The Jerk is a Ghost

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He really is a man full of pride. So he is unable to admit how he really feels.

"N ... you talked before. I saw you come in ..."

"Yup. He already knows who I am."

"You told her?"

"It's what my boss told me. So I've got the permission to do so."

"Hmm ... what did she say?"

I put my hands behind my head as a lied back to my post. "Shocked, of course. But I didn't let her say anything and buy her a new phone as an excuse."

"There's something ---"

"Does it seem like I'm being asked what's going on in the one I'm watching? Stop that."

He sneezed. Was he really that desperate to know everything that was going on with Maxine?

"Ahy, I remember something," I snatched something from my pocket and showed it to him. "Is this yours?"

The sapphire is glowing as it hanged on it's chain. I could see the shock in his eyes when he saw the necklace I was holding. He quickly snatched it from me.

Its forehead furrowed, wondering. So that's him.

"Where did you get this?"

"I got it in his room earlier. The waiter who picked it up at the restaurant where we met his family gave it to him."

"At first, I was amazed at the mana that came out of that was the same as the necklace I saw you wearing before," his eyes narrowed as if he's thinking something so deeply. "The sapphire has a different shape. It looks better now than it did then."

A/N: Mana is a pervasive supernatural or magical power. In the native Hawaiian culture, the sacred term mana is known as spiritual energy of power and strength. --From Google Search.

He was silence for a while. When he recovered, he put on the necklace and then stood up.

"Now that I answered all your question, it's my turn to ask," to make it fair, he have to give me a proper answer. "Why were you in that place that day?"

It’s not that easy to track someone like him because he’s good at hiding. I only found out about the possibility that he was there when I saw Klyn and when I heard Maxine’s story about the person who owns the necklace. "Fucker! I thought I could just rest for a while!" I lay on the roof where I actually often sat on guard.

When I felt the strong inheritance I immediately left and returned to the roof of their house.

I can’t give up now on the Vergaras. I can't match their strength yet.

But it's just annoying! When can I sleep?

"What are you doing?"

I didn't want to look at him. "Pre, I'm sleepy pre."

I want to sleep. But the only response I got from him is blank face. "So?"

He sat down next to me. "What do you want?"

"Sleep? Rest?" I sighed deeply. "I haven't slept in a few days. Man, let's go."

The concern shown on his face is really serious. She is really caring! It's like I've experienced this before. My two men are the only ones in front of me.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm sleepy, man. But I can't sleep."

"So? What do you want me to do?"

Even their tone is the same. And that's what's annoying. Especially since they both smile when they find an opportunity to harass me.

"Tell me, so you can go to sleep. What do you prefer?" and that's what I'm saying. "Hit the wall or throw your body at the tree?"

"f**k!" I attacked him with the wind but unfortunately only his long hair went in its direction.

He didn't even close his eyes in shock. He grinned especially and glanced at the sky.

"Putek naman oh! Deja vu na 'to! Nakakaasar talaga kayong dalawang!" I get up. "You're both scary when you look at other people while your mantrip is passionate!"

He chuckled. "Tsk! How is she?"

"She's in her room, talking to her mom."

He never spoke again. I could feel the energy of his body, he was always tired. He would come here often just to look at that girl's conditon.

Their last conversation before that incident was not good and he repeatedly said that he was not worried about her. But look at him now. Tsk!

"Did you conspire with Klyn to take you there again?" "What about you if I conspired with him?" he calmly answered me. "I thought there was nothing" Where are those going and we've been being obeyed by people for a long time! Where are we going next Miabels? "Lala asked me seeing the tiredness of walking.

Even me, I’m also tired and i almost felt new blisters on my feet because of too much walking.

I immediately took the paper that Ringo had given me this morning and read it.

I really don't have any idea where we are going so I don't know what it looks like we're going to. When Ringo suddenly spoke in front. "Guys, we are here !! Welcome to Janna Water Palace!" Ringo shouted in front of us.

Ethan quickly ran toward Lala and me.

"Babe! Let's go! Let's picture!" Ethan said to Lala with excitement.

Lala glared at Ethan for reasons I don't know.

Then Ethan opened his eyes widely because he realized something. Then he went to me and Lala and placed himself on our middle and put his arms on our shoulders. (Lala on his left, while me on his right).

"Hon, Babe! Tara picture!" Ethan said loudly so it caught Ringo and Uri's attention.

Uri and I unexpectedly looked at each other. At the speed of what happened today, I realized that we still couldn't talk.

As much as I want to talk to him in private, alone, I can't do that without a scolding. Why does he seem to be far away even though he is already here in front of me.

But even we haven’t talked yet, but looking at his eyes, i knew what it means. But then I will tell you what it is.

My thoughts are vanished because Uri went straight to our location then he grabbed Ethan away from me and Lala.

"You have a problem, tol?" Ethan said calmly.

"There we are with the boys, we bromance tol." annoyed Uri said and pulled Ethan away from us.

Lala and I immediately looked at each other and just shrugged.

"Sh*t, we can't have a picture here, Babe" Ethan whispered to Lala as he smuggled it into Uri. "Later, babe. Dont worry" Lala replied here.

