Chapter Eight: The First Kiss
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“I thought that you and her family have this complications that the two cannot talk to each other.” Lander look back as he saw Jeremy standing in front of him with a billiard pole on his hands. “Jer.” Lander said and he walks towards him and greeted him a happy birthday with a peace bomb and a hug. “So what’s up with you and that Madden girl?” Jeremy asks to lander that makes Lander looks at him confuse. “What do you mean what’s up? Everyone knows what was happening between our family right? The fight is tight, especially now that the business is failing and theirs are just coming at high.”
They keep walking towards the crowded people who are dancing to the music that is playing on the loud speakers at every wall and corner of the club.
“That is what I’ve been asking. I never saw the two of you talk before. Except earlier.”
“We just met. Nothing else. In fact, why would I waste my time talking to the enemy right?”
“Well, because you know what they say, to win against the enemy, you have to work with the enemy. I thought that’s what you are doing.”
The girls came right at them but Lander shows no interest at all, in fact, he leaves his friend Jeremy with bunch of girls and went to the table and drink a vodka.
“Why does a hot guy sitting alone here drinking vodka all by himself?” lander look to his side and there, he saw one of his classmate, friends, Cheryl, the only red headed girl in the town. Well, her family is. Her mother is red hair and his father have brown hair, so she wasn’t the only red headed girl in the town, she and her mother is.
“Cheryl.” Lander said her name. “Just what he had.” Cheryl said to the person who is working behind the counter for her to have a drink too. “I won’t ask myself when one of those girls ended up pregnant tomorrow.” Cheryl whispered to herself while looking to Jeremy playing with the girls that is surrounding him. Cheryl turned her attention back to Lander who is drinking his drink while looking at his friend Jeremy who is having fun and the time of his life.
“Yous till haven’t answered my question. Why does a hot guy sitting here alone looking at his friend having fun?”
“Why would I answer that? I am not the hot guy you are referring too.”
Lander answered her question and he puts the glass down on the counter and tried to stood up but Cheryl stops him and kiss her on his lips. Tongue to tongue. He wanted to resists and push her away but he was so drowned to the kiss and the moment that they are having right now. He could taste the strawberry lipstick flavor on Cheryl’s lips and he could taste the vodka on her tongue and felt so addicted to its taste that makes him kiss her deeper. Cheryl puts her hands on Lander’s nape and pushed it down to her when Jeremy interrupted the two that made Lander realized what just happened that makes him pushed Cheryl away from him that made her bit his lips because of what he done.
He tasted blood on his mouth that he eventually wipes out of his lips.
“I thought you date guys.” Jeremy jokingly said while looking at both of them. Because of embarrassment that Lander had, he immediately stood up and get the keys of his car and faces his friend Jeremy. “I think I have to go now. I remember that I have an important things to do with the new project. See you tomorrow, and happy birthday. Please don’t forget to use a protection.” He said before he leaves his friend like he was being chased by a cheetah because of how fast his actions is.
As soon as he gets out of the bar and was sent to the parking lot by his legs, he saw Alicia Madden talking with his father not too far away from him. They look like they are arguing, but he doesn’t know what the argue is all about. When he finally found his car, someone called his name that made him look behind his shoulder just to see no other than Mr. Harry Madden, Alicia’s father, the one that his father truly hated, the one that has more power than him at this moment.
“Mr. Madden. What a surprise to see you here.”
Harry’s expression changes into disgusted when he smelled the ambiance of the vodka on his mouths.
”You are too young to drink heavy alcohol kiddo.”
“You are not my father so you have no rights to tell me what is wrong and what is right for myself.”
“You just sounded like your father.”
“You just sounded like your daughter.”
He could feel the heat between him and Harry, that only a few pushes back, there will be a bloody bloodbath that will happen here at this moment in the parking lot.
“I just want to say good luck to your newly project. I hope it is higher than the ratings of my overall business.”
“Thank you, but I don’t need it. My company might be falling but it won’t. Until you are standing, my company will still stand.”
Lander answered and he opened the door of his car but Harry pushes the door back that makes it closed.
“You mean your father’s company?”
Harry Madden asks in his sarcastic tone of voice.
“No. My company. Father is dead and he gave this to me, and now it is on my hand, I work it all out, means it is my company. So if you would excuse me Mr. Madden, I have somewhere to go.”
He said and he opens his car door and went inside. He started the cars engine before he left Harry Madden standing alone on the ground of the parking lot looking at Lander’s car’s fading away.
Harry smiled, so proud of what this boy can have, proud of the confident that he has.
“Let see about that.” HE whispered to himself.
It was just the beginning of the story of how Lander ended up marrying Alicia, the enemies daughter.
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