Instead of Dominic, it was Jack standing in front of the lecture hall.
"Why are you calling me, Roger?" He asked reluctantly with a cigar between his lips, almost looking pissed.
"The hèll" Roger cussed, and he smirked.
"Wait, Dominic is here, isn't he? I'm sure of it" He said, staring at Jack in the eye.
"There's no Dominic here. Let's go search elsewhere" A guy said, already leaving the scene. The rest students followed.
"Where's he?!" Dylan demanded, grabbing Jack's collar, making the cigar between his lips fall.
"Where did you disappear to?" He questioned.
"Shut it and just provide Dominic before I lose it!" He yelled.
"Dylan" Dominic called from under a desk at the back.
"Dom" He rushed to him and wrapped him in his arms.
Dominic's eyes widened in shock.
"Doing that when there's a rumor about you two being gay is insane" Jack almost snapped.
Dominic instantly broke the hug.
"Why did you hide him? Why are you protecting him?" Roger questioned.
"And when did you start questioning me?" He responded sassily.
"Let's leave" Dylan held his wrist.
"No" He removed his wrist from his grip.
"I'll leave with Jack" He concluded, avoiding his eyes.
"Are you being serious right-
"Just let the boy be. We all know he'd be safer with me" Jack taunted, grinning at Dylan.
The look on his face screams victory.
Dominic slowly made his way to the front, Dylan's heart sank as he watched Jack hold his hand possessively, like he owned him. Dominic took a glance at him before leaving with Jack.
*
The silence in the car feels heavy. Dominic kept on gulping nothing down his throat, fingers nervously wrapped around the seatbelt, ears turned red like a tomato.
Jack noticed it.
"Got something to say?" He asked with his eyes fixed on the road.
Silence.
"I'm not asking twice"
Dominic finally looked at him.
"Why did you save me-
"No reason" He cuts him off.
Dominic then took his lower lip in, sucking on it, his fingers now playing with the hem of his shirt.
"Is there something about you two?" Jack found himself asking.
"Who?" Dominic faced him, letting go of the hem of his shirt.
"You know who I'm talking about. He acts like a boyfriend towards you, so possessive" He chuckled.
"Not at all, I'm straight! I'll never be gay not in this life not in the next one!" He almost snapped.
Jack roughly parked the car, earning a loud gasp from Dominic.
"You're straig - Yeah, sure, why would anyone in their right senses be gay?" He said, holding tightly onto the steering.
"I'll just drop here" Dominic quickly alighted from the car.
"Damn" Jack rolled eyes before zooming off.
*
ROGER'S SUITE*
Roger is in his underground boxing room. The place screams scary instead of luxury. No one knows why he designed it that way.
He's in the boxing ring, punching the bag, imagining it's Jack in its place. First, he hid Dominic and now, the video has been brought down from the channel. It can only be one person's doing, Jack's!
Now, he feels like he has lost his power.
"Fvck!" He kicked the bag open.
Jack entered the ring, already wearing his gloves.
"I'm here now, stopping letting out your anger on the poor-
Roger welcomed him with a punch, bursting his lips.
"Nice one" He laughed dryly, and then sucked off the blood.
"Bring it on" Roger said, punching him again.
"Why did you drag down the video?" He punched him on the eye.
"Because only I have the right to set his whole life ablaze!" He punched him three times in a row.
"Not you! Not anyone else!" He kicked him on the tummy, making him fall with a loud thud.
He spit out blood and burst out in laughter before saying; "Jokes on you. Someone is coming to make the job easier for me. Watch as that dude's life becomes miserable and you?" He stopped laughing.
"Won't be able to do anything about it" He concluded.
"Who?" Jack grabbed his chin as if, his finger is about to pierce into his skin.
Roger whistled in response, earning another punch from him.
"Fvck you, bro!" Roger cussed out in pain.
"Stay out of my fvcking business, I won't warn you again" He warned before throwing the gloves on his face, and with that he stormed out of the place.
*
DYLAN'S PLACE*
He just sat down on a chair, staring at his phone screen. The video is gone, like it was never there in the first place and the comments too.
"It makes no sense for real" He said underneath his breath, and it clicked almost immediately.
