"Hello Mom—""How could you Xander?" Mrs. Miller's voice sounded broken, ashamed even. This made Xander alarmed the very instant he heard her voice.He could imagine tears streaming down her face, wailing to his father about how he had brought shame upon the family. His whole face went pale and his tongue stale, he could feel the phone slipping out of his grasp as the next few years of his life became almost as clear as a crystal sky. This was the ending for him, it was like the Jacob and Esau story they always learnt in Sunday school where Esau sold his birthright for just some stew, but in his case, he indirectly sold his birthright for a cheap hotel coochie."Mom, I can explain, I swear to God," Xander pleaded, even though he had nothing to say other than he was sorry and ashamed about the insult and disgraced he had brought upon such a prestige family name"I'm listening," Mrs. Miller replied coldly"Mom I—""Because you seemed to have a lot to say when Araceli told you, even t
Ricky saw the message as it popped up on the man's phone on the counter, just beside the glass cladded menu.His suspicion spiked when he realized the name was pretty familiar, the normal looking guy who he thought was just a stuck up rich guy was clearly not who he thought he was, he was at first worried what a man would be going through, to let him forget his phone and just take his keys and leave, I mean, if he was hungry, he wouldn't even be in venus cafe in the first place, he would have gone to the McDonalds or Starbucks for whole meals.Ricky took off his blue apron uniform and took the phone to run after the rich business dude. If he was able to tip him as much as eighty four bucks, the least he could do is hand the guy back his phone and go on about his day to day life.When he got out of the cafe, he saw him going into an underground parking lot that belonged to the Southern Millers enterprise. He crossed the road with haste and zero precautions earning him a bunch of loud h
"He's Araceli's fiancé," Amy dropped the bomb."Fuck."Suddenly, everything became so much worse in the space of seconds."Araceli, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to snoop on your husband—" Ricky was apologizing when he got cut off by Amy."Fiancé, Ricky,""Fiancé!" Amy corrected, giving him a stern look."Sorry fiancé, I didn't mean to peep in on your fiancé phone, it was a honest mistake," Ricky apologized, but the look he was seeing on her face was awfully familiar, that's the look of PTSD he saw in his cousin's eyes when they met her at the hospital, they had to find a female doctor to treat her because she won't let a male doctor touch her."Araceli, I know we aren't really that close but, do you know this person they are talking about?" Ricky asked, cautiously. Amy stared at him pointedly as if telling him not to pry further."Yes, I do Rick," Araceli replied in a low voice, causing Amy and Ricky's head to snap towards her direction in shock. Amy pulled her chair towards her as sh
Ace hopped into the car and sat alongside a man who looked like he was about the same age with his sister, Amy was on the driver's sit while Araceli was in the passenger sit, he could sense something was wrong, first this wasn't Rachel's car, secondly she had that smile she had on her face when she just came back from the hospital, it didn't reach her eyes but she tried her best to still keep smiling."Hey Ace, are you ready to have fun?" Amy asked, trying to break the awkward stares Ace was giving Rachel who was just staring everywhere but Ace. The kid may have been young but he was smart and he could sense the tension in the car even though he just arrived.Ricky taking the hint, Amy dropped about trying to break the awkward air around them, he decided to introduce himself since he hasn't met Ace yet. "Hey Ace, I'm Ricky but you can call me Rick, or my friends call me Gay Rick," Ricky joked, winking at him. He knew a talk about his sexuality would be enough to take his attention fr
"It's been a fucking week already, get yourself together bro!" Emily banged on the door as Yandel refused to come out of his room.He had been sulking for the past week staying up in his room and coming home late for breakfast and dinner and working out over time. It was something everyone knew about Yandel, whenever he was sad or felt down he would leave his apartment in the city and stay at the family house just to sulk, she wasn't about to let him sulk alone. It was hard to see Yandel all worked up over a girl, he was that type of guy, he was always focused on work and didn't let things like relationships and heartbreaks let him down, but now, she sees that he really likes Araceli."Come on bro, for real, this ain't cool," Ethan agreed with Emily who gave him a look telling him that he should shut the fuck up or she was gonna make him regret waking up this morning, but as usual, her dumb twin brother will forever remain the same Dumb Ethan."What!" Ethan exclaimed, putting his han
"Are we seriously heading towards her now with her friends staring at us like that?" Ethan asked, looking over at them.There was a girl with seriously bleached blond hair and another guy with paler skin and full eyebrows. They all looked like models from a magazine just chilling around."Are you seriously going to meet her right now?" Emily asked, dragging Yandel's hand back who seemed to be in a trance as he just kept working towards her.She had to admit, she had never seen her brother so out of his element like she was seeing him today, he lacked composure and those million dollars worth built confidence. Now he was just like a nerd being drawn towards his crush just to spill shit like, "what toothpaste do you use?" she didn't want her brother to be the uncool one in this scenario."I'm just going to say hi, nothing more. It will be weird and pretty childish seeing her and then ignoring the fact that she's right there looking at her.""Well, no one said it is exactly a bad thing Y
"Okay okay, well, I'm planning a dinner meeting with my Mom and Dad with the Millers and I thought just to spice it up, to invite you guys, since Alice will be there too," Rachel pitched, looking at them excitedly.They all had looks filled with uncertainty and doubt written all over their face, Ricky kept staring back at Amy and then back at her while Yandel's expression was nothing close to readable instead his face was more stuck in a confused look like he couldn't help but not see reason to what she was doing."Okay, let me get this straight, even though I'm not." Ricky started, facing her squarely since he was sitting direct opposite her."You want us to come to a dinner party where you are going out with your soon to be ex-fiancé in front of his parents and his brother?!" Ricky stated, staring at her wildly like she had started growing a second head."Okay Araceli, not that I'm not up for some premium violence and everything, I mean you know I love drama and I literally live and
"We should join them soon, before Ace decides to come here himself…"All three of them stood up and joined them to play different games which went down with Rachel and Yandel being all competitive with each, and it wasn't the cute type of competition, it was the competitive bitterness when the other lost. They left the glow hockey and finally decided to go to the bowling alley section when they formed three groups, Amy and Ricky, Yandel, Rachel and Ace and the twins, they debated having an official lunch before or after the game but then after the game won the vote and the team with the lowest points got to pay for lunch. Yandel and Rachel went to get the bowling shoes for them while the rest waited by the benches close to the pit."Good afternoon, ma'am." Yandel greeted the mid fifty looking woman behind the counter, he didn't expect such an elderly woman to work in a place like this, at léast not the counter."I know what you are thinking, I'm just covering for my son who had an a