Chapter 3

Samantha's car stopped at a beautiful building. Of course! What else can I expect? The students at Saint Mary Heart University are wealthy. So the places where they live are likely to be beautiful as well. 

"Wow! The building where your man lives, Kierra, is beautiful." Franchesca said in amazement.

"Tss! I'm not a man, Shawn. I didn't type him so stop it! Stop me." Kierra's enduring promise.

"Rude, huh! It's a joke." Ellaine said with a laugh. "You are too intense."

But Kierra and I just struggled. Ellaine was probably hooked on their teasing. Maybe she didn't really want to be there with Shawn. Because when Kierra has a male type. She will tell us immediately in our group chat. And he doesn't have time to bond with us so she can tease the man of her type.

We walked into the building. The man who took care of Kierra left earlier and just told us the address we were going to and what floor of his condo as well as his room number. We went somewhere before we came here.

When we were ready we immediately took the elevator. We click the fifth floor. When we got to the fifth floor. We walked to the left and searched the man's room number. When we found it we rang the doorbell. We rang the doorbell and then the door opened for us.

"Hi! Come in." Shawn greeted us that Kierra had talked to earlier.

I don't speak until we get inside. Suddenly I lost my mood when I found out that Kalix James, short for Kj, will not be coming.

"Hey! Are you alright? You've been silent for a while. Does anything hurt?" Samantha asked in a whisper. I nodded at her.

We were already sitting on the sofa and there was wine and food ready on the table opposite the sofa we were sitting on. The size of the interior of Shawn's condo is the one Kierra talked to earlier and the color and design are still beautiful.

Pure paintings and pictures and other items are displayed in his condo but it is beautiful to look at. It's simple to look at but I know that everyone here inside the condo will be loved.

"Hmm… I'm okay," my weak answer here to Samantha.

"Is it beautiful?" I was surprised when someone handed me a bottle of wine. 

Red Horse? Is it delicious? I accepted it and looked up to see who had reached out to me. The man Kierra was talking to reached out to me. He was looking at me and smiling.

"Ahm, yeah. The genius of the designer of your condo. Simple, but beautiful and pleasing to the eye," I answer here.

"Really?" He asked. I nodded here and smiled slightly. "Pre, she said you designed my condo well. Simple but beautiful and pleasing to the eye," its promise to the man next to him.

It was only then that I noticed that Dela Vega was here. Did I think he wasn't going? What changed your mind? Or maybe... you can still assume yourself.

"He's been looking at you for a while. Because you've been looking around like a fool in this condo for a while. Then you just noticed your baby," Franchesca's annoying promise. Franchesca and Samantha are next to me. I ignored what Franchesca said.

"H-he designed your condo?" I can't believe my question. If that's how great the design he came up with. Can I hire him to design my house soon?

"Why? Isn't it obvious that he knows how to design?" Shawn asked back to me. 

"N-not at all... I just can't believe that he designed your condo," I replied embarrassed.

"Hahaha! Yes, apart from being good at medicine. He is also good at designing houses. He can also be an architect if he wants to," its long answer. I nodded. He is right. He can also be an architect. He's great.

Think about it. He's good at medicine, he's good at design. Isn't he gay? My eyes widened when I thought of that. What kind of nonsense comes to my mind.

He is not obviously gay. He was a man. So maybe that's what I'm thinking. If he's gay huhuhu. What a pity he is. But even so he was still yummy.

It was only then that I noticed that my friends seemed to be quiet and the gesture was modest. Tss. Their moves. In fact, is the companion really handsome? Who wouldn't be modest? 

I grabbed a pizza and ate that. My friends were chatting with the friend of the man Kierra had talked to earlier. I think there are only about six men here in Shawn's condo now.

I don't think their other male friends came along. They all have looks. They all have him-he screams look and body in short they are handsome and hot. And they are all obviously rich.

Shawn even brought out a lot of wine. Will we exhaust it all? We might get drunk on it. I still don't like our habit when we're drunk.

