NOT ALONE. NOT ANYMORE

May 26th- II

POV: THEO

'On the lonesome night, with music giving peace to my soul, I lay down on a king size bed in a beautiful house in a magnificent land. But lo...I'm all alone.'

Today Sara and peter had their night shift at the hospital and Kiara was having a sleepover at Joe's. Having some time all alone is good, but I really couldn't stand it anymore than the first hour that I ended up pleading Sam to come over. Unfortunately, Sam had some project work to do for tomorrow, so Jacob offered fill in for him.

[Buttons clicking, videogame playing in the background]

"Now!..Grenade! . GRENADE!!...JACOB!!"

[Puts the controller down with a thud which brings Jacob back to reality, out from his phone]

"umm.......sorry. Let's start again"

"Nah . I'm tired."

"Ah..me too"

"Wanna go grab a beer?"

"Okay"

"Come on then. Let's go downstairs"

It has not been any more than two months since Jacob came to Sydney and started living in the same place as Sam. He doesn't really have any friend at his collage and prefers it that way. He says that all the people at his collage are heavy headed rich little brats but I have heard that it is something like the best private collage of business management.

"soo..you said you came from New York"

"mm..yeah"

"So...why did you come to Sydney all the way from New York when you don't even like your collage?"

"aa..It's my dad. NO..Step dad to be exact. He runs some kinda business which he says is for charity and now he wants me to join him and be like him which is the worst plan I've ever heard of."

"oh.. but you could have just said no to him right. You could have gone to a collage which you like"

"nah..I like it here. I always wanted to be as far away from him as possible and now he himself made it happen. And...I wasn't really interested in going to ANY collage. You know what.. from my childhood the only dream I ever had was to own a huge estate."

"Estate?? What kinda estate ?"

(Giggles and takes a sip of his bear)

"A coffee estate...I wanted to make my own coffee. Just like my Dad...he used to be a barista and this was his dream... grow coffee and run a coffee business all by himself"

"ohh...now I understand why you love your new job at the café downtown"

"Yeah...here I can be whomever I want to be and do whatever I like . I don't have to be anyone else but me"

"That's great..so.. you don't have any siblings or anyone?"

"I don't..except for this step brother whom I have met just once at our parents wedding. He seemed nothing like his dad."

Jacob takes his phone out again and keeps it down right away.

" don't think that I haven't noticed .... it seems like you have some serious problem with somebody who is not replying to your texts..huh?"

" how..how do you know that..oh yeah..of course."

"ohoh..you're the worst secret keeper I have ever met ..i can tell everything just by your face"

"Okay. Okay. so yeah ..There is this girl I've been seeing..Or like talking to.. It's nothing..I'm just socializing"

"ok what's her name?"

"Really..I'm not supposed to say that. She made me promise that."

"that's great..you kept your promise"

"don't you think these girls are way too tough to understand. They say something, want something else, and do something entirely different....boys are a whole lot easier..oh yea, anyway..I'm sure it's a lot easier for you right."

"easier for me.... why is that so?"

"bruh.. ..you've got like a whole list of girls waiting to date you. You just have to say yes and that's it. You're all good ..handsome ..that too you're a sports person. Who wouldn't wanna date you"

I just couldn't hold it in anymore. Being handsome doesn't change anything in my opinion....

" but what if the person you love is not on the list and see me as a brother. Anyway.. She's way out of my league. And this list of girls is kinda the biggest curse. She probably see me just like you guys do. A guy who plays with girls and have a date and breakup on the same day..see I'm not like that..it's as tough as it is for you"

I think I kinda scared the poor child when I started to spill my thoughts out loud in a mix of frustration and confusion. Alcohol always does that to me ...or everyone I guess....

" aa...I'm sorry..i didn't mean it like that ...I'm really sorry...... "

We had a minute of silence  which was finally broken by Jacob.

"you know..i  am damn sure Kiara doesn't think like that about you..you're just perfect for her."

TBH... I was startled with the sudden exclamation made by him.

"wait...wait..I never said who she was.. did i? or.......... was it obvious?"

"mmhmm...too much obvious"

Both of us start laughing and open the last bear left in the last carton.

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