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It has been a while since Wan has moved in. Over that time, she quickly adjusted to her life here. Mom was right, almost nothing changed…
Almost…
School has more or less been the same. People still give us weird looks with how close Wan has been. Although she has been quite vocal about how she doesn’t care about the looks, I still get embarrassed at them. Still, I guess it's better than when we were ignoring each other or fighting each other out in the open. At home however, Wan has been taking advantage of the situation as much as she wants. Whenever we are alone she clings to me like a baby and kisses me only on the lips..
Wait, I mean just on the lips!
Anyway that's the end of it.
Even though me and Wan had shared the same bed on multiple occasions for years, I don’t remember her being so…handsy. One time I caught her hand on my stomach, or on my face, or on my lower back when I turned around from her.
Another issue was that she never stopped her habit of not closing the bathroom door. I didn’t want anyone else to see her… exposed, so we made an agreement to take a bath together every once in a while to satisfy her. Quickly enough she started locking the door, which I don’t know how to feel about that.
So far, it's been pretty good, with the exception of Frank!
He has been visiting more and more now that Wan lives here now. I just know that annoying rat is trying to get close to Wan, just like he tried to do when he was “ teaching ” Wan how to ride a bike, and got Wan hurt because of his crappy teaching. The nerve of that guy…
Unfortunately for him, Wan will always choose me. She always sat next to me, always talked to me, and would never leave my side when we were home. Even all his not so subtle attempts at flirting and trying to get closer have been constantly shut down by Wan. He even had the nerve to ask her out! Or as he likes to call it, “hanging out”. Thankfully Wan saw through it and chose to hang out with me instead. He’s been visiting a bit less after Wan constantly rejected him, so I guess he got the hint (though he still comes around and tries his luck).
Now it’s the weekend, a beautiful Saturday morning. Wan was laying on my bed with her head on the edge of the frame, facing me while I was doing homework.
“Hey, want to go to the Mall?” she asked randomly.
“Why? Do you need something?”. I stop and turn to face her.
“Nah. I just don’t want to just stay inside all day. Besides, we can find something to do when we get there. “
“We could just watch a movie.”
“Yeah but I'd rather do that at night. C’mon, let's go outside. “
“Fine, just let me get ready.” Wan jumps up and cheers. She gets her purse and comes straight for me with a kiss on the cheek. She left and I linger a bit on the feeling on my cheek. I feel the part where she kissed and feel my heart rate speed up. I could have enjoyed the feeling the entire day, but I snapped out of it to gather my stuff and meet Wan at the front of the house.
After calling a taxi and a short ride, we were at the usual mall. Wan, holding my hand the entire, was practically glowing at us hanging out. Her joy was so infectious even I started to enjoy it more than usual.
It almost felt like a date… But it wasn’t! Just two friends hanging out, holding hands, eating and having fun together. Nothing suspicious.
Well nothing except the feeling of someone following us.
We spent the day looking around at some stores. My favorite was the music store where I was trying out some new guitars that they had. Wan complained she couldn’t hear the difference, but she still enjoyed watching me play.
Wan on the other hand really enjoyed the clothing stores.
More specifically dressing me up in all sorts of outfits that I wouldn’t dare get for myself. At least she was having fun cause that whole thing was exhausting and embarrassing. I felt like a doll with all the random dresses she gave me. At least I kept some dignity for myself when I stopped her from getting into the changing room with me.
When Wan and I were at the food court, I felt someone looking at us again. I decided to check around to validate my concerns while Wan got us both something to eat. Around the corner of the food court, I met our stalker face to face.
“Ek?” I was shocked to see him, it’s been a while.
“Hello Pleng.” he greets me.
“What are you doing?”
“I wanted to see Wan.” he answers bluntly.
“Have you been following us?”.
“... Yes” I hold my head. I am already feeling a headache coming from this.
“You creep. Why are you following us?”
“Wan has been ignoring my messages and calls. I think she may have blocked me. I want to know what I did and fix it.” Again he surprises me. I didn’t know Wan blocked him, but I feel like I’m fighting a smile after I heard that.
“That doesn’t mean you can follow us like a stalker. I was about to call the police on you!”
“... You knew I was trailing you guys?”
“Stalking. And yeah you're not that sneaky. I knew since we entered the mall.”
“Oh. So from the beginning?” I nod and he looks down, a little disappointed and sad. There is no way he’s sad that I insulted his stalking skills.
“Do you know why Wan has blocked me?”
“No”
“... Do you know if she started dating someone?” The thought of that made me shutter. My mouth felt dry and every thought in my head was telling me to lie. To tell him that she was taken.
…
To say that she was mine.
…
But she wasn’t. This wasn’t a date, and I don’t know what we are right now. But I sure as hell wasn’t going to admit all that.
“I don’t know If she is. She didn’t mention it to me. Even if she did I wouldn’t tell you!”. I felt my blood boiling.
