Chapter 34: Call

Seth was driving out the Aguirre household when he heard his phone ring, he picked up the phone to see who was calling and it was jian, he was going to call her when he got home but this was even better. He was stressed about his cousin and everything that was going on, hearing her voice might destress him

"Hey" he picked the call putting it on loud speaker since he was driving.

"Sorry did i catch you in at bad time" jian asked, although his voice sounded cheerful and somewhat normal she could still hear the stress in his voice. Did he confront fiona about what happened and the two got into a fight because of her, she felt bad but fiona deserved a reality check and that everything doesn't revolve around her even so she won't want their friendship to end because of her.

"What? How did you know" Seth asked he was even more than stressed, his dad was bedridden, his uncle who he had looked up to turns out to be stabbing him in the back, his cousin whose supposed to be family is fighting him and then their was fiona who had added to his stress

"I just know" jian answered

"Did you have a fight with fiona because of what happened" jian said in a low voice, Seth couldn't help chuckling he noticed whenever she was nervous about something she always talked in a low voice or tried to make herself small as if something bad would happen if she was loud about it.

"No it went well, she'll apologize" Seth said and he could hear her sigh in relief, jian was really something was she relieved that fiona was going to apologize after she offended her and that, that didn't affect their friendship it just made him admire her more

"What! You're so in love me that you're worried" Seth teased, jian was quite for a few seconds just stunned, this guy's head is really getting big for his body, she wanted to curse him out but she couldn't help blushing, thank God he wasn't seeing her right now or she'll die from embarrassment

"I'm touched" seth added smiling, for a moment there he forgot about all the bad things and saw the beautiful

"Whatever makes you sleep at night" jian said rolling her eyes, she wasn't even going to bother arguing with him or he might just feed his delusions more

"Anyways i found a flash drive in my bag i was wondering if it was yours and i happen to grab it along" she asked checking out the flash drive in her hand, Seth checked his pockets and sure enough there was only his card, he might have removed the flash drive when he was removing his card to pay for their meals and forgot it there then jian must have bragged it as she packed her bag

"Blue one right" he asked and jian confirmed

"Just keep it for me, use it to remember me until we meet later" Seth said who couldn't help teasing her again, she heard her grumble 'whatever' then cut the call, he wasn't even done talking, he chuckled before he focused back on the road. Everything would work out just fine, he nodded to himself. His moment of joy didn't last very long, when he heard a ping indicating a message, thinking it was from jian he hurriedly grabbed his phone to check only for his heart to skip a beat not the nice type of beat but the scary type. His dad had fell off the stairs and was being rushed to the hospital, nina left him a voice note saying that he might need surgery but nothing is confirmed yet and he'll be fine but something deep down told him, this time was a bit different and for the first time he experienced real fear. He pulled over and immediately started dialing nina's number but no one was picking up, he decided to go back to his place and leave to go see his father, his hands trembled and he speed off.

Mina strolled through messages between Seth and jian but realized the two didn't talk much, according to the texts it wasn't even long when the two started chatting, but when she checked the call log she found out they called more than texted but even then it wasn't like the calls were that many too. She was happy very even, she rolled on her stomach kicking her feet in the air, it looked like they weren't into each other that much which is a win and opportunity for me, after her master plan, jian would be in trouble and would have a fallout with Seth and fiona and Seth's relationship will have a rift leaving the spot that was meant for her empty with no one to compete with. She smiled as she exited the message between seth and jian, she was a bit mad tho the messages weren't many but they were all very flirtatious but she won't blame him, he's in a situationship so it's expected. She decided she'll check jian and chloe's next, if she wanted to find out something that won't make her blood boil like the flirty texts between Seth and jian and wants to find something useful she'll need to check the best friend slot that's where everything is. To her disappointment a bit she didn't find out anything very useful to her plan but she did found gossip and a few amusing things for example how ethan had confessed to jian, although it looks like she haven't directly rejected him but she indirectly did and ethan got the message but they're still friends and nothing is awkward, mina shook her head. The guy is such a nice guy, poor ethan she thought, she also found out chole was in a love triangle with Frank and berlu she did notice tension between the three but she didn't except it to be a love triangle, that did shock her a bit. What was wrong with jian and her friend just hoarding men like no one's business she rolled her eyes, she couldn't read through the whole messages and got bored, she decided to take a break from her stalking and rest but then as soon as she was finally closing her eyes, she heard an beep going off she checked and it was jian making her call, she was about to turn it off when she saw who she was calling. She immediately springed up grabbing the phone and putting it to her ear listening. Her heart was in her throat at that moment, what were they gonna say, was he going to ask her out, no that can't happen she shook her head. She bit her lips so hard that it started bleeding, ugh jian was so infuriating, so the two even went out to eat and something did happen between jian and fiona, did the confrontation go wrong, did seth catch her in the act of threatening jian and defended jian, she smirked sweet. The rift between the three was happening and she wasn't even doing anything yet, this was a sign for her that she was on the right. After the call, she sat there thinking and reconstructing her plan to perfection when she heard her mother knocking on her door

"Are you ready" she asked

"What? they're here already" she asked jumping up, her mom informed her they weren't yet but they were close enough and she should get ready after reassuring her mom she would and she left, she got up and got ready to dress up. She wanted to see who this guest were.