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EPISODE 5 JUST A PEEK!

WE JUST went home.

It's already past ten in the evening. We went for dinner out with Aunt Maggie and Trina. I drank a little while talking, discussing dance practice and anything else related to dancing, so I wasn't bored while Mama Cha and Aunt Maggie were talking about a man whose name is Jet.

I don't know! Even though my attention was focused on Trina, I turned my ears on them, so I could hear everything they were talking about, especially when I heard the man's name.

Tsst! Who is that? I didn't hear or they didn't mention who was the ex of the two of them.

" Take a bath before going to sleep! I'm going to drink more! " Said Mama Cha.

I was lying on the sofa. I hadn't taken off my shoes yet, because I went straight. I was hit because it was the Korean beer we drank, it was delicious, and it looked light, but there was also a strong impact. I had three bottles! Then I'm tired too! Mama was the one who drove home!

" Clint! Take a bath first! You can't sleep with that again! " Mama Cha shouted again.

I feel sleepy.

" Hey! " She shouted again.

I rubbed my face, tried to open my big eyes, and then got up.

" Go to sleep because you need to be early for tomorrow. " Said Mama Cha. She's in the kitchen doing something on her laptop.

I was about to step up but I stopped at first, I suddenly remembered something and then I noticed something too. And.

" Who's Jet? Huh, Ma?" I asked.

She didn’t answer, she just looked at me, so I approached her. When I got close, she suddenly folded the laptop, got up, and went to the fridge to get cold water.

Why do I feel like she was doing something on the laptop that she avoided me seeing? I seemed to have noticed that there was a picture of a man. I just didn't see it all because she folded it right away.

I was about to open the laptop when she hurried.

" Come on Clint, I still have work to do," she said as she took the laptop and pinned it to her armpit.

" Who is that?" I asked.

"What who?" She asked as well.

"Your boyfriend Ma?" I asked again.

"Hey, Clint, stop it! I don't have a boyfriend! I just looked at something!" She refused to look at me with a frown.

"Why are you in such a hurry to fold that? I'll just take a look!"

"Come on up! Take a bath and go to sleep!"

"Just a peek! "

My rather thick eyebrows met even more. I parted my long hair, sighed, then took a deep breath. I knew she was avoiding something.

And so.

" No boyfriends Ma! I don't want to! You can't have one!" I said while turning my back on her.

I didn't wait for her to answer. I went straight upstairs.

CHARI'S POV

Sorry!

Why do I feel like Clint was offended by what I did? I saw in his eyes that he squinted and then his eyebrows met.

Why does he need to do that? Why does he need to remind me? So what if I was looking at a man's photo! I don't have a boyfriend, I'm just checking! Checking on Jets!

It was last month since I noticed that his reactions seem weird when it comes to the guys that my friends and I sometimes talk about, then after that, he seems to be quiet and doesn't talk to me at all. Like today, he probably heard Jet's name mentioned by Maggie earlier.

There are also a few changes that I feel Clint is jealous of sometimes. I can see how he reacts when I am talking to some teenagers or guys his age, then he will see me smile or be sweet. He'll keep on following afterward, always at my back.

I don't want to think about what because —- because the sweetness and super closeness are normal for the two of us! We have also been together for almost a decade. I was twenty by that time. A fresh HRM graduate and currently working at a resto-bar owned by his late parents.

They became good friends of mine and helped me get started. It's just sad that they died early. His brother, who was in charge of the resto-bar, was also good and kind when they died, so my work is continuous.

And that's why I was put in a high position because Clint will come to me.

The couple adopted Clint. He was said to be ten years old when he came to them. Clint's real parents are said to have no identity, he was just left in an orphanage. So Clint was nobody.

Clint was pitiful during those times. No one wants to claim him because he is not a real blood relative. I saw he was at the resto-bar for two days, cleaning and sleeping there. Until one day, he fell ill. I saw him in the stockroom lying down, feverish.

His school supplies as well as clothes are already there scattered around the stockroom. I felt sorry for him, I remembered the kind couple all of a sudden. I felt sorry for the child. I told the brother, the bar manager, that if I could take Clint and let him stay with me until he aged a bit and find a better place for himself.

No second thought — they gave him to me. I took Clint home. Though I didn't know what to do, I just kept going. He's big and he's capable of a few things and it became easy. We just had a hard time because I was just living with my aunts then, and he added.

Difficult! It's hard to get along...

But after two years, my salary is pretty okay and there are side jobs as well, so Clint and I looked for a house to rent, even if it was small, as long as we could get away from my aunts. That will be good!

I still remember! We had nothing, just a small stove, plates, glasses, and pillows. It was really fun! At the same time, Clint's books and my baking utensils were scattered, messing up the whole damn place! Then, we had no room. We just lay on the floor, with a mattress. We don't have a TV, just a laptop that Ben, Clint's friend, lent him when he was in college.

It's not easy what we went through. Honestly, I don’t know how I was able to send Clint to college. I almost went mad about the excessive amount of loans back then!

But the Lord is good. He did not leave us. He didn't let us down.

Clint's hard work at dancing paid off.

They won first place in the first dance battle that he entered. And there! Everything seemed to change in an instant!

They took home a large number of prizes; he even got a solo cash prize for breakdancing, then he immediately bought a small house from the aunt of his friend Ben. The house was sold to him at half the price offered.

And here it is! The two of us are still here today. Clint, who is twenty-five, who I have only seen a girlfriend two times, and I, who's thirty and still not married!

Don't know!

I also don't know why.

Whenever it comes to my mind to find a mate, a partner, or whatever.

Clint was the first to come to my mind.

I always say that — how will he be when I'm gone? Ugh! I don't want to leave him now. I want to make sure that he and the woman he will love are well before maybe I will let him go.

I love Clint. I love him so much. I don't want to leave his side for now... Not now.. Or I hope never...

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