Chapter 1

Faith's POV

I hop in my car, it's my last day of being free because tomorrow will be the start of our class. I'm a Nursing student and I'm sure that I will be very busy when the classes starts. So I didn't waste time because I have 1 more day not to be wasted so I didn't think twice and decided to go to my favorite place, the Mall.

I'm already 23 years old so I have my own cars and my drivers license, that's why I can go to the places that I want to visit anytime. Since I am free to decide in my own way because I didn't have a strict mom, I can freely do the things that I want.

But my plan doesn't goes the way how I planned it because of my younger sister Bethany which is always contrary to what I want to do in life. While I'm driving my phone rings, and I haven't picked it up yet I already feel and I knew very well who is calling. I had no intention of answering that call because I knew what would happen next. But because it's so weird and I've got three missed calls, I just decided to answer it. And I wasn't wrong, the one who's calling is none other than Bethany.

"Sis, where are you?" She shouted at me on the other line, her voice was defeaning because I was on my airpods and the tone of her voice was so loud and high.

"I'm in my car driving, Why?" I answer her.

I even heard her sigh so I just smiled, I know her mouth will gonna become like an armalite, she's even braver than mom is she's telling me her sermons.

"And where do you think you're going, huh?"

She could still ask me questions but I didn't say anything because the conversaion would only get longer.

But since she is Bethany my talkative little sister, of course she won't allow her sermon to me to be so short.

"Sis, you know that tomorrow is the first day of school, you should be here in the house reviewing ad getting ready for tomorrow," she added.

"You're so excited, it's too early and I have time later at night and I can do that when I got home so will you please calm down and stop overreacting because it's irritate me." I told her and then I ended the call.

But less than a minute later she called again, and because I was a kind sister even though I was irritated, I answerd it again.

"What now?" I shouted at her because I can't focus on driving at the noise of her mouth.

"And where the hell are you going? Don't tell me you're with another guy because even if you're older than me I'm gonna slap you hard later when you got home."

She's still underrated little sister, no one can beat the density of her face.

"I'm just gonna go to the mall and buy some things that I can use for tomorrow, you know that I can't do malling whenever I want when we both have classes everyday and it's annoying." I muttered. "So will you please excuse me because I can't focus on driving, and by the way I'm all by myself, no guy included." I added.

"Seriously sis? You have everything that you've needed for your study here in the house, so why do you need to go out?" She asked.

"It's just because I want to relax before the stress came into my life, bye." I just answered and then I ended the call and for better result, I turned off my phone.

When I arrived at the mall, I immediateky parked my car and then took the elevator from here on the ground. This mall isn't big but I just want to relax so I'm here now on Vista Mall just to go around.

I went into a Boutique and then looked for something I would like, even though my closet was full when it came to fashion dresses, I still didn't give up buying new dresses. I don't mind the prices as long as I like it and it pass on my standards, I'll get it. I didn't even notice that the skirts and dresses I have in my arms is too many.

I haven't nearly toured the entire boutique yet. Fortunately, I was approached by a woman who I think is a saleslady here and she was carrying a cart.

"Ma'am , I noticed that there seem to be a lot of things on your arm that you've liked so I brought you a cart," she told me and then I immediately grabbed the cart from her because actualy my arm is starting to numb.

"As ussual, you didn't even bother to say thank you. You silly brat." I heard a familiar voice behind me so I turned around and froze when I see her. I immediately hugged her.

"Whatever, what are you doing here bitch?" I asked her.

I saw that the cart she was carrying was almost overflowing . That's why the ones I see seem to have been selected but I still like them that's why I got them. My fried Lea had preceded me.

"Swimming I guess? Of course I'm here to relax because wehave classes tomorrow and we'll be busy studying again."

She acted like a good student but the truth is she pays for someone who's nerdy to do her activities always when there is no need to actually do it and present it in front of the professor.

"Am I going to get upset? You didn't even call me, so that we can get along." I told her and stared at her.

"I'm sorry, I thought you'd be busy with your little sis Beth so I didn't bother you anymore," she answered me. "Don't get upset, let's go somewhere else and find Starbucks and the I'll treat you," she added that I was pleased.

I love going to places that I haven't been before because I feel like I can meet a new guy there. I always go to Starbucks but I like to go to different places for thrill.

"Fine, I'm not mad anymore." I answered her.

After we bought the things that we wanted, we decidedto leave the mall and since we both have our own cars, I just follow where she leads. It took a few minutes until we arrived at Starbucks here on Mc Arthur Highway in Malolos.

After we parked our respective cars we then entered the Starbucks. There were few people there but I don't care about them until I saw a handsome sitting near the counter so I decided to sit near him but I'm not really contented so my friend was stunned when I approached the man sitting alone and I think he's waiting for his order.

"Hi, would you mind if we can join you here?" I say it with my flirty voice.

"Faith, there are so many vacancies so let's go," Lea said pulling me right away but I stopped her.

"What are you doing? I'm bored so let's interract with this guy because it seems like he's all alone, sorry." I whispered to Lea. "Hi, is it ok? If not we can immediately find some other spots." I said again to the guy who looked like he was seriously typing on his phone, I smiled at him and I think I got him stupid with the killer smile of Faith Carolina Grant.

"Yeah it's ok, I don't have anyone with me," he answered and then he pulled the chair for me and my friend Lea, who was still scratching her head. "So what do you want to order, ladies?" He then asked us.

"Are you a waiter here?" I asked him too and I laughed.

"No, actually I just arrived here too and I was expecting to bond with my cousin but unfortunately he didn't make it because he said that he had a sudden business that he need to take care of, that's more important than our bond," he replied. "Can I take your orders now? So that I can order for the three of us."

We gave him our orders and then he stand up to go to the counter and order our orders.

"What kind of food have you eat and suddenly you're like that? I thought you were going to stop playing men's heart." Lea muttered.

"Shut up! I'm not going to ghost him, I swear because he seems so nice and maybe we can be friends so that I can have a guy friend." I answered.

"You would have had so many guy friends but all of that men's had trauma because of you, do you have amnesia? You just make every guy that you like fall in love with you and then you ghosted them." I covered her mouth because I saw the man walking back in our seat.

I can no longer count and remember to be honest if how many men's I've already been ghosted. Men's deserve that because if I don't do that they might get ahead of me and hurt me, I'm Faith Carolina Grant, no one can ever do that to me.

"I'm Faith Carolina Grant, you can call me Faith, and this is my friend Lea." I answer and introduce Lea who's still quiet she's like a deaf.

"Hi I'm Lea," this surprised me, because I thought that until we went home later she still wouldn't speak.

"Oh, Hi Faith and Lea, I'm Alexander Ford." He answered.

Lea and I laughed at his name.

"Don't tell me your nickname is Xander Ford? Because that's gross bro." I said, he's just silent maybe because my mouth had no brakes. "Oh sorry, I'm just kidding." When I took back what I said, Lea glared at me but I knew she was holding back her laughter.

"Just Xander, so you won't be uncomfortable," he said with a smile. "By the way, are you related to Grant's Beauty Amor Cosmetics?"

"Yeah, actually I'm the eldest daughter of the owner od GBAC."

"That's why you look familiar, I already saw you in the commercials and even in bill boards, I wasn't sure before if it was you because you look very pretty in person." He said in amazement.

"Correction, it's GORGEOUS not pretty."

Lea stared at me and now I realized that she and my little sister were the same, they always opposes when it comes to the things that I want to do.

"Well that's true," he replied with a smile.

Soon our orders arrived and we enjoyed our first meet bonding together. This is actually what I want, meeting new guy in every different places.