Our flirtation comes out when we are drunk. And that's what I don't want to happen because it's embarrassing when Kj sees my flirtation.

Shawn opened the wine and put it in the drinking glass. I don't know the name, but it is often used by the rich when there is an occasion.

And one by one of us gave that but Kj didn't accept the glass filled with wine that Shawn handed him. Isn't he a drinker?

"I don't want to drink," he promised his friend rudely.

"Dude! Go ahead! Let's just have a drink once in a while." Shawn insists on Kj. But it just surrounded him.

"Tss! I told you, Shawn. Don't ask him to come here, he won't drink. Look intently at the book he is reading," another friend said. If I'm not mistaken he's Mark. I can hear that's what his friend is called.

I translated the glass I was drinking from San Mig when it ran out. I don't like Red Horse. I don't like the taste. I bet San Mig. I already have a strange translation of San Mig in my glass but Kj still agrees and reads a book while eating French Fries.

His cute to watch while reading and eating. He frowned as he read. Is that how he reads? But even if he reads like that, he's still cute. He is still mirrored to this day.

Is his vision blurred? He is always in the mirror. 

"Let Kalix know that the case he is reading is really important. Isn't he going to be a doctor? So he just has to study the case he took," Ellaine's serious promise.

Is that how the case should be seriously studied when the neurologist is hired? As a cardiologist, I need to study carefully the possible side effects when you do the wrong operation.

You can be incarcerated when you make a mistake in your operation and the patient dies because of it. Kj's friend did nothing. Because they do not insist on drinking alcohol. We just kept drinking and sometimes I chatted with Kj's friends. They all seem kind.

Earlier I noticed that Shawn had been looking at my friend Kierra. Could it be that my friend likes it? Earlier I noticed that he was watching Kierra since we entered Shawn's condo. It never took its eyes off my friend.

I just turned around and Shawn looked at my friend indifferently. I have a high tolerance so the alcohol we drink has never affected me. But once alcohol hit me. I don't like what I'm doing.

I stopped what I was going to drink when my cellphone vibrated. I looked at who was texting me or calling. When I saw mama texting I immediately replayed it. It says hello in the province because mama and I are in the city to study. And my period of not going home to our province.

When I looked out the window it was already dark. That night I didn't realize. I won't be surprised if my friends are already fighting. Looks like they already have enough alcohol. Aaliyah and Franchesca are already kissing Kj's two friends. 

Kierra and Ellaine were talking to two of Kj's other friends as well. Samantha, on the other hand, is also hugging another friend of Kj's. I am fascinated by what I see. My ghad! Is this what I'm saying. This is what I don't want when they have enough alcohol. 

I just shook my head. They were all busy except for me and Kj. It translated the wine into his glass and the same thing I did translating the wine into my glass again. I think it's my 15th glass but what I'm drinking still doesn't hit me. I was long drunk with us. 

While my colleagues were busy, I was slowly putting away the clutter of my friends. It's embarrassing to disturb them in what they are doing. I stood up and took the broom and dustpan I had seen to one side and swept away the clutter.

I was surprised when Kj stood up and snatched the dustpan I was holding from me and he put the dustpan in the trash can. He helped me fix the clutter in his friend's condo. It's embarrassing because my friends spread it. 

After we got ready I took a glass filled with wine. And opened the sliding door to get to the terrace. I want to breathe air... fresh air.

I was surprised that someone stood beside me. I never thought he would come here either. He was also holding a glass with only wine as well. She was still wearing her glasses and her hair was messy. But even that still matters to him. He's still handsome. He's still hot to look at.

"I guess you won't mind if I join you?" He asked while not looking at me. He looked around. The view is beautiful here, you can see the beautiful views that are delicious to look at.

"A-ah, hehehe... Not at all," I counted the answer to him.

"Why are you here? Don't you want to be noisy? Do you also want to breathe air? Or do you want to be with me." I asked him one question after another. I wanted to talk to him as much. It didn't seem awkward. He was quiet.

