Last Night:An EarnPete Fanfic

17. Questions and Confusion

Pete

"How gross can you get!?!"

I passed Earn some tissues to clean himself. The asshole seemed to be unbothered with his situation right now.

He casually, manually picked the chewed chicken that escaped his mouth earlier, and wrapped it on the tissues I gave him and put it aside.

"Sorry, I was just shocked. I wasn't expecting you to say that, really."

I took a sip of my iced tea.

"I didn't say anything."

I answered nonchalantly.

Earn took the iced tea from me and took a sip himself. I glared at him but he wasn't bothered.

"You really should work on your lying Pete."

I rolled my eyes.

"Fine, I said that. So what?"

I saw him smirked before he took another sip of my iced tea.

"Now, I'm officially sure about my decision to void our agreement which you plotted all by yourself."

I furrowed at him.

"What do you mean?"

Another shrugged.

"We don't have to really avoid each other."

I slouched on my sit and put both arms on my chest.

"You didn't seem to have any problem doing it a few weeks ago."

He looked at me, puzzled but still on with his chicken party.

"I wasn't avoiding you."

I looked at him before leaning to get a pinch of chicken.

"Yeah right. Explains the one week abscence then."

He blinked at me then smiled.

"Are you sulking about it?"

I acted nonchalant. Again.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

I said before chewing the chicken. I was really starting to like it to be honest.

"I thought you don't eat fast food?"

I piece of chicken meat in my mouth froze mid chew. I sat straight and faced Earn as stoic as possible.

"And I thought we'd agree to not meet each other this way?"

Earn shrugged and went on eating.

"We didn't agree to this. This meeting is pure incidental so your question is moot."

"And your brain is moot because you can't even follow a simple agreement."

Earn took my chicken piece again. I glared at him for god knows how many times already.

"I had to come with my father to the province, he had a seminar and he didn't have anyone to drive him, so I volunteered. It rained for two straight days when we arrived. He didn't allow me to drive back until he eventually told me to just wait for him until his seminar was over and go back together.Sorry, I didn't text you. There was signal interruption because of the weather."

I didn't mean to, but I felt relieved after what he said. I almost smiled but I held my self.

"I really don't care."

I lied instead.

"You know,Pete, only if you could be more honest, we won't be having this difficult situation we are at right now."

Earn looked so busy eating but why can he oh, so fluently conjure ideas that could actually render me speechless?

"You said it yourself, you can't leave me alone."

I took the bucket when Earn was about to get some more. He looked at me incredulously. I got his attention. Good.

"I didn't say anything like that."

Earn snickered and plucked the bucket off me which he easily did.

"Well, mister lecturer, I was deducing it by the context."

I was speechless for a moment. My brain seemed to stop functioning.

"Good." Earn said when I was quiet. "Now, why were you with your ex again?"

"I didn't ask you about Jek.  So why would I answer you about Trek!?!"

Earn smiled and stopped eating. It was unbelievable how he pushed the food off and deposited it in the middle of the table. I gaped at him.

"Now you're jealous. I like that! What a progress!"

I gave him a stink eye.

"Haha. I'm not jealous."

"Okay."

"I'm not!"

"Good. Because, really, there's nothing to get jealous about Jek and I. We knew each other way back. We've got common friends. He may like me, but you know very well who I like."

Blinked.

I took the iced tea and finished it off. Why did it suddenly feel hot in here?

"When I came back after my absence, I tried to do exactly what you want but it was hard. You don't know how many times  I stopped myself from jumping you off.Seeing you with your jerk of an ex was the last straw. You can't see him anymore."

He wasn't proffesing his undying love, he's just blabbering nonsense. I had to remind myself that.

"That's not for you to decide."

He shrugged again.

"It will be when I become your boyfriend."

I snickered.

"Which is not the case."

Earn looked at me intensely then smirked.

"Which will be. Soon."

I thought my brain short circuited and stopped functioning with the way Earn was looking at me. I didn't know what to say.

He stood up and leaned a little closer  to me.

"Hang in there, future boyfriend!"

That and Earn gave me a wet peck on the lips before he casually stalked off.

I was left stunned. What was that?
It wasn't long before I realized I was holding my breath and sighed.

I looked around and everybody seemed to be minding their own business. I was relieved. Earn, that jerk!

Whatever did he mean by that!?!

I was hit with confusion.

This is bad.

I never got confused.

Until Earn.

Fvck!

A/N

I'm always confused so pardon this chapter. I'll try to do better next time tho.

Thanks for staying still. 😘

S5m