Western high school.
“This is embarrassing,” Zoey sniffed as she broke the kiss and dropped her head on his shoulder.
“Be my girlfriend, please,” Declan whispered in her ear.
“You should have asked that before you kissed me,” Zoey looked into his eyes and chuckled.
“I know, right?”
“Let’s date,” Zoey smiled.
“I…”
“Since the movie is over, will you guys take a seat here with us?” Aiden interrupted as he settled back on the chair.
“Must you interrupt?” Declan groaned and Aiden shrugged his shoulder off.
*
“I didn’t expect you to do that, I swear,” Aiden said as soon as Declan arrived at the table with his and Zoey’s food.
I wasn’t going to but she would not stop ignoring me,” Declan shook his head and glanced at Zoey.
“Didn’t know an àsshôlé like you could be like this,” Tiffany scoffed as she scooped rice in her spoon.
“You…”
“Let’s not argue today, huh?” Aiden interrupted.
” And wait, were you guys not pretending to be fighting? Your guy wouldn’t stop glaring at us. If only look could kîll, then, we all would have been deàd by now,” Tiffany groaned, staring at Xyler.
“You mean Xyler?” Declan asked and he hurriedly turned to look in the direction Tiffany was looking with Xyler.
“We’re busted,” Declan shook his head as he watched Xyler who turned to leave.
“Let’s just clear the air. Let’s go to him later. Okay?” Aiden said and then resumed eating.
“Hold on, Aiden, what is with the heir to Wesley group that your mum said at the press conference?” Declan frowned and Aiden choked on what he was eating.
“You saw the news?”
“Everyone saw it and people who know that you are her son had already believed that you are going to be the heir to Wesley’s.”
“Fûck, this is what I didn’t want,” Aiden groaned.
“Wait, are you talking about the same Wesley that I know?” Zoey joined in the conversation.
“Of course, don’t tell me you think Aiden’s surname was a coincidence?”
“Jesus! I can’t believe Aiden is Mrs. Martha’s son,” Zoey covered her mouth with her palm.
“Okay, I think I am the only one who knows nothing,” Tiffany nodded her head and resumed eating her food.
“I’ll tell you everything later, okay babe?” Aiden smiled at her.
“You said the same earlier and now I’m hearing what you should have told me from someone else.”
“Wait, do you always complain like this?” Declan glanced at Tiffany.
“Mind your business before I stab you with this fork,” Tiffany answered, not tearing her eyes off the food in front of her.
“Hehehe, I thought you would be cool even in relationships, well, I understand, it is not easy, right?” Declan teased.
“Declan…” Tiffany groaned.
“I could kîll you right now, you know that, right?” she raised her brow.
“You…”
“Leave her alone,” Zoey frowned at him.
“But I really think it’s fun teasing her like this,” Declan chuckled.
“Babe?” Aiden called out.
“What?!” she frowned.
“I’m sorry, okay? I’ll tell you everything later, I promise.”
“If I hear it from someone else then I won’t take it lightly with you,” Tiffany glared at him.
“You won’t. Okay?”
“Woah, I can’t believe how corny you guys are,” Declan chuckled, pointing his spoon at Tiffany.
“Hey!”
Aiden, Zoey, and Tiffany chorused.
“Woah, that was scary.”
“Keep eating unless you have a deãth wish,” Aiden glared at him.
==
After lunch break was over, when Aiden and Declan has escorted their girls to their classroom, they made their way to the lounge where they expected Xyler to be.
“Will it be fine? I mean, we fooled him for a while?” Declan scratched his forehead.
“I don’t care, and besides, didn’t you want us to end this?” Aiden rolled his eyes.
“I know, but…”
“You can just let me do the talking, okay? You know how annoying I can be at that,” Aiden shrugged his shoulders off and they both shook hands.
~~
“Woah, it has been so long!” Aiden sighed as he entered the lounge fully with Declan.
“X… Xyler,” Declan faked a smile and waved his hand at Xyler who sat at a corner, browsing through his phone.
“What is Aiden doing here?” Xyler dropped his phone on the couch and moved closer to the dudes.
“Declan and I founded this lounge. We bought everything that is inside here ourselves. Don’t you remember?” Aiden raised a brow.
“I don’t care about that. It is not about who came last, it is about who left first,” Xyler hissed.
“Woah, I see you’re good with proverbs. Well, I don’t care,” Aiden said and brushed past him.
“Did you…” Xyler started which made Aiden halt.
“Did you guys made up by any chance?” he frowned.
“Oh, that? We never fought,” Aiden answered casually and strolled towards the refrigerator.
“What are you saying?”
“You guys didn’t fill the refrigerator with my favorite drink because I wasn’t here anymore?” Aiden frowned as he grabbed bottled water.
“Answer me!” Xyler yelled.
“It was all a facade, guy. Wait, do you actually think you could break a relationship of ten years because of that little, stupîd talk?” Come on, where is that done?” Aiden waved his hand at him and then opened the lid of the water.
“Y… You…” Xyler staggered.
“Look, Xyler, I think we’re all mature enough, you should tell us if you have something on us. I mean…” Declan exhaled and ran his hand through his hair.
“Exactly! What is with the back biting and all? All this while, I thought it was you who fûcked Vanessa, whereas, you only arranged for your twin brother to come fûck her!” Aiden yelled.
“Y… You guys knew that much?” Xyler asked shakily.
“Of course, we do! Do you think revenge is fun when no one except you knows about it? And as far as we are concerned, we murdéred no one! Who the fûck is Luna and why did you say that we murdéred her?!” Aiden shouted.
