Chapter 3: The Drooling Paparazzi
Chapter 3: The Drooling Paparazzi
"ATE CEE! You're here!"
Cee stopped taking a drink when she heard that shrill voice. He was about to be knocked down when Jea and Spike's eight-year-old nephew suddenly worshiped him.
"Hello, Keesha," he greeted the girl with a smile. He jokingly messed up her hair.
"Not my hair, Ate Cee!"
He just laughed when he confusedly fixed his hair. At the age of eight, if you act like it, you will think it is a girl.
"Are you talking about boys again?"
She poked the child's forehead. "No. We're brainstorming."
"Boring."
Cee just shook her head.
Since they did not agree on what the Love Club would do in the upcoming Foundation Week, they thought of each other. They have the courage so here they are now, speeding up making drafts for the event. Add their revisions to one of their final group projects. Jea's house is much bigger so here they meet again.
According to Spike, their house looks like the headquarters of the Love Club.
He turned his attention back to the refrigerator and took some juice. He was just standing when Keesha spoke again.
"What can you say about my look, Ate Cee? Can I find my Prince Charming? Or should I wear tattered clothes like my idol Cinderella? So I can meet Prince Charming."
Kids these days, she said to herself. Instead of playing or studying, men take precedence.
"Why Cinderella? Eh, that's so stupid," she said without thinking.
"Cinderella is not stupid! If she was stupid, Prince Charming would not have loved her. Duh."
He just laughed because Keesha looked at him badly. This brat was really spoiled to the nth level.
"Cinderella is stupid. If not, why is she oppressing her step-mother and step-sisters? She must fight and not step on others. She's weak and stupid."
"No! That's not true!"
"Prince Charming loves Cinderella? I doubt it. If Prince Charming really loved Cinderella, he should not have had to measure whose glass shoe was his woman. He just thought, he should have known it was Cinderella or No, isn't it? "
"M-meanie!"
Cee was immediately confused when Keesha suddenly started crying. He almost beat himself up. She just hated those Disney shows. They are too dependent on the children.
"I'm just joking, Keesha. 'Don't cry, oh. Stay."
When he properly embraces the child it struggles. It made her cry even louder as if she was being oppressed.
"We don't greet you anymore! I hate you!"
He scratched his neck very hard. At the same time he heard applause from the kitchen door.
"Are you also fighting with a child, peasant? Good, good."
He widened his eyes at Rake. "'Don't be an apple, porky!'
"Brother Rake! Ate Cee is fighting Cinderella and Prince Charming! She's an evil witch!" Keesha complained. He approached the man and hugged him.
She rolled her eyes at the kid. Did this evil witch even call her? Tsk.
"I just said my opinion, Keesha. Don't worry about it, okay?"
"You're bad! We don't greet you anymore!"
The wind blew him away. "Yes, yes."
Rake loaded Keesha. "Your Ate Cee is just bitter. She doesn't have a love life like Cinderella," he said to the child.
He knew he shouldn't answer anymore because Keesha had settled down. But of course, his mouth moved earlier than his brain.
"You know, porky, you look like Prince Charming."
It made him regret it. "Really? Thanks."
"You're both stupid, eh."
"Hey!"
When he passed by the man he stared at it before turning to Keesha. "'Cause Cinderella and her love life. Don't let anyone else choose you, ah?"
"I do not want!"
"Don't," he said softly. "There you are."
When he returned to Jea's room, he immediately sat down next to her.
"It's just a Kissing Booth," Snow suggested.
He almost pulled himself up when he realized that until now they are still debating what their club will do for the upcoming event.
He still thought it had been solved.
"Eww! I don't want to kiss anyone even on the cheek, no!"
"Love Radio because!" Crea said.
"That's overated."
"I'm ashamed of your suggestion not to be overrated, Mai!"
"Hey! The Marriage Booth is not overrated ... I think."
He just laughed when Jea, Snow, Ava and Crea's eyes widened at the same time.
"Let's just sell half-naked photos of the man," he added.
"Who are the men, anyway?"
He smiled. "Eh, not the Spiral Gang." If his companions were not his friends, he might have stared at them one by one as they walked away from him as if he were dumbfounded.
"Are you crazy? They might beat us up!" Mai said, just wanting to tweak him.
"I like what Cee thought. Just think of what we will earn because of Spiral," said Ava.
"You look like money!"
"Is that possible?" Snow asked.
"Nothing in the rules is forbidden, eh."
They act thoughtfully. He knew that just a little bit of effort would allow them to do so.
"Of course we will not expose those photos pretentiously. Suppose we sell love trinkets but the truth is, we will sell their pictures. Cool, isn't it?" aniya.
"I thought of adding something!"
"How can we get their half-naked photos?"
"Here's the plan, girls."
Sorry to the other members of Spiral. He will still be affected by his annoyance with Rake. This is his reward for the soft drink it spilled on his face!
