I Hate You with All my Heart!

Chapter 3(unedited)

"Mother fu....!" growled the deserving guy. Zandro woke up with the mother-of-all-headaches plus his jaw felt like it was broken in a few places. He remembered the girl who gave him this "feeling" of what it felt like to be knocked out by a Pacquiao-like right hook, punch, hit whatever! Needless to say, it's the first time it happened to him, he was caught unaware with that right hook. He really need to know who she is. But in the meantime, what he needs more is a strong headache medicine and some sleep, hopefully his pounding headache will let him. He moaned again.

He felt somebody tap him on the shoulder.

"Hey man, what happened to you?" Enrique was smiling at him, smiling! If they weren't friends he will give this guy a taste of what he had! "My guards told me you were stretched out on the dance floor!" This time, Enrique didn't hold back the laughter.

"Enrique, it is not FUNNY!" Zandro growled while holding his head. "Do you have any pain killer?"

"Yes, here it is, my man!" His friend gave him a couple of Tylenol and a glass of water.

Enrique waited until his friend swallowed his medicine. When it seems that Zandro looked a little more normal, Enrique proceeded to ask him what happened after his friend fainted.

"OK, my friend, what happened? Were you too drunk tonight?"

"Come on, man, you know I can handle my liquor!" Zandro was nearing his boiling point with Enrique's teasing.

"Hahha! Calm down, my friend. I heard from one of my guards that a girl punched your lights out!" He was laughing at the mental image of his 6'3" tall friend having his lights punched out by a girl. From what the guard told him, that is what happened according to some witnesses they talked to. Unfortunately, the stupid guards didn't take the names and contact info of the said witnesses.

"Yes, I was punched by a girl. I was taken unawares by it. I thought she was..." Zandro absent-mindedly touched his left jaw that is beginning to swell. The last thing he remembered was her beautiful face looking down at him.

"Unfortunately, the CCTVs do not give a very good view of the dance floor area, besides it being a bit dark and it was really crowded. I did review the other video footages from the other parts of the club and I didn't see anything. But since you saw her, know what she looks like, maybe you can find her in some CCTV footages in the lobby, hallway, and the bar area of the club," Enrique suggested.

"I'll do that only to show you what she looks like and you can tell me if you know her," Zandro wanted to add that he won't ever forget what she looks like as long as he lives. He wants to find her more than ever. She owes him big time! She punched him in front of every one he knows, she humiliated him! One way or the other, she will pay for this!

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"There she is!" Zandro excitedly pointed at the freeze frame video footage of Kassy to Enrique. It was a CCTV video taken from the lobby area.

"I know her!" Enrique exclaimed. Zandro stood up suddenly, grabbed his friend's shoulders, shaking him when Enrique didn't say anything else when Zandro asked him who she was.

"Man! Calm the hell down! I think her name is Kassy, and I do know her! Geez! Ease up on my shoulders"

Zandro immediately let go of Enrique's shoulders and took a deep calming breath. "OK, I am calm. Now tell me..."

Enrique didn't reply but instead called someone. Zandro can't hear what he's saying since Enrique went on the far side of his office.

"Zands, I was right. Her name is Kassy, she's Charlie's girlfriend's..."

"Shit!!!" Zandro banged the door shut on his way out not waiting for Enrique to finish...

"....friend...Zands where are you going now?! Zands!"

Enrique called Charlie again. Then he followed Zandro out the door.

He found Zandro on the lobby area of his club, sitting, holding his head with one hand and talking on the phone. "Yes, do it. Send me a copy. No, just fax it here to Ricq's club...OK thanks!"

"Bro! I'm glad you're still here! Did you hear me when I said Kassy is Charlie's..."

"I know I know, his girlfriend!"

"Zands, no! She's a friend of his girlfriend! Seriously, you need to listen to the rest of the story. That's one of the things you never outgrew."

"I don't really give a darn whose friend she is, I got her!" Zandro smirked.

" What do you mean you got her?" Enrique was a little worried.

"I'm going to retaliate! Nobody does that to me and gets away with it!"

"What?!! That's crazy talk. Charlie told me he's going to bring Kassy with him and we can all meet up at lunch so you and her can talk this over. Don't be a child Zands! Besides some of the witnesses last night said you grabbed her arm!"

"I didn't grab her arm, I held it and she overreacted! I bet you she has not had anybody as gorgeous as me paid attention to her."

Enrique just shook his head. He's known both Zands and Charlie since their high school days from Aquinas although Charlie and Zandro are not really close since Charlie went to the University of Sto. Tomas and him and Zandro went to Ateneo in college, he reconnected with Charlie a couple of years ago and they put up a joint business venture, this club and a few fast food franchises. Zandro though has built his own business empire, his friend owns a lucrative kitchen equipment supplier company, a couple of hotels, three resorts, five restaurants, and he heard Zandro also dabbles in different businesses he can't recall right now. Yes his friend is very rich, it didn't hurt that he also belongs to one of the most influential and affluent families in the country.

"Hey Ricq! Which restaurant are we going to meet them? What time?"

"Sumo Sam's at Gateway, 1230! "

"Oh man! Charlie chose?"

"No, Kassy did."

Zandro rolled his eyes and shook his head. "OK I will just meet you guys there. I need to grab something from your fax machine before I go!"

"Alright man, see you all there!"