"Hmm," He raised an eyebrow at the last I asked. That's it? He didn't even answer. Doesn't he want to talk to me?

"Are you in your 2nd year too ... like me?" I ask again here.

I want to prolong our conversation. So I will ask and I will ask what comes to my mind. I can only talk to him even if he sneezes briefly. It can be tolerated.

"Nope..." I nodded at his answer. Is he really like this? Sparingly he replied.

"What year are you?"

"4th year..."

"You are about to graduate from college. You're going to be a neurologist. Are you a doctor or a nurse?" 

What is that Roseanne?! That's probably your stupidest move. You already know the doctor. You will ask more.

"Doctor." His shortness really answered. I feel like he doesn't want to talk to me anymore. Is he really like that? He seemed unconcerned and seemed lazy to answer.

I just didn't ask. I feel like he doesn't want anyone talking to him that he doesn't know or is close to. The thickness of my face. I'm feeling close to someone again. I just finished the contents of my glass.

"You?" He suddenly asked.

 "Huh?! Me? I-I don't want a neurologist. I want to be a cardiologist." I replied.

He laughed at my answer. Is anything funny? Did I say a joke? He is annoying. Laughing at what I say. Is he insulting me?

"Ah… One day I saw you there at the LS hospital. Why are you there? Did you work there?" I will ask. Say Roseanne. Push to be a stupid woman.

"Hmm, yup..."

"Are you family doctors?"

"Nope..." I nodded. 

"What's their job? If so?" I ask here.

"My parents are both in business management." 

"Ah. Are you their only child?"

"Yes."

"Wow! You're alone. Is it okay to be allowed to be a doctor? Because you're the only one who will inherit your parents' business, eh." I asked him. He immediately averted his eyes from me when I asked him that. And I saw the irritation on his face.

Ahm, I asked maybe something very private with him. I did not mean. You're talking nonsense, Roseanne! He looks angry.

Huhuhu I didn't mean to ask that. Sorry! Don't be mad at me babe. The thickness of my face really.

"Do you have social media accounts?" He asked as the silence between us broke out.

"Why?" I ask back here. Why is he asking? Will he add me? Or will he stalk me? Does he like me too? 

"Nothing."

"Did you stalk me? When I say the name of my social media account?" I asked him. He laughed. Is there anything funny?

"I don't like to use a social media account." Is he a joke? Why is he asking? 

"Then why are you asking if I have a social media account?" Irritated asked to him. 

"Why is it bad?" He asked back. 

"Not really. But you asked..." I promised but I didn't finish what I was going to say. He is annoying. I thought he would add me. I still assume.

"But what is your name?"

"My name is Roseanne Margaret Sachiko Buenaventura. I have a race this afternoon, but if you want, you can also race me hehehe." He raised an eyebrow at what I said. "Just a joke! If you're long on my name you can call me babe," I laughed and winked at him and smiled sweetly. My flirtatiousness is coming out. My ghad!

"Nice!" He compliments. 

"Nice? Which? My name or the one you'll call me babe?"

He raised an eyebrow at me again because of my question to him. How does he do that? He still beat me. He just shook his head and played with the glass he was holding which was only slightly empty.

"What shall I call you?"

"If... what do you want to call me? It could be Roseanne, Margaret, Sachiko, Rose, Anne or maybe Babe is a better name for me," I said with a laugh.

His eyebrows rose even higher and I even saw him stare at me for what I said. At once he drained the contents of his glass. Did he think I was joking? So seriously what I say. I think the alcohol I was drinking had hit me. I'm flirting. 

"Just a joke! Roseanne nalang. Just call me Roseanne." He then nodded. "You... What shall I call you? And what's your name?" I ask here. Of course I personally want her beautiful and cool name to come out of her mouth.

"My name is Kalix James Dela Vega. Just call me whatever you want," he said and turned his back on me and left me here alone. I smiled as I thought of what I would call him Kj just maybe or maybe babe.

I had nothing to do here so I just went in. I saw them sitting properly. And obviously there are right ones. And my two friends are also missing. I was just shaken that Aaliyah and Franchesca were gone.

