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

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

"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

"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

"You guys make a really cute couple," Angela said, smiling at both of them.A huge pause reigned over them as they both stared awkwardly at each other then at Angela who didn't catch the awkward cue, instead continued smiling sweetly at both of them as if it was a totally normal thing to do.Yandel looked back at Rachel who had a small smile on her face, she really looked prettier in casual clothes than she did in her business attire. From the little show they put on back at the bowling site, his hands still felt warm. He knew he was nowhere near getting over this woman, and at the same time, he couldn't afford to lose what they had as friends, thinking back to all the times he had treated her badly or mocked her reserved and timid character.First time he legit saw her was at a fundraiser back in Berlin where she went with her parents, they were both fresh grads from the top notch business school all their parents went to. He was with Maya as his date and she was able to attend beca