Enjoy Things While We Can

Friendly Rivals

The band entered the fast food restaurant and took their seats. Nahida, Kokomi and Albert went to order while Carter, Beyond and Simon stayed behind. The boys sat at a booth, the booth beside them was occupied by familiar faces seen before at Putra University. Including a very familiar pair of nosey twins.

"Hey Simon! What are you doing here?", Rajesh called out excitedly.

"Who's calling?", Carter asked.

Simon turned towards the source of the voice and then ducked his head under the table with his hands over it.

"Nooo, what are they doing here?", Simon whispered. Beyond heard that whisper and looked towards the left and saw Rajesh waving at them. His twin sat opposite of him with a girl, as the put it 'one of the five bassists'. Ranni was just staring at Carter, trying to figure out his identity. Rajesh got up from his seat and proceeded to walk towards the three boy's table, Ranni decided to follow suit.

The twins reached towards the boy's table. Rajesh grabbed Simon's arm and dragged him towards their table so they could sit and chat. Simon tried to resist but to his avail, Rajesh was far too strong and tall. Ranni then occupied Simon's seat beside Beyond. Beyond scooted a few centimeters away from her.

"Beyond", Ranni called out, whilst crossing her arms.

"Ranni", Beyond acknowledge her with a nod.

"Who's this cutie?", Ranni questioned, pointing at Carter.

"I'm Carter", Carter introduced himself, looking at her.

"I see, what he's the new assistant or something?", Ranni asked.

"Of course not, Nahida's still with us", Beyond answered without skipping a beat.

"I see, I wonder why she stook around still. You men are just boys, too much to handle", Ranni stated.

"I'm 19", Carter stated, clearly offended by Ranni calling him a child.

"I know, it's an expression. No need to get offended so easily", Ranni smirked.

"What do you want? We're just here minding our business before you ruined it", Beyond questioned strictly.

"What got you panties twisted? I'm just here to have a chat", Ranni said, slightly amused by Beyond's anger.

"Clearly not, I'm not that dumb. Return Simon straight away after you've finished", Beyond demanded.

Carter kept eavesdropping on the conversation and decided to keep quiet, he didn't want to arouse any additional conflict between this weird woman and Beyond. Carter decided to play games on his phone instead. Carter's vision isn't entirely gone, he could see but only if he moved things closer towards his face. That also resulted in just a blurry image, only slightly clearer.

Soon, Albert, Kokomi and Nahida came back towards their table, holding trays of their orders in hand. They set down the orders on their table. Albert was not amused to see Ranni sitting at their table. Nahida furrowed her eyebrows at Ranni and slammed her hand on the table which made the drinks almost jump out of their cups. Kokomi grabbed Nahida's shoulder, gesturing to be quiet since they're out in public.

Nahida ignored her. "What's she's doing here?".

"Hi Nahida, how are you?", Ranni asked cheerfully.

"Where's Simon", Kokomi asked Carter.

"He's over there", Carter placed his phone back into his pocket and pointed towards Rajesh's table.

Albert took a seat next to Carter after asking him to scoot over. Kokomi sat Nahida down next to Albert and proceeded towards Rajesh's table.