John's foot had healed three weeks ago. He had talk to the university's admin about his condition and had let him take leave from school. He can resume his studies when he's fine.

"John! You'll be late for your first period! what are you doing there?!" Brother Steve's voice yelled out from downstairs.

"Coming!" John dashed down the stairs.

He was wearing all black that had his skin glow. John had his skin looking pale because he haven't had the time to walk outside.

"You look like the angel of death wearing all that black outfit."

"Its just my type to wear today." John smiled while tapping his black Von Dutch cap over his head.

John arrived at school and he got weird stares whenever a student would pass by him. He saw Andrei's car and the familliar black sports car parked beside Andreis'. He quickly ran up to the hallways to get to his first period seeing that he was already super late.

Lunch came and students started to pile inside the caffeteria to eat. Since the room was already full, the guys decided to eat outside the school. They texted John to just catch up with them in the restaurant outside school.

John was taking a special tutorial class for the lessons he missed with his classmate Lin in the library. They had been discussing with each other for hours now that John himself didn't realize that there was someone looking at him a few meters behind him.

"How do you do this question again?" John asked.

Terrence, upon hearing it, went up and stood just behind John. He looked down at the paper John was holding and grabbed John's pen.

"This question is a piece of cake." Terrence stated as he scan the paper with raised eyebrows.

"Hey! give that back! I don't need you to teach me!"

"Shhh!! This is a library, if you want to flirt, go find a motel!" The lady who was incharged in the library glared at the two of them while whispering in an angry tone.

Both of them sat back down. Terrence was all smiles while John was frowning in annoyance. They continued for more minutes before John's classmate Lin dismissed both of them for lunch.

"Why are you following me?"

"I got nothing to do."

"Don't you have class?" John said exasperatedly as he stack his books in his locker.

He fished his phone out from his pockets and saw a text message. He read it and quickly tuck it back to his jeans pocket. He run out of the university building then out of the campus to get to the restaurant his buddies had told him to go. He arrived there and quickly, the three heads occupying the big table snapped their heads to look at him.

"Hey guys." Greeted John but they seemed to be looking at something behind him. When he turn around, he saw Terrence standing behind him, hands in his pockets as he gave a look of what? to John.

"I told you to get lost!"

"Is this how you should be treating a person who save and aided you when you injured your foot? How shameless of you McSullen."

John wanted to gave out a sarcastic remark but his tongue recoiled back to his throat. Making him looked like a fished, opening and closing his mouth. He was dumbfounded.

To Terrence, he just wants to snapped his cousins string. He just wants to make fun of him.

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Bien sat next to Harold then Andrei, John and lastly the new occupant, Terrence all sat at a big round table. The air surrounding them was heavy. In a scene like this, everyone was supposed to be talking and Bien would start goofing around and talked about nonsense trivias and news. But today, the table was rather quiet.

No one was talking as everyone ate silently. Harold kick Bien's legs from under the table that had Bien glaring at him silently. Harold gave out a look of 'say something to ease the mood' look, which made Bien frown. He doesn't want the situation to worsen. Much less being the awkward one in the group. Through out the meal, no one talk.

"I'm going to the comfort room." John stated and stood up. Bien looked at Harold and gave a nod to each other.

"Umm Andrei, we still have classes after this so we'll have to go ahead of you." Harold told Andrei which he just gave with a nod.

The two stood up from their chair and quietly leaved the restaurant. When the two were gone and John hasn't came back from the comfort room, the exchanged of icy words erupt from the table.

"Despite my threat, you still have some face to show." Andrei fired.

"Yep. I didn't have my face rubbed out of my skin. Not like you a two faced jerk!" Terrence fired back.

If this was some kind of a comic strip, you could see lightning coming out from their eyes between the two. Showing their agressiveness and competitiveness towards each other.

"You don't have the right to play with his feelings you mongrel!"

"Then how about you? Why are you still playing with your feelings?"

Andrei laughed and looked at Terrence like he just won a lottery ticket.

"He already knew about my feelings for him. You don't have to get worried, so maybe you should kept your hands to yourself and not bother him anymore."

"I am not bothering him. Its him who keeps bothering me. He has this trait that wants me to annoy him everytime I had the chance because he provokes me."

Andrei turned rigid and his face became hard. His glare was deadly as he looked at the guy from across him. Suddenly, he stood up from the table and grabbed his collar shirt.

"Don't come near him you fucker!" Yelled Andrei that had all the attention from the other diners to be directed to them.

Since Andrei and Terrence were popular, some students started to gossip about what was happening. Even though Terrence just came here last month, he was already very known since his handsomeness stood out from the crowd. To add fuel to the fire, he gained more attention seeing that he was the cousin of the famous Andrei Castro.

"What are you two doing?" John's blank voice sounded before them.

The both of them looked at him. Andrei let go of his cousins collar and grabbed his belongings. He went out of the restaurant, leaving John and Terrence.

"What have you done this time?" John directed the question to Terrence. But Terrence just gave a shrugged.

John also grabbed his belongings but before he could ran out after his best friend, Terrence had pulled him close to him making him startle. Before he could react, Terrence kissed his cheeks and looked at his eyes then smiled.

Terrences' smile peirced through John's chest like an arrow. It was dazzling that he remain motionless for a second in front of Terrence who was giving him a look.