LAST KISS

CHAPTER 12: JEALOUS HUNT 2

We stepped into the OLD MAN's darkened office and head for the big mahogany desk at the far end of the room.

"Why is this room so messy Margie? Are you not cleaning and organizing stuff in with Brandon here?" Abbie asked me for jumble that welcomed us half criticizing.

"No. How can I even clean his room where he doesn't want to see my face in here?" I answered. I am about to pull open the desktop drawer when I noticed a crumpled piece of paper on the floor near the trashcan.

I picked it up for disposal in the trashcan but I noticed something strange so I chose to open it.

"Dearest Gabriela"

I read through the text of the letter, and my breath catches in my throat.

"Gabriela is her daughter!" I sharply think at the back of my mind. I continued reading the paper and noticed that Abbie and Caitlyn were reading with me too.

"I know I wasn't the best father to you, but none of us can know how much time we have left on this planet. When you're ready to forgive me, let me know. I'd like to be part of your life again"

"Wow! That was intense!" exclaimed Abbie after reading the letter on the scratch paper.

"Why didn't he send it to his daughter??" asked Caitlyn which I don't even know what to answer.

"I don't know either, but why can't Gabriela forgive him ? what has he done?" I questioned in puzzlement.

Just then, We heard the shuffling of the footsteps in the hall outside. My eyes go wide when I saw someone's shadow almost coming in..

"Shhh! Professor Vasquez!" gasped Abbie which is almost a yell but softly.

We duck behind somewhere to hide. I chose to go behind the desk as the doorknobs turn. Peering out from around the corner, I saw Brandon's silhouetted in the light from the hall.

"Hello? Someone in there?" a bold husky voice screams that I have confirmed to be Brandon's voice. 

I sheepishly come out from behind Professor's desk.

"J-just the night crew"

"Hey, Brandon!" Abbie also greeted concealing herself from the back of Bookshelves.

"What are you doing here and this time??" Brandon asked us perplexed and stunned to see us sneaking at this hour.

"scavenger hunt for Kappa" Abbie answered him. I was nervous because Brandon might report to the professor that I was passing by his office at this hour of the night.

"So you're really serious of joining Kappa" confirmed Brandon.

"Any chance you could not tell Vasquez we snuck in here after the dark?" I tensely asked him. Brandon grinned at me flashing his million-dollar smile.

"Your secret's safe with me Margie!"

"Thanks, Brandon! and what are you doing here in this hour?" I asked him back.

"I left the script for my play here and wanted to get some work in."

"Okay. I understand, maybe I could not hang you any longer so you can finish on time!" I smiled at Brandon as he smiled back again to me which make my heart flutter. I think I am starting to blush!

"Much Appreciated!" after his reply, Brandon leaves the office. I am now alone with Abbie and Cait, they quickly rifle through the drawers and find the final clue clipped in the front cover of the Melville Books first edition.

"The end is near, you're closing in, the sweater's on a mannequin"

"So the sweater is in the mannequin at the campus design fashion studio!"

"They are so lazy to give the clue now right?" Abbie smiled and we left the Office of the Professor and in speed, we headed to the fashion studio on campus.

A short while later, we found the mannequin wearing the said sweater with the last name 'Memorata' printed on it.

"That must be Thyra Avrisha Memorata. It's even pinker than I imagined" I am so happy to yell. I grabbed it and hurried back to Kappa House to surrender the sweater with these two lovely ladies.

The three of us arrived at the Kappa House with Thyra's sweater. Becca and Madison surprised to see us but the other Kappa sister's welcomed us in, and the other sorority sisters clap politely.

It seemed like only Becca and Madison who seemed not expecting our victory frowned and didn't want to see us.

"Well done! I wasn't expecting you could make it!" Becca's fake welcome to the three of us. Giada smiled warmly at us.

"Me, I expect it to be you guys! Welcome to Kappa."

"Seriously Giada?" Becca's angry expression. Giada just tortured her with a snub so Becca could do nothing but retract.

"yeah! you're smart. who could think?"

"You really think that way to her?" Abbie gnarled at Becca sarcastically.

"Shut-up ugly! I'm trying to be nice don't test my patience!" she screeched back at Abbie.

"right!" Abbie chuckled silently and yelled at Becca. We were all silent as Becca spoke.

"Madison, would you text our other pledged and tell them to go home! We won't be requiring their presence anymore because the sweater is nowhere!"

"I'd be happy to inform them" Maddie replied and turned away from us smiling.

That smile I don't know for what real reason is.

"Are they going to be disqualified that so easily?" asked Caitlyn in a worry, Becca's eyebrows raised at Caitlyn's question.

"Why? Isn't it obvious dumb-head? Oh, maybe you want to give them the sweater? That's the rule, the rule is a rule!" Becca's angry cry.

Is this exactly what she is trying to be nice about?

This is so effortlessly worst!

I can't help but wonder if her definition of the word 'nice' is really this, - Because, She still had the worst of it.

I really think Becca that when her mom was conceiving her, Her mom craved all the bad elements of the world.

"So what is now the activities that you mentioned>," asked Abbie.

