Chapter 10

Third Person's Pov.

“ Are you still together?” Ethan’s mother asked him when they are eating dinner because she can feel that her son is sad and stressed about something.

“ Mom?” he said stopping her from teasing him again. His mom likes Lauren too much that she is always concerned with their relationship.

“ Eat some more,” she encourage him, giving him more foods in  his plate. Ethan looked at it and bite his lips when he saw that she gave him part of the fried chicken.

“ I’m full! Here, you eat some more mom,” he said before kissing his mother to her cheeks something that he haven’t done for a while.

“ My baby boy,” his mother teared up looking at Ethan who is now a full-grown man.

“ Rest well tonight okay?” she said patting his head while she watched him go to his own bedroom. Ethan nodded at her but he runs forward and back hugged her.

“ Don’t overwork yourself, okay?” he said in a sweet voice before he runs towards his bedroom shy of what he just did. His mother then laughed because even if he is now a grown-up, he is still shy to say how much he loves her mother.

Ethan as a kid, she really never had a hard time raising him because he is too mature for his age. He can take care of himself but sometimes she wonders if what will happen to him when she actually gave him a life full of luxury. He is born out of wedlock and his father abandoned them because he is scared of parenting. It was all her effort to raise him and she is glad that she didn’t give up along the way.

Her tears formed in her eyes when she remembered how she watched his sign lose at her sight when he was only five years old. She doesn’t have any proper job and she wants to end her life but Ethan is always with her and she actually planned to lose him at the market.

She just stands there watching him walk further, contemplating to herself if she can raise him well if all she has is herself until he’s gone in her sight. At first, she didn’t bother looking for him because that is his original plan.

Ethan didn’t know that she wants to abandon him but she had a change of heart while remembering his cute smiles and laughter, that’s when she decided to go and look for him everywhere until she finds him at her friend’s house.

“ My poor son,” she said to herself while looking at her son inside their narrow bed. He is busy scribbling something into his notebook. His light is flickering because she cannot afford to buy another one due to her low income.

Ethan is busy answering his math problems when his mind drifts to Lauren, his girlfriend. It’s been a week since he saw her and talk to her. She is too distant especially because of what happened to them inside her bathroom. He can still feel his member throbbing whenever he visits his memory to that night. Her image bending down in front of her while she is naked never leaves his mind. Her luscious ass displayed at her sight waiting to be caressed haunts him every night. There is a part of him that wants to rewind those nights and just do her right there but her cries that night bothered him. He never knows what happened to her that she started acting like that.

The Lauren that he knows never wears anything that is not modest. She is always conservative and values her body. She never cursed and drinks but the Lauren that he saw at the video and party that night is far from his childhood best friend. She knows to drink and sway her hips like she is doing it for a long time. Ethan's brows creased again remembering how everyone fantasizes about her and how everyone is only waiting to have a chance with her.

It all started at the last week of her vacation where she never got the nerve to contact him. It is because she got adopted to the environment in L. A that she is acting like this? Or did something happen there that makes her change her behavior?

Ethan stares at his notebook and try to solve the problem shrugging his thought of his girlfriend but his mind is always drifting at her causing him to always write mistakes in his solution, so he closed his notebook and jump to his bed staring at his phone.

If he calls her right now, will she answer the phone?

He tried every night calling her but her phone is always in the busy line. She never responded to his messages which makes him quit messaging her. He just scrolls in her social media and found a recent video of her dancing in the bar. This time her clothes are a bit stretched because it is juts a black leather bra partnered with skirt that is too short for her. Her legs are in full display at the video and Ethan hates how the camera shows her outfit starting from her long creamy legs, to her flat stomach and they focused the camera on her breast but she never complains to whoever is recording but what she did is totally the opposite because she laughed and jump more making her breast bounce in the video.

“ Fuck!” Ethan cursed to himself before gripping his phone and burying it down to his pillow. He will never get any sleep if he will stalk her and her new life. He considers talking to Lauren’s parents because they will surely help him with their daughter.

Lauren’s mother is too conservative to let her out dressed like that so maybe she is doing those partying behind her back. He stares at the mirror and planned his day for tomorrow because he decided that he will talk to her until he heard his phone ring and saw Lauren’s name-calling.

“ Babe!” Ethan shouted excitedly because of the sudden call.

“ Babe?” he repeated because no one is answering in the line until he heard her sigh heavily.

“ U-Uh….” panting she said.

“ A-Are you okay? Is there something wrong?” he asked because she is heavily panting.

“ O-Oh uh! E-Ethan….e-everything … i-is o-okay,” she said still panting in the other line like she just finished jogging. Ethan is weirded out but he is too happy because she calls her again.

“ O-Oh my gosh!” he heard her once again until the line went off leaving him confused about what just happened.