14 Chapter Fourteen

Axel and his cousins arrived at Guisados, a Mexican restaurant in downtown LA.

"You came with your wallet yeah?" Juan José joked around. "Don't play with me brother" Diego replied.

They laughed while entering the restaurant and taking their seats.

"Hi, what can I get you? The attendant asked. "4 wraps de tus mejores tacos" Mauricio replied.

"Ya viene" the waitress said then walked away.

"For a second, I thought she didn't understand me" Mauricio uttered. "I don't think they employ people who don't speak or understand Spanish" Axel replied.

"Yeah probably" Diego said.

Back at campus.

I wandered off to my dorm, I had tons of homework to turn in and the mid term was nearby.

I tied my hair in a short bun, stretched my fingers as I was about to begin writing.

August had a study session where he was able to see Cameron.

"Hey! What's up?" Cameron called August's attention.

"Hey! I never knew you were in this study session" August said.

"Well now you know" Cameron smirked.

"You can sit with me if you want" Cameron uttered.

"Sure" August smiled while taking a seat beside Cameron.

"What happened to your friend, I'm sorry about that" Cameron uttered.

"It's okay, not that he's guilty or anything" August replied.

"Yeah, I know he's not guilty, remember I sat with you guys yesterday at the cafe" Cameron said.

"Thanks for believing in him" August replied.

"Cameron!? Hey!" An unfamiliar voice said out loud, "Kayla?" Cameron uttered.

"How are you, I was looking for you Earlie today" Kayla said.

"I was busy, wanna sit?" Cameron offered. "You could sit over here" Cameron said, offering her the seat in front of him.

Kayla sat down, placed her books on the table before turning back severally to smile at Cameron who smiled back at her as August stared at him.

Cameron then turned to face August, they made eye contact for a while before August stopped staring at him.

The next day, 8:43am.

Axel got ready to go to Aunt Eunice's office, he put on a black customized hoodie with sweatpants and a pair of Nike slides with his hair properly curled up and shiny.

He walked over to Diego's room, took the keys and walked to the parking lot.

"Martinez!" August called out.

Axel turned back to face August who hurriedly walked up to him.

"Yeah?" Axel said.

"Let's go" August smiled. Axel smiled back at him as they both entered the car.

They drove to the law firm.

"Hi, I'm here to see Mrs Campbell" Axel told the receptionist.

"Hi, you came right on time, Mrs Campbell has been expecting you, please follow me" She replied. Axel and August accompanied her.

"Here we are" She uttered as the elevator stopped.

As they were about to enter the office, August looked at Axel and said “are you ready for this?”, Axel replied "yeah i guess”.

August knocked on the door, a voice from inside the office said “come in”. As they entered the office they were happy to see Mrs Campbell, especially Axel. “you’re welcome Axel” Mrs Campbell uttered.

“thanks” Axel replied with a smile.

“So we are releasing the press statement this week” Mrs Campbell said, making August have a huge smile on his face, but Axel gave a straight face even though he was really pleased to hear the news.

Mrs Campbell continued “since you have been proven innocent, I am already working with my team to release the statement but for the main time don’t talk to anybody about this issue".

Axel nodded his head like he was just given an instruction from a teacher. She concluded by folding some papers.

“Thank you very much ma’am” Axel and Diego said at the same time.

“I have a question" Axel said. “Okay?” Mrs Campbell replied curiously.

Axel continued “what if Trina brings fake evidences to convince people that I am guilty?”

Mrs Campbell smiled before replying “just calm down Axel, I have everything planned out already. you consulted us to help you so we would do our job”.

Axel took a deep breath as he replied “alright, thanks.

That gave him hope.

“Are we done here?” August asked like he was tired or something.

“Yes we are” Mrs Campbell replied as she stood up from her seat to shake their hands like the way business men do when they conclude a meeting.

She continued with a warm smile “I’ll see you next week”. Axel replied standing up “Thank you so much!"

As they left her office, Axel didn't utter a word until they got to the car.

August noticed his awkward silence and asked “anything bro?”.

Axel did not reply at first.

August then tapped his lap and Axel reacted like someone who just woke up from a deep sleep.

August laughed at Axel's reaction. “I was just lost in thought, did you say anything?” Axel asked.

August shook his head and smiled as he started the ignition and drove off.

As they got to the campus, August noticed that people were looking in their direction in a weird way.

Then his phone beeped, he reached out to his pocket to get it. The next thing he saw was a tweet he was tagged to. He read the tweet and was really amazed.

He couldn’t move.

The tweet read that Axel was innocent of the rape accusation. “Guess what?!” August asked Axel.

Apparently Axel was asleep because of the stress of that day. Using the back of his hand to clean to his eyes, Axel replied “not good at guessing, what happened?” As soon as August showed him the tweet, Axel shook his head and angrily came down from the car. Axel hasn’t been in the mood since they left Mrs Campbell.

I was on my way to August’s room as he had called me earlier that they had arrived from the law firm.

Before I got there, Axel was by the door punching the wall.

I wonder why he was doing that so I shouted his name and asked him to stop but he ignored.

Sigh.

"Axel!" I yelled, calling out his name to no avail.

I walked straight up to him.

Why was he so angry?

I wanted to tell him about the recent tweet but he kept hurting himself.

"Axel" I called out, grabbing his hand as he wanted to slam the wall, "breathe" I uttered softly.

We made eye contact for some seconds.

Which was so unusual.

I was confused at this point.

Our eyes meeting each other was something I never imagined would happen and there we were.

"I need you to breathe Axel" I whispered.

Axel couldn't take his eyes off mine, he then leaned forward and started kissing me.

Breath taking.

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