Invisible

Chapter 47

When the words left Karlos's mouth, I felt like my heart was stabbed hard by a dagger. Never in the next years of my life have anyone tried to mention my issue with Darren and the reason of why we broke up. Hearing someone tell it in my face felt like a stinging pain in my insides, as if torturing me slowly. I felt my demons waking up and now had the energy to taunt me.

I swallowed the taste of bile and urged myself to pick up the pieces of the wall I built around my heart. "I..." I stammered, "Sorry, Karlos, but I don't want to talk about it, please."

He smiled and placed his hand on top of my hand. "I know," he says, "And besides, I don't want to ruin your mood coz I know you're in the verge of treating me with free ice cream." He laughed and I did so too.

In that second, I felt my demons lost their energy and I felt the last shard of my broken wall get back to its place. The barricade that protected my fragile heart was back, and I am determined to keep it as strong as it is.

"What? How come I'd be the one treating you?" I asked him. "Can't we at least pretend that we're dating and the guy, which is you, would treat me with some cookies n' cream?!" I asked him. "Come on!"

He shook his head. "I don't care if we're like holding hands right now, but you're still going to treat me," Karlos said pointing to our hands firmly attached to each other. "And come on! In all obviousness, I bet you're richer than I am now, so you get to spend some peso bills for some ice cream."

I laughed at him. "You're such a creeper." I told him before standing up and getting to the counter to order some ice cream for me and Karlos.

When I was there, one of the crew noticed me. "Aren't you the girl from Black Melody?" she asked and I flushed red as I nodded. "Oh my god!" she exclaimed.

I chuckled lightly to myself and decided to ignore it once in a while. "A large chocolate brownie in cup, and a medium cookies n' cream on cup." I ordered, and she nodded excitedly.

Right after she finished filling the cups with the flavours I've ordered, she gave me some table napkins. "Can I get your autograph?" she asked me and I smiled at her sincerely. "Oh my god!"

I went back to Karlos who was busy with his phone, but when he noticed me in front of him, he put it down and his eyes practically bulged out of his sockets at the sight of his favourite ice cream. "Oh my god!" he mirrors the crew and we both laughed.

"What's up with everyone shouting "Oh my god!" at me?" I asked him and he just shrugged at he dig in his cup to start finishing the ice cream.

"You're really famous, aren't you?" he asked me, his mouth full of ice cream. I crooked my eyebrow up at him.

"What does that has to do with our ice cream eating?" I asked him.

He rolled his eyes, "Almost half of the people in this ice cream stand is staring at our table," he said, "I bet they're thinking we're dating or something."

"Well, don't you think you're lucky if I dated you?" I asked him with a laugh.

"That's not what I meant!" he said seriously, although not that seriously coz he was chuckling. "All I'd be really lucky if you date me, though. I mean, you're a big shot. Anyway, as I said, it was not how I meant it to be. Aren't you worried that paps might find us, you in a big shot, and make up an issue from this one?"

I stared at him for a while then end up laughing. "Who are you and what have you done to my JK? Because for the record, the Karlos I have met five years ago was totally careless." I informed him. "That's not going to be too much of a worry to me, we can always say the truth that we're best friends and we're just so close we act like we're a couple!" I told him. "There's no big deal on that one, stupid." I said with a laugh as I scooped some ice cream from his cup. "One year of being in the showbiz, I have learnt that a gossip would never be strong enough to crush me. I experienced more than that, anyway."