BAD BOY'S CRAVING - CHAPTER 27&28
“Did you wait for long?” Jovita asked after they broke the kiss.
“Not really? But what kept you?” Jayden asked with her hands on her waist.
Jovita sighed. “You already know Vincent spent the night at my mom’s house, right? I thought he’d leave right away, but my mom urged him to stay a little longer. Vincent is so protective of me, and if he sees me all dressed up, he won’t allow me leave the house until I specifically tell him where I was going, so I had to wait until he left” Jovita said.
She talks a lot, but Jayden loved her that way.
He can spend the whole day listening to her talk.
Jayden smiled and kissed her again.
“I’m glad you’re here. I missed you so much”
“I missed you Jay, but what’s transpired between you and Vincent. He got suspicious”
“I almost made our relationship an open secret to him cuz I called you Jovi in his presence and told him you liked cheese-balls. Did he catch you?” Jayden asked, worriedly.
“Have you forgotten who I am? I’m Jovita Santos, a girl who was born the day, lie was invented” Jovita said, and Jayden smiled.
“How long are we going to keep our relationship a secret? If it was up to me, I want to tell the whole world that you’re my girlfriend”
Jovita hung her hands on his neck.
“I also want to do the same. If it was just my mom, it won’t have been a problem, but you know how Vincent is right? He’d ki|| you if he finds out you’re dating his cousin, and I don’t want my baby’s cute face to get ruined with punches”
Jayden smiled.
“I can take all his punches”
“No! I won’t allow that” Jovita said, hugging him.
“I love you so much, Jovi” He hugged her back.
“I love you more, Jay” She kissed his cheek, and Jayden smiled.
******
“Should we just tell Dove that Dora is skipping school?” Angel asked, walking with Joaquin.
School ended already and they are walking home together.
“Why should we do that?”
“Dora hasn’t been in school for days, and she is going to get poor grades for it”
“Don’t make Dora’s life your headache, Angel. You should worry more about yourself since you’re the one with a scholarship” Joaquin said.
Angel sighed, and her eyes widened immediately when she saw Dora coming down from a car with Alex.
She was wearing heavy makeup as usual. A ripped bum short, boots and crop top.
She was holding Alex and they’re walking towards a boutique.
“Joaquin, isn’t that Dora”
Joaquin looks at the direction she was pointing and he gasps too.
“What the heck is she doing with that guy dressed like that?” He asked.
***
“Do you like this bag?” Alex asked, showing her a bag worth millions of dollars.
Dora smiled and looked at the bag. “Yes I do. I like both the pink and the green one, can I have both?”
“Sure you can” Alex replied and Dora giggled in excitement.
“Dora!” Joaquin and Angel called her.
Dora frowned on seeing them.
“Do you know them?” Alex asked.
“Of course not! Why would I know such barbaric high school students?” Dora denies them.
“What the heck are you saying? Dora? What are you doing with him? Why are you pretending not to know us? What’s with your outfit?” Angel asked.
“Can you stop asking me questions?! I don’t know you both!”
“Really? You’re going to act like you don’t know who we’re?” Joaquin asked.
“Do you really know them? You said you were done with high school”
“Yes I’m done with high school. Don’t believe wh@??ver they are saying. They’re just beggars seeking for attention”
“Dora!” Angel said, heartbreakingly.
“Let’s go somewhere else, Alex . I’m already hating this place” She said, leaving with Alex.
“Dora, please stop what you’re doing?!” Angel said, holding her, but Dora pushed her to the floor.
“Know when to quit! You want money? Then I will give it to you!” Dove said.
She brought out some money from her bag and threw it on Angel who was still on the floor.
“Let’s go, babe” Dora held Alex, and they both left.
“Angel, are you alright?” Joaquin asked, helping her stand on her feet.
“What’s going on with Dora? She completely changed! We should tell Dove what we just saw” Angel said in a crying voice.
“We shouldn’t make her life our business, Angel”
“She is our friend!”
“Dora doesn’t regard us as her friend. You saw what she did just now, right? She denied knowing who we were, and she called us beggars!”
“But….”
“There’s no but in this, Angel. Since she chose to pick up a different lifestyle rather than following Dove’s footsteps, she should learn the hard way. We shouldn’t make her life our business” Joaquin said.
Angel sighed, crimping her lips.
*****
“Niko, where are we going?” Dove asked as Niko takes her to only where God knows.
Niko smiled and said. “Just come with me”
He takes her by the hand and they continue walking until they approach a man.
“We are finally here, sir” He said, and the man faced them.
“You must be Dove, right?”
“Yes… I am” Dove answered and looked at Niko, with a face of ‘Who is he’
“He also owns a sugar company, Dove, and he wants to sign a contract with you,” Niko said.
