Illusion

KEITH'S POV:

"Let's go back mom. It's already so late."

"Wait a bit Keith, Ken is about to come. She's bidding goodbye to Aly."

"Oh come on mom, it's been freaking twenty minutes since she's gone to say a simple goodbye."

"Honey, don't be so rude. They're best friends and soul sisters."

"Yeah whatever!"

"Why are you like this Keith? You're absolutely like your dad."

"Baby, I know I used to be rude but you know that I had a reason. Even then, I wasn't rude like Keith, I can bet on that. And now that I've changed, don't say such words. You know I love you."

Ugh not again!

"Dad, mom, I'm inside the car. Send your princess inside when she's done with her goodbyes." Before dad could continue speaking romantic words for mom in front of me, I managed to escape from the situation.

I wonder what does this thing called love does to a man. Look at my dad, he's the most ruthless and cold businessman known to everyone but he's a different man when he's with my mom!

Kenzie is in love with her so called boyfriend Lucas Hudson, who's actually three years senior to us. Even that little brat Mateo claims to be in love with my little sister Celeste and runs after her.

Well whatever it is, it's okay if they're happy on their own. As long as my sisters are fine, I ain't interfering in it. I'll just mind my own business which has nothing to do with such illusion called love. I'd rather spend my time on business, that's more interesting.

"See ya at the basketball match at nine tomorrow." My phone beeped with a message from Noah. Oh I had almost forgotten about this. All thanks to Ken and her so called soul sister.

I still can't believe that I actually stayed at a party for straight two hours. Wow! I didn't know that I had such patience. I'm two hundred percent sure that I ain't attending any other parties at least for three months for sure.

Why the hell is Ken taking so long? Having nothing to do, I started playing beats over the steering. That's when my eyes fell upon the rear view mirror. I had something over the corner of my lips.

Oh! It's the leftover cream from the cake. Well, the cake wasn't too bad today.

(His minds hits flashback to the moment when Alyssa fed him the cake and when he had fed her back.)

This Ken, I need to teach her a lesson. It's so easy for her to force me to do what she wants using granny and grandpa cause she knows I won't deny to them.

"A proper birthday wish grandpa!"

(He mimicked Ken in his mind.)

Well may be this is the first time when I wished someone a proper happy birthday in all these years except for my family and my best friend Noah Bennett. My family is everything to me and Noah is the only one who's sensible like me.

Our fathers being good friends, we had built that connection. And the fact that he also stays away from love and relationships is what called for our friendship.

"Wow! The party was so awesome!"

"It's such an honour to have Ms. Kenzie Merchant here finally after half an hour of goodbye session." She was about to put on the seat belt but left it out and turned around at me. How could she leave a chance to win against my words?

"That is called being social Mr. Keith Merchant and you my brother, needs to learn it."

"Yeah whatever!"

"By the way, here is your return back gift."

"I hadn't got any gift for her if I'm not wrong."

"You're blessed to have a sister like me who knows how to look after the things."

It was of no use to talk anything more with her. So I started driving the car with dad's car following us. As we reached home after ten minutes of ride, I was all set to walk back to my room.

"Hey you brat, how can you forget to take your gift?"

Oh yeah, the gift.

"Thanks, to be Mrs. Hudson."

"Keith!"

"Is anything going on between you two again?"

"No dad, we were just talking about the party. Hehe..."

That was it, I gave a victorious smirk to her before leaving for my room. This is the only thing that helps me to win over her. She has hidden about her relationship to the family as dad is very possessive about her dear princess.

It felt so good to be finally on my own bed after a tiring day. As I moved my legs around, something fell from the bed. Oh, it's the same gift. Well let me see what did I get in it.

As I opened the box, it had a black basketball jersey with red border at the neck. It's pretty cool. It had KEITH written at the back along with my number that is one. I'm surprised that the jersey had my actual name instead of Kitty.

Wait, she didn't call me Kitty today. She just said "Thank you" when I wished her. Is she okay? How come she not call me Kitty? Whatever! Why am I even thinking about it? It's good that she didn't call me with that name.

But, it's so weird that she didn't call me Kitty. Eh, why am I thinking about it? I better sleep on time, I've got to wake up early for the basketball match.

As I was about to place the jersey back, I noticed a note on it.

"For Kitty"

Damn! How could she forget to call me that? Every time I try not to hate her, she makes me hate her more. Ahhh... I hate her!

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So, what do you think Keith actually has in his heart for Alyssa? Tell me your guesses in the comments❤

_with maya, safuu❤