Chapter 9

"Rock paper scissors —choose"

" Rock paper scissors–choose"

"I won HAHA!" Ian happily exclaimed

while teasing his cousin.

"Since I win, you'll have to do the dishes Bwahahaha!"

Zhen couldn't help but frown at his cousin. In the end he forced a lazy smile and picked up the plate one by one

While Zhen was busy washing the plates, Ian took the opportunity to grab his phone that was buzzing with notifications.

''Why do you have so many notifications?" Ian murmured to himself. He sat on the couch and glared at the notifications popping up

"Hey it's all from his social media" he grinned mischievously and swiped the phone open.

"Eh? It's not locked" he looked at Zhen who was still washing the dishes and decided to check his social media for a while

His grinning face was immediately replaced with confusion, seeing that his social media was bombed with so many friend requests

"Wow... He must be famous to have this many friend requests!"

He smiled again and scrolled through the friend requests and as expected, most of them are from their school!

Ian's face was full of tears from both envy and joy: Joy that his cousin has finally changed and Envy because he was never chased by so many girls before

"Aweee"

He sighed and kept scrolling

"Just how many girls are chasing you hm?" He was still mischievously stalking the pretty girls when all of a sudden someone grabbed the phone from his hand

"Hey—hey...hehehe"  he grinned after realizing he was caught.

" What are you doing?" Zhen checked his phone and found out that he had so many friend requests, his face was dreadful and confused.

"Huh? What's this?" He mumbled

"You don't know? You're obviously being chased by so many girls!"

Zhen narrowed his Phoenix like eyes and glared at Ian who didn't   paid attention go him anymore

'It doesn't seemed like he had something to do with this'

He thought before sitting next to his cousin

"What are you doing here?" Ian gave him a muddled look

"What should I do?" He asked

"You should go upstairs and inspect those friend request , come on"Ian replied. Now that he thought about it, this might have something to do with the incident earlier

As if confirming his thoughts, his phone once again buzzed with five more notifications. Ian, who was sitting beside him, couldn't help but raise a brow looking sternly at his Cousin, he started pushing him away

" come on, you don't have to slap me with the fact that I'm not that handsome , okay? You can definitely have them..go go go"

Being deliberately pushed away, Zhen couldn't help but frown as he went upstairs.

The floor made a creak sound as he climb the wooden stairs, his complexion calm yet his mind was chaotic. How could he possibly relax at the thought that after he met Jade, his once simple life became chaotic.

The evening was cold, the round luminous moon hung above the night sky it's bright glow providing a light on earth like a ball of hope shining to our planet, tending to the hopeless and extinguishing the loneliness of the people

However, even the moon itself is lonely

Zhen was no different from the moon or a coin that is no longer valuable, or from one a worn out clothes ; many people took him for granted and when he's no longer of use, they would just throw him away. There are also some that thinks he is so precious and exquisite but no one really sees through his loneliness that's why he rarely make friends . Thankfully, there are still some person who really understands him, and they are the person he called family.

He stared at his phone for a while before 'checking' the profiles of the people who sent him friend requests. Most of them are girls from his school!

Sabrina....

Cath....

Jennifer.....

Prem....

As  he looked at their Profiles, he noticed that their faces seemed familiar and then he came to a realization that they were there that time, Some of them even peeked at their window! thus, he  started to make wild guesses

Could it be that they are they are mad and want to vent their anger to him?

"But wait, it's too absurd!"

"But I noticed their glances and it is indeed frightful!"

As if two person suddenly appeared beside him, he leaned firmly on the bed's headboard then looked to his left and right as these individuals started talking in turns

" why would they even be mad at you? It's not like you offended them or something "

He thought back to that time when he boldly chased his classmates away

He even joked while chasing them away as if it he was that close to them.

He hastily shook his head and then nodded "I did.."

"Let's not mention about that. Maybe they want to settle scores with you for someone.. Like have you offended someone they like previously?...." The other one teased making him frown even more

Then he suddenly remembered about the misunderstanding between Yuya and Jade

"Why did I even let her get involved? Am I really that bad?"

"No? Eh yeah? I don't know..maybe?"

He shook his head again and deliberately hid under the quilt. He wanted to cry but also wanted to laugh

"Why should I even bother about it? What I have done, doesn't matter"

He sighed

" why are you even scared. It just a requests you could just decline them and if they're mad then it's their business. You're a man! Why do you have to be a p*ssy!"

This time, he didn't know if it was him scolding himself or his brain going berserk

In the end, he just thought, " Social media really is scary"