Dove looked at the man and back to Niko.
“Can we talk, privately?” She asked.
“We will be back sir” He leaves with Dove.
“Why did you want us to talk, privately?” Niko asked when they were far away from the man.
“What is going on?”
“I figured out it was harsh for me to have made you terminate your contract with Mint-More, and I don’t want you to continue working with Vincent, and that’s why I made a research, and I found out he needs someone that will supply sugarcanes for his company”
“You didn’t have to go that far, Niko”
“It’s nothing as long as you don’t disobey me” He touched her chin.
Dove said nothing, cuz she knows she’s going against his order by being friends with Vincent.
“Are you okay?” He asked when he noticed her silence.
“I’m fine”
Niko smiled and gave her the iPhone 15 he got for her.
“What’s this?”
“It’s for you”
“Where on earth did you get the money?”
“Don’t ask questions, just say thank you?”
“I just want to know the source of your wealth. You have been buying lots of things for me these days, and I for one know that working as a mortuary attendant doesn’t pay so well. What are you up to?”
“Aren’t you both done yet?” The man asked.
“We will talk about it later, let’s not keep him waiting” Niko smiled at her, but Dove looked at him, suspiciously.
******
•BLOW-BLOOMS AGENCY•
Izzy came out from the makeup department, and she almost bumped into Charon.
Both stared at each other like it was their first time meeting each other.
Izzy was the one who broke the stare and chose to leave, but Charon held her.
She felt electrified, but she stood her ground.
“Why are you holding me?” She asked.
“I heard you were sick, are you okay?”
Izzy scoffed and took her hands from him. “Why would you care?”
“You’re one of my employees” He answered, and Izzy felt hurt by his answers.
She blinked back her tears and said. “As you can see, I have recovered. I won’t be at work if I am still sick”
“Izzy about what happened to….”
“It’s just a one night stand, right? You said so yourself, I don’t see any reason why we should talk about it”
Charon looked at her for a while and said; “Sure, it’s just a one night thing”
“I will take my leave now” Izzy said and left.
She quickly went inside the restroom and began to cry.
“He is so cruel!” She cried.
“Are you okay?” Someone asked from outside, knocking on the door.
Izzy quickly turned on the water tap, and like that she continued crying, with the running tap, covering the sound of her cry.
******
•DOVE’S HOUSE•
Dove couldn’t believe her eyes when she entered Dora’s room and saw different kinds of bags worth millions of dollars on her bed.
There were expensive clothes and shoes on the bed as well.
“Where on earth did she get all these?” Dove asked, picking up a bag from the bed, and Dora entered the room.
“Why are you touching my stuff?!!” She shouted.
“How did you get all of this?”
“Why should I answer your question?” Dora asked, rudely.
“Listen young lady, I demand an answer from you! Where on earth did you get these expensive items?!” Dove yelled at her.
“What is going on here?” Jacob asked, entering the room.
He too was shocked when he saw the expensive stuff on the bed.
“Dora” He called her name.
“Where on earth did you get these?” Dove asked again.
“Fine! A friend gave it to me” Dora lied.
“What friend?” Jacob asked.
“She is moving to Hong Kong, she can’t possibly carry all her stuffs along, so she gave it to me”
“I’m not a kid, Dora. These are obviously new. Are you involved in something that dad and I are unaware of?”
“Of course not, Dove! Maybe you have forgotten that Yellow-spree high school is an expensive school. Most of the students buy new shoes, clothes and bags, but forget to wear them. It was given to me by my friend in school” Dora said, making an innocent face.
“Return them,” Dove said.
“Are you nuts? Why would I do that?!” Dora said.
“Learn how to respect me, I’m your elder sister” Dove said, trying to hit Dora, but Jacob stopped her.
“That’s enough Dove, she’s just a kid”
“Yet she disrespects me!”
“Just let it slide, and don’t force her to return it. Dora loves fashion”
“Tell her dad, just because she sucks at fashion doesn’t means I should do too,” Dora said.
“Shut up, Dora”
“She should do wh@??ver she wants, I don’t care” Dove leaves the room.
“Just because she is small in nature doesn’t mean you should disrespect her, she is eight years older than you, Dora”
“I didn’t do anything wrong, Dad. She should mind her business. Why would she even enter my room, without my consent?”
“Shut up and join us for dinner” Jacob leaves.
“They think they’re smart” She smirked, kissing the bags Alex got for her.
***
Dove was setting up the table with a sullen look on her face, and Jacob approached her.
“Dove”
“Not now, dad!”
“I know Dora is disrespectful, but she is just fifteen”
“I know that, but that doesn’t mean she should disrespect me, and what makes it sad is that you support her!”
“I don’t. I just don’t want you to hit her”
“Fine! She can do wh@??ver she wants” Dove said.
