SOUR PATCH

• Chapter Thirty

CHAPTER THIRTY
________________________________________

Clark Caleb Wesley

I can never explain how my mood lifted up the minute she mouthed me the words I've been desperately craving to hear since the day I fell in love with her.

She's finally trusting me. She doesn't mind me dancing with Kelly. She trusts me. Finally, she trusts me.

Oh God, I wanna tear up in joy, run to her and just shower her with kisses.

I fucking love her so much, it hurts.

But then an unsettling feeling coaxes in my system as I see Audrey approach Loise with a grim expression on her face that is clearly visible even behind her mask. A signature I'm-up-to-no-good smirk curved on her lips and I instantly gather what she's up to.

No. No. No.

My heart accelerates not knowing what to do.

I can feel my hands starting to sweat and my throat starting to dry.

Fear.

That's my exact feeling at the moment. She'll tell her.

How the f*ck did the moment completely turn 360 degrees?! It's like a dark cloud has suddenly covered my head and my bright mood has started to evaporate. Like a dementor suddenly appeared and all the happiness in the world completely disappeared.

F*ck. I completely and totally singlehandedly messed up my fragile relationship.

I wanna rip my hair out and punch something hard and break my knuckles as I deserve.

My Loise. My Love will be so heartbroken once she finds out.

This was not the plan. God damn it. She is not supposed to find out about it, at all. At least not till I talk to Rebeca and Kelly. I'll back out.

I gotta admit, the minute they offered me the break I was beyond ecstatic and so I accepted it in a heartbeat.

But it was all before Loise had that nightmare.

I was about to tell her but then Vicky finally told me about Loise's feelings and I forgot all about the offer and proceeded with my plan of making her completely mine.

It completely slipped my mind until Audrey reminded me. That too after I promised to stay away from Kelly.

I immediately made the decision of backing out. I hardly care if I'll miss possibly the biggest break I'll ever have as a newbie in the modeling industry. I know my career will uproar and skyrocket immediately once I'm announced as the new face of Rebecca's new line.

But I can risk that all for her and I will. I can't do something I know that will hurt Loise.

I had no idea that she's extremely threatened by Kelly until that nightmare.

I know she's insecure that's why I keep reminding her of how perfect she is for me and how much I love her.

Nonetheless, her insecurity never falters instead it keeps on eating her. I'm not stupid I have known her all my life and I can practically read her mind.

I watch them talk until Audrey left while Loise stood still. Unmoving.

That moment I knew I screwed up completely.

I can't even hate Audrey despite her continuous interference with my relationship. After all, I did this.

F*ck. I need to explain. Jesus, I hope she'll listen to me.

Knowing Loise I know exactly what's going on inside her head right now.

She thinks that I deliberately kept it from her. She's probably thinking of the worse of worse.

"Hey, you okay?"

I completely forgot that Kelly was in front of me until I heard her soft voice.

I ward my gaze away from Loise and look at her completely freaking out.

"I f*cked up," I whisper as I feel myself completely sinking. She immediately took her hand off my shoulder as my hand drops down from her hips to my side.

I forgot we're even dancing.

"What's wrong?" She asks, looking at Loise, to me worriedly.

"Kelly I can't do it, I can't I'm really sorry..."

"What do you mean?"  She asks sounding completely confused.

"I can't be the new face of your mom's line."

"But..." She protests trailing off then adding, "it's here isn't it?" she asks rhetorically.

I only nod my head.

"I have to go," I say not waiting for her reply as I walk towards where my Loise is.

Only to find out she's already gone.

My heart fell to my stomach.


*

*

*

VICKY's POV

(Before the dance)

I'm sweating bullets...

How in world of bubblegum did I forget about Loise?! I swear these past few days I've been forgetting about a lot of things!

Now my best friend!

She'll skin me alive.

Now it's been twenty minutes and she's still not showing her pretty little blonde head in the crowd. I've been staring at the marble stairs for the past eon and her figure is still not showing up. Stupid masks! Where could she possibly go!?

This is all my fault! No! This is all that bastard fault! If he hadn't cheated on me I wouldn't have forgotten about my best friend! Poor blondie she's probably lost!

I knew it. I knew this party will suck Dylan's ass and how right I am.

Loise where are you? I cry in my head while fidgeting in my seat swallowing the lump forming in my throat.

"Clark is seriously glaring at you," Regina mumbles in front of me. She's also mad at me for leaving Loise. I swear we were about to look for her when that stupid Rebecca showed up, gathering all our male friends as the blonde bimbo showed up in her stupid red pasty-looking dress.

I frown following her gaze and sure enough, Clark is shooting daggers at me standing nervously in front of Kelly.

I gasp when I see that they're in the middle of the dance floor.

Shit shit shit shit! Loise will freak!

I bite my lip hard and mouth 'sorry' to him.

