Angelique's POV

I picked it up and hid it in her closet. I waited for Angelica to go home when someone knocked at our door. I dusted off my pants and to my surprise, Nicholas is standing in front of our porch.

"Why are you here?" I asked him, he seemed calm and collected and he didn't answer my question. I closed the door in front of him and he held it firmly.

"We need to talk, " he says. I tried to push the door but to no avail. He's much stronger than I am. I gave up and let him come inside the house.

"There's nothing to talk about, Nicholas." I picked up the basket near the kitchen and put it in the laundry room.

"Yes, there is." Nicholas pushes.

"No, there's not." I pushed further, he seems irritated now. In a blink of an eye, he's now standing in front of me. He puts his hand beside me and I can't move from the shock.

"I'm only gonna tell you this once, and I'm not gonna repeat myself." He leaned and whispered.

"I don't know what got me and you kept popping inside my head, am I starting to like you?" My eyes widened and nudged Nicholas.

"Get out, please." I pushed him with all my best and he just sighed.

"Fine." He moved and I fell to the floor with a thud, he closed the door and I was left alone.

"Why would Nicholas like me? More girls deserve him." I whispered to myself, hours have passed and Angelica isn't home. I scoffed at the idea that she was on a date by now, the door opens, and sees that Nathan comes home carrying something in his mouth.

"What is it you're carrying?" he looks at me and growls, of course, I can't understand him. I sat on the couch and waited for Angelica to come home.

"It's now nine o'clock, when is she coming home?" I asked myself. Nathan barked at me and I couldn't understand what he was saying.

"Buddy, I can't understand you. My sister is the only one who can understand what you're barking at." His tone of barking became a curious one and just lay down on the floor when someone came knocking on it. He snarls at it and I come at it slowly, when I open it, a tall man towers over my height.

"Hello, have you happened to know where your sister is?" he suddenly asks.

"No, why? Does she know you?" Nathan starts barking at him and he's surprised to see him.

"Why, hello there. It seems that you don't like me, is it?" he kneels at Nathan and pats his head, he whispers something at him and Nathan stops immediately. He leaves after whispering at him and Nathan sits in front of the door.

"What is even happening? Did she get in trouble?" I asked him, he shook his head and I just sighed.

ANGELICA'S POV

I waited for everyone to finish their tasks before heading home, I closed the restaurant and Madeleine said that I should be done practicing tomorrow and head for the competition. As soon as I step foot on our porch, Nathan starts barking at me.

"Who's in there? Is that you again? What do you even want?"

"Hey, it's me. I'll just open the door." he stops when he hears my voice and I look around to see that the married couple isn't even coming over anymore, they just closed their windows when I waved at them.

"Weird." I just shrugged it off and Angelique started throwing my clothes as soon as I got in.

"How long are you going to hide it from me? Huh?" Angelique feigns that she's mad at me and I throw the clothes that I wore earlier at her. Something on the pinboard dropped, but it happened, but I was too focused on finding out my sister's hidden boyfriend.

"And what about you? How long are you going to hide your boyfriend from me? You even let him live here!" She stopped and stared at me with an amused look.

"So, pointing fingers now? I know that your 'boyfriend' hid his pants under your bed after you guys made out." my eyes widened at her and I retorted.

"And what about those clothes that I threw at you? Isn't that your boyfriend's? He sure does know where to put his clothes— In the guest room!"

"Unless..." Angelique stops.

"Unless what? Someone lives here without us knowing?" I suddenly stopped complaining when I realized what I just said, we both looked at each other and she signed me to call the police. She starts looking around the house and Nathan comes clawing my leg.

"What? Are you hungry? There's food under the tabletop."

"Listen to me—" I cut him off when the police answered our dial.

"Yes, hello? I just wanted to report something?"

"I said listen!" his bark was so loud even the policeman heard it.

"Is there something wrong, ma'am?" he asks, I looked at Nathan and he said it calmly.

"I'm the one who owns it."

"Wait, what?" I asked him.

"I said, is there something wrong, ma'am?" I was so surprised by Nathan's action that I started lying to the police.

"Oh, is this the Beonyeong Department?"

"Uhm, no, ma'am. This is the Police Department."

"Oh, sorry." I hung it up and looked at Nathan seriously.

"What did he say, Angelica?" Angelique asked me.

"He said that it's his," I replied, Nathan suddenly started blabbering

"It's too big for you and it's not gonna go well on you," he says with his mouth full. I begin to notice that he's chewing.

"What are you eating?" I asked him, but he didn't answer so I had to force him to open his mouth. It took me a lot of tries and after a successful attempt, I saw that his mouth is filled with food.

"Did you run back here after I put you near the mall?" he nods.

"You should've told me that you were hungry earlier so that I brought you some food."

"We're not talking about what's stuffed inside his mouth, we're talking about who wore these." Angelique picked it up and I answered.

"He wore it." I pointed at him.

"Do you seriously think I would believe you?"

"Then why bother asking if you're not going to believe it anyway?" I rolled my eyes at her.

"Fine, fine, but how was he able to bring it without us noticing it?" Nathan started barking at her.

"When both of you were sleeping."

"Okay, when we were sleeping he said he brought it in. The thing is, how did you even put it inside the closet?" I told her.

"He did what? How did he even do that?" We're both confused about him.

"You won't even believe me even if I told you."

"Try me, " I challenged Nathan, he frowned and answered.

"I..." he trails off when he steps onto a pin— he starts whining and I get alarmed.

"What's he saying?" Angelique asked.

"He stepped onto a pin, quick, it must hurt." Angelique calmly walked ahead of him and looked at it, he started to bark, or rather curse out a storm.