“God. I hope she didn’t… Can you please help me again with her?”
“Ek… That didn’t go well any of the times we tried.”
“It’s my only way. She doesn’t take the bus anymore, and I can’t call her to meet up with her. I’m running out of options here.” Before I could respond, a set of footsteps that were extremely familiar showed up behind me.
“Pleng what are you- Ek?” Wan looks surprised and Ek immediately runs up to her, practically pushing me to the side.
“Wan! I’ve been messaging you for weeks!” He tries to grab her hand, but she pulls back.
“Oh. I must have missed them.” Ek looked like a kicked puppy, and Wan even looked like she felt bad, but she fixed that quickly. “Also, what the hell are you doing with Pleng?” she asked while grabbing my arm while dragging me to her side.
“I was asking her what did I do to deserve that! Please, Wan, let me know if I did anything wrong. Unless…” his voice whimpers a bit, before malicious enters his voice.“You are dating someone else”.
Wan folds her arm and is looking more annoyed.
“Yes I have someone else in mind.” She says matter of factly. I felt my heart skip a beat from it.
“Who is it!” Ek demands from her. She was a bit shaken from it, but stood her ground.
“And why is that your business?”
“Because I liked you! Because I thought we had something!” he starts yelling louder and louder.
“Yeah well we don’t! I only agreed to talk to you because Pleng asked me too, but looking at you now,I’m done with you!” She yells. Before she walks away, Ek grabs her arm.
“What if she asked again.” Ek said, looking at me with pleading eyes. He was getting real desperate.
“She won’t. Trust me!” She shook him off, took my hand and we went back to our table.
I looked back and Ek looked like he was at a funeral. He stares at our direction for a bit before leaving us alone. We sat back at our table but the mood was horribly ruined. Wan was still mad. I had never seen her this mad before, and for some reason it felt like she was mad at me too!
“Wannn” I called her to try and get to the bottom of this.
“...”
“Oh come on. Why are you mad at me?”
“...Why were you talking to Ek?” She asked, still folding her arms.
“He has been following us since we got here. He probably saw us and wanted to talk, but was too scared. I didn’t know it was him when I went to confront him.”. I laid it out to her. I didn’t want Ek to ruin our dat-, outing.
“You should have told me.” She looks down and starts to play with her food.
“I didn’t think it would be a big deal.”... I said. Wan was still playing with her food, still deep in thought about something. I still had some questions however, so I decided to probe anyway. “So… you’ve been ignoring Ek?” I ask and she looks up at me.
“Yeah.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t want to talk to him anymore.”
“And why not?.”
“I gave him my number originally because you said I should be with a good guy, but now I don’t care to do that..”
“I thought you said you were just friends before.”
“Yeah…”
“Then why don’t you care about him anymore?” She looked at me like I was some idiot and scoffed. Sorry for just wanting to know. I am more than happy that she didn’t want to see him anymore, but why was she mad at me?
“Wan, what's the matter?”
“Nothing.”
“It’s not nothing. I never seen you this mad before. You were like a whole different person. You weren’t like that before. What’s wrong?” I plead for an answer.
“Nothing”. That definitely didn’t sound like nothing. Wan threw out the rest of her food (such as waste) and got up. I followed behind her but she still seemed mad at me. She didn’t even take my hand when we left…
It was a quiet taxi home. Wan immediately ran up to my- our room. If she was trying to hide from me, our room was probably the worst spot imaginable. I followed suit and went up to the room, and saw her laying on the bed with her face down with a blanket covering most of her body. I sit next to her, thinking of ways to try and mend whatever the hell I did.
“Wan… It’s not hygienic to jump on the bed after you've been outside.” She still faces down, not responding to me.
“After the both of us clean up… We can watch a movie together.” I offer. Still got nothing.
“I-uh. We can eat something in a bit. Whatever you like.”
“Not hungry”. Well she didn’t sound better but it was at least a start. I guess I have to pull out my ace in the hole for this.
“Hmmmm. Well if we are going to watch a movie after we both shower, it might be really late… Unless you would like to bathe together.” Immediately she picked up her head and then looked at me.
“This doesn’t count towards our other deal.”
“It won’t. This will be its own thing.”
“And I still want to watch a movie.” I chuckle a bit at the big child that was in my bed.
“Yes. We can also watch the movie.”
“... And I want ice cream.”. God she was sounding spoiled.
“Since when did I say you have all three?” She started to pout and I couldn’t contain my smile or my chuckle. She rolls her eyes at me again and I relent. “Fine, fine, you can have all three. I owe you that. But remember we have a test coming up soon. We can relax today but we should probably study if you don’t want another bad score.” I get up to get ready for the bath and see Wan still on the bed with a somber look on her face.
“Wan, are you gonna join me?”.
“Huh, Oh Yeah!” She jumps up immediately and beats me to the bathroom. It’s weird to think she was mad at me not even five minutes ago.