"I... Uh... Yeah... I... You"
Queen was now a mess.
She stumbled over her words that nothing coherent was uttered.
"Hey Van, how are ya man?" but of course there's Louis to the rescue.
"What do you mean? We just met a moment ago," Ivan gave Louis a look as if telling him that he's stupid, "besides aren't I always here."
"Ah yeah, whatever" Louis scratched his head as if to ease the awkwardness and looked at Queen, "anyway, Ivan, this is Queen"
Ivan now averted his attention to Queen, which Queen felt the warmth on her cheeks intensify, and smiled at her.
"Aren't you not going to introduce me to her, Louis?" Ivan said after waiting for Louis' custom of formality but Louis just got distracted with his shoes.
Sensing that Louis won't acknowledge his presence from this time forth, Ivan reached out his hand to Queen and introduced himself, "Just like what Louis mentioned, I'm Ivan."
And smiled a dazzling smile.
Like another spell, Queen's eyes glazed and shook Ivan's hand, saying something like, "You're beautiful"
Louis snorted at this, holding a laugh and then did a fake coughing to drown out the incredulous bad timing of Queen's execution of words.
And the same as ever this broke off the spell from Queen and she blinked rapidly, while Ivan scrunched his eyebrows at how he did not hear what Queen just said and at how weird Louis acted.
With a final clearing of Louis' throat he said, "I think it's time for you to prepare," he then turned to Queen who was still as a lamppost, placed his hand on her back leading her out,"and time for her to get her order."
When they were on the dark hallway, Queen suddenly whisper-wailing and Louis looked at her incredulously.
"What just happ... happened? You... Him?!" Queen was frantic and pointed at Louis.
"Yes, yes, me and him went way back. Basically we're buddies."
"And I..." Queen now had a flashback of what happened a moment ago.
"Yep, you were... like that" Louis concluded as he enjoyed Queen's despair and laughed at how clumsily she walked to her table, stumbling over a couple of times. But then stopped as he sensed Agnes' glare of death, so he retreated back to the backstage.
When he got back in he saw Ivan putting on his black leather jacket and fixing his brunette hair, his blonde highlights an eyesore to Louis.
"Dude, I really hate your hair"
Ivan halted mid combing and gave Louis a dirty look from the mirror, "Quit being a whinny teenager, I love this new look"
Louis just mimic Ivan's word in a mocking way with his hand formed like a puppet mouth.
"Anyway," Ivan put down his comb and turned towards Louis,"is she your girlfriend?"
"Who?" Louis acted dumb.
And Ivan gave him a flat look.
"Naaah, she's a friend," Louis replied nonchalantly.
"I see... " Ivan smiled to himself
Something felt odd inside Louis as he saw the smile on Ivan's lips and he felt a prick in his heart.
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Just a Crush
Short Story"Maybe it was just my heart palpitating to the effect of that coffee, it's been a long while since I drank one..." Queen clutched her heart, as she felt another beat and her stomach starts to flutter inside. "Yeah, let us think that way." Queen is n...
