere else?” Lexy gathered her wits and replied in a sassy tone, covering her nervousness. “Well, my best friend said I should demand the best lunch in town from you. So…” Lexy said, feigning confidence.E
“We’re here!” Ethan announced as soon as he got the car parked next to the entrance door of the basement parking area of their building. “Where are we?” Lexy casually asked. It was in the basement, so she could not see anything to get an idea of where they could ever be. “Can I tell you later? Or at least can you make a guess as we have our lunch?” Ethan smiled genuinely as he led Lexy into the elevator to take them to a certain floor in the building. Lexy did not say anything and just shrugged her shoulders as she let the man guide her where to go. She just noticed the building was not somewhere restaurants would usually be found. She noticed the way here had some buildings around but more of industrial than commercial ones. The place did not look like a residential area either. She gave up guessing and walked along. The whole lift ride was too quiet. No one of the two, Lexy and Ethan, was saying anything. Although Ethan would occasionally ask if Lexy was alright, nothing more th
“I heard you need me to witness for my son,” Ashdod asked with a wide grin. His face looked so comical that Lexy’s feeling of awkwardness faded away.Lexy swallowed her spit, cleared her throat, and wiped the sides of her lips before she properly and politely turned her gaze to the older man who was now seated across from her as it was empty when Ashdod came back after he excused himself from the table earlier.“I am sorry to bother you, sir,” Lexy answered mannerly. “I didn’t expect he would bring me to meet his dad on our first lunch date,” she added, with her head slightly shrinking in self-consciousness.“Oh, please, don’t be,” Ashdod gleefully replied. His smile was genuinely expressed as his eyes seemed to dance along with his