|Chapter 17: What?!|
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|KADENA CHAIN|
I look stupid.
That was what I keep on saying inside my head the moment I entered the luxurious restaurant that I'd been saying a while back. I mean, the heck with those rich kids who seems to go to a luxurious place just to have fun, right?
Then I realized, they're rich and I'm not.
What a sad fact.
After taking little Chazer to my friend Bish, I went straight to the place where Mat Revenza will go as per the schedule Bish has sent to my email. It says there, he has to talk to someone but it's not specified whether it's about his work or something else.
As I remember it correctly, I don't care about his errands. I just need to watch his moves and his everyday routines for me to know and remember when and where I met him for me to have a memory with him.
Or, if I'm right that I'm only hallucinating and it's just a dream. But come to think of it, it's not a dream but a memory. I'm only confused and curious as to how is he related to that part of my past?
I don't quite follow what's happening right now.
So, why the need for me to be freaking here inside this hell restaurant only to freaking watch him? I release a heavy breath because I might need to spend some penny just to watch him. Just thinking that I need to, I couldn't imagine how will I spend a month in my condo.
Why am I even wasting money here? Right, to sate my freaking curiosity.
Damn this curiosity, then.
I'm a bit early for their scheduled time so I have the chance to choose a seat for me that can hide my presence from him and not look suspicious at all.
I take a seat beside the glass window on the left side of the restaurant. I pick it because the wall is right on its back. I can totally see the people who will go inside the place. It'll be an advantage for me.
While waiting, I reach for the menu on the table that's in front of me. The gaze coming from the waiter at the side of a table not far from me is such pressure. Why does he need to freaking watch me?!
That's why even if I don't want to order food, the waiter's gaze is freaking telling me to. Damn him.
I secretly hide my shock from the waiter's watchful eyes because dang! Why does the food cost so much here?! Now, I'm regretting I went here to just freaking fill my curiosity.
I glare at the menu as my hold on it tightens. I have no choice but to order what I think costs less than the other lists of food on it.
All I can say?
R. I. P. MY SAVINGS.
"Uhm...," I trail off while looking at the menu after calling the waiter on my side. Acting like it's only normal for me to dine in a restaurant that cost so much.
It seems like my life is even cost less than the prices my eyes have been seeing the moment I opened the menu. My ghad!
"Well, I want this one," I pointed to one of the appetizers on the menu.
"Spicy Crab Salad Tapas then I'll have The Golden Opulence Sundae for my drinks and with the main dish, can I have White Truffle, please? Thank you!"
I told him my order as I just nod every time he repeats my order to be sure.
"We'll be right back with your order, Ma'am. Thank you,"
I watch him walk towards the counter to maybe pass my orders with the one who's in charge in the kitchen or whatever they do.
I heave a sigh and look over the window on my side.
"Am I waiting for nothing here?" I ask myself as I couldn't see the familiar build of someone that I'd been waiting for.
Did he change his plans for today? Then that means, I spend that much for nothing?!
Before I can even hysterically react to what I thought, two familiar people enter the door. The sound of the wind chime reverberates in my ears. I have to use my hair to cover up my face.
Behind my act of hiding, my mouth goes agape with whom I saw with Mat Revenza.
"What the hell?"
I whisper as I watch them walk towards the table just one table distance away from mine. What is she doing here? And she knows that man? I keep on cursing inside my head as I try my best not to look in their way oftentimes not to cause them suspicion.
Shariza Locran. The one with Mat Revenza right now. And shock is an understatement for what I feel, to begin with.
Just, what the hell?
I reach for the glass of water on my table and I sip on it to calm my nerves down. It was not that long when the sound of the wind chime reaches my ears, indicating that someone enters the place. The tip of the glass is still in my mouth as I continue to drink water on it when I try to look at who was that person.
That I wish, I shouldn't.
Freaking hell!
"Hey, man!"
"Dude! It's been a while!"
"Damn, it hurts!" I touch my throat when I feel like something scratches it cause me to feel pain.
I didn't have the time to stop drinking that's why when I saw Zaraze freaking Villadeza taking a seat beside Mat Revenza, I accidentally drink the water straight causing it to somehow scratch my throat.
Do you know the feeling when you're trying to stop yourself from coughing real bad? That's what I'm feeling right now. I can feel the pain as if my throat's already bleeding inside. I really want to scratch the part where it hurts but I can't just reveal myself to them.
Though, it's only Shariza who's facing my side. The back of Mat and Zaraze is the one that faces my direction and I'm glad that's the case right now.
"So, why are you here Aze? I thought you have to go somewhere?"
It was Shariza who asked that. And Aze? I didn't know that's what she calls him. It's a little nickname that she had for him but why does it hurt? Maybe because that's one piece of evidence that they're close compared to me.
Such a bitter bitch you are, Kad. Stop it. What a freaking stab in my heart.
"Nah. You're not the only one who was called to be here Sha. Rew called for my presence so I wonder what is your reason for coming here?"
It's a new thing to see and hear him talk like this. I know he has a playful side but I didn't know it's something different when he's talking to that girl. I couldn't even say her name, damn it.
"Of course! Don't state the obvious, can you? Such an eyesore, Aze. Such an eyesore," the latter just laughs when she says that and rolls her eyes at him.
Mat's just watching the two bickers with a smile etched on his lips. I really think it's a bad idea that I came here. I didn't even know I will have to endure the pain I wasn't aware that I will feel today. I wasn't aware I will witness how my heart was slowly having a crack, ready to be torn into pieces.
Dang. What an awful memory to be added to the list.
"Stop it you two! I didn't call you here to witness your lowkey love session, okay?"
"What the hell, man!"
"That's ew, Mat! Don't even start with that!"
I unconsciously scoff silently in my seat. Denying? What a fool.
"Whatever. I ask you two here because I have something very important to say. I'm afraid I'll go insane once I didn't share it with someone then I thought of you two," Mat turns serious after acting like a sick man who's tired of seeing how the two express their love language.
What a sarcastic you have there, Kad.
"Is that really serious?" I look at Shariza who has a concerned and curious look on her face.
The two men? I don't know since I can only see their backs. I didn't even notice that I was not already hiding from my hair. I look away when Shariza was about to look in my way. She doesn't know me even if we attend the same school.
I'm glad she doesn't.
"Yup! It's about Dash-,"
The moment I heard that name from Mat, I coughed in pain and shock causes them to look my way.
I immediately get the phone that I was thankful I left on the table and put it on my right ear. That's why it's easy for me to pretend that I'm talking with someone. I also fake a shocked and concerned expression as if there's something bad that happened.
"What?! Are you serious?!" That's really my question but not with the pretend thingy that I'm doing right now. It was because of the name Mat dropped a while ago.
"Where are you?" I grab my chain shoulder bag that I put in the chair next to me and get up from my seat.
I didn't look in their way when I walk past them as I go towards the counter. I ask the woman who was there to just take out my order instead of having to dine inside.
"Thank you!"
I was heavily breathing when I went inside my car. The adrenaline rush is having its toll on me. I feel like I will puke anytime now. I feel suffocated. I can't breathe.
"Damn. What the hell!" I curse out loud as I lean my back weakly at the seat.
That's when my eyes gaze at my phone in my hand. It earns me another curse when I see that I'm holding it backward.
Just when will I stop making things that will embarrass me?!
Ghad!