🔞 어둠 Tales I: The Fragile Princess (7-25)

III : Macau

Published on: March 13, 2021

"Okay from now on-- wait no, first things first, seriously get rid of that outfit, I hate it. It's so.... old-fashioned, change your style."

We're now at Ms. Yhana's house, I thought she'd be kind and atleast offer me something to drink, turns out... I'm here to be judged and scolded. Haha..... who would've thought....

"Okay dear, let him be himself alright? It's not wrong to let your worker be himself by appearance okay?" Mr. Guevarra interrupted, cutting Ms. Yhana's naggings.

"Dad we agreed that you won't butt in with my conversations with him, what are you doing now?" She bit back, glaring at her very own dad. Yikes, now I know what Carl meant.

"Dear, a conversation consists of two people chatting, calmly and definitely not one person nagging at the other." Mr. Guevarra replied. Damn, he's pretty good at handling his own daughter. Like father, like daughter I guess..? Whew, this will be a long day.....

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"Now, take this money and buy new clothes. Make sure you wear them when I call for you, don't be stubborn and buy other stuff, unless you want to be fired right away." After a whole anime episode- worth of fighting, Ms. Yhana guided me out their house.

"Also.... use your old accent, I don't want my father haunting me in my dreams for taking your personality...." She quietly added, I smiled and nodded.

"Thanks Yhana." I thanked her and smiled much brighter, she looked away and got in.

"Yeah yeah go on and buy new clothes and step off my house!" She demanded while walking back in her house.

I walked away and smiled, she isn't so bad after all. Carl was just over- reacting, she's not even mean.

"Hold on, Javier!" I suddenly heard someone call my name, making me turn back.

"I need to go somewhere, can you give me a ride up to there?" Mr. Guevarra said, I raised a brow and smiled again.

"Sure."

"Anyway, I wanna ask something, it's just-- I'm just curious." Mr. Guevarra broke the silence once we got in the car.

"You can ask anything Mr. Guevarra, as long as it's not something like what do I do when I'm home alone." I replied right away with a tiny laugh at the end.

"But where are we going first?" I added.

"Yeah I actually just wanted to talk to you so we could go anywhere..... A cafè, I guess?" I chuckled and nodded driving to a cafè I know, right away.

"So.... what's this thing you wanted to ask that you're so curious about, that you even made me drive to a cafè, Mr. Guevarra?" I asked, curious of what may his question be.

"Yeah.... uhh, are we still far from the cafè?" He asked, I raised a brow and smiled.

"No, we're actually near it already." I replied and looked at him beside me.

"Then let's talk there." He smiled and looked out the window, I nodded and looked back at the road.

As we arrived at the cafè, Mr. Guevarra asked me what I wanted right away and made me look for a seat. I found a seat right beside the window and sat, waiting for Mr. Guevarra.

"Dude do you remember the fragile princess back in college? Some people said she was actually very beautiful. Can you believe that?" I heard some people shamelessly talking loudly somewhere in the cafè, making me turn my head looking for the source of the noise.

"Wait what? That's so ridiculous! They must've hit their head or something LOL." Another one of them said, followed by the laughter of the whole group.

"Hey Javier, this is a nice seat you found." I suddenly heard Mr. Guevarra's voice cutting me off of my staring at the group earlier.

"Yeah, looks like you like it too." I said smiling while scratching my nape, he smiled back ang sat down on the opposite side of me, setting down our foods on the table.

"But honestly though, if this princess is pretty, why would she hide them? Like duh, that just gave more proof that she's just an ugly b*tch." Another one from the group said, making me look at them again, this time I wasn't the only one looking. They caught Mr. Guevarra's attention too.

"Also I've been thinking about this for a while now. But who started calling her 'The Fragile Princess' anyway? 'Cause to be frankly speaking, isn't that just an excuse to cover up for her weak a*s self?"

They again started, along with the same laughter and glares from others inside the cafè. I looked at Mr. Guevarra, about to ignore the group but found him clenching his fists, while death glaring at the group.

"Mr. Guevarra? Sir, I know they're annoying but please calm yourself, let's not get ourselves in their mess." I said trying to calm him down, standing up to take our food and have the waiters pack it to go. He looked at me shocked, slowly unclenching his fists and calming down.

"Wait how did you know about my daughter?" He asked, making me confused, what does he mean? I raised a brow at him and sat back down.

"What do you mean Sir? What does your daughter have to do with this?" I asked, still confused. He also raised a brow and sat confused as well.

"What? I thought you knew about my daughter? You were calming me down because you know that righ-- Oh.... I'm sorry." He was speaking fast but slowed down in the middle? What was he trying to say?

"Anyway though if our dear old fragile princess is actually really beautiful like they say, I would really leave Xiah for her." I again heard from the same group.

"This a*shole, you'll leave me for that b*tch?! Well, f*ck you motherf*cker! Your dick is smaller than a f*cking ant!"

The girl beside the guy who just spoke spat. I stood up and was about to go to the group, I've had enough of them. Insulting someone so openly infront of the public without this someone, is the lowest thing I could never tolerate.

"Hey umm... Javier, just wait in the car. I'll wait for our food then I'll follow you." Mr. Guevarra suddenly said, making my whole raging fire freeze.

"Sure Mr. Guevarra, I'll wait for you in the car." I said walking out of the cafè and getting in the car. I sat thinking, I just couldn't seem to get their disgusting laughters out of my head.