He rolls his eyes at me with his face hard dripping with irritation as he mouths back 'find her'.

He looks really nervous and is totally freaking out. I can seriously see sweat beads forming on his nose!

I can't imagine his worry right now.

Loise will seriously overreact again once she sees them together. Clark is working so hard to fully gain her trust and now this abysmal scene will probably crumble her trust once again.

Damn stupid insecure girl. She needs to work on her self-esteem it's getting annoying.

I nervously nod my head at him and turn to look helplessly at Regina.

"Help me find Loise. Clark will behead me!" I cry out miserably.

Regina huffs and shakes her head disappointedly at me. "I can't believe you left her there! I can't imagine how freaked out she is right now!" She exclaims exasperatedly.

I only cringe at the sound of her voice not bothering to answer.

"Let's just go," I murmur.

I take Regina's hand and we walk away from the table, looking for another man to help us look for the damsel in distress that is our best friend.

Fifteen minutes later and still no luck, we have searched all the corners of the house, well not really, but we can't still find her.

Regina is mad and so am I with myself.

"Where do you think did she go?" I murmur tiredly.

"This is all your fault, I feel like throwing these painful heels on your head," Regina says again pointing a finger at me.

I scoff rolling my eyes. "Let's just go back. She's probably back there" I suggest. She nods and we once again step out of the gigantic house.

"She's gone!"

Regina and I come to an abrupt stop in our tracks as we hear Clark's frantic voice.

We both turn around to face him and what I see makes my heart skip a beat.

Clark's mask is gone and the panic that is written on his face is quite evident with his hair looking like he just went through a hurricane.

Then what he said came back to me.

"What do you mean she's gone?!" I ask the octave of my voice turning higher. My eyes widen as worry floods through my system faster than that one direction girl and Taylor swift relationship.

"She left, this is all my fault," Clark says running his hand through his already messy blonde locks miserably as he reached us.

He looks seriously torn.

"What the hell happened?" Regina asks venom dripping from her voice as she glares at Clark.

"Audrey. She told her." He whispers as his voice cracks. He's confusing us more. How the hell is that slut involved now?  

"What?! What about Audrey? What is going on Clark?!" I shout at him.

Clark bends down panting as he puts his hands on his knees as if he's exhausted.

"You guys will hate me," he says again almost whispering.

Regina and I exchange looks as he uttered those words. My heart is humping in my chest like there's no tomorrow. As my suspicion is growing my rage is continuously increasing and my confusion is becoming more extent.

I grit my teeth and ask "What did you do?!"

He straightened up again and looked at me hopelessly. My heart is seriously shattering at the sight.

"Tell us,"I demand my voice turning lower.

"I kept something from her. But I swear I was supposed to back out tonight. She wasn't supposed to find out about it but Audrey fucking interfered again. I saw her talking to Loise and then she was gone."

It was his eyes and his cracked voice that is keeping me from pouncing on him.

"You kept something from her? What the f*ck were you thinking? And what the hell was it?" Regina roared beating me to it.

Clark once again ran his hand through his hair but this time he pulls at it and growled angrily.

He sighs deeply and answers, "You guys are aware that she had a nightmare about me cheating on her with Kelly, it was the night after I asked her to be my girlfriend. Also, it was the week before that Mayor Gatchalan and Kelly came to our house and offered me a huge break. I had a talk with Rebecca on the phone and the offer was great and so I  accepted it. Basically, she's opening a new clothing line for men and she said that I'll be the perfect ambassador for it. I was about to tell Loise about it but then you came to me and you told me that Loise is planning to ask me to be her boyfriend and so everything about that just slipped off my mind. I completely forgot about it as my excitement over what you told me took over it, and that night after that nightmare I promised her that I'll stay away from Kelly. I swear I immediately decided to back out at that moment. Audrey knows all about the offer and she thought I deliberately kept it from Loise and now she told her."

As Clark finished his tale, in one breath, a single tear slid down his cheek that he immediately wiped off his face. My heart warms for him and all my anger just evaporated and quickly converted into sympathy and regret.

It's not his fault. It's Audrey's.

That b*tch! I swear to god she'll get it.

"We need to find her and you need to explain everything to her. Knowing Loise, she's probably bawling her eyes out thinking you kept something so huge from her!" Regina exclaims once again beating me to it.

We nod our heads in unison and waste no time and went back inside the house.

"You think she left and went home?" I ask as Clark pushed the door.

"I don't know, I was calling her and she's not picking up."

I bite my lip knowing I have her purse with me.

Oops.

"That's because... cos I have her purse and her... her phone," I inform him reluctantly.

He stops on his track and faces me with a hard face.

He must have seen my scared-to-death face as he just shook his head disappointed and turned back around walking in.

Regina looks at me with the same face and I just stick my tongue out to her childishly.

We continue walking until we reach the living room.

