The Brat and his Bodyguard (BxB)

Chapter 6

“Ahem!”

Zachary stops and lifts his head with eyes closed as he breathes heavily.

“Why he can't leave me alone?!” he gritted his teeth.

“Mr. Del Fierro, I can drive you home.” He turned to Ethan and glared at him.

“Isn’t it clear that I told Dad right in front of you that I don’t want you to drive for me?”

“I understand but you looked so tired so I thought of volunteering to drive you home.”

“Hmph!” Zachary didn’t respond and turned to continue walking to his car stomping his feet. He is about to open his car door when someone from behind him grabbed the car door handle. He gasped not because it shocked him but because he can feel the warmth from that someone's breath that hit the back of his neck. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth then turned to the person behind him but late to realize as to when he opened his eyes, their faces are just an inch away from each other.

“Mr. Rodriguez, stay away from me. Now!” Zachary said gritting his teeth.

"After I opened the car door for you!” Ethan responds softly staring at him intently.

Zachary felt like thousands of volts of electricity runs through his veins made his heart pumping wildly as he felt Ethan's lips lightly brushing his. He closed his eyes, pursed his lips, and nodded while gulping a lump in his throat.

“You can go inside now.” He heard Ethan said already far from him. He opened his eyes abruptly and quickly gets inside his car and released a deep breath to relieve himself. He pulled the car door hard to close and hit the steering wheel.

“What is happening to you, Zachary del Fierro. This is unlikely of you! You’re crazy! Why did you let yourself be intimidated by him? Why?”

He then ignited his car aggressively, rev up, and started to drive out of the carpark leaving a loud screeching as he is mad at himself.

“Sh*t!” Ethan is cursing as he saw Zachary ahead of him overtaking the other cars on their way back home. After that quick moment with him, he went to he car and waited until Zachary drive out of the carpark and followed him.

“Is he wanted to die?” he mumbled while looking at his rearview mirror before accelerating his car overtaking those cars ahead of him to catch up with Zachary. When he manages to get close to Zachary's car, he keeps honking to get his attention but to his surprise, Zachary drives fast to get away from him and maneuver in a different direction.

“Where is he going?” Ethan continues driving following Zachary's direction leaving the main road with other commuters, in annoyance and fear because of them chasing each other that might cause an accident due to their faster speed. Ethan is not thinking anymore if he broke some traffic rules, his mind is on Zachary. A few kilometers drive when he noticed they are traversing the way to the race track where they did the drag racing. He keeps on driving following Zachary until the latter reached the track and drive aggressively.

“Vrrrooommmm...vvrrrooommm..” he revs up his car as he accelerates his speed on the track.

“Screeecchhhh..” the tires screech engulfed the area when he maneuvers to make a turn leaving a trail of dusty smoke behind.

Ethan shakes his head. “Judging his personality, I can’t believe he can be aggressive as today. Tsk! Such a brat!” he mumbled and a smirk came out his mouth while he stops the car at the entrance which also serves as an exit. He knows, he is the reason why Zachary became aggressive suddenly but he didn’t regret what he did.

He gets out of his car and stands there leaning against it when the sky became gloomy. He looked at his wristwatch.

“It’s six in the evening.” He said to himself.

He then picks up his phone and dialed a certain number and speak to the person on the other line.

“You all can leave. Let me handle him.” He gave instructions to the other bodyguards hired to protect Zachary del Fierro. Before he started his work, he told his brother, Jason, to communicate with Raphael, to change the other bodyguards. Ethan wanted to work with the people from their agency rather than working from people he doesn’t know.

“Bro, please let Mr. Raphael del Fierro knows that I will accept the job if he will change his bodyguards.”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t like to work with other people I don’t know. I will work only with people I can trust. Tell him to get a replacement from our agency. At least I know their capabilities to do the job and I can rely on and trust them.”

“I’ll do it!”

He gets back to his focus when the rain started drizzling. He looks for Zachary’s car. The moment he saw him, is also the moment Zachary collided against the barriers on the side of the track not far from him creating a loud bang followed by a squealing of breaks as he stops.

“Oh sh*t!” he cursed and run towards Zachary's direction. The rain started pouring heavily, slowly drenching him wet.

He saw Zachary resting on the steering wheel, face on top of his arms crossing the said car part when he arrived next to his car. He knocked on the car window. Zachary just ignores him. He then knocked hardly for the second time.

“Zachary, for goodness sake. Open the door!” He shouted while continue knocking the car window.

Zachary lifts his head to look at him. He is already drenched in the heavy downpours but he endured it as the guy inside the car is his concern. Zachary pulled down the car window.

“What?!” he growled at him. “Leave me alone!” and he took away his stares from him.

“Let’s go home! I know you’re mad at me but please go home with me and let’s talk about it.” Ethan said and tried to open the car door. Luckily, Zachary left it unlocked. He then quickly opened it and get inside.

“Move!” Ethan told him. Zachary who was startled slowly move to the passenger seat with his mouth is agape. Ethan sits on the driver's seat. He can't trust Zachary to drive home in his state.

“I'll call someone to get my car here,” Ethan said without looking at Zachary who he left dumbfounded, not moving on his seat, staring at him. After he spoke to someone to get his car, he turned to look at Zachary who seems frozen in his seat.

“I am supposed to be the one who froze as I am soaking wet from the rain.” He said in his thought, shaking his head lightly and stretch his arms crossing in front of Zachary. Zachary breathe heavily when he smells Ethan’s masculine scent of sandalwood made him gulped a lump in his throat. His body stiffened as the other guy put on his safety belt. He can felt the warmth from his body made his mind in a daze.

“Okay, let’s go!” Ethan said after he is back to the driver’s seat and ignited the car engine to drive out of that place to go home.

“Okay! Let’s go!”

“Huh!” Zachary was startled and get back to his senses when he heard Ethan’s voice while he started the car to move out of the race track. He straightened his back leaning against the car seat.

Earlier he was so mad at himself. He felt frustrated that he allowed himself been intimidated by Ethan's presence. He can’t understand why but since the first day they met, Ethan's presence affects him that much. Thinking that he is attracted to the guy next to him made him frustrated and embarrassed. He can't accept it. He couldn’t imagine himself and admit that he is attracted to same-s*x.

“I’m not against those people who fall in love with the same-s*x but I can't it with myself.” His thoughts are in chaos but his heart is opposite. He heaves a sigh and looked outside the window. It's completely dark, day past and night came with a heavy downpour. Even street lamps are blurry as the heavy rain still pouring, flooding the streets and made other commuters, stranded.

He closed his eyes, trying to brush off the feelings he has just known but it seems that his mind won't cooperate as when he closes his eyes and breathes in, Ethan's masculine scent of sandalwood permeated his nose. He unconsciously, breathing heavily as he smelled the intoxicating smell of the person on the driver's seat. He bit his lips unconsciously when he remembers how their lips lightly touches earlier.

"What is happening to you, Zachary del Fierro? This is unlikely of you?” he scolded himself as he felt embarrassed about the way he is thinking about Ethan. Zachary tried to ignore the smell that sends him to an indescribable excitement. The excitement that he never had before. Only Ethan Lester Rodriguez triggered that different feeling living inside of him.