"Please go on a blind date instead of me." My eyes widened at her words, "What?" I shouted at the top of my lungs, the whole neighborhood would have heard that. Jene placed her hand over my mouth before I could speak further.

I spoke under her palm as my voice came out muffled, I saw my mother rushing inside my room with the same spatula she was holding before as now she had it propped as if it was a weapon.

Mom's face was anxious while her eyes furrowed, she was trying to find something on the floor at the time and her eyes waggled all over the floor from the end of the room to the door, "Where is it?" Mom asked, searching for the one which hasn't even been misplaced.

I looked at her before, "What?" Jene and I opened our mouths simultaneously to ask what was the thing mom was seeking.

My voice again muffled against Jene's palm as I yanked her hand off my face, shooting her a glare as she smiled at me with her eyes squint and her not-so-happy face. I will see her later.

We both turned to my mother as she answered our question, "A roach." Our eyes widened, "What? Roaches?" I shouted again, holding onto Jene's hand before bouncing over the bed. If I was an athlete, I would have won a gold medal in the Fosbury flop.

I was bouncing over the mattress with Jene beside me, hopping side you side with a nauseating expression all over my face, "Mom, I have told you so many times to have pest control but you never listen to me." I panicked, It was the worst insect I would encounter in my life.

The two antennas poking out of its head and the way he jumps over someone and starts flying, thinking of that creature makes me feel disrelish.

"Where was it? Where did it go?" Mom asked us who didn't have any glimpse of that creature around us till now as I stopped flapping my hands in the air and bouncing my legs. I looked at Jene and back at Mom, "Mom, we haven't encountered any brute." My once disgusted face turned a bit normal.

Mom slowly hung her hand down which was once ready to kill the creature she created in her mind, "Then why did you scream?"

I let out a sigh, taking a step nigh to her on the mattress, "So there ain't any creature haunting here." I felt Jene nudging her chin over my shoulder with her hand holding my upper arms, peering at my mom and curious about her answer, "No."

We both sighed in relief, I threw daggers in mom's as well as Jene's direction as she endeavored not to look back in my eyes, squinting my eyes. I held her hands, pulling them off from me while Mom walked away from the room murmuring, "I thought the roach came back from the day before yesterday."

My eyes widened as I pulled up my foot which I was about to keep down on the floor, "What? You found a creature in my room, flying and you didn't even let me know about this." Mom stopped at the threshold of the door, turning around to look at me as I added, "I came home on Sunday nights to have a stayover and I can't even get my room clean. I slept in a room where a daredevil creature would be having the time of its life or maybe breakfast." I retorted to my mom who doesn't listen to having extermination.

I rue what I just said when I felt Mom throwing daggers in my direction with her spatula patting over her palm, "What did you say? I don't do my work properly." She declared taking slow steps towards me as I retreated myself while my back hit Jene's physique who was looking at mom with horror-struck in her eyes.

Swiftly I hid behind Jene, pushing her forward in mom's direction while she stood on the periphery of the bed, "No... No mom, you are getting me wrong. I didn't mean to say that. I was saying that... That you work so hard and take care of the cafe, take care of dad, and do the household all by yourself so you would have let slip to clean my room." I smiled at her which was a deceptive one but more like a frantic one.

Shooting a glare at me while Jene gulped under my nose as she was standing or I made her stand like a shield to get protection from my furious mother.

"Yes, Aunty. Y/N meant it that way. She wasn't blaming you for not cleaning her room-" Jene clarified but it sounded more like putting a cherry on the top. I pinched her waist under her shirt, forming creases.

She let out a squeal as I whispered, "Shut up!" She shut her eyes perceiving my whispered shout under my breath, "Leave her, aunty. Please." Jene pleaded instead of me as I gave my mom doe eyes, throwing sparkles while nodding at Jene's statement.

"Come, have breakfast." Mom said before sauntering out of the room as we both breath out our hitched breaths, leaving Jene's shoulder which I was holding for guardianship.

Jene twitched around facing me with her hopeful eyes, "NO!" I spat out on her face, and what she was about to say was a natch.

I skipped down the bed getting into my slip-on as I heard her shout, "Roach!" I let out a squeal before sprinting my way out of the room but stopped when I heard her laughing.

I walked back to the room as I saw Jene holding her phone which was propped in my direction, She recorded everything. Noooo... I screamed so bad this time, she had my video.

