“My story, probably begin when I was just a mere child, my parents… died from a car accident.” Diane sipped at her cocktails once more and then continue her story. “It… waaaaas ironic, of courssssse, died from a car accident? Heh… irrrronic.”
“How old are you back then?”
“Still youuuung… anyhow, I have an uncle who doesn’t have children, my father’s cousin once removed, he and his wife adopted meeeeee.”
Brandon whispers at Callum. “This is concerning, we should take her back to her room.”
“You right, I’ll signal Asher to carry her.”
Callum signaling Asher, he sees the signal and understands it, the poor woman already intoxicated enough. He tries to carry her but Diane puts up a fight.
“Come on lady, we are trying to be the gentleman here!” Grumbled Asher.
“Nooooo!! You aaaaall have to heeeaarrrr me frust!”
“Asher, just put her, we don’t want people to think that we kidnapping her.” Brandon massaging his forehead.
“You’re right, let us hear what the lady wants to say, maybe she will be calm down afterward.”
Asher let Diane sit back on the sofa, her smiles and giggles fill up the room.
“Thank you, what a gentleman, yeeessss! Unlike my otther boyzzz…”
Callum is on high alert. “What? what kind of ungentlemanlike thing that they do to you?!”
“Oh, water? Could you give me watterrrr?”
Brandon calls the waitress and asks for two bottles of water, Diane chug it like a thirsty marathoner. After drinking it, she feels a bit better, and when her head is laying on the sofa, her eyes are in the other place, her past.
“Diane, what are they doing to you?” Urge Callum.
“Dude, calm down, she tells us when she’s ready.” Said Brandon, grabbing Callum to go back to his seat.
Diane gave out a sigh. “Nothing without my consent, really…”
The three-man patiently waiting for her to put on another word.
“It’s just, they asking but, I feel empty inside when they do it… I feel nothing, in my teen years… I… I go to some orgies, to… to feel something, what I got? A f*cking sore all over my body and still nothing.” She laughs and then chugs another mineral water. “I tried doing another well, s*x venture, but still… Nothing.”
“Diane, maybe…”
“BUT! Before you guys told me, I need to go to a psychiatrist! Already did! Didn’t work!”
Brandon calls the waitress and orders another bottle of mineral water, her mind is clearer after endless chug from the pure bliss of a mountain distill water. He opens one and gives it to Diane, who thanks him by giving him a peck on his cheek.
Callum teases him when he goes back to his seat. “Now, you got your moment as well.”
“Shut up, j*rk!” Grunt Brandon, even though his hand keeps touching the place where Diane is kissing him earlier.
“The psychiatrist thinking, because I never ask for it first, I suppress the feeling for… for wanting something from someone, I shut any connection… WELL! F*CK HER!”
Diane stand up from her seat, dancing around like a maniac, Asher, Brandon, and Callum tried to stop her to go to the podium and finally could calm her down, she drink another mineral water and then relaxed her head to the headrest of the sofa.
“Okay, we should definitely buy those mineral water companies, their water is a miracle for the drunkard.” Says Brandon to Callum.
Asher dampened his handkerchief and give it to Diane to wash her face, which is now full of dry glob mascara and smear lipstick.
“Thank you, you’re so nice to me, you’re the second man who does this kindness towards me…” She rested her head on Asher’s firm chest. “The first one was Matt when he kindly helped me carry the big heavy stuff from the office…”
Asher smiles, he almost pieces all of the puzzles, the puzzle about how Diane always feels uneasy to be intimate. Diane feels adrift, she feels comfortable in the arms of a man, a warm and comfortable arm of Asher.
“She’s already asleep?” Ask Callum.
Asher shushing Callum, even though they’re inside one of the loudest places right now.
“Let us take her back to the hotel, poor woman is exhausted.” Says Brandon.
Asher then carried Diane out from the club, while Callum get the car. They put Diane to her bed and carefully tuck her in.
Morning came, Diane feel terrible, her head is throbbing, she had already thrown up twice and was thankfully in the toilet. After a nice cold shower, her headache subsides a little, and when she goes downstairs to eat breakfast, she almost walks back to the elevator when Callum smile at her from the breakfast room.
“Diane, where are you going? Come eat breakfast with us.” Callum fetch her up before she could make it inside the elevator.
