Is that him?" Hector asked. They had been in the hotel room all day everyone on his own thing as usual.
The door opened and brought forth Josef whose face lightened with dews of smile and satisfaction.
"Oh my God!..." His words were drawn evenly. "Don't tell me you did that?" Nicholas exclaimed.
Josef chuckled, letting his coat hang on the hanger while his feet were freed from his shoes veil and he made himself feel at home with a bottle of wine retrieved from the ice bucket. He sat down and unbuttoned his shirt. A sigh followed.
"You should see how the father was begging"
"Whoa…" they gasp.
"You let him beg?" Achilles asked under uncertain tenses.
"I didn't ask him to"
"But you let him?" He asked again. The others had their doings dropped, and their gazes on them.
When it was Achilles and Josef, they don't interfere. Achilles being his favorite and the most reasonable and matured, he got to talk to Josef unlike any of them. A possible end had been envisioned already by them.
"Is it my job? His daughter let him, not me" he defended himself.
"Wait, she didn't ask for forgiveness?" Hector asked, he just couldn't keep his mouth shut.
"Surprisingly, she didn't. And I got to wonder…" he played with the wine glass in his hand gazing roundly at it like he was drawing words from it. "What kind of girl she really is"
"So, what are you going to now?"
"Before what would you have him do?" Nicholas struck in.
Hector frowned. "Hey, bitch, I wasn't talking to you"
"Dare call me that again? You keep learning American slangs, one day I will punch them off your mouth, bitch"
"Guys I hate hearing that. And I have done what I would do. Expel her, that's what she wanted anyway"
Hector stood up and walked to a table top where he got out a wine glass. He poured into his glass from Josef bottle. "Cheers to the big bad boy! …"
He sat down beside him and threw his arm over his shoulder. "You know what? Next time any bitc—" Josef eyed him. "Sorry. Next time any girl tries you, just leave it to us, we will deal with them. Meanwhile we keep reigning" he winked at him.
Nicholas chuckled. "Leave it to us, indeed. Look at you running your mouth like the last girl I screwed. That's how you took an innocent girl's virginity last time…"
Hector made eye contacts to him to stop. Josef looked at him.
"Yeah? Leave it to us? Yeah …" Nicholas laughed under his breath.
"Eish you too…" Hector growled.
"So that you would do it once more?" He snarled.
Hector couldn't allow himself to be bullied by Nicholas, so he had to fight back.
"Hmm. Like you are any better? You have a girlfriend but you fuck any girl that comes your way…" he turned to Josef . "Do you know that this guy has raped more girls than I can even count—"
Nicholas sprung up furiously. "Hey! That's not rape! I have never raped any girl, they give consent to it, after all who doesn't want my big fat cock in them!" He scowled.
"Haha! You even fuck boys!"
"Who cares?!"
Josef sighed, and hit his hand on the table "Seriously guys, I came here today to rest and chill, not hear two of you rattle like old women!"
"You can do whatever you want to, but rape? Don't even try it" Achilles warned, looking at both of them.
He bounced back to the chair with his hand clasped to his face.
"Oh that reminds me! …"
"Oh not again" Nicholas sighed.
"You also screw a girl, in fact, you have been screwing that girl, what's her name again? Um yeah Patty haha"
Nicholas rolled his eyes. "No, I haven't even tasted her"
Hector chuckled. "Story for the Gods"
"I'm serious. She is still a virgin"
They all laughed. "And you are still with her?"
"She won't let me, okay, damn it. I'm just hoping for a chance. I will keep trying, and once I do, I will dump her"
Josef chuckled. "I can't believe it. How long has it been? Four months right? And you haven't shagged her yet" he drank from his wine glass laughing.
"Well, she looks sweet, so the wait is worth it. I have been having sex like every week though…" he shrugged.
"She won't give it to me raw, she is afraid of contraceptions, or getting pregnant, but she has promised soon enough…I'm betting on that" he smiled.
"Oh Josef, tell us, when last did you shag?" Hector asked Josef with brewing eyes and a grinning face.
"Trust Josef. He doesn't lay with just any girl." Achilles commented.
"Yesterday" he said.
"Woah. Is that why you didn't show up yesterday?"
"Not really, after I left Valentine and her father, I had to attend a meeting, and I saw her, and we kicked it off in the nearest hotel"
Their curiosity had been activated, and they were eager to know who it was. "Who is she?"
"Diane Splendor"
"Oh my god! …" They exclaimed. "You're too much!"
"Hey, hey you guys, what about Achilles…" all eyes turned to Achilles and he glanced around in a nervous manner.
"Sorry mate, there is no where to run to" Hector laughed.
Achilles scratched his head with his shaky fingers, and a sigh followed.
It was something he would rather run away from. "Um, I have nothing to say" he said, avoiding eye contact with them.
The matter would had turned to an interesting topic where all eyes glare, all ears listen and mouths speak, if and only if they knew he was joking or lieing. Achilles never had anything to say when it came to relationships.
"What a boring fellow" Josef commented, drinking down the wine from his cup. The wine emptied into his stomach through his throat like it was meant to be there.
He stood up immediately after weighing the wine bottle whose content was only at the brim; it wouldn't even get a drop to satiate his taste.
He walked to the wine rack. His eyes searched for the wine, and his heart raced as there was no sign of it, he threw his eyes at the ice bucket on top of the table, it was empty.
It was only reasonable for his mouth to make some moves. "Where is the wine?"
He asked turning around to face the four devil doves who rushed back to what kept them busy before his arrival, and silence was given the position of the chairman of the occasion.
"Damn it!" He said through clenched teeth. His hand pressed hard against the wine glass in his hand in a bid to break it; only if he were that strong, and just that angry.
"Calm down, Josef. Is just a wine, just make another order" Achilles broke the four devil doves silence treaty.
"Someone dried up my credit card" he retorted.
"Load another one then"
"I don't have strength—"
"To get out money from your account?" Achilles chuckled. "you clearly don't want to drink again today" he concluded.
His arm stretched out to the table in front of him and his hand brought near, a novel, which the pages got opened and his eyes and mind read immediately in delight.
"Always reading Playboy Carti, read something else for once" Nicholas snarled.
The book paced down a little to reveal just his forehead down to his eyes. "What? Is a good book, the excitement never dies"
"You're reading a steamy romance novel, and still, no spice in your love life, that is, if you even have one…
Achilles brought back the book above his eyes.
"Are you sure you're reading it or just looking at it—" a beep from a phone on the chair beside him pulled his attention over.
His eyes widened and his lips were drawn with an amusing smile as he looked closely to the bright screen.
He picked up the phone and looked through it, holding back his laughter. He looked over his shoulder after noticing someone's presence, their breathing flared his skin… it was Josef and his eyes were lightened with the same feeling.
"Hey…" Nicholas whispered, calling on Ruby who picked up immediately.
"Huh?"
"Come over here, quick"
Ruby troppled to the chair and the phone's screen was presented to his face, and he laughed under his breath.
Their eyes flashed at Achilles who just brought down the book below his eye level in response to the suspicious silence and muffled noises. They break apart and comported like they were doing nothing.
"Is that my phone?!" He dropped the book on the table, standing up on his feet.
"Ah no" Hector abruptly said, flinging the phone back to it's spot on the chair like it was football.