I skipped to her, jumping on the bed as she raised her hand while bouncing, "Give it back."

"NO! I will post it on social media." She waggled her brows as I let out a frustrated sigh before frolicking and snatching the phone from her but she made her way out of the room, springing off the bed and rushing out, "You l*ttle piece of-"

I interrupted myself, No offensive language in mom's house if she hears I would be a slice of dead meat.

I won't leave you, Ms. Lee Jene. NO! Ms. Blacklist. She is dead but I want that video. I held a handful of my hair while gritting my teeth at her.

I puffed, scurrying out, watching Jene already sitting at the dining table while my mom was serving the dishes she had cooked. Dad was sitting across from Jene.

"Yaah! Didn't you have breakfast at home?" Taking a seat beside Jene, "No. You already know what happened. And how can I skip my aunty's luscious food." She said while stuffing her mouth with another pancake.

I scrunch my nose, watching my mom smiling at her while serving her some more pancakes as I took the utensil from Mom before serving myself some.

Giving looks at the carnival's lost mother and daughter aura they both were giving me but passed a smile at my father, who reverted it and served me some honey over the top of my pancakes, "Thank you, dad." I smiled, displaying my pearly teeth, flicking my tongue out at both of the beings standing beside me and I enjoyed my breakfast while giving weird glances at Jene.

She knew she had found my sensitive nerve and would take advantage of that video that she had recorded.

"I won't come here, till that roach is taken care of." I declared standing up, "Oh! Wow. I will treat that roach to a whole meal, don't worry. I won't catch it at any cost." I huffed listening to my mother but I was serious this time, I can't live with that murderous creature on the Sundays I got my days off from the hospital.

I picked up my coat which was hanging on the back of the chair before bidding off goodbyes to my parents as Jene and I wore our footwear before sauntering out of the house.

Just as we stepped outside the main gate, I ambushed her by wrapping one of my arms around her neck, "Delete the video." I ordered as she held my arm to remove it and in which she succeeded at last before sprinting on the other side of her car as I chased her, "Heya! Get here."

Jene waggled her phone from behind the car, "Go on the date instead of me, or I will post it." I sighed, "This is not it, Jene. This is wrong."

"Y/N, Try to understand..." We both roamed around her car, "I don't wanna marry the one whom I don't love. Please help your dearest friend." She glanced at you with her puppy-doe eyes which were screaming for help.

I sucked in my teeth and let out a deep sigh before stopping chasing her halting her running legs she made her way towards me, inclining herself on the hood of the car as I took this moment to snatch her phone from her hand but her reflexes were way to better than yours as she pulled her hand away, "I am posting it." She was about to click on the screen when I exclaimed out, "Okay. Okay, I will go there for you."

My hand was in the air, halted in the same position to stop her as she shut her phone with her index finger.

I deeply exhaled, scrutinizing her visage which had an astonished as well as a gratified look. "I love you, Y/N. You are thoroughly my true bosom buddy." She clung to me tightly with my hands inside her embrace, not letting me move.

Aish! This girl just blackmailed me with just a recorded clip. God!! How will I converse with the blind date? I was trying not to let my inner scream but I would think of something until the date. Wait! When is the blind date?

I waggled my body to get out of her grip, "By the way, when is it supposed to be?"

She plastered a smile on her face, "Day after tomorrow." "What? Only a day in between." I asked with enlarged eyes, "No, you have two days. It's at night."

"Jene, Why are you like this?" I asked, helplessly fluttering my body in frustration. I felt her placing her hands over my shoulder, "I will help you prepare for the date. As a reward, I will drop you off at the hospital." She showed a thumbs-up to me.

Dragging me in the car as she opened the door for me to enter the passenger seat while she drove off to the hospital.

I switched on the hi-fi in the car and we were attacked by the newly released music, That That! "Woah! Psy!" We both shouted, "Woohoo! Suga!" Taking in the music we both sang together with a booming noise, which definitely could be heard outside but it makes no difference.

So meet my best friend, Jene who has been with me since high school and we are almost inseparable. Her mother died from this world when she was young and you had already seen how my mom takes her as her daughter, yeah! More than me, I guess. It sometimes makes me jealous but she deserves it and it makes me feel happy to see both of them close but I won't ever agree on it ever....