Seeing In Colour (On hold)

Chapter Three

'Feel free to listen to the song after you've read this.

Mateo's Point of view

"Mateoooooo! hAve aNotHer sHot..!" One of my drunk staff workers was pouring me a shot but passed out while doing it.

(Oh yeah, just to clear things up with you guys, yes I'm in a different place right now, and yes, I wanna die.)

Well I'm here again, another one of these bullshit team dinners.

I've actually memorized the cycle quite well already, it always goes like this;

First we'd meet up with each other, Then they'd start talking, usually sh•t I don't give a crap about. Lastly we go drinking, where everyone passes out in the end.

And like I said, this time was nothing special.

There's 8 of us here (including me), and 7 of them were dead, and surprisingly my uncle was also one of them.

Sh•t I almost forgot, I gotta get outta' here before his assistant co-

"Where do you think you're going?" My uncle's assistant caught me even before I could move a single step.

(Harvey Dixon. 26, My uncle's loyal assistant, practically his lap dog. Has too much respect for my uncle, when he doesn't deserve a single bit of it. He's like my uncle's wife, he takes better care of my uncle more than he could ever do to himself. Overall he's really reliable.)

I am not going to be carrying the Director alone so please don't think about leaving."

"Agh.." I groaned loudly and sat back down.

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"Sorry for the trouble, we'll see you tomorrow." One of my co-worker's manager said while the taxi's window was rolled down. After that, they drove away.

"Well that was all of them, see you tomorrow." I turned around and started walking to a different direction.

"Don't even try." Harvey said, my uncle's right arm around his shoulders, I could already see him struggling so much.

Sigh. "My uncle really doesn't deserve you Harvey." I put the other side of my uncle's arms around my shoulder.

"You're uncle is not that bad Mateo." He said as he starts walking slowly.

"Whatever you say." I did the same and started heading towards his car.

-A few seconds passed while dragging this mess-

*Footsteps walking in a fast pace were heard*

"Just let it go already, this is really getting ridiculous." A guy walked passed me said, hearing the word "this" more clearer as he walked by my left ear.

I brushed it off and continued walking, until another guy ran passed me. I'm usually not this nosy but just one look wouldn't matter...

"-Until I say we're over then you can leave." I took a small glance at the back, I didn't get to see their faces properly but the taller guy was furious about something.

"Couldn't they just argue at home?" I said while continuing to drag my uncle.

"You're hurting my wrist Jake, let go of me!"

"Now now, all you have to do is cooperate just like how you did in my room last week, Clifford."

"Is that..?" I turned around again to see the guy aggressively grabbing onto my "soon to be" manager's wrist while he was trying his best to pull his hand back.

"Mateo! Where are you going? Hey!" I dropped my uncle on the cemented pavement and started walking towards them.

On second thought.....Why am I doing this? This has nothing to do with me. I suddenly stopped walking and continued to just look at them from afar.

"You seriously need help Jake." As I was about to turned my back against them, a slight slap sound rung through my ears. (*Clifford got slapped.) Ugh f•ck it. Guess I'll f•cking use my precious time on you.

I started walking towards them again.

"Excuse me, you guys are kinda' making a lot of noise here and it's in the middle of the night so could you guys just do this somewhere else?" I placed my hand on the guy's shoulder.

"Mind your own goddamn business kid." He didn't even look at me, he flicked my hand and shoved me away.

"Mr. Valentino?" I saw Clifford's eyes widened as we both looked at each other.

"You know him? Ha! Is this the new guy you f•ck around with now?" The guy said mockingly.

"Look, I asked nicely okay? Could you please just argue somewh- " I was met with his fist interrupting my words.

I'm looking at the ground because of the slight impact I took. "How cute." I touched my jaw, chuckled a little and looked back at him.

"You stupid motherfucker." I jabbed him across the face and felt his bones clashing through my fist, he stayed still on the ground. I shook my hand to cancel out the numb feeling I was having on my knuckles.

I looked up to see Clifford slightly covering his mouth with his hand, his eyes were wide open while he was staring at the man who was standing perfectly fine before.

"Oh my go-.....Thank you Mr. Valentino." he said and immediately bowed.

"Stop, stop, get back up, I already told you to stop doing that." I waved my hand left and right, squinting my eyebrows in disgust as I look away from him.

He stood back up and we both had eye contact for a split second, we didn't know what else to say to each other so it was complete silence for the next what feels like an hour. I should try and break this tension.

"Erm quick question... not that I have any problem with it... but uhm.. you like guys?"

I mean it's a normal question to ask, it's not like I'm not gonna find out eventually anyways.... I'm just tryna' clear it off now. I'm not being offensive right?

"Yes I do like men.... and what does that apply to you?, do you think that I might eventually fall for your charming face and maybe start doing... inappropriate things.... to you..?" He said teasingly.

This short guy started walking closer and closer towards me, not laying his eyes off of mine, I started moving backwards but still he kept on following. Holy sh•t he's getting too close.

"What the f•ck are you doing?" I put my hands up, preparing to push him away. He smiled, and immediately broke contact after he laughed it off and stepped back.

"Thanks again Mr. Valentino, I'll see you at work." He turned his back and started walking to another direction.

I run my fingers through my hair, my tongue pushing against the inside of my cheek, I clearly didn't expect it to turn out this way. I put my hands on my waist and started talking to the wind.
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"That guy must have lost his mind, God...that was sexy."

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A/N (a wee bit long but v important.) : Hi beautiful and adorable readers, been awhile? eheh.... Janet here ~~ Rachel has been working hard on the chapters lately, like, really hard. She had to make certain changes to the story because it was sitting unwell with us. I personally love the changed plot. I'm hoping that it isn't confusing for you all, and that you guys enjoy it too. Rachel has been doing all the writing lately (this chapter included), I honestly have not helped with anything at all and I apologize to her and you guys for that ahh 🙏
I hope that you guys continue reading, and that you guys like the new and improved chapters. And if you're new here, welcome to the family ;3

-r&j