16|Bad Blood
1082 Words
J e a n
My mind was filled with what Dos said when he had his breakfast in the house last weekend. Was he being serious about it?
"Jean?" Harry called.
"Yes?" I absentmindedly answered.
"Aren't you going out for class?" Harry asked making me wake up from my trance.
We already arrive at the campus and was already parked. Harry was still sitting in the driver's seat and was looking at me staring blankly.
"Oh! Right." I said and went out of the passenger seat.
"Are you okay?" Harry asked.
"Y-Yeah. I wasn't thinking about anything." I said and I heard Harry chuckled as he turned around the hood of his car and messed my hair making me groan.
"Harry!" I exclaimed and Harry only laughed.
***
I was gathering my thing from my locker when I saw an unfamiliar piece of yellow paper and it says:
Lunch with me?
-2
My heart was pounding while looking at the number two below the note. Dos.
"Was he really serious?" I asked myself.
I didn't know why but I felt something towards Dos that I couldn't figure out ever since the first time I saw him. There was something in him that I couldn't understand what and why I felt this towards him.
"Let's go?" Harry asked who was behind me and I nodded.
I was a little absentminded throughout the morning and my heart skipped in nervousness when I heard the bell rung for lunch break making me remember about the note left in the locker.
I gathered my book and went out of the room. I was looking down as I walked out when someone suddenly walked in front of me of intending on hitting me making me stop and looked my head up only to see Dos in front of me.
"D-Dos?" I couldn't stop myself from stuttering.
Dos smiled. "Lunch?"
***
I could see how annoyed Dos was because Harry insists on eating with us. I let them seat side by side because they were fighting over who would sit next to me. Looking at their annoyed and gloomy faces made me silently chuckle.
They looked so cute and it was a shock for me seeing Harry with this kind of personality. They were both amusing to look at.
I looked at Dos and I felt so embarrassed and nervous with what I wanted to ask him but I want to know.
"Do you mean what you said back then?" I asked and the two of them looked at me.
"Of course, I do." Dos immediately answered.
"Jean, don't get fooled by him." Harry said.
"You're the one who's fooling him. You know exactly what my feelings are, or maybe not because you haven't found yours." Dos said.
I sighed seeing them fighting again.
"You don't deserve Jean."
"Harry." I called.
***
Lunch was a disaster. I shouldn't have let them sit at the same table.
"You really have a bad blood with Dos, don't you?" I said when Harry was driving me home.
"I do." Harry said and I sighed. "Do you like him?"
I looked at Harry, surprised.
Do I like Dos?
No, but I don't know why but I wanted to try something because it was my first time feeling something like this. I felt nervous when he was around yet I find myself staring at him.
"I don't know." I said.
Harry was looking at me for a while.
"Hey! You're driving." I said and that Harry looked away from me and turned his gaze back to the road.
"I guess you really can't fight it." Harry muttered making me frown.
"Fight what?" I asked and he only shook his head and stayed quiet all the way back to our houses.
***
I was surprised when I went inside the house and saw Dos chatting with mom casually like they've known each other for quite some time already.
"H-How..." I paused and pointed at Dos who stood up and smiled when he saw me.
"Dos is waiting for you." Mom said. "How about you two talk inside your room Jean and I bring you snacks."
"Mom?" I didn't know what to say because I was thinking of Dos a moment ago and I couldn't believe that he was already in front of me.
I jumped in surprise when Harry suddenly stormed in and looked at Dos with eyes that wanted to kill the person he was glaring at.
"I will be back." Dos said and I watched the two of them walked out of the house after Dos thanked Mom for the warm hospitality then he also stole a glance at me.
My heart was pounding inside my chest thinking that they would seriously fight each other outside as I watched them walking towards Harry's house. What are they going to do there?
I pulled my phone and called Harry who answered and said that Dos and him had an unsettled business to finish and that he didn't have to worry about it because the bad blood between them will be over after that.
After what?
It was driving me crazy thinking about it when mom patted my shoulder.
"Are they fighting over you?" Mom asked.
"Of course, not. They never like each other from the very beginning."
Mom chuckled. "So, your best friend is just protecting you from your suitor who happens to be his enemy."
I frowned at mom. She was always been found of dramas and I could see how she was starting to think everything that was happening was just like in one of her dramas.
I am her son!
"Mom, aren't you against Dos courting me?" I said. "He's a man and me too."
Mom smiled and pinched my cheek. "Darling, I was surprised at first but it's not new to me and you know why. Your uncle had the same marriage and they both looked happy with their life decisions. As long as you're happy."
Mom was referring to her younger brother, Lewis, who married someone of the same s*x and they choose to live at the countryside and had two cute and handsome boys which looked so much alike with the two of them merged.
"Dos have the same aura with Arthur that's why I like him immediately. Don't think too much about it."
Arthur was Lewis' husband.
Mom smiled at me before she walked to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
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