Chapter 5: best friend
"How was your nerd program" jian asked as she and Ethan did the dishes while chole cleared the table
"It's a robotics program not a nerd program" lewis corrected
"Are you arguing with me" jian asked trying to look intimidating but just looked like a cat to Ethan, who was really trying hard to look scared of her intimidating glare and not laugh
"No ma'am" he shook he's head and jian nodded satisfied.
"Ah look at you two love birds" chole teased rolling her eyes as she brought the plates from the living room to the kitchen
"Jealous" lewis mocked and Chloe made a gagging sound
"Guess whose loveless" lewis added and chole gave him a offended look to which he just scoffed, he won. Chole and lewis were like cat and dog, sometimes they'll be living in peace and harmony and then there are times when they're just unnecessary mean to each other, jian was really enjoying the drama, she even put down the plate she was washing down just to watch the face off
"at least I'm not in a one sided love" chole counter attacked leaving both jian and Ethan gasping, jian slowly turned around and continued her dishes, she felt she she'll soon be wrongly accused or dragged into this conversation and she didn't want a hand in it.
"Guess i won" she added for clarification as she walked out with the broom flipping her hair, jian couldn't hold it anymore she tried covering her laughs with fake coughs when she noticed Lewis's glare
"What you laughing at" he scowled and she pretended not to hear.
After doing the dishes and cleaning up, the trio decided to go to cookie monster to get some snacks and catch up, they've not hanged out as a trio for about 4 months now so they were excited especially Ethan who missed a certain someone.
"Did i miss anything at the party" Ethan asked as the walked
"Half the time i was sleeping, other half blackout" jian explained rubbing her hands together, she forgot her gloves so her hands were freezing, as someone who easily gets cold she sure is reckless when it comes to dressing up
"She drank 12 shots" chole reported showing lewis the video
"Its not even like alcohol, its was watered down alcohol" she defended herself when she noticed the judgy look from lewis,
"So cold" she commented as she looked around avoiding eye contact with lewis, i mean he literally wrote three sets of rules for the party for her
'no drinking, you can't handle alcohol and might hurt yourself or do something stupid, drink only when I'm around, its a party everyone is drunk or doing their own stuff, no ones gonna be there to look after you' that was literally rule number one,
"I didn't break no other rules, plus i didn't do anything stupid" she whined holding onto his arm
"Yeah" he said with raised eye brows pointing at her hair with his eyes
"Except that" she said with a sheepish smile, she didn't mind him making up rules for her because she knew he was just being the concerned protective best friend he was, he's always been there for her and she appreciated that,
"Cookie monster" chole screamed as soon as she saw the cafe at a distance. She started running leaving behind lewis and jian laughing, when he noticed she was still rubbing her hands, he pulled one of his gloves and wore it on her right hand then grabbing her ungloved hands and intertwined them before shoving them inside he's pocket,
"Your hands are even colder" jian complained and Ethan who was just trying to help was left speechless, what was he expecting a thank you, he forgot he was dealing with his best friend.
"Come on, you guys are so slow" chole yelled from the distance, and the two increased their pace
"You have to try the cinnamon strawberry cookies" chole said in excitement the moment the my got in
"That sound weird" Ethan commented and chole glared at him
"We're getting it or else-" she threatened and the two couldn't refuse so they ended up ordering thesame thing under duress
"Is it good" chole asked as soon as they took their seats
"We haven't even tried it yet" jian chuckled before taking a bite, and nodding
"Not bad" she commented, they both turned to face Ethan who reluctantly took a bite and frowned but when he saw the look chole gave him, he swallowed his bad review and gave a thumbs up
"It's good, cinnamon's aint just my thing" he said taking another bite, the word cinnamon reminded jian of a certain someone and she couldn't help but shake her head, ugh that pest she thought with a smile, as the group chatted and enjoyed their cinnamon strawberry cookies, which Ethan was eating under duress, another group entered the cafe and one of them was drawn by a laughter, the laugh he remembered so well because it was literally a core memory for him now, and she was laughing so happily that one would want to laugh along even when they didn't know what was going on, he even began to smile subconsciously until he saw her leaned on someone's should, that was definitely a guy and then the guy proceeded to shove a cookie into her mouth and suddenly he wasn't smiling anymore
"Damn man, Seth what do you want" Berlu asked for the third time, cursing
"Grapes" he responded subconsciously
"Nevermind, just get me what you guys are getting" he said scoffing, he changed his mind because he realized why he choose that flavour, the others looked at him weird but didn't say anything
"What you want" berlu asked this time he's tone was a bit off
"The cinnamon strawberry" frank answered with a smirk, the two decided to play fair, it was a 'may the best man win' situation. The three of them seth, frank and Berlu have been friends since they were in the diaper, Seth wasn't going to let that break apart so he sat them down and told them they'll receive the beating of their life, if they decide to end their friendship because of a girl so the two had no choice but to makeup but there was still some tension between them
"Hey isn't that chole and jian" marco asked, he was about to wave at them when seth gave him a smack on the head
"What was that for" he complained offended
"Can't you see we'll disturb them" he said walking out, he suddenly felt the urge to punch something or maybe a certain blond haired someone who was converting what was his
"What" he halted before groaned then walking off, he needed to cool off
"He's so mean" frank whispered laughing and both Berlu and marco agreed as they walked out too with their orders.
"Isn't that seth" chole asked but more like said, both jian and Ethan turned
"Where" she asked looking around
"They just left" she said pointing at the door
"Whose that" Ethan asked
"A pest" jian answered with a scrowl and chole laughed but Ethan stared at the door a little bit longer, he had a bad feeling about this pest, the last time he had this feeling he had to fight that pest off, he turned around and joined the chat between chole and jian.