Jacob looked at her, but said nothing.
Someone knocked on the door, Dove went to open it, and saw Vincent.
“Vinny?”
“Hi, Dovey” He smiled at her.
“What are you doing here?” She asked.
“You forgot your hairpin at my aunt’s house” He said, giving it to her.
“Don’t tell me you drove all the way here just to give this to me?”
“I’m going to confess, it’s just an excuse to see you” He said and Dove smiled.
“Who is that?” Jacob asked, walking to the door.
“Good evening to you sir” Vincent greeted.
“Evening. Who is he, Dove?”
“He is a friend, he dropped by to give me something, but he is about to leave”
“So soon? What’s your name?”
“Vincent”
“Mind joining us for dinner?” Jacob asked.
“I don’t think he’d like that dad. He is about to leave, right Vinny?” Dove said, cutting eyes for him.
“I won’t mind joining you for dinner” Vincent said with a smile, Dove gave him a frowning look, and he smiled.
“Then come in, Vincent. It’s Dove’s first time having a male friend. Her whole life is surrounded around Niko”
“Dad!”
Jacob laughed.
Dora came out from her room, and she gasped when she saw Vincent.
“Vincent Moore!”
“You know him?”
“Of course I do, not personally, but he is a billionaire who owns a sugar company, a popular one at that,” Dora said.
“Really? I didn’t know my daughter makes friends with rich folks”
“Then I wonder why she is dating that Niko”
“Dora!”
Dora rolled eyes at Dove and sits on the chair.
“You can have your seat”
“Thanks sir” Vincent sat down.
“Why aren’t you sitting?” Jacob asked.
Dove fakes a smile and sits beside Vincent.
Everyone was busy eating, but Vincent was just staring at the scrambled eggs in front of him.
“Why aren’t you eating?” Jacob asked.
“Huh?”
“You have been staring at the scrambled eggs without eating it. Isn’t it the kind of meal rich folks like you eat?”
“Of course not, sir”
“Then go ahead and eat, Dove made it”
“Really?” He asked with a smile looking at Dove, Dove looked away.
Dora looked at them and shook her head.
“Since Dove prepared it, then I’m going to eat it” He took a full spoon of the scrambled eggs, and he hesitated for a second before shoving it inside his mouth.
******
•BLACK BLACK GROUP, SAME NIGHT•
Niko smiled as he looked at the ring in his hand, Charming and Zoey approached him.
He tried hiding the ring, but they saw it before he could.
“Are you about to propose to Dove?” Charming asked, taking the ring from him.
“How sweet!” Zoey said.
“Not yet” Niko took the ring from him and placed it back inside the jewelry box.
“Why are you hesitating?”
“I haven’t gotten the perfect house for Dove, and I need money for a grand wedding”
“Must it be a big wedding? Dove doesn’t look like someone who’d want a big wedding” Charming said.
“I want to give her the best”
“Don’s son is finally here” A gang member announced to them, and the three of them went to welcome Diego’s god-son.
“Bow to him!” Diego commanded and they did as he instructed.
Landon smirked and walked to Zoey.
“A girl in a robbery gang?” He asked.
“She is good at what she does,” Diego said.
Landon chuckled and continued looking at Zoey.
Charming frowned cuz he didn’t like the way Landon was looking at Zoey.
Niko just kept calm, staring at Landon.
******
•DOVE’S HOUSE, SAME NIGHT•
Dove kept looking at the window, watching the rain as it fell down to the surface of the earth.
“I wonder if he was able to go home before it started raining” Dove muttered.
Since she was worried, she decided to call.
Vincent didn’t pick up, until she called for the fourth time.
“Hello…. Dovey” He said in a low shaking voice.
“Why are you sounding that way? Are you sick?”
“Yes”
“Why? You weren’t sick when you left my house”
“My stomach…. hurts Every part of my body hurts” He said like he was breathing his last breath.
Dove got scared immediately.
“Why?”
“I… am…. allergic to eggs” He said weakly.
“Eggs? If you’re allergic to eggs then why did you eat at my house earlier?!” She asked in panic.
Even if she doesn’t have any allergies, she knew what allergies does to someone.
“Because… you made it, Dovey”
“Do you h@?? your life that much? Why did you displease yourself to please me!”
“I….”
Dove could hear him falling to the ground, he was no longer talking.
“Hello, Vinny! Are you still there? Vinny!”
There was no response from him, cuz he fainted on the floor in his house.
“Vinny! Please say something, you’re scaring me! Vinny!”
Dove disconnected the call, she was shaking in fear, scared of what might have happened to Vincent.
She checked her contract paper with Mint-More company and found Vincent’s house address.
Lost in thought on what to do she, she dashed into the heavy rain, running towards his house.
……
TBC