CURRENT Location: Swimming pool outside Jea and Spike's house.
Current Plan: Take many pictures of Rake naked-err-half only.
Cee adjusted the camera she was carrying. He almost let go of the camera he was holding when he watched Rake.
It is not wearing a top. Only swimming trunks cover the thing he should not see. Because of the light, his innocent eyes could clearly see its body.
Jusmeh! Its body is a snack!
There is a towel hanging over its shoulder. Its arm muscles scream. Those muscles that are correct and do not look ugly on the man. His gaze went to its chest. Why does he think his chest feels so good? Maybe it's nice to lean there too.
Oh, no! His brain is demonized because of Rake! This is not possible!
From its chest his gaze dropped to its abs. It's not a six-pack but mom! That's too much! He seems to have a mind of his own and he can only see himself looking at the lower part of his body.
The trunks are close to its thighs! And the bulge ... He sighed. Lord, help me please!
Cee would not be surprised if he drowned in his own saliva. Embarrassing!
Then he remembered the reason why he was spying, he was doing research.
He took a picture of Rake one after another. Even a simple jump in the pool, why still look sexy?
He will not be surprised if the camera he is carrying has full memory because of his relentless photography.
Rake went up less than half an hour later. Every time he took a picture of it he also rubbed his gaze all over it. The droplets of water on his body were teasing her gently.
When she stroked the maroon hair that covered her face, she felt that it was a model that attracted women watching it. It wiped its hair. Gradually his hand holding the towel dropped as he wiped his body.
He swallowed.
If the swimming trunks she was wearing earlier were almost there, especially now that they are wet! It seemed like the swimming trunks served as a second skin to Rake. It clung to thigh like a snake.
When the man entered the house, he was suddenly blown away by the wind. He also wiped the accumulated sweat on his neck and forehead.
"It doesn't seem like a good idea I thought, ah," he said to himself as he looked at the pictures one by one.
Why does he seem to want to keep these pictures to himself rather than sell them at the event?
Ah, maybe it's just a conscience.
"THEY are plotting something," Rake said as he entered the Chavez Entertainment Room.
After giving Cereal a "show" earlier, he went straight to the guest room where they stayed here with the Chavez to rinse.
She probably wouldn't have known that Cereal was watching her if she hadn't heard her sigh. And because he was naturally kind, he let the woman kiss him.
"Who?" Spike asked.
"Your twin's barkada," he said.
"Ah. That's why Jea followed me earlier," said Patch.
The two mentioned are busy playing PlayStation 4.
He leaned over Iggy who was busy eating. "Heh. Cereal may have been traumatized," he laughed.
"Why? What did you do?" ani Iggy.
He just smiled in response.
"You really want to annoy Cee."
"Because she's always affected. And I know she won't fall for my teasing."
"Playboy," Patch shouted.
"No one spoke. That's why Jea left you," he retorted.
"I left him."
"That's my twin, Patrick!"
He just laughed when Spike suddenly punched Patch.
"I love that, Stephen."
He was just shaken. So he does not test long-term relationships. He doesn't like complications and misunderstanding.
He turned to the two silent Acer and Loki. Of their six, these two are silent.
Spiral was formed during their first year here at Brookeshire. He did not know when their basagulero began to spread. These students should really look underneath the underneath if they wanted to survive the outside world.
"Earlier I saw Mai following Loki," Iggy suddenly interjected and pointed to the sleeping Loki.
"Troublesome," Loki said softly before returning to sleep.
"They're really planning something."
"Let's just wait and see what they do."
He nodded. Spike and Patch continued the conversation. Iggy, still eating. He just focused his attention on watching Spike as his mind flew.
As the son of the owner of Brookeshire University, it seems that his name will be stamped on him to run the university when he graduates.
He didn't like it. He didn't like anything related to his father's company. He didn't like being caged. He has other plans to do. That was why instead of taking up business related course — that was what his father wanted for him — he took up Architecture. That was what he wanted.
That is why he rarely returned to their home. So he has his own condominium unit. That's why he does everything to make people look at him differently.
They were known as fearless, happy-go-lucky, spoiled and useless but they weren't all that.
"Let's make a bet!" Iggy suddenly said.
He turned it around. "Bet?"
He smirked before answering. "What Love Girls plan, why they follow us."
Love Girls is what they call their group Cereal because of the name of their club in Brookeshire.
"Pass," Acer said rudely.
"No pass!"
"What is the prize of the winner?" Patch asked obviously interested.
"Kiss from me," Iggy replied.
"Fuck you!"
"The winner will give the dare to those who lose," Loki said then muttered, "Troublesome."
"Hmm. I'm in."
One by one his friends agreed. The rest is Spike. He knows that he is wondering if the Love Girls will be included in this bet. Because of their six, the Love Girls are close to Spike because her twin is Jea who is a member of the said group.
"Okay. I'm in."
So, what were they planning?