“Did you wiretap my phone?” Xyler furrowed his brow.
“Of course, that’s all I could do. I tapped into your phone and listened to your conversation with your twin brother who was the one who fûcked Vanessa,” Aiden nodded his head and Xyler rushed at him.
“How dare y…”
“Not my face,” Aiden caught the punch Xyler was throwing at him.
“My chest or anywhere but not my face,” he said and yanked his hand off.
“You guys… You killed Luna! And I’ll make you pay for it!” he grabbed Aiden’s shirt.
“How is Luna’s death our fault? Who is Luna?”
“Luna is… Luna was our first sister, you mother fûcking son of a gûn! She was our triplets!” Xyler screamed, tears rolled down from his eyes, and then pushed Aiden away.
“You guys are triplets?” Aiden raised his brows.
“Just… Just fûck off!” Xyler shouted, turned to leave, brushed past Declan, and walked away.
“What is this?” Declan sighed.
“Then should we say that his anger is justified?” Aiden rested his left hand on his waist.
“I don’t know…” Declan shook his head.
“Oh, shît!” Aiden exhaled and collapsed on the couch behind him.
“What should we do?” Declan asked.
“I don’t know, I’m not going to beg anyone though,” Aiden answered and raised the bottled water in his hand up.
==
Outside the school premises, in a black Lexus car sat Senator Han who wouldn’t tear his eyes off Tiffany Willow’s profile that was sent to him.
Even in the profile, it was shown the girl wasn’t living an easy life. She didn’t have parents and she was sponsoring herself to school.
“Is it really a good idea to go see her? What if someone sees you here?” His informant asked.
“That’s why I’m here with a nose mask. I won’t be recognized easily,” he answered.
“Sir?”
“Let’s go see my daughter,” Senator Han said with a smile and then opened the door.
**
“Tiffany Willow?” A female teacher entered the classroom and called out.
“Here I am,” she answered.
“You have a visitor waiting for you at the dean’s office,” she answered.
“Me?” Tiffany asked, there was no way someone was looking for her.
“Yeah, and I think you should hurry,” she answered and then exited the classroom.
“Who’s that?” Zoey leaned closer.
“I have no idea. In fact, I don’t think there should be anyone looking for me,” Tiffany answered.
“You should go, it might be someone you’re not even expecting,” Zoey shrugs her shoulder.
“You think so?” Tiffany frowned.
“Yeah.”
=
Tiffany took a long deep breath before she knocked on the door of the dean’s office and then opened the door to enter.
“What took you so long?” The Dean frowned and then walk toward her.
“Be on your best behavior, okay? Don’t you dare be rude to him,” she patted her shoulder and then walked past her, then out of the office leaving her with some men.
While one wore a nose mask, the other stood guard behind him.
Huh, what is this?
“Hi,” she bowed slightly.
Well, she was going to be a good girl for now.
The man removed the nose mask, a wide smile plastered across his cheek, and waved his hand at her.
“Come and sit here, please,” he said and pulled a chair across him closer.
“Oh, thank you,” Tiffany nodded her head and went to sit before him.
“How are you?” he asked.
Okay, who was this man?
“Fine.”
“D… Don’t you know who I am?”
“Must I know who you are? I mean, I don’t think I’ve seen you before,” she corrected herself.
“I see.”
“Looking you from up close, you look so much like Nova,” he smiled and tried to reach out to her while the lady leaned back hurriedly.
“Look like who?” Tiffany raised a brow.
“Erm… Nevermind. How have you been? It hasn’t been easy, right?” he asked with a worried look.
“Hold on, do I know you? I mean, your questions…? ” Tiffany frowned.
MEANWHILE…
Aiden and Declan strolled into Zoey’s class and walked towards her, Aiden looking around for Tiffany.
“Where’s Anny?” Aiden frowned as he settled on the chair that belonged to Tiffany while Declan sat on Zoey’s table, staring deeply at her.
“Some teacher came to call her that she had a visitor at the dean’s office,” Zoey answered.
“Who could that be?”
“Thinking about it also, I’m not sure if there’s anyone who would visit her,” Zoey furrowed her brow.
“Did she get into trouble with any of the teachers? You know how troublesome your girl can be,” Declan said.
“Shît, not to talk of losing her temper right there!” Aiden sprang from the chair and dashed out of the classroom.
“Babe, I’ll see you later, okay? That guy could go crazy!” Declan shouted, running out of the classroom.
“What’s going on? Are they expelling that wîtch already?” Lauren tapped Zoey from behind.
“You know you shouldn’t ask that question from me of all people,” Zoey hissed.
*
“Tiffany, I don’t even know where to begin,” Senator Han shook his head.
“You can just take it from anywhere,” Tiffany clasped her hand together.
She really wanted to scream that out loud.
“Your mother’s name was Nova,” he said.
“What? E… excuse me? Why did you just say?” Tiffany stammered.
“I know it might be…”
And at that moment, the door burst open and Aiden barged in, and then Declan.
“Father?”
“Dad?”
Aiden and Declan called out respectively.
“Dad?” Tiffany furrowed her brows.
“Dad, why the fûck are you here?!”
“Goodness!” Senator Han massaged his temple.
“Dad, answer me!” Declan yelled.
“Because she is family! She… She is our family!” Senator Han exhaled.
Family?
Since when?
Hehehe, it’s funny.
Where the hell is the cameramen?!
Tiffany screamed inwardly.
*
TBC…