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Chapter 5: 50/50
Len's P.O.V.
9:02 a.m.
"Girl, I totally knocked out the minute I got inside my room. I didn't even take my clothes off or wash my face" I spoke into the built-in microphone to my earphones as I leaned against the kitchen counter, watching the coffee drip into my mug from the coffeemaker. "I was mad at how gross I looked when I saw my reflection the bathroom, but that's what I get."
"Although I didn't go through the same feeling, I can relate about not washing my face. The make-up around my eyes smeared while I was asleep! I looked like the raccoon I saw that time when I took out the trash at night" Gumi had then began to laugh. "I think our mistake was forgetting that we drank a little before we came to the club." She then said.
I gave a small sigh as I straightened my posture, shoving my hands into the pockets of my black sweatpants. I took a quick shower almost fifteen minutes ago, and I didn't want to wear anything serious. So I stuck to wearing sweats and one of my dark-grey midriffs, with my hair in a sloppy damp bun.
"I couldn't agee more" I rhetorically said, pressing the off button to the machine. "But girl, your little employee" I paused for a moment once a laugh slipped out all of a sudden, "He should get promoted just for dealing with me being drunk."
Gumi almost immediately responded with, "Do you realize how bad I feel?! I called him to apologize after Lily texted me what happened. He's nice for helping you get home, but to think that my new employee had to deal with one of my friends being drunk looks bad on me." She explained. "I'm more glad that he made sure you were safe."
`I can already guess how much of a panic she was in when she called him'
"Relax, we had a good time" I began to chuckle.
She didn't respond a few seconds till, "... Did you two...?" She trailed off.
It didn't take for me to hear the whole sentence for me to understand what she was implying.
So I scoffed, "I do not get down like that with some guy I barely met. ...No matter how handsome he is, I still got some level of class. Besides; I was drunk. That would've been a gross mess, mixed with me doing the walk-of-shame."
It was then that she broke into a laughing fit.
I only ignored her as I took my mug away from the machine and walk towards the livingroom; taking a seat on the very end of the couch.
"Laugh all you want to. I try not to catch feelings. I already have too much on my plate as is trying to be taken seriously at my job, bills, needing more money; the list goes on." I then took a sip of my coffee, then reaching over to sit it on the small glass, coffee-table.
"I'm laughing because it's always funny when you explain yourself" she started. "But there has to be something you gotta admit that you aren't telling me."
And just like that, a chuckle escaped from her quickly being persistent.
Stretching my legs across the couch, I relaxed myself as I thought it over.
"I'll admit he's a swauve type of sarcastic. Like it's not annoying, but his sarcasm is like his form of flirting. It's weird to explain, but he's natural with it-" (Rrrr! s.f.x.) I paused for a second once I felt my phone buzz in my pocket.
I wasted little to no time slipping it out from my pocket; checking it to see that I received a text message.
Once I clicked the envelope icon, it showed that two people texted me. One showing my sisters name, and the other from a new number. `667? Who the fuck is this?' I rose a brow as I skipped over to read Rin's text first.
"Hey Len, our cousin is in town, and she wanted to stop by your place to visit you. Mom thought it'd be a bright idea to all go out for breakfast. So we may be there in the next 20 min. Sorry. Tried to tell them no." - 9:26 a.m.
And just like that, I felt the left side of my temple pulse from an incoming migraine.
"Hello? Len?" Gumi pipped up.
"S-Sorry! I got seriously annoyed just now" I heavily sighed as I pressed my fingers against my temple to ease the pain. "My sister just texted me that her, my cousin, and my mom are coming to my place so we can go out for breakfast. It wasn't Rin's fault, but more of my mom and cousin."
"Right now? They don't know how to tell people in advance?" She questioned.
"Exactly! I mean yeah, I don't have work today, but I was looking forward to rest. Plus I wanted to make some time to finish the other portion to our homework." I responded. "They're supposed to be here in twenty minutes. ... I'm not getting dressed. If they want me to go with them, they're gonna have to accept me looking like a bum today."
It was then that she laughed. "Hah! I'd do the same thing if I were you. But hey, free food. Order a lot so you can take some home as leftovers." She suggested.
"You got a point. I just hope it's somewhere I like."
Right when I scrolled through my phone to open the other message, Gumi had then said, "Well, I hope everything goes well. I have to find an outfit and head to work; so I'll text you later."
And with me giving my farewells in return, we ended the call.
I unplugge my earphones and tossed them onto the coffee-table. `Now let's see who the hell is this 667 number.' I quietly thought to myself as I opened the message.
"Hey, I just wanted to check up to see if you were feeling okay? And also, if you were free to get something to eat later on; I'm off at 3. Maybe we can continue our cat-mouse game ;)"
Immediately my breath hitched once I realized it was the bluenette from last night. `I damn near forgot that he got my number.'
I bit my lip as I hovered my thumbs over the screen, trying to figure out whether or not to agree. It was already one thing that my family wanted to drag me to this breakfast outting last minute, early in the morning. And now I have this guy asking to get something to eat at three. ... And it's not necessarily last minute since I met him yesterday. As for my family, they had god knows long to tell me that my cousin was coming to town.
If I say yes, I can just tell Rin that I have an emergency call to work, then postpone the outting. Plus I can get some extra sleep and properly get ready for the day. And most likely it's Neru that's in town; and she's known for having an attitude. `As if I really want to deal with her acting cocky. Especially at this time in the day.'
The more I thought it over, the more my thumbs began to tap away on the screen.
Before I pressed the send button, I read it over, "Only if you're going to pay. Disturbing me from my beauty rest has to cost you, hun."
Not feeling like dealing with my family, I sent the message to the bluenette and quickly exited to text Rin that something came up. `If they really wanted to spend time, they could've done a family dinner or some shit. Not that I don't like my family, but sometimes they don't consider people's schedule. ... Even though I wasn't doing shit today.'
As I was in the midst of texting Rin, I quickly recieved a response from the bluenette, causing me to quickly click on the message to read it.
"Lol, no problem. Try not to break into a sweat when I pull up; I know you think I'm hot"
"This guy" I said aloud as the corner of my lips curved upwards. I wasted little time texting back the middle-finger emoji.
Going back to texting and sending a message to Rin, I got up from the couch and made my way towards my room, scratching the side of my ass as I yawned. `Shit, at least I get to take a nap and still get free food. Even better, I'll get some time to choose a legit outfit for the day.'
