Unexpectedly

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Brandon's POV

"Congratulations, Bran!" P'Seb hugged me tight after I left the stage for the umpteenth time. Getting my medals and certificates was like an exercise I badly needed. I barely do it because I'm too busy burying my head in books or volunteering at a local dog shelter as a clerk on my free days. But I love it.

Today, is my high school graduation day. P'Teddy and P'Seb came even when this day fell on a very busy day at the company. My brother works for his husband's company as the human resource director. Even at only thirty and with less than a decade of experience in the area, P'Seb is being endorsed to be the next chief HR officer.

I'm very proud of him. He graduated with highest honors in college and even was featured in magazines for his paper he did in his master's. He also holds a PhD.

"Bran!" I heard one of my classmates call me while my brother was shaking my shoulder. "You need to go the stage again." P'Seb said with a knowing grin.

I groaned and got up one more time. "This better be the last." I murmured as I walked up to the stage to receive another certificate. I could already see the wide smiles of my brother and P'Teddy as they press on their camera buttons on their phone. They're happy for me. Like doting parents.

"This must be your favorite reward if we base it on your reaction." Our school principal handed me the certificate that says National Merit Award. I must have been smiling while thinking of my brother taking my pictures. I nodded politely to Ms. Riley, our fifty-some year old principal and thanked her.

After that long ceremony, I am now going home with P'Jun, P'Teddy's butler. P'Teddy and P'Seb had to be back at the company but promised to take me to dinner tonight as a celebration. Grandpa Daniel and Grandma Belle will be there too. They insisted I call them that ever since I could remember.

Arriving home, I received a call from P'Jun's nieces, my two other close friends. Aria and Armina. I've known them since I was seven and as we grew older, they turned crazy. I'm not saying it in a bad way. It's just nuts being with them.

"Ya!! You d**k! It's your graduation today but I asked you so many times when it's gonna be, you didn't tell me!" I had to distance my phone away from my ear because of Aria's yelling.

"Hello to you, too." I told her. I could hear Armina's honking to another car plus her nonstop cursing at whoever was in the way while she drove through traffic. "Tell him we're driving over there to throw a party." I heard Armina say. "And to chop his virgin d**k off!"

Oh, god. Spare me. I was sitting in the living room and P'Jun had a lopsided smile, shaking his head while he laid down a glass of cranberry juice for me on the coffee table. He knows exactly how nuts his nieces are.

"And you asked me why I haven't gotten married and have kids." P'Jun said. I smiled at him and thanked him for the juice and then walked back to the other side other house.

"Was that uncle? Tell him we'd chop his d**k off too, that old man!" The twins' yelling didn't die down whilst I tried to make them. I guess I really angered them this time. They had been living in another province, a couple of hours from Aspen so we don't really see much of each other. They're like the crazy older sisters I would rather not see every day anyway. And they refused to let me call them P’.

"So you're really coming here today? I have dinner plans though." I told Aria.

"Of course not! We can't exactly have fun in your house." I know exactly what fun she's talking about. Drinking and party until they pass out.

"We have to sneak your perfect little round butt out of there and have some 'normal' fun. You've played the perfect baby brother, now it's time for you to go crazy!"

Aria didn't mean that. The two of them would coax me to have some fun only to end up shielding me from potential predators. Yeah, I do attract boys here and there. Aggressive ones.

Aria and Armina always say that I am like the perfect prince in the house the way I had been since I entered middle school. Well, I tried to grow up, stop crying like a baby and be my own person.

"Seriously. What's the plan?" I asked the other line.

"We already asked Mr. Theodore and P'Seb that we're taking you to a small club. It's decent so you will be fine with us." Aria said. "Tomorrow, Brandy!" Armina added.

"Okay, I'll go."

I heard them squeal in excitement. It wasn't long because Armina was back to yelling at her fellow drivers. "And yeah, I f****d your boyfriend last night! Who's laughing now, b***h!" I could already imagine her flipping off the driver she doesn't even know the face of.

Armina's middle name is 'road rage'. I gave her that. I was chuckling on my own while telling them I had to go. I needed a cold shower and a little rest before my dinner plan tonight.

"Alright, bebe love. See you tomorrow."

"Bye, Ari. Tell Mina to slow down and shut her mouth. She's a lady for Pete's sake."

"I heard that! And yes, I am a lady. With attitude!" I heard her honk angrily before she spat venom again. "Hey move it, you slowpoke!"

If I was their parents, I'd be growing white hairs by now.

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A cold bath was what I needed. The day wasn't even nearly over and I was exhausted as fudge. This past couple of weeks right up to graduation had been hell of busy.

God, high school is finally over. I'm not saying I didn't like it but I just wanted to leave this place the soonest time possible. It would mean the thing I wanted for a while. Live on my own. I'm off to college this coming June and that means I can live in a dormitory.

Ever since I was seven, I have been living with my brother, P'Seb, and his husband, P'Teddy. I love them both and I love living with them. But also sometimes, I wish I was far away.

Their love is beautiful and I beat myself up for wishing I had the same thing they have. I feel disgusted of myself for being jealous. But even at eighteen, I still haven't found the one that would make my heart pound and make me smile silly just by seeing them in the morning or whenever.

I tried going out with a few girls. It's less dangerous that way. But nothing worked out. Once they start fluttering their eyes on me, rubbing themselves against me like they're in heat, inviting me into their house because their parents are away, I run for it.

I don't get it either. At times, I tell myself there is nothing wrong with sleeping with someone you go out with. But I find myself feeling nauseated when that moment and chance actually serves itself to me in a gold platter.

Oh, I am sexually attracted to boobs and curves, alright. And all that that makes a girl attractive. So it still baffles me until now why I cower when the food comes to me on their own.

Once, I even hypothesized that I am cursed. Then Justin, my best friend laughed at me over it. He said, maybe I am destined for someone and that person is the only that can make me give up my virginity. Front or back, he joked to me.

Justin has been in Korea ever since his parents died. But he's coming back to the country for college. Now that he's eighteen as well, his maternal grandparents are allowing him to be on his own. And he has his late parents' money to keep him going until he finishes his study in a university.

The last time I saw him was last year's vacation. P'Teddy and P'Seb took the four of us to Jeju for a five day trip there and other tourist spots of the country. The four of us I mean, P'Teddy, P'Seb, P'Finn and me.

Speaking of P'Finn, I tried to stay out his way. And I am thankful he seems to do the same to me. Over the years, we developed this indifference that we only try to fake being good to each in front of his dad and my brother. I don't pry about his where bouts nor his affairs neither does he ask his dad or my brother about me.

When did all start? I guess six years ago. I still remember that morning he told me he hated me. And it still hurts badly even now. But I guess that's what makes it easy for me to ignore him and go on with my life like I never once had another big brother.

He wasn't always a jerk before that time. Since he came to live with his dad, with us, I think we got along pretty well. I even once told myself I would make him like me so I can be the reason he would smile. He was so sad when he first arrive in the house. And it was hard to get his attention. He used to call be 'brat' a lot, too.

P'Finn and I became very close. We did everything together. But when he reached high school, his time with me lessened. And then we gradually fell apart.

I don't know what went wrong. I had a theory that maybe he got fed up by my cute acts to get his attention. Or maybe he just got fed up by me for whatever I was. Well, whatever it was, it's all in the past. Now, we're nothing but just two people bound by the relationship between our closest family members.

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