12 Cheater

Arielle closed his eyes a few more times and stared to confirm if Alain was the one he is seing in the service line. He was wearing a white T-shirt printed with "Halo Hawks", jersey shorts and rubber shoes.

"Hey, who are you looking at? You seem enjoying watching the players" Justine looked at the players, where Arielle was looking at. He also noticed Alain and Arielle noticed that Justin's mood changed.

"Arielle, let's go in the cafeteria. I'm hungry, let's eat in there. Let's go." Justin stood up without waiting for Arielle's response to what he said. Arielle finds it weird the way Justin acted.

" Let's just watch the players here." Arielle also love sports, especially volleyball. Way back to his former school, he was also a member of the team.

"All right please .." Justin smiled held his hand.

And he was holding Arielle's hand, they're walking out of the activity center when someone hit the ball towards them. It didn't hit Arielle because Justin lift his hand to stop it from hitting him. They looked at the players and saw Alain who was in the service area. And Alain's looking mad at them.

"Arielle, are you okay? I'm sorry for what happened." Arielle was surprised when Bernard approached them and picked up the ball. He then looks straight to Justin.

"You look familiar." Bernard said. Justin became conscious.

"That's impossible bro .. I just transferred here and its my first time here in this school and in this Activity Center." Justin answered.

"Hmmm .. I see .. Do you have any siblings here?" Bernard asked again.

"I'm an only child. So if you don't mind, we need to go." Justin took Arielle's hand again, and Bernard looked at it in astonishment.

- - -

"Who is he?" Justin asked. They're on their way to the cafeteria.

"Who's he?" Arielle doesn't know if Justin's pertaining to Bernard or Alain.

"The one who approached us a while ago. He's acting strange."

" That's Bernard. Isn't he handsome? He's nice. He's nice to be with, naughty, and he can make you smile even in simple things." Arielle said with a shudder.

"Hahaha you're inlove with him, aren't you?" Arielle was a little surprised by what Justin asked.

"No, no! We're just.. we're just close. Yeah right. That's right! We're just close friends." Arielle said nervously.

"You're not good at lying Arielle." Arielle became embarrassed by what he said.

"ARIELLEEE!" JC screamed when he saw them. Everyone looked at them.

" You're so scandalous! Don't scream like that." They sat at the same table. It turns out that their classmates are in the café.

" By the way guys, he's Justin, I know you already know him. Justin, here's JC, Lance, Jansen, Ara, Sien and H" he said softly.

"Hi! I'm JC, but you can call me by my first name, Jim."

"Hi, Jansen here"

"I remember you. You'll be my partner in our activity, right? Hello, I'm Bryle. Nice meeting you." Arielle then realized that he wants to call by his 2nd name.

"By the way, what do you want to eat? I'll buy you anything you want." Justin asked Arielle.

"You don't need to. I'm still full. You're hungry, aren't you? Just buy anything for yourself." Justin smiled before leaving their table. Arielle's friends on the other hand, seem to be undressing him pretentiously by the way of their stares.

"What is that for?" Lance's ask Arielle.

"Which one?"

"Don't deny it. I'm pertaining to the 'what do you want to eat? I'll buy you anything you want' thingy earlier. Admit it! He likes you right?"

"Hell no. I don't know him that much, besides I already have a crush on someone." Arielle said. Pertaining to Bernard.

"But, who's that lucky guy? Tell us." JC added.

"Don't worry. Even if you are the youngest among us, we will not expose that to others. "Jansen said. Still, Arielle is not convinced.

"I will still not tell you"

"Oh comeon. He's Edrien right?." Sien joined the conversation.

"I think Diether. I once heard him call you baby." Lance's said with a teasing tone.

" I think it's Bernard. He looks like he undresses Bernard in his mind when he saw him everytime at the coffee shop." Jansen said.

"You mean Arielle's working there? That's why in recent days you look like always energized. You are surrounded by handsome men"

"WAHHHHHH! You're really a lucky flirt!"

"Don't shout, you're so noisy. Look at the people around looking at us"

"Hmmm. I guess, I've already found out who's that guy you're in love with. Tell me, its Alain right? I've been thinking for it in a while" Sien added.

"It's a bad joke, my friend! We always argue, so how come will I fall in love with that jerk? And you know, if I don't have a fever last week maybe he will not be taking care of me in the shop and drive me home." Arielle covered his mouth when he realized what he said. His friends were shocked.

"Oh My God .. Can you repeat what you said?" Jansen was intrigued.

"Huh? Did I say something? I didn't say anything. By the way, I still have work to do m- - -"

"No! You weren't going anywhere!" Arielle close his eyes when they say that at the same time, in chorus. .

"Alain took care of you when you were sick?" Jansen asked him. Arielle nodded as a response.

"You mean he stays by your side?" JC asked him. Arielle nodded. Arielle wants to suddenly disappear in front of them.

"OMG! Actually we're shipping you with him hihihi." Arielle's eyes widened.

"What are you talking about? He has a girlfriend so stop fooling me." Arielle remember that again.

"That's why we wanted to talk to you earlier." Jansen said as he reached for his cellphone from his pocket. He showed Arielle a picture of Alain's girlfriend with a guy, the same guy that Angel called 'babe'.

- - -

Alain's currently sitting on the bench and watching his teammates play.

He was thinking of what he did earlier. The time when he saw Arielle in the Activity Center with the transferee. He just can't explain why he felt annoyed when he saw them together. He feels weird.

And he finds the transferee somewhat familiar to him, he just don't know where he saw or hear about Justin. But his mood changed when he saw them together.

"Alain!" He instantly turned when he heard that familiar voice. Arielle is walking towards his way.

"Hey, what's the matter?" He asked Arielle.

"Its about your girlfriend ..." Arielle said bluntly.

"What now? Are you going to say he's with another man again? Haven't we already talked about this? Are you going to do it again?" He said angrily.

"Yes. Why don't you believe me? My friends saw her yesterday at the Mall. They saw your girlfriend with another man" he said seriously.

"She informed me that she'll go to the mall with her cousin. So please, I don't want to argue with you anymore. Can you stop bugging our relationship?"

"But I swear! My friends took a picture of them. And the guy with her is the guy he called babe when I bumped into them before." Arielle hold his hand. "Please believe what I am saying. She's cheating on you!"

"Arielle please stop! I don't want to hear anything from your lies! And stop ruining our relationship!" Alain said angrily and push Arielle hard. It was too late when he realized what he did because Arielle fell due to out of balance and his head hit the edge of the steel bench where he is sitting earlier.

But what made him worried is he could see Arielle's head is bleeding because of that incident.