Love, Amor, Amour

《Chapter 17》

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“What?”

She came out of her room and saw him sitting on the couch with a bowl on his lap. He knew how she hated crumbs on the furniture and yet there he was. She stared at him with her hands placed on her hips. This was such a repeating occurrence it was beginning to be the norm for him.

“You know what."

“No, I don't," Geo answered muffled by spoonfuls of cereal in his mouth. "So tell me.” He wiped the milk that had dribbled down to his chin with the back of his hand.

“Explain what the heck happened yesterday.”

He sighed, visibly exhausted. “It's a long story.."

Mina didn't care to stop asking for answers, even if it would make his hangover worse. He shouldn't be drinking in the first place, god forbid his liver gave him major problems if this action continued. Although Alden was the one who lead him to the bar she was the one behind the curtain telling him what to do. The guilt had not registered at the moment.

"And I don't remember it, so go write about someone else's feelings or whatever the hell you do," it was the answer she had gotten which infuriated her more than it should but also disappointed her. She internally asked herself why would he say such a thing, knowing that she had no bad intentions with him.

“Geo. Get off the damn couch,” She said in a calm but serious tone then lifted her arm and pointed to the right. "Eat in the kitchen."

She then stormed off into her room, brushed her hair up and left Harvey with his daily bowl of nutritious food and her brother to take care of. "Make extra noise around the house today, 'kay?" She whispered for only Harvey's ears to listen.

The day continued to pass by with little signs of the sun setting. Mina had to re-tie her ponytail up higher twice today from the sweat she was working up today. This week was going to be a hot one and there was so much to be done at the bakery, she was prepared to cancel an evening with Elijah any day this week. 

She and Alden were taking over the catering for the fairly small order of a gender reveal party. It was the perfect chance to interrogate him since she had hit a dead end in finding the truth from her brother. They had to deliver two dozen pink and blue cupcakes, vegan chocolate custard cups and the mystery of the gender cake.

"Okay, so we sat at the bar and it was kind of crowded, to be honest, that place really needed more seats and their menu could use an update because—"

"Alden!" She exclaimed with her hand raised.

"Well it does, but anyway, we took a couple of beers after we settled on a truce to seal the deal of course." He opened the door for her and waited for her to slip into the van.

"Truce? What kind of deal? Why do guys always need a petty reason to drink." She rolled her eyes as she stopped walking and stood in his way. 

"One question at a time, kitty." He reached her hand and placed his over hers so she'd stop moving them excessively while talking. "Why wouldn't we need a truce? Remember his hatred of me, he'd walk right out of that bar if I didn't buy the drinks."

"Okay, skip that," she snatched her hand back and climbed into the van. Alden hopped in and buckled his seatbelt after he looked at her safely buckled too he started the engine. "Now, what did you find out?" Mina started up again as he reversed out of the parking lot.

"I asked him about school, well about Delta Chi and how his initiation's gonna suck." Alden knew about fraternities and such as the men in his family have an unspoken rule to join once accepted into university. He had gone through initiation and the years after not too long ago. Delta Chi just so happened to be the same fraternity Geo was going to be a part of.