Jay pov.
I was peacefully eating lechon and salmon, when Meridith decided to ruin it. Seriously, why does she always decide to show up when I'm eating? I think she's jealous of my relationship with my food. She's jealous of the love of my life- lechon. And ice cream too!
"Don't be too happy just because Kiefer is back from London. I know you. You'd probably try to flirt and throw yourself at him now that he's rich...." She started and then continued with her flow of insults. I just ignored it and went back to eating. Gurl I'm just as rich as he is.
Blah blah blah... Meridith continued babling on. I think I might have even dozed off at some point. She was like my middle school Social teacher. If that woman starts speaking, I'll start sleeping. Nevertheless, I still used to get top marks in Social because I'd go home and read through everything hehe.
".... Do you understand?" She said after insulting me for quite some time. I was still focused on eating and savouring every single bite, so it took me a solid two minute to realise that she had stopped talking, or that she had asked a question, or that the entire section E was glaring at Meridith so hard it was a miracle she hadn't combusted yet.
It seemed like Kwanan even interfered her and warned her to stop several times, but she just ignored it. I didnt even notice all that. I was too focused on eating.
I blinked, coming back to reality. "What am I supposed to answer that?" I asked.
She scoffed dramatically. "Wow. I'm just wasting my time talking to you, aren't I?" She said.
"No, you're wasting my time. I doubt you'd do anything useful with yours anyway." I said, deadpan. I didn't even glance up from my food. Priorities.
I heard Kwanan chuckle from behind me. "You heard her, and let me clarify one thing. You are absolutely nothing to me. Get it in your head cause I won't keep repeating this- I don't like you. At all. Now leave before I myself throw you out." He said to her directly. Her face went red with anger. But she just turned around and stormed off.
[Right so Meridith won't be appearing in this book anymore. After this she leaves the school and moves abroad for her dad's job, and finds a boy and happily ever (mostly) after blah blah blah shit. Al right, happy reading!]
I ignored the drama. Food is much more interesting anyway. The next period after lunch was also sir Alvin's.
Honestly, I should've been suspicious the second I saw him entering with that smug smile of his. That's my fault there for not noticing. Because in the middle of class-
"Miss Fernandez, Mr Watson has missed a lot of classes. I trust you will be able to help him catch up for the upcoming exam. You must also share your notes with him."
To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on. I was half asleep and half overthinking. (Did the chicken come first or the egg? It should be chicken, because only they have the chemical required to produce eggs, but then where did they come from?- yeah, this was what I was this about.) So when he asked I just nodded absentmindedly. My brain only processed what he said 5 minutes later.
"Wait, what?! No way in hell! Sir, please you can ask someone else?" I said suddenly.
Sir raised an eyebrow amusedly. "I could, exept for the fact that I wasn't really asking, I was telling you."
"Why me?" I asked.
"You have one of the highest scores in this class." He said
"Yeah...one of. What about ci n? Or Yuri? Or David?" I asked.
He just smiled. "Make sure Mr Watson prepares well."
Ugggghhhh. This sir is also one of them. He's on their side. Ulupong. What's on my side then? Bad luck?
"Whatever" I muttered annoyed. The period ended and sir left after announcing that school was over for today and that the last two periods were cancelled so that we could study. As if these clowns would. The whole class was silent for a few seconds. Well, atleast until-
"Why did you tell no to sir 5 minutes after he said. You even agreed at first. You really want to spend some alone time with Kiefer, don't you? Don't lie Jay na." Ci n said loud enough for the whole class to hear, grinning next to me.
I shot him a glare. "Don't irritate me further. I'll send you to tutor him otherwise."
"I'll tell to kuya Angelo then!" Ci n said.
"Go ahead. I don't care." I replied deadpan, rolling my eyes.
[A/N: in this book, Jay is one of the very very very few people on earth who isn't scared of Angelo. Even Kiefer is slightly ("of course I have to prepare, he's strong!" ~ famous words by Mark Kiefer Watson) scared of Angelo. Jay isn't because she can fight anyone hehe. Jare is scared of Angelo.]
Ci n gasped as if I had committed a crime. "I still don't understand how you're not scared of Kuya Angelo. He's Angelo. Like just how?" He asked.
"So? He's not even scary. He's just.. well, grumpy." I said. Jare snorted.
"Yeah, remember when he said yesterday that you'd get pregnant early?" Jare asked.
"He's stupid. He says stupid stuff." I said.
"He said what now?!" Felix asked.
"He said 'i look the type'. Like the fvck is that even supposed to mean? Maybe he took over Aries's job of being the horoscope." I said, genuinely annoyed. Everyone just laughed and went back to their work. Which is creating chaos as usual. Of course they weren't studying.
Then I remembered David and his fancy instincts. I asked him if he thought Kuya Angelo was right, and he said yes if I ended up with Kiefer, but otherwise no knowing me. He even asked if I wanted to end up with him, saying he won't make me pregnant early.
What's gone wrong with grandpa dabid? I rolled my eyes and said "yeah, sure" sarcastically, but unfortunately, ci n heard it and snitched to Kwanan. That jealous idiot called the Braselton company and scared David away. Like the audacity.
"Who said you can date other men?" He asked me possesively, leaning so close it sent shivers down my spine.
"Bakit? Whose permission do I need?" I shot back, grabbing my bag and storming off before he made me yell at him worser. But that idiot was persistent.
He came after me with his car and told me to get in so that we could review with my notes. I refused, obviously, but then he called sir Alvin and sir told that if I don't do it my internal marks would get reduced, so I got in the damn car.
Soon, with the rocking of the car and the fact that I've been running on 3 hours of sleep for almost a month (ever since we revealed the company JJM, I've had even more work piled up and the birthday reveal coming up, and in my CBI work- I've started giving trainings or teaching for new recruits, so I've got 0 time to even sleep) and the fact that- for some reason- I felt safe with Kwanan. Even after everything, my brain just switch off around Jima nd my heart takes over... I fell asleep. Not normal sleep.
This was the sleep that I've been deprived of for months, the rest I desperately needed but was neglecting so badly, that I even fainted in my office a lot of times (nobody else- not even my brothers know this. If they did, they wouldn't let me work at all).
So naturally, I slept until we reached a place that I've never been to before. In a ship. Don't even ask me how I slept through that. I honestly don't even know how that is possible.
Certainly doesn't have anything to do with the fact that I've been overworking and exhausting and pushing myself way too hard. Definitely not that. Maybe magic?