My friends are weirdo. Why don't they just take a picture? Is there a restraint ?.

"Eh don't take a picture. Is there no one? Weird guys" I replied to them.

Ethan immediately approached me.

"Ok let's take a picture first Mia! Get us a picture babe!" Ethan said suddenly and pulled me to the middle. I almost slipped on the stone path in its haste.

"Leche ka Ethan, when I fall there in the river, we'll be bald!" Annoyed I say here.

He laughed and walked over to me so I didn't do anything but look at my bestfriend's habit of laughing and took a picture of us.

"Next !, we're Miss Lala!" Ethan shouted.

I walked away frowning because of irritation. What is their trip?

As I was taking pictures of my flirting friends in front someone suddenly stepped beside me. And I felt the air to my ears that gave me goosebumps on my skin. Only his presence makes me feel this sensitive.

"Mi, 9pm let's talk" Uri whispered.

I turned around and saw Uri looking at Ethan and Lala's flirting behavior.

"I knew it. I was just tripped by a gag*. Did I really say that Lala is her babe" he said softly.

"Huh? Why, who else here will be her babe?" I have a surprising question here.

He looked at me and he was about to tell something when Ringo popped from nowhere and embraced Uri on his right.

I noticed Ringo will put his left hand to my shoulder when i noticed his eyes widened while looking at Uri ..

"Ok my brother in Christ. Calm down. I won't touch anything ok ..... Anyway Miss Doctor, how's my touring so far? Any thoughts?" Ringo asked me.

"Hmmmmm. Just fine ...... its ... tolerable" I replied here. Something that made it laugh.

I couldn't help but laugh at his reaction.

"Well, I'm honored to be your tour guide. Tolerable rating is enough for me to be happy, at SSC." then it pulled me into campus.

I just rolled my eyes, but let her drag me anyway. When we went to the SSC office, we didn't see Troy. Allie approached a student inside.

"Hey, Serene! Is Troy here? We just wanted to submit one form ..." he asked the woman in the mirror. "That's ...." As well as Mitsuya.

"Fire ... Had this ... The whole time ??" Raine's speech was unbelievable.

"Raine. You want everyone to meet up at the shrine?" Twelve -year -old Fire asked Raine.

"Yeah. Anyways, how's your new middle school?" Twelve -year -old Raine, who was also riding Fire's motorbike, asked back.

"Hella boring. Nobody could beat me up. Because nobody's tryna 'do something with me. Tsk!" Disgusted Fire replied.

"Haha! Wish I could've gone to your school so that we will both look for trouble." Raine said smiling.

"Sweet bike by the way. It's a GSX 250E, right?" Raine asked smiling as she watched the bike.

"Yup. I got it from trash. It took time for me to fix it. But now it's riding through the whole city! My bike is the best in Tokyo" Fire replied proudly to him.

"Hah ?! The best in Tokyo? My Zephyr's the best in Japan." Thirteen -year -old Vladmir interjected in the conversation.

"Whoa, whoa, hold up. I can't just let this slide. My sweet little impulse is the best in the world!" Thirteen -year -old Mitsuya is also inside.

"Yeah, whatever. You guys keep on fighting while stuck in gravity. My rocket's the best in goddamn universe!" Twelve -year -old Kazutora entered. Meanwhile, Raine from the back of Fire suddenly fall asleep.

"Oh? You little shits just got your pubes in !!!"

"Hah ?! So did you!"

"Huh? I have loads of 'em since fifth grade!"

"Hm ?! You just put permed hair down your pants!"

"My CBX 400F's the best. Dunno if it's the best in the world or universe though. I'm just an i***t. Stop talking about your crap. C'mon! Let's race to the Musashi Shrine!" Twelve-year-old Ma-Chin groaned.

"Wait, Mah! That's cheating!"

"Quit being logical!"

"Bring it on, bitches!"

"Last place gotta pay the price !!"

(At the Musashi Shrine)

"Oi, Raine! Wake the hell up. You're gonna fall off !! Damn it!"

"Phew, finally made it!" Fire nodded as he reached the top while carrying the sleeping Raine on his back.

"Sup, last place." Kazutora.

"What took you long?" Mitsuya.

"This mother fucker! He's been asleep this whole time !!!" Annoyed Fire said.

"Excuses. Excuses." Mitsuya's mannerisms.

"Hm? We're here?" Raine's newly awake manners.

"You told us to gather here. You have something to tell us, right. Raine?" Vladmir's words. The girl just shook her head. "Sorry, Troy isn't here today ... He's been absent for almost the whole week. He's too busy with them ..."

"Ah is that so ...? Thank you." Allie looked at me next. "How's that? I really want to join the competition ..."

I walked inside the SSC room and went straight to the president's desk. I took a participation form there, then faced the same girl after. "Excuse me. Do you know Troy's address?"

"Umm ... He seems to have a calling card here ... H-Hold on, please ..." then he looked at his desk. She gave it to me after. "Here, Miss ... I hope this helps ..."

I looked at the card and gave it to Allie after. "Book a Grab. We're going to Reviere's today."

"Are you sure?" its still a hesitant question.

