** Twenty- Two **
**Third Person's POV**
Ceejay walked through a park to the hut where their clan's EB place was after their class. He was carrying in his mind that Rhea would also go, even though he knew it was vague because of the fight they had earlier. With every step the young man took toward the hut, he hoped he would see the presence of the girl, the reason for his attending EB.
When he entered the hut, he immediately wandered his eyes around. He was not disappointed; he saw what he expected to find.
From where he was standing, he could see that Rhea was happy and teasing Boss Ganda and her clanmates. There was no sign on the young woman's face that she was affected by her encounter with the young man earlier. The young man smiled as he watched the girl, but his smile disappeared when he noticed Jc next to Rhea. He was laughing with her and playing clever word games.
"Rhea, you're good at English, aren't you? Translate 'Mahal Kita,'" Jc said, almost laughing.
"Piece of cupcake," Rhea boasted. "I love you."
"I love you too," he answered with a teasing smile and a wink.
"Hey!" Boss Ganda was still grinning at Jc and slapped his shoulder, laughing.
Jc just grinned, his white teeth clearly visible.
"How about 'Mahal ko' in English?" Juviler suddenly intervened in the conversation, standing right next to Boss Ganda.
Rhea was still smiling when she looked at him. "My love?"
"Yes?" Juviler gave Rhea a playful smile, and soon she giggled.
They all burst into laughter that echoed throughout the hut.
"Doesn't anything hurt you, Prim?" AkinKa joined them.
"Nothing. Why?" Rhea answered, almost laughing.
"Because my love ran over you when you crossed my life and fell into my heart," AkinKa hissed and then giggled.
Rhea burst out laughing while holding her stomach.
"May your soul rest in his heart," Jc smiled while holding his chest.
Boss Ganda turned to look at him with curiosity, but she was still grinning. "Are you okay?"
"My chest hurts," Jc responded weakly while still smiling.
"Why?" Boss Ganda asked in surprise, but her smile did not disappear.
"Because Rhea is here inside my heart," Jc grinned so much that his mouth was about to tear.
Rhea gave a half-suppressed laugh as she replied, "I meant that to kill you."
Jc laughed softly. "How bad."
"As bad as your pick-up lines," Juviler ridiculed Jc.
"But admit it, she was thrilled," Boss Ganda teased Rhea, who almost laughed.
While Rhea was smiling at Jc, AkinKa reached for the girl's face and pinched it.
Almost all of them laughed at the same time, except for Rhea.
"It hurts," Rhea tried to remove AkinKa's hand from her cheek.
"I'm sorry. I thought you were drunk because your face was so red," AkinKa explained, almost cheerfully.
"Stop it," Rhea frowned as she rubbed her cheek, pinched by AkinKa.
"The wind felt as cold as her."
All their eyes turned to the young man standing next to Juviler.
The smile on Rhea's face slowly disappeared when she recognized the man who had suddenly joined their cheerful chit-chat. She frowned as she raised an eyebrow, looking at him.
"Everyone comfort Princebeybe. He seems to have been crying for a while," Juviler sneered. "I mean the sky. The sky was crying a while ago."
Boss Ganda, AkinKa, and Jc gave a half-smile at Juviler's taunt, which was not funny, while Rhea was still staring at Ceejay's fake smiling face.
"What are you doing here?" Rhea asked in annoyance. You could hear in Rhea's tone that she was disgusted to see Ceejay.
"Can I no longer attend EB?" Ceejay replied with a half-smile, looking at Rhea.
The two looked at each other, clearly feeling each other's emotions. Later, without a word, the girl broke their gaze and turned her attention in another direction, crossing her arms.
"Did the two of you have a fight, twinie?" Boss Ganda asked Rhea weakly.
"Ask him," the girl replied, avoiding Boss Ganda's scrutinizing gaze.
Ceejay sighed. "Don't make my closeness with Marjorie an issue."
It rang in the young woman's ears when she heard Ceejay say Anonymous' real name, so she faced the young man and stared at him, annoyed.
"Marjorie? How close have you been to Anonymous for you to call her by her real name?" Her tone of speech was obviously preventing the annoyance she was hiding from coming out.
Marjorie's ears suddenly rang when she heard her name mentioned from where Rhea was. She turned her attention to them with her eyebrows crossed as she approached their location to find out who mentioned her name and why it was involved.
"How close are you and Four to sleep in the same room?" Ceejay immediately scolded. His voice was weak, but the annoyance behind it was obvious.
Rhea's eyebrows met as she stared at the young man in the eye with irritation. "Even th—"
"Nothing happened between me and her," Jc confidently said before Rhea finished what she was saying.
"Am I talking to you?" Ceejay answered in an annoyed tone.
The two young men looked at each other. Jc calmly looked at Ceejay in the eyes while Ceejay's eyes blazed at him.
The members felt the tension between the two young men. Everyone turned their attention in their direction and waited patiently for what would happen next, while the officers were alertly observing the possible destination of their heated conversation.
"Ceejay, don't make a scene," Rhea said in a weak but annoyed tone.
"I'm not making a scene," the young man replied to the girl with gritted teeth while looking at her from the corner of his eye.
Jc suddenly smirked. "Don't you really have any trust in your future girlfriend?"
Ceejay stepped closer to Jc, his eyes blazing as he looked the young man straight in the eye. Even if there was a slight gap between the faces of the two young men, it was enough to make the members nervous and the officers alert to the heated environment.
"Don't you dare question my trust in her," Ceejay answered weakly and slowly, but his tone was very angry.
A calm half-smile could be seen on Jc's face as he replied, "What else are you having trouble with then?"
"You," Ceejay answered directly. "You are a huge problem in our relationship with Rhea."
Despite the intense atmosphere, Jc managed to let out a laugh that echoed throughout the hut. "You're not in the clan yet; Rhea and I are already friends."
Ceejay was about to answer when Rhea pulled his hand, and he automatically turned to the girl with his eyebrows crossed.
"Ceejay, stop now," the young woman ordered with clenched teeth.
Ceejay aggressively removed the girl's hand from his arm without a word. He was very annoyed and turned his attention to her.
"Ceejay!" the girl exclaimed, making her voice slightly louder, but he ignored her.
"Just calm down. I don't like to steal other people's toys," Jc said with a calm smirk on his face.
"A toy? Or maybe you've become someone else's toy?" Ceejay answered weakly, as if he were challenging him with the tone of his words.
From a calm smile, Jc's face and poker eyes gradually changed to a teasing smile, which evoked the heated gravity of the situation. Ceejay's menacing look matched this.
Both of them were holding back their anger, but it was obvious that just one wrong word from either of their mouths would end up in blood.