Phantom Thieves

Chapter 26

Nexa came downstairs from her room to get some soda for her and Naman since they were both thirsty. When she came to the living room, she was shocked to see Kaoru making out with Butch. She decided to tease them a little and make them stop so they wouldn't go that far.

"Why Kaoru-san, I didn't know that you and Butch are a thing now" Nexa said in a slight teasing tone.

The greens broke apart and turned around to see Nexa and Kaoru became red as a tomato.

"I-It just happened half an hour ago and why are you downstairs?" Kaoru said as she stopped herself from blushing.

"I came downstairs to get some soda for me and Naman but I never knew that you would be making out with your perverted boyfriend on the couch" Nexa said as she slightly grinned.

"HEY! I AIN'T PERVERTED!" Butch exclaimed at her.

"Yes you are!" Nexa shot back. "You've always been trying to molest her so you are way perverted than your brothers!"

"Hmph! Whatever just go get your soda and leave me and my hottie in peace" Butch said as he pulled Kaoru into his lap.

"DON'T CALL ME HOTTIE!" Kaoru exclaimed as she tried to get off his lap.

"I can call you whatever pet name I want to call you Kaoru-chan~" Butch cooed at her as he petted her cheek.

"Don't get familiar with me!" Kaoru shouted.

While Kaoru was yelling her head off at Butch, Nexa decided to go into the kitchen and get the sodas. She opened the fridge and pulled out 2 Dr. Pepper soda cans, closed the fridge, and went upstairs to the yellow room so she can resume what she was doing. She opened the door and saw Naman still reading one of the horror books while laying down on the bed. She put one soda on the desk next to him who muttered a thanks and sat back down on the chair and opened her soda and took a sip and sat it down next to her while she looks through her laptop.

"Why do I hear yelling downstairs?" Naman asked as he looked up from his book.

"Kaoru-san is yelling at Butch for calling her hottie" Nexa replied as she looked through her Facebook.

"Oh no wonder" Naman said as he put his book down and opened his can of soda and took a sip out of it.

"Did you know that they both became a couple already?" Nexa told him.

"No I haven't and I'm surprised she didn't kill him for asking her out" Naman said.

"Yeah I know, I'm guessing he likes her attitude probably" Nexa said.

Soon, Nexa's phone rang and she picked it up from her desk.

"Hello?" Nexa replied. "Angela hi! I miss you a lot girl so what's up? Whoa whoa slow down girl, can you repeat that slowly? He what!? Are you serious!? Congratulations Angela, I'm so happy for you! Make sure he treats you right or he'll lose his dignity permanently. Calm down, you know how I'm always protective of you so I just want to make sure you won't get hurt alright? I'm glad you understand so you two are gonna set up a date for it? Its a good thing you'll wait till after college so that way you'll both achieve your dreams. Let's just hope that your brother won't go bonkers once he hears the news. Oh you told him and he went bonkers kinda, well my brother will try to calm him down then. You gotta go now, awww well it was nice talking to you Angela and don't worry, I promise that I'll come visit you soon once I get the chance and let your boyfriend know that he has my blessings. Okay good well bye!"

Nexa hanged up the phone and set it down on the desk and went back to her Facebook.

"Who's Angela?" Naman replied while looking at Nexa.

"Why do you wanna know, you don't know her" Nexa replied to him.

"I just wanna know who she is that's all" Naman said.

"She's one of my best friends back at my hometown, we knew each other when we were little" Nexa said.

"So you two were both childhood best friends?" Naman said.

"Yeah that's right, my mom was friends with her mom" Nexa said.

"Oh that's cool" He replied. "By the way, what were you and your friend talking about on the phone?"

"None of your business" She replied while scrolling.

"Come on you can tell me, I won't tell anyone about it" Naman pleaded.

"Not gonna happen" Nexa said.

"If you don't tell me, then I'll punish you instead and it'll be something you won't like" Naman widely smirked at her.

Nexa stopped what she was doing and turned her head to face him. "You're an evil person you know that?"

Naman smirked, "I get that all the time"

"Sigh, fine I'll tell you but don't tell anyone that I told you this" Nexa said. "Angela called me and told me that her boyfriend Avon proposed to her and I was surprised about it since they're the same age as us but she told me that they're gonna get married after college and live at our hometown since its a beautiful place. I used to not like Avon because of a past thing I hate him for but soon I gained his trust after knowing that Angela loves him so much and that he was treating her well and keeping her happy so I decided to give him my full blessings so they'll get married and have a happy life together."

"Hold on, did you say her fiance was Avon?" Naman said with wide eyes.

"Uh yeah why?" Nexa said.

"I know that guy, he and I knew each other back then and we were extremely close but he moved away somewhere really far away from here so we lost touch with each other" Naman explained to her.

"Whoa, I didn't know that the both of you were childhood friends?" Nexa said.

"We were best friends actually and we were close like brothers" Naman explained as he remembered his memories with his friend.

"Well he's living at my hometown with my best friend, we can go there together if you wanna come?" Nexa suggested.

"I-I don't know, he probably doesn't remember me anymore" Naman said.

"Nonsense Naman, he's your best friend, he'll never forget you so come on!" Nexa tried to encourage him.

"Yeah you're right, I should go and see him and see how's he doing" Naman said as he smiled.

"Now that's the Naman I know" Nexa said as she smiled at him.

Naman slightly chuckled at her and said, "Hey Nexa, I wanna ask you something"

"Sure, what is it?" Nexa said.

"You know, since our friends finally became a couple, I wanna know if we can become one as well?" Naman suggested.

"Y-You want us to be c-coupled?!" Nexa said in shock.

"Yeah I really do" Naman said as he got and went over to Nexa and crouched down in front of her and placed his hands on hers while she was sitting on the chair.

"I-I don't know i-if we c-can be a c-couple" Nexa stuttered as she hid her face with her bangs.

"And why not?" Naman said as he brushed her hair aside from her face.

"Its the first time that a guy is asking me to be his girlfriend and no guy would ever want some girl who is always overprotective of her friends and who sometimes act like a tomboy and doesn't have a pretty face" Nexa said while looking down.

"Don't say that, any guy would be lucky to have you as his girlfriend; you're beautiful, kind, thoughtful, smart, brave, and you've always think about others before yourself so don't ever say that no guy would want you" Naman said as he put a hand on her cheek.

"Y-You really think so?" Nexa said.

"That's right" Naman said. "If you want, we can take it slow and start as friends and if it works out, we can be a couple then"

"I like that idea" Nexa said. "So friends?" she brought her hand out.

"Friends" Naman said as he got up and shook her hand.