"What? Are you alright?" I asked the rest of my friends here.

"Hmm, yeah." Ellaine replied.

"You're a flirtatious woman," Samantha said softly to me.

"What time are we going to your condo Kierra?" I asked.

"Why are you so sleepy? Are you drunk already?" She asked. I shook my head in response. "Let's go home later when Shawn's friend comes home," Kierra added. I just nodded.

"Bro, do you want to?" Shawn offers Kj a cigarette. Are they smoking? Alcohol is bad for their health and they still smoke. I think they want to die early.

"Hey, Shawn! Is there no more stock in your refrigerator of wine?" Kj's friend asked. Haven't they finished drinking yet? Obviously they can't. Just shake Shawn's answer.

"Roseanne, you buy wine and food. We have nothing left to drink and eat. Just bring Kalix with you," Kierra said with a smile.

I stared at her deadly. There is no one else to order but me and Kj. We are the only two of us who are sober. Those who are right are with us.

We were given the purchase of wine and food. I did nothing but consent and nothing else could be ordered. I was surprised when Kj stood up and put on his jacket. Will he be willing to come with me to buy wine and food?

I adjusted my jacket and tied my hair and brought my wallet and cellphone. We are now walking out of the building. I opened my cellphone to see if there was a text or not. I was surprised to see the time. I just noticed that it was 12 AM. The time we spent here at Kj's friend's condo.

"You smoke. I thought you were just drinking," I said as if the two of us were not walking quietly to the nearby supermarket.

"Yeah..." I was blown away. His short answer.

"Maybe you like shorts?"

"What?" He asked in astonishment. 

"Because you gave a short answer to me. Are you really like that? So I feel like you don't want to talk to me." He didn't answer so I just kept quiet. 

"Hmm... I'm just being careful," he said, so I was the one who was surprised to look at it. Keeping where?

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing..." He said something else the next time I never heard because he just whispered. 

We are silent again. 

"Are you really that quiet?" I asked.

"Slight..." I close my eyes to his short answer.

"When are you going to be on duty at LS hospital again?" I asked. It's as if we can't be quiet again. Maybe this is okay. Even if he only answered briefly. At least somehow I can talk to the person I want..

"Why did you ask?" He asked seriously.

"H-huh?! N-nothing."

He shrugged. "I don't know."

"Huh? Why don't you know?"

"It depends on my university where I may be assigned to duty." 

It all depends on where you will be sent to the hospital. Because we are still students, we are assigned to which hospital. I don't know but I miss him right now. We won't be much but I will miss him.

Monday came, and I was in a hurry to go to SMH hospital. After my duty and my class. I was so stressed about what I was going to do and then I was in a hurry to go to the SMH hospital. I even forgot to pass the medical chart to a doctor there who was my professor. 

I was almost paralyzed in the hills I was wearing. I'm only so tall that I'm going to stumble. I know it's messy when I tie my hair. But I haven't paid attention to it yet. I took a jeep to get there and catch up with my professor. 

I would be resentful if I didn't pass the medical chart to my professor. When I arrived at the SHM hospital I immediately ran inside. Unexpectedly I collided with something. So the ending dropped the books I was carrying and the medical chart. Son of a b*tch! What the h*ck!

When you are in a hurry, you will still encounter bad luck. I looked up at it and was ready to shout at what I had collided with but I couldn't go on. Sh*t! Why now? I'm still ugly today.

"Hi!" I greet him. I even got to flirt with the person I liked.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

Tss! Not now! I have something to pass on. Huhu I might not be able to pass medicine. When I don't pass it now.

"Yes, let's flirt later because I still need to submit a medical chart," I said here. Sh*t! What am I saying? I don't know what I'm saying anymore because I'm so stressed.

"Ah. J-Just a joke... I'll be the first." I saw how he bit the edge of his lip to stop his little smile. Sh*t! Why does he still know why he bites his lip? 

"Okay," he replied and without saying a word turned his back on me.