"Next evening, there will be a final challenge that will decide whether you are a Kappa worthy! It is finding an upper-classman to our sorority ball."

"In that case Margie I think you already had an upper-class with you all the while!" Abbie's silly tease giggling at me.

"So that means we will have the chance to get in!" ni Caitlyn said in approval of Abbie's tease. My forehead twisted.

"uh oh! s'cuse me! You Kris ex!--Kris is mine!" Becca added, which Abbie's speech was almost cut off.

"Well, Kris is not so Upper-class to the guy who's now totally in love with our baby girl!" It really looks like Abbie is enjoying taunting Becca so much, Cait smiled as if agreeing about Abbie's meaning. And I think I do know who is this man they are trying to pair for me.

My Goodness!

"No! no! Brandon is not in love with me you're just making up again! I can't ask him for this kind of stupid stuff." I refuse.

"Brandon?" Becca suddenly asked as if in doubt about what she had heard.

"you mean Brandon Ashton?" She wanted me to clarify her confusion.

"We're just mere co-workers!" I answered back.

"Oh! I don't believe you are not crushing on to that guy!" That's from this b***h again attempting to ridicule me.

"and I don't rather believe that he will go with you! How would Brandon settle for less?!" Is she really want a fight because damn! I am now dying to give her a spunk!

Aside from the fact that Brandon is not so special to me and we're not making on with each other, I just don't like the approach and bully she inserted in between.

"I've only seen him once but I'm half in love with him!" Madison replied with a twinkle look in her eyes.

"Oh! so all this time you are the 'Margie Dominicka' ?"

Suddenly, the woman in our backy asked, who had been sitting on the couch that we haven't even noticed.

"Dominicka?" asked Becca in a surprise to hear my other name.

"You don't know her real name? She is Margie Dominicka!" said this chick-babe on our back which if I'm not mistaken is Xylia Mendez.

"You are the Dominicka in his poets and always been the lady in our talk every time we spent our lunch together?" Miss Mendez added that shocked us all. 

Why Brandon's poem? WHY every lunch? Are they in a relationship? And how comes this Xylia, know about me? 

I have so many questions. Why does she know a lot about me and Brandon? What are they?

"You know Brandon all this time b***h?" asked Becca to Xylia, Xy just smiled as he drank the cocktail. She flipped her hair and walk through us from the few steps of the sofa.

"Of course! and living in the same roof!" We were all shocked by what Xylia said, so I mean -----

"Yes! He was my older brother from different Mother!" we were astounded because they didn't look like siblings with Brandon. Brandon has a dark beauty and Xylia has pinkish-white glow skin.

All this time I thought Brandon was really his girlfriend, Who has thought that. Brandon and I were working together but we had never had da chance to talk privately about other things than work and I didn't ask about his life either.

"how come your surname is Mendez? why didn't you tell us Kappa we've been together for 3 years!" Becca confronted Xylia in furry.

"Because you weren't asking!-- You always talk about yourself and your assholes! Thyra and Giada and Hermione Knows that right sisters?" their companions nodded with a poise. Becca and Maddie were still in the state of shock who seems like embarrassed in our front by her our Kappa sisters.

"I'm Mendez since dad didn't marry my mom! simple as that, but daddy still finance my studies and Mom married a rich Mendez that's why my surname is Mendez instead of Ashton. Mendez clans treat me as their own, any questions?"

"So you knew me already?" I asked shyly.

"I knew you by name but Brandon didn't call you as My Margie but My Dominicka! I really imagined all this time that her Dominika was a princess and not a pledge!" I was a bit disappointed with what she just uttered.

"-- But when I figured out that it's you. I'm starting to like you!" Xylia smiled at me.

I have nothing to say.

"well, you are just expecting too much! I can't ask Brandon about this!" I denied.

"But I can ask Brandon for you! He can't say no to me!" Xylia even strikes me a wink. Is what I'm seeing is real? I cannot believe it.

"Okay, you heard her b***h! so bring Brandon in our ball next evening in your arms! Or---- Not at all!" after that, Becca throw us another snub and turned back to us going up to her room.

I don't know why things are so fast! I can't go too far and digest what just happened in a flash!

I have to ask Brandon myself and I won't allow that Xylia will make it for me. I don't know what Brandon would think if that happened.

We thought about going home when I noticed that it was already past 4 am, I still have to rest and prepare myself to talk to Brandon. Aside from Brandon I also want to talk about Vasquez!

And to what I just read earlier at the Professor's office, I thought that despite his anger in the world, he still had a soft heart for her daughter, but

The thing that confused me, even more, is about why he asked for his daughter's forgiveness? What are this thing he'd done that seems like hurts her daughter so much and he lament deeply?

Why he just crumpled the paper and not send it to his daughter Gabriela instead?

This is a long day for me. There are so many things that happened. All I want is to collapse in my bed and hope that tomorrow will not come so fast.

This old man's assignments are torturing me so much and affect my private life so hard. Sometimes, I have thought of giving up but when I think about my future to finish the medicine course and got my profession soon, That idea just made me strong and there is really one stronger reason and feeling why I couldn't stop and give up studying here. Because until now, I'm still hoping that everything will go well and Kris's feelings will come back for me again.