SOME DAYS

PANG-ANIM

****IKA-ANIM NA KABANATA****

     "Kolokoy!" It was Xavier shouting his name.

     "Fuck!" He silently cursed.

     He felt the boy's sweaty palm gripped his hand tighter, he can feel how nervous he was. He was too...

     "Go to the last room, swipe this..." He said in a whisper and discreetly handed him his cabin key card. The kid didn't ask any questions and just obeyed him, getting their current situation.

     He loosened his hand at him then turned around and face Xavier with a boring expression, trying to hide his tense.

     "Kokoy, my man! Where have you been? I was looking for you everywhere, and who is that boy?" Turo nito sa naglalakad na bata then stepped forward.

     Elijah suddenly stopped.

     'Fuck!' Kokoy held Xavier's wrist to stop him from walking towards the kid.

     "He's the helper's son, he will clean my room." He said to him straight in eye.

    The tall guy burp in front of his face and he could smell his liquor breath. "Tang-ina ka, pare! Ambaho mo!" Why is he even drinking this early?

     Xavier just laughed at him and hiccupped after. "I just found a stash of brandy inside my cabin, I dunno kung kanino yun, ininom ko lang," He smiled with his blinding white teeth showing. He could actually pass for a toothpaste commercial than a gang leader hand-man.

     Then, his long limbs strides towards the kid at hindi na nya napigilitan ito dahil masyado itong mabilis. Xavier got long, fucking legs.

     Elijah was about to run fast when Xavier was able to pull his hoodie off that revealed what they were trying to cover up. His ears... The kid grasped his breath from nervousness.

     Xavier stopped and burp again. "What's with the head band?" He pulled the boy's hoodie some more to turn him around. "Are you sure this is a boy?" His bloodshot eyes went to Kokoy and asked in a stoned manner.

     "Xav, lasing ka lang. You should go back to your cabin and drink some more. The boy has to clean my room now!" He unclasped Xavier's gripped on the boy while looking at their back to see if someone sees the boy.

     "But I wanna drink with you my asshat buddy! It was so fucking boring here; it's making me feel...sad...." The tall guy made a pout.

     "Eeewww..." He grimaced. "Do you even see yourself!? How many brandies you've taken?! Bitiwan mo na yung bata you're hurting him."

     The guy ungripped his hand on Elijah's hoodie but went to pull his ears after. "This head band looks so fucking reallll..." he said sounding amazed.

     "Fuck!" He could evidently see the boy was wincing from pain that's why he did the only thing that he could do at that moment. His fist went up at him.

     He punched Xavier on the face that knocked the tall guy out.

     Elijah's eyes went round. Then his eyes looked up at him with horror. "You killed him!"

     "God! No! He's just sleeping. Now put your hoodie back on and go to my room now!"

     The kid did what he has told frantically. Nang makapasok na ito sa loob ng kwarto nya ay hinila nya naman si Xavier papunta sa kawarto nito.

     "This idiot is so fucking heavy..." He muttered then put him down to his bed carelessly. He saw three bottles of brandy lying on the floor. "Is he trying to kill himself?"

     Once he was all settled, he went out at naglakad na papuntang kwarto nya, He knocked but no one's opening the door. He can see the boy's shadow under the door though.

     "Hey, Kitten." Tawag nya dito at bumukas naman agad iyon.

     Pumasok agad sya loob and he locked the door. "Come." Then they went inside his bathroom, the boy was tailing him. He opened the faucet of the tub until it was half full and put some liquid soaps. "Now take a bath. I'll wait for you outside."

     The boy started to take off his clothes behind him that when he turned around, he was just on his shorts already.

     He was about to walk through but the kid's form was blocking his path. When he was about to move on the side, the kid will, too. Napagtintero sila hanggang sa hinawakan na nya ito sa balikat at isinandal ito sa pader. "Don't move!"

     The bathroom was just really small and it can't barely fit two people so he has to move sideways for him to get out that narrow room.

     The kid was now leaning on the bathroom's white wall. He tried his best not to touch the kid's skin to his but that would be inevitable. His clothed chest brushed along the boy's naked chest. He heard him gasped.

     "I'll wait for you outside." He said once he was outside. He went to his suitcase and find something small that could fit the boy. He found a grey hoodie and some boxers and put them down on his bed.

     It's still dark outside but it's not as shaky as earlier. He saw the cigarette pack on the ground near the window and picked it up. He took one stick and lit it between his lips. He took his phone out his pocket and check if there's signal already. Well, there's none. He was able to finished two sticks but the kid isn't finished yet. It was almost thirty minutes already.

     "Fucked! Baka nalunod na yung pusa!"

     Then he walks with haste towards the bathroom door and saw the boy playing with suds. His whole body covered with foam except for something.

     The tip of his brown tail.

     It was hanging upwards the tub and shock was an understatement to see his cat-like tail in flesh.

     He advances closer to the kid and he felt like he wanted to touch it. He was curios if it really was a tail. Even though he's contemplating, he did what his mind wants him to do.

     He captured it gently and he could feel now how soft and wet it under his grip. He stroked it up and down and he heard the boy's provocative meows under him. His gaze went down at him and saw Elijah holding onto his hips...

     'What the actual fuck!'