“Oh, yes, Callum… Hey, good morning.”
“Yes, good morning for you too, come on, Asher and Brandon are waiting.”
“Aha… perfect!” She feels pressure already.
Diane feels terrible, she sits surrounded by three gorgeously handsome young men, who pampered her too much, while she’s replying to all of the things that she do last night in her head.
“Hey, do you need anything else?” Ask Asher.
Diane carefully put her glass of ice tea. “Riiight… you already brought every assortment out there, thank you, I… I need to ask you guys something.”
“Oh, it’s okay, we tuck you in and left you, you can check the CCTV outside your room.” Said Brandon carefully.
“NO! no… I trust you guys, it’s just… Did I say something embarrassing last night?”
“Oh… that… well, you did say a lot of things,” Callum says while giving her a bottle of mineral water.
The mineral bottle makes Diane horrified, she finally remembers every word that she said, even vaguely remembering about her dancing around, Asher has to catch her up and carry her back in his arms.
“Okay, was it involved me… dancing in front of the large audience?”
“Not exactly a large crowd, it’s just us three and… the waitress…ses.”
“Oh my God! It’s plural? Now I am so embarrassed!”
“Don’t be, the dance is… pretty weird, but strangely hot.” Grin Callum at Diane.
Asher and Brandon have to punch him on the shoulder for making such goofy remarks. Asher then pokes Diane to turn her attention.
“Look, you don’t have to feel so embarrassed over something that you should do for a long time ago, you just need to convey your feelings to someone. To someone that actually cares about you.” Says Asher, he even pat her back to ease her uneasiness inside.
Diane looking at Asher with a new light, she could see how caring and protective he is, a rare quality for a man in his age. She felt it on Brandon and Callum as well, Callum with his childlike and quirky attitude, always manages to make her comfortable and smiles a lot. Brandon, even though he’s a bit serious and stiff, has a quality to charm everyone with his kindness and especially towards Diane.
“Thank you so many guys, I felt embarrassed before, knowing that I have told you about my secret about something private in my life.”
“Hey, don’t be, we actually feel honored that you consider telling us your secrets.”
“You do realize that I was under the influence of alcohol, right?”
“Yes, we were, but it doesn’t beat the purpose.” Says Callum while grinning ear to ear.
Diane smile at him, it is hard to stay upset when you look at those brown eyes and sexy full lips.
“I need some toast, do you guys want some?”
“Oh let me…”
“No, Asher, let me, this time let me get something for you.”
She already feels better when the time she goes to the bakery is, but then she meets Nana, her once best friend that she has.
“Oh, Diane, you already up? I thought you’re going to get busy considering you have three vigorously young men to squeeze.”
“Nana, you should stop talking to me, and I just go to have a drink with them, nothing else.” Diane always considers people’s feelings, she doesn’t want to embarrass the three of them, especially in front of Nana, one of the gossipers in the office.
“Really? Wow, are they already rejecting you, huh? Good thing we talk Matt to stay away from you, I mean…” Nana’s getting closer to Diane and then whisper. “We don’t want him to end up with some frigid b*tch like you.”
She almost slaps Nana, a good thing her conscience reminds her where she is right now, Diane excuse herself and goes back to her table.
“Hey, where is your toast?”
“I… I forgot about it…” She went silent, and after grabbing her smartphone she walks away to the elevator.
Asher is catching up on her, and goes inside the elevator, he escorted her to her room, and before Diane goes inside, he grabs the handle and look Diane in the eyes.
“I saw it, one of your friends, she’s bothering you, right?”
“Ugh, yes, I mean, I never told you, but they actually sleeping with Matt, that’s why I go to the club.”
“We know about it.”
“You all knew?! Why you…”
“Look, before you’re getting all mad, I never realize that Matt will become such an *sshole before last night, it’s just that friend of yours, invited us to an orgy, the three of us.”
“She asks you for what?!”
“and before you’re getting furious, I refused the invitation, right at her face.”
Diane got stunned, she knows for a fact that Nana and Jessica are gorgeous, they are mean girls, but the gorgeously sexy mean girls.
“Why? Why do you reject their invitation?”
“Isn’t it obvious?” Asher smirks at Diane, his body is getting closer to Diane, he whispers at her ear. “Because the only woman that I want is in front of me right now.”
And then he kissed her…