Chapter 2 Close ties

"AH! Good morning, son, did you sleep well?" Mom asked as she turned her face with a bright face expression towards him after flipping the pancake finish.

"Yes! I slept wonderful, mom!" Josief said while taking a seat and waiting for breakfast. Which came fast to the table.

"You have to wait for Maria to come, before you start eating Josef" mom, Karina Abrahem said jokingly while she tried to look like she was lecturing her him.

Immediately when Josef heard Maria name, he froze. How could he have forgotten, his childhood friend which was his neighbor.

Maria Iris was her name, she was a close person to their family, she eats with them sometimes, cause of her abusive father and her mother was nowhere to see as she had been abandoned.

The same day Earth got destroyed she confessed to him that she loved him, and before he could answer, she sacrificed herself for him and died.

Before he could say anything a knock on the door played. Josef rose from his feet and went to the door. He slowly opened the door and there was a Maria standing with a happy face.

"Good morning, Josef!" Was heard coming from her with a smile. With that little beautiful and pure smile of hers, she looked straight at his face.

She had a blond, gold hair color which reach down to her breasts. Her skin white, yet she looked a bit tanned. Her eyes were deep blue as in the deep sea. Her figure was one could say belonged to a model, with a bust size of 108 cm and a perky ass.

Josef looked at her for a minute with a complex expression on his face, which was that he was happy but sad and confused on what to do with her.

"Should I find out if she likes me now or in the future, but what should I do if she doesn't right now. AHH! This is just too confusing for me to handle it." Josef thought, while staring in her.

While Josef was deep at her, Maria looked a bit flustered of him staring at her. "W-why is he staring so deep at me? Is there perhaps, something on my face? No! I checked, so it can't be, but is it just me or did he get more handsome?" as Maria thoughts began to run, but then she saw him going to do something.

So after Josef was finished staring at her, his face turned serious and he went and closed the door and meant that he had closed them out. Then he turned his body against her and asked her "Maria!".

"Yes, Josef!" Maria answered with a confused look.

"Do you like me Maria, as an in a romantic way? Josef asked in a serious voice.

"WHAT!" Maria shouted as her face became crimson red. "How did he find out, Josef is usually very dense so he couldn't have found out for himself." Maria thought.

But as she thought that an another conclusion came up to her "Or did she tell him" then Maria mind looked like she could freeze someone with her gaze.

Josef saw her reaction and felt a chill down his spine. "Wow! I think she feels disgusted and disappointed instead. "Okey! I thin-

"Who told you this? Was it your mom, your siblings or Vanessa." Maria said in a cold way while observing Josef, but got scared when she saw his face expression"

The reasons Josef got angry was that, she bully's and oppresses other people through her family's power, destroy families, and blackmailing them into her slaves which to bully other or do the dirty work, she also cheated on him with his best friend, broke up with him and got together with his best friend right after that.

But the worst part is she used his little sister Ruth as a shield against the collapsing buildings when earth was getting destroyed. Vanessa then escaped while Ruth was helplessly buried and died under the fallen constructs.

So when Josef heard Vanessa's name he felt his blood boil and killing intent came from his face, but he calmed down right after and answered.

"No, one told me about this Maria, so you don't have to worry. Either way it seems you don't like me that way." Josef said and turned his back to open the door, but before he could reach it, he felt someone giving him a hug from behind.

"I-I never said that you, dummy." Maria said while her face that was so bashful and shy, and hugged from the behind.

"It's just that you liked Vanessa, from you were in the elementary school to now and you didn't give me a second to shine in your eyes." Maria said with sad expression coming down on her face.

Josef opened her arms and turned to look at her, while smiling as he took his hands around her waist and head, and kissed her.

After she had died in his 1 life, he found out, just how much she had meant to him, and that he loved her.

They stopped the kissing after 1 minute, and looked at each others eyes, with hunger for more.

"Maria! I have to deal with some things first, but after that then we can get together. So until then Maria, can you wait for me just a little longer?" Josef said after he had stopped the kissing.

Maria looked up on his face. His eyes looking at her which gave her a warm feeling. "Okey, I will wait." Maria said with a happy expression on her face.

--Inside the house—

While Josef was outside and talking with Maria. The rest of his family wake up and went to the kitchen.

to be continued...