"Wait" He raised a brow up.
"Jack? But why'd he- What's that jerk up to now?" He wondered.
*
*DOMINIC'S PLACE*
He fell on the bed with a loud thud; his heart pounded so loudly that he could hear it.
"I wonder how Dylan's feeling right now" He uttered.
"But I still can't get my mind off the fact that Jack saved me" He sat up.
*TWO HOURS EARLIER*
Dominic's heart stopped beating and started racing instead or rather pounding, with his breath paused in fear, when he heard his phone ring, he quickly tried to turn it off, but it didn't go off.
Gosh, this phone is going to be the end of him. He placed it on vibration instead.
"Go hide at the back" He heard Jack's voice.
He quickly did as instructed, and the door swung open.
"Why are you calling me, Roger?" Jack questioned, after texting Dominic.
"You're leaving with me, deal or you get dragged out of here by Roger?"
"Deal" He texted back.
"There's no Dominic here. Let's go search elsewhere" A guy said, already leaving the scene. The rest students followed.
Jack smirked as he secretly took a peep at his phone screen.
"That's the only way to get out of here safely" He thought from his hiding spot.
*
BACK TO THE PRESENT*
"He didn't even text me" He said, staring at his phone screen.
"He must be deeply hurt by my decision" He added.
"Whatever, I'll just text first, at least to know if he's safe or something" He convinced himself.
"Hey, you good? You said you had something to say to me earlier today. What was it? You're not mad at me, right?" He texted Dylan.
He started sucking on his lower lip, hoping to get a reply.
*
THE NEXT MORNING, AN AIRPORT*
A teenage girl came out of the airport with a pink suitcase in hand.
Meet Seraphina West, Jack's fiancee.
"Miss West" A middle-aged man called out, already rushing towards her.
He's Mr Brown, her Dad's driver.
"Good day but why isn't Mr West here with you?" She demanded.
"Sir, is too occupied-
"Too occupied for his daughter, okayyyyyy" She emphasized on the last word.
"Here" She let go of her suitcase for him to carry, as she marched towards the car in rage.
*
THE WEST MANSION*
"Dad! Mr West!!" Seraphina called out loudly, ascending the stairs, heading for her Dad's study room.
"Oh my baby West" He quickly dropped the book in his head, to go embrace her in his arms but she moved out of the way.
"What's wrong, Princess?" He stroked her hair.
"Why didn't you come-
"I'm so sorry, Dad's exhausted from staying up all night" He smiled.
"I don't wanna hear it. You've hurt my feelings" She said dramatically, as if she was about to burst out in tears.
"You remember that limited edition-
"Pink Chanel bag, I streaked you on Snap. It's in my room, right?" She said quickly, with her eyes brightened in excitement.
"Baby West, you love luxurious items" He chuckled.
"That's why you're working, Mr West. Muah, muah, muah, I love you" She kissed his cheeks, and with that she dashed out of the room.
*
SERAPHINA ROOM*
She rushed into the pink-themed room, forgetting to even shut the door close. Every single item in her room screams luxury, everything in her room is pink in color from the bedframe, bedspread and thick duvet, fur bedroom slippers, lamplight, curtains, the dressing table and its chair, footmat, wardrobe and even her closet is painted in pink.
Her closet is almost as big as a standard fashion store, it's filled with designer dresses, shoes, glasses, perfumes, slippers, handbags, wristwatches, jewelry and the likes.
She jumped on the bed in excitement, hugging the bag so fondly as if it's a baby or maybe it is, to her.
"Oh my baby" She kissed it.
"Oh let's update my snap" She carefully placed it beside its box, and then brought out the card to place it on the box before taking a picture of it.
"So pretty" She grinned from ear to ear.
"My new baby" She captioned and posted it.
"Huh?" She received an alert of $50,000 from her dad with the narration; "For college shopping"
"I love you, daddy!" She screamed.
"I love you too, baby West" He replied from the door, and helped her shut the door close.
"Right, let me call-Ah, Roger said I should surprise him at school instead. I'll just wait til I see him next tomorrow. But it's so hard!" She threw her legs in the air in frustration.