We stop once again when Clark paused on his feet. I look at him and he was looking at two men talking, aimlessly in the room, who immediately stopped as they spotted us.

It's the Mayor and a very unfamiliar man approximately of the same age as the Mayor.

"Clark Caleb, where are you going, son?" Mayor addresses Clark, looking surprised.

"Um, we are looking for uh my girlfriend," Clark answers him awkwardly while rubbing the back of his neck.

Mayor Gatchalan frowns but then the realization hits his face as he averts his gaze towards the man beside him, who I might add is looking at Clark with full recognition and joy. My brows furrow and I look at Regina.

We share the same looks.

"You mean Marloe Steven?" Mayor Gatchalan clarifies.

Well duh? I roll my eyes and Clark nodded his head politely.

But the man beside the Mayor just suddenly engulfed Clark in a very tight hug while muttering his name over and over again. His eyes are glistening with Joy and pride. I can literally feel Clark stiffen taken aback by the sudden contact.

What the hell.

"Clark my son you're so grown up! You look exactly like Dave! Oh dear lord." He says as he pulls away but his arms still hold both sides of Clark's shoulder. His face is reeking with great surprise and happiness, while the blonde boy looks confused as hell.

"Sorry sir, uh but who are you?" Clace asks in confusion.

To our surprise, Mayor Gatchalan laughs but the unknown man just looks at him perplexed.

"That's Loise's Father! Jimmy Steven!" Mayor Gatchalan exclaims.

My eyes almost pop out of their sockets at the information and I look again at Regina. This time I find her looking at me with her jaw hanging open.

Looking back at the man before us I suddenly start to see the resemblance. He looks like a guy version of my best friend.

Holy F*ck, it's him indeed!

"What?" Clark's voice snaps us out of our haze.

It was almost like a whisper as if he's processing the news.

Oh god.

Loise hasn't told him about him yet?!

Shit! Shit! Shit!

This night is just getting heavier and heavier. A lot is happening and all I can do is gulp nervously.

Judging from the look on Clace's face, he is not taking the news well.

His face is waving off different rays of emotions.
From confusion to disbelief and then finally realization as his eyes widen but then it suddenly turns to pain and disappointment.

F*cking hell.

"She never told you, did she?" Loise's dad asks rhetorically. He looks like he understands though. But it was the least of my worries.

Clark shakes his head stiffly while his face looks like he is about to fall apart.

"By any chance, did you happen to know where she went?"

I want to hug Regina for breaking the built-up tension.

"Oh, yeah she went outside by the fountain I guess," Mayor answers him.

Clark and Jimmy Steven snap out of their staring contest and turn to us.

"I'll take you there." Loise's dad volunteered.

"Let's go." Clark orders with his voice as cold as ice. He walked away briskly trailing at the man's back leaving us standing there gawking at him like an idiot.

Oh god, I think I'm gonna pass out. Biting my lip hard, I find Regina's hand and nod at her who also looks like she can't contain the tension anymore and we follow him once again going out of the house but in some different direction.

I wonder what Clark is thinking right now. But I bet my Pokemon collection he's mad as f*ck. He looks scary, to be honest. I have never seen him like this. He looks upset and at the same time very confused.

We pass through a wooden door when an abrupt line of explosions began. The sound of rocketing fireworks erupted around the house and continued as we walked until we reached the glass wooden framed door.

Nobody acknowledged the fireworks as we emerged outside and then we saw them. My brows furrow when I see her and a familiar back of a man sitting beside her. Both of them are busy looking up at the sky of wonderful lights.

"LOISE!" Clarks called out grabbing her attention despite the loud noises.

Loise and the guy beside her turn around upon hearing his voice and her eyes widen looking at Clark and the man beside him.

My eyes widen too when I recognize the guy beside her.

OMG OMG OMG! Phillip Gatchalan!

I feel a slight nudge on my side and take my wide eyes away from them and look at Regina who is sharing the same horror.

"Phillip?" Loise's dad said confirming our thoughts.

Holy shit! What is he doing with my best friend?!

The sound of fireworks was the only noise being heard as we all stood there not saying a word until Phillip spoke.

"So that's the D bag." He says looking at Clark smirking.

My mouth fell open.


************

A/N: Hello guys! Sorry, once again a very uneventful chapter...

I wanna apologize to those who requested the other's POV. I simply can't write them lol.

Sorry for the late update.

[ And this is finally edited... I'm back- Sar]

I just realized that I'm seriously torturing myself with all this drama. Like how am I supposed to save them from all these troubles they're causing me?! Damn stupid characters with complicated life. They don't know how they disturb me.

Anyhow...please tell me what u think of the chapter. It's so so hard to write. With all my personal sh!t that's happening to me right now it's freaking torture.. Anyway what do you think will happen next? Tell me so that I'll change it. Lol.

#VOCORESH PLEASE!!!