JossBas: Is It Really Meant to Be?

Chapter 5

A/N: The image above does not belong to me. It belongs to the person who uploaded it on the internet.

Third Person POV

Joss started to feel both nervous and excited as he parked his car in the garage of his condo building.

Bas followed him as they made their way to Joss' condo unit.

Joss unlocked his front door and let Bas inside.

"Make yourself at home," said Joss. "Would you like anything to drink?"

"Give me a bottle of the strongest whiskey," said Bas.

Joss' eyes grew wide.

"I was just kidding, P'Joss," said Bas with a laugh. "Any kind of juice drink will do."

"I got some orange juice and some lemonade. Which will it be" asked Joss.

"Lemonade sounds good," said Bas.

As Joss went to pour some ice cold lemonade in a tall glass, Bas started going through the video games that Joss had and chose one of the most recent release and started to set it up.

Joss walked over to the couch where Bas was seated and handed him the lemonade.

"Thanks, P'Joss," said Bas, taking the glass.

As he took it, his hand went around P'Joss hand as he was still holding the glass.

"Oh, I'm sorry, P'Joss," said Bas, almost dropping the glass.

"It's okay," said P'Joss with a smile, "you can hold my hand for as long as you want."

Bas laughed and felt himself blushing.

"That game can be played alone or with a friend," said P'Joss, "what do you want to do?"

"Let's play it together," said Bas.

They played for some time, with Bas losing out to Joss.

Bass started to pout.

"Don't feel so bad, Bas," said Joss, rubbing his back gently up and down, "I will let you win the next game."

"No, I don't wanna play anymore," said Bas. "Do you have any early videos of yourself when you first started to model."

"Sure," said Joss, "but I was still feeling awkward during those times so I don't want you to see them. You will only end up criticizing me."

"I won't," said Bas, "I promise."

Joss hesitated, debating with himself on whether he would show those old videos to Bas or not.

"Oh, c'mon, P'Joss, please, please, please?" Bas pleaded.

"Fine," said Joss setting up his TV set to play his old videos.

As Bas watched Joss doing his first modeling stint, he could not help noticing how good looking Joss was. He glanced secretly at Joss to compare his younger image with his current one and realized how much more good looking he was now.

"You were lying!" Bas exclaimed after the first video finished playing, "you did not look awkward at all. You looked like an experienced model."

"You're too generous with your praise, Bas," said Joss, suddenly feeling shy.

Joss looked at his watch. It was getting close to six in the evening.

"Would you like to eat at a restaurant, or would you like to order for delivery?" Joss asked.

"Do you know how to cook, P'Joss?" asked Bas.

"Of course I do," Joss replied.

"Then let's just have a home cooked dinner!" Bas suggested, "I can help you prepare the ingredients."

"Very well," said Joss, "let me see what I got in my refrigerator."

"Hmmm......" said Joss, "would you like me to cook some beef broccoli stir fry?"

"That sounds delicious!" said Bas excitedly.

"Okay, while I place this cut up beef pieces in the microwave to thaw, why don't you cut up this red onion" said Joss, handing Bas a chopping board and a kitchen knife and one red onion.

"Sure," said Bas, starting to cut up the onion.

Joss placed the pack of cut up beef pieces in the microwave to thaw and took out several stems of broccoli from the vegetable crisper section of his refrigerator.

As Joss set them down on his kitchen counter, he noticed that Bas was sniffling and wiping his eyes and nose against the sleeve of his shirt.

"Bas! Are you okay???" Joss asked with much concern.

Bas did not reply but kept on wiping his eyes and nose, sniffling all the time.

Joss went up to Bas and took the knife and onion from his hands and placed his arms around Bas.

"I'm sorry, Bas, I'm sorry," said Joss, "I should not have let you cut the onions."

Joss felt Bas' arms going around him as well. His heart started beating really fast.

Suddenly Bas' phone started to ring.

Bas took it out and saw Gxxod's face on his phone. Gxxod was trying to video call him.