Obnoxious Oxygen

Chapter Seven

"So, what's with you and the horndog?"

I looked at Kurtney's direction when she blew me a question. Of course, I had seen this coming. Kurtney will ask things I don't wanna be questioned with. Simply because I don't know how to answer it. But knowing her, she won't stop.

"He just helped me," was my safe and simple response.

Last night didn't turnout fine between Oxygen and I. We had a small fight, all because I didn't like it that he's defending Lance. Lance is a bitch. She didn't know how to appreciate things that was handed to her. She's taking everything for granted. Let alone, Ethan. And I don't like it that Oxygen is taking her side. Not that I want him to side me, but can't he just shut up and let things be.

Hindi niya ako pinayagan na umalis pa kagabi. After I cried my irritation out, Oxygen never say a word. He handed me a sleepwear and an unused underwear without saying anything. With a tiny embroidered name on the pajama top that says, Audrey. Which as I remember was his sister. I slept inside his room, I don't know where he slept but he didn't enter the room the whole night I was up. When I woke up this morning, he's already gone. For work maybe?

No nothing except for the brownbag that contains a breakfast meal inside, I wasn't expecting anything more anyway. I've called Kurtney to pick me up and bring me some clothes to wear, she wasn't saying anything when we were inside Oxygen's flat. But now that she already got me cornered inside her Mercedes, she started firing questions.

"Help? On what?" Nagdududa niyang pag-uusisa.

I sighed, leaning on my seat. I turned to Kurt and she glanced at me, waiting for some answer. When I didn't utter a word, her eyes widened in exaggeration.

"Motherfucker, Gabbana! Don't tell me you two hooked up? Tell me you didn't!" She started getting hysterical at the thought that I'm doing things below the belt with his cousin. "That douchebag-"

"Calm down!" I cut her off, a little annoyed. "For the record, he isn't my type."

She slowdown a little before turning her head on me, with a skeptical look in her eyes. "Oxygen is everything obnoxious, Gabby. That's for sure. But he's charismatic and alluring. I've seen how girls go crazy over him, attitude and manners aside, Oxygen is very much a De Salvo. He's every women's type, girl. So don't give me that bull. I'm not buying it."

Kurtney being Kurtney. She knows what button to push to get me talking. "He maybe every women's type, but not mine! Simply because he isn't Ethan. I got both of my eyes set to no one but Ethan. Dammit, so chill I won't jump to bed with Oxygen. Not in this lifetime or another."

"Oh, eh anong help nga? Saan ka niya tinulungan? Ano bang nangyari sayo?" Her tone is a little finer now.

"Ethan is seeing someone." Pain strikes me again, remembering what I saw last night kills me.

"Oo, si Ro." She chuckled. "That's so past tense, Gabby. Almost everyone knows it-"

"No, not Romee. I don't think Romee and Ethan really had a thing." I shook my head.

"What do you mean?"

"You know Romee and my brother used to had a thing, right?"

"They used to sneak out a lot and date, stick together when they were younger. But that was then, everything change. I mean, they were young then-"

"But they've never outgrown it." I shrugged when Kurtney gave me a suspicious look. "I know nothing about their relationship and that's so out of my concern. Thing is, I have a strong feeling that Romee doesn't really like Ethan, and Ethan, too."