I blamed him for that. "Why, do we have a choice? One more thing, he's supposed to be here! He knows it's the final day of submission today, then he won't go to school?"

"Okay." He looked at the woman who gave us Troy's address. "Thank you Serene, ah? You're so kind really at any time! I hope the Lord will pick you up later when you come home."

Allie just told a story all the way to Troy's place. Apparently, his condo is also in BGC so we didn't have much trouble booking. I looked outside the window and saw the familiar view. This was my home for the past ten years ...

If you can call it home, that is.

Like a child excited Allie ran out of the car after it stopped. I paid for our Grab fare, and then followed her inside that exclusive condominium. The guard greeted us with a polite smile as we walked down the hallway.

Allie was in the elevator when I arrived. "Ellen, hurry! I'll see Troy's condo for the first time! Gossip, his place is really beautiful!"

"Gossip? Where did you find that?" I asked confused.

"You know Reviere, you're ready to fling, aren't you? That's when I got the news!"

Chismosa really is.

We stopped at the ninth floor of that building. In all fairness, the interior of this condo is really beautiful, ah. It's even better than my previous condo. I wouldn’t be surprised if they paid Troy dearly here.

Allie stopped walking when she saw Troy's unit at the far end. She waved at me to hurry up and then, knocked on the door.

"Man! Meralco!" Allie calls inside.

I rolled my eyes because of that. "Meralco isn't knocking here, what are you?"

"I do not know?" its a lasting answer. "

"Just knock, you milk!" I told her impatiently. She did as I told her. "Man! Troy ?! Get out of there! I'm surrounded by you! Hihihihi!" Allie just looked at me while laughing after. "Don't open it. We need a password!"

I stepped up to knock on the door instead. Suddenly, we've heard a door opening behind us. Allie and I looked back at the same time, and to my surprise, it was Troy.

If its condo is there, then ...

I nodded to Allie, then snatched the calling card off her hand. Yup, we’re knocking on a wrong door like that by Zaffiro to me. That Khalid ordered him to watch over me.

"Are you sure?" Zaffiro asked.

I nodded, "Yeah. I don't want him to worry anymore."

He nodded, "If that's what you want," I smiled because of what he said, "Sige. I have to go."

He waved his hand cooly then he turned his back on me. I gasped as he moved away from my direction.

After my afternoon class, I went home as well. I don't go to school anymore because I don't have many friends. I mean, there is. But not like our friendship with Louise, Yolan and Mildred. We went to different schools. Mildred, returned to their province and studied there. Louise and Yolan, both University attended. And me, here.

I also miss those three and like Khalid, they can only talk on my social media. But unlike Khalid, we also meet sometimes, especially Yolan and Louise.

And as I used to, after I get dressed, I open my Skype because anytime, Khalid will call me. When it’s really like this, I get excited. I missed him already, so much. But I could do nothing but endure for almost a year.

Just in case, it was only six o'clock in the evening, when he was calling me, no call came from him. He's still not online on Skype. I checked his other social medias, but he is also not online which is weird.

It only happened now in the four years we were apart. Not a day goes by that he doesn't call me even because we're so busy, even just for an hour, making "A charm ... ??" Vladmir was shocked.

"You guys. When we arrived at the main house, I was immediately greeted by three children - Ruzert, Cally and Fiona. They hugged me so I kissed them back.

"Are you okay sister?"

"Are you still crying?"

"Don't cry sister, Ate Zia will be sad upstairs."

The three of them asked worried questions. "Sister is okay? Where are your friends?" I am referring to three. I don't know about Uno, it looks like he's been straight?

"They're in the kitchen, sister. Brother Jona is cooking breakfast." said Cally so I nodded.

"Sigr, I'm going to take them. So, Sofia. Take good care of your second siblings. As you are the older one, you will protect them okay?" I grabbed Fiona's attention so she grinned at me and nodded. "Promise please." he said and searched for a sign.

I was about to enter the kitchen when I heard someone talking. It's Uno and Jona.

"Are we going to continue storing food?" Jonah asked as he placed the freshly cooked egg on the plate.

"Don't do that first." Uno's answer seemed to float to him.

"What's wrong !? Those idiots are slowly taking over the whole place and then we're just going to stop? Hello? We're going to run out of supplies and starve." the name of Jonah.

My forehead furrowed at what I heard.

"You know !? Why did you ask?"

"Nothing, just to be more sure."

I had to go in and they talked.

"What is covered? Who is covering?"

So two of me were born as if they had seen a ghost. Jonah quickly thought of an answer for me.

"W-nothing." he stammered in response to me.

"What's wrong? I heard what you were talking about." I answered while frowning.

"Okay here it is, remember the guys who almost tried to steal the UpBus? They have a colleague and they plan to baricade the whole city. And the city is the only way for us to get out of this place and the city was also our main source of food and water. " Uno explained while holding his hand.

"Then we better move then." I said. "And what? Let some die? Again?" Jonah asked worriedly so I kept quiet.

"No, but we can't avoid that thing to happen." I defended before sitting down.

"Then, how are we going to get the loots if the city itself is already occupied by those gongs that you thought were kings who came after Fanny?"