Trip Reunited

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

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Nathan

"Want to tell me what that was?" Ethan spoke as he took the empty seat next to me.

I broke my stare away from the two nonstop talkative 5 year old wannabe couple to look at Ethan who had his eyebrows raised in amusement. I scoffed and crossed my arms, staring again at the back of the two happy couple. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Let me try again," Ethan started. "Just a few minutes ago, you pushed Marisa and grabbed the glass from Jasper's hand that was offered to Marisa and drank the whole lot and handed back the empty glass with the word 'enjoy'. You want to explain what that was?"

"No." I answered back, annoyed.

Honestly, I knew the reason for my atrocious behaviour but I didn't want to accept it. Because if I did then things will change forever and I can't have that.

"How about I tell you?" Ethan said and before I could stop him from saying it, he just blurted. "You are jealous."

"I'm not jealous. That's absurd." I denied, almost immediately.

"Really? So you don't want to go over there and rip them apart?" He countered.

"Of course not," I deadpanned. "Do you take me as a hormonal insecure teenage boyfriend who is jealous of his girlfriend talking to the new student?"

Ethan waited for a minute to reply, probably realising how stupid he sounded. "Yes."

I snapped my head in his direction to glare at his serious poker face. "Are you serious? Scarlett, take him away from me!" I hollered at Scarlett who was sipping champion like water.

"Ethan, stop meddling." Scarlett screeched.

Ethan narrowed his eyes at me in a glare before his expression took a 360 turn as he faced Scarlett. "I'll be with you in a minute." He then turned to me, "No matter how much you deny it. You are jealous of Jasper hogging all of Marisa's attention."

Before I could counter attack him, he slipped away to Scarlett. I huffed and decided to distract myself by working until we take off which shouldn't be long.

"Looks like we are seated together." A familiar voice spoke, standing beside the seat.

"Candice," I greeted, closing my laptop. "I was wondering where you ran off too."

"Ah, well you see, Sophia is still sore about me and I'm pretty sure the engaged couple are having some sort of an argument with me on this trip, so I thought why not try and ease it by saying I invited myself after learning from Jasper about his almost none exceptional holiday." She explained, while taking a seat, keeping her bag down by her leg and unwrapping the scarf from around her neck.

"Let me guess, you made it worse?" I guessed to be sure.

"Yup." She chirped, giving me a grin. I chuckled, not surprised. Sophia has always been jealous of Candice despite Will giving her plenty of assurances. "By the way, whose the new chick?"

"Sorry, who?" I asked, confuse with her strange slang.

"The one sitting with my brother." She said, nodding her head towards Marisa. "Jasper never talks to woman and he is talking to one right now."

"I have seen him talking to plenty of women at galas and ceremonies." I stated in puzzlement and a hint of something that Ethan would call jealousy.

"That's because he is either doing a business deal or the woman is married or soon to be married." She stated, shrugging. "He has a male secretary, for godsake."