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Xavier pull away from me and sat in his seat. The guys look like they saw a ghost or something.

I reddened when they raise an eyebrow at me. I finished my food and then stood up. The silence is creeping me. I never kissed a guy who isn't my boyfriend.

As the sun goes down the guys are sent to leave the house. I gave them a room and I sleep in the room in the middle of Julio and Xavier.

They wanted me back at Xavier's house until we know who wanted to kill me. They still working on it.

In the middle of the night, I hear my phone ring and I saw the caller ID. My little sister is calling me.

"Hello"

"Hi, Tony. How are you?" I ask her. I sat in my bed and hugged my knees.

"I'm okay. I and Theo visited the beach earlier. I love the wind here it's so relaxing" She babbled and I laughed.

"It's good you visit places there. So, how's Theo? And the other?" I ask. Batting my lip.

"They are good. Theo still nice and the others nothing change" She said. I hear her yelled Theo's name in the background.

"Theo wanted to talk to you," She said before I can say something I hear a husky voice that I missed.

"Hello Kennedy," He said.

"Hi, Theo. How's Tony's Chemotherapy?" I ask what I think first.

"She's Good and she's improving though. She asks me yesterday to buy her a wig so we can visit the beach. I bought her a wig and she's happy to see the beach and the sand" He said and I smiled thinking how happy tony is.

I can't imagine her smile when she saw a beach she loves, beaches, oceans, rivers, fountains, and more she loves water so much.

"That's good," I said, I yawned and he probably notices that I'm sleepy.

"You should sleep, Ken. We'll call you later"

"Okay. Tell Tony I love you. Good morning"

"Goodnight" that I hung up.

I put the phone on the table beside me and cover my body with my blanket.

I closed my eyes waiting for the darkness to summon me.

~~~~~

Marco woke up telling me to cook food. I yelled at him that I don't cook and he should order a pizza or something but he doesn't have money he left his wallet at Xavier's house. The guys who know how to cook are gone running errands.

It's just me and Marco. The only option we have is Xavier. It's either asks him to cook or asks him some money and we choice is asks him to cook. I'm the one who will ask him because Marco pull his I'm-Injured-Card at me. I swear someday I'll kill him.

I called Xavier and he immediately answers me within two rings. I ask him to cook for us and he said okay. Luckily, he didn't bring up about the almost kiss yesterday.

He knows I'm embarrassed about what happened yesterday he didn't try to talk about it.

After twenty minutes of waiting for Xavier finally, he arrived with a grocery in his hands.

"What's that?" I ask him as he enters the room.

"Groceries?" He said in a duh tone and I roll my eyes.

"I know. I ask you to cook for us because I don't know how to cook so like Marco. I didn't ask you to buy groceries" I complain.

"I know. Just stop complaining. I'm going to cook my favorite adobo. I'm sure you'll going to love it" He said placing the groceries on the table.

He leaves it on the table, I watch him walking out the kitchen. I sat at the table waiting for him to come back.

Minutes later he came back. He was only wearing sweatpants, he was holding an apron saying 'kiss the cook' I must say he has fine muscles and abs that I can't stop looking at.

One day I'm going to lick that abs.

He caught me staring at his body and he smirked.

"Like what you see angel?" I immediately look away and I pretend to fix my hair.

"Yeah. I like watching my hair" I hear him chuckle.

I watch him slicing the onions, ginger, garlic, etc...

I can't help but to asks him every minute if he needs help. He always says no every time I ask.

"You want me to help you cut that pineapple?" I ask him and poke him for the 59th time and I heard him say no.

"Do you need help cooking that chicken?" I ask poking him again.

This time he didn't answer me, He surprises me by putting his big hands on my hips, I gasped in shock and took a step back but he lifted my life I'm a feather.

Next thing I knew I'm sitting again at the table, not the chair.

"Stay," He said and back at his cooking work. I rolled my eyes and cross my arms.

When he leaves the pot with the food I talked. Still crossing my arms like a three-year-old.

"I just wanted to learn how to cook," I said pouting.

"Are you sure you wanna learn how to cook? Because if you wanted to learn I still have to fry this chicken and sausage" He said shrugging and I nodded.

He put a frying pan on the stove.

"Let's wait," He said and we waited until the oil is boiling.

He looks at me and gestures to the pan. I raised my eyebrow.

"Then what?" I ask.

"I already marinated this chicken. Put it in the pan" He said gesturing to the chicken then the frying pan.

I don't know what to do so I looked at him.

"Go on put the chicken in the pan," He said and I grabbed the thing.

When I put the chicken in the pan. The oil starts making sounds and it jumps on my skin. (You know what I mean)

"Aww. That hurts" I complain and muttered 'Stupid chicken'

I jump every time the oil touches my skin. So, I decided to get an umbrella so the oil won't burn me.

I place the umbrella in front of me like a shield. I still jump at the sound of the oil boiling.

"Make sure you don't burn the chicken. Alright," Xavier said chuckling.

"I thought you're going to teach me" I complain shielding the umbrella.

"I did," He said chuckling.

I groaned doing the best I can to make sure the chicken doesn't burn.

I gasped when an arm wrapped around my waist and the other is holding my hand.

I look to see Xavier placing his head on my shoulder. His hold on my waist tightened.

I feel butterflies in my tummy again.

I gulped and my breath hitched.

"What are you doing?" I whispered not making eye contact with him.

"Teaching you how to fry the chicken"

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