35 Best Friends

"Class Pres!"

Fred's voice echoed around the hotel lobby.

The Class Pres, Alyssa, turned her head to look at the voice calling out to her.

When she saw Fred, her face turned surprised and a wide smile bloomed on her face.

"Fred!" She said, sounding delighted, "I'm so happy that you're able to come here!"

She walked towards him with hurried steps.

"I'm happy to see you as well, Class Pres!" Replied Fred,

Alyssa's cheeks reddened a bit, then she blurted out,

"Alyssa."

"Huh?" Fred looked at her with visible confusion in his face.

"Alyssa, call me Alyssa. Class Pres, Class Pres, I'm not the class president now, we're not even classmates now. So you should just call me by my name." She said, the smile on her face still ever present.

After understanding what Alyssa meant, Fred let out a light chuckle,

"Haha, Sorry about that," he looked in her eyes and smiled, "Then I'll call you Alyssa from now on, is that good Alyssa?"

Alyssa nodded her head, "Good, good!" It's clear to everyone around that she is in a good mood.

As the two of them started to chat, everyone looked at them and talked amongst their circle with the two as the topic.

Fred's voice was heard by everyone around which most are his previous classmates.

"Look, it seems like the Class Pres still like Fred." Said a female to her friends.

"How come the Class Pres have feelings for Fred though?" Asked by a plain looking man.

"I don't know as well, I don't see any redeeming qualities in Fred." Said by an ugly fat girl within the group with her eyes looking at the Class Pres with burning jealousy.

The plain looking man stares at her for a bit before turning his head to the other girl and saying,

"But… Isn't the Prince in love with the Class Pres and is courting her?" He asked, sounding uncertain.

Just like those three, the others around are talking about similar topics.

Gossiping about others life's been the number 1 topic of people most of the time.

And here, you can see the majority of them doing just that.

Fred can hear clearly about everything they are saying even if they whisper because of his enhanced self from the skills.

He looked at the faces of those people as he let out a smirk.

Alyssa who is talking to him paused a little when she that smirk, looking a bit daze, but she snapped out of it and continued speaking,

"... Anyway, let's go to the venue, it's about time."

Alyssa told everyone to enter the venue while taking the lead.

The place that they got has ten tables with five people being able to sit in one.

Although this is just a simple gathering between previous classmates, it seems like they spend quite a number of money for this.

Fred did not question who paid for this as he knew that there are quite a lot of second generation rich guys in his class.

The Class Press, Alyssa being one of them as well as the man named Prince in the mouth of those other classmates.

As there's still a bit of time before 7:30, everyone got along for a bit, chatting with each other.

A lot of them approached Fred and talked to him, especially females.

Since Fred has a naturally attractive face from the start, the addition of skills that enhanced his overall looks and the clothes he is wearing now, he looks like a "Prince Charming" in the eyes of some girls.

Because of that, the eyes of the few boys in there is full of envy as they gaze at him chatting with those ladies.

Then at this time, the door of the venue opened and a man with blonde hair and pale white skin entered.

He looks like a little prince from the fairy tale stories.

He walks elegantly into the place, a bouquet of rose in his hands.

Looking around for a bit, he saw the Class Pres and smiled charmingly.

He come to Alyssa and give her the bouquet on his hand.

"For you Alyssa."

Alyssa look at the flowers before looking at the man,

"Prince I told you that you should stop this." She said with a plain tone.

Prince did not mind her words and said,

"I'm just giving you flowers, what's the problem with that?"

Then he turn his eyes to Fred who was just talking with a few girls before.

"Oh Fred! You're here!" Walking towards Fred, he opened his arms for a hug.

Fred pushed Prince face with a disgusted face,

"You're still as disgusting as ever, Prince."

Prince who got push away by Fred did not mind it and replied,

"How can you say that to your best friend!?" His voice seems so shocked as he look at Fred incredulously.

Yes, this man, Prince Reinford, is Fred's best friend.

They've been together since the first time they stepped into high school.

Meeting because of a fight with a few thugs outside the school. They fought together with 5 thugs and in the end, became like punching bags.

After that time, they got to know each other meeting every lunch time at school to eat together and talking about few stuffs.

And little by little, they become best friends even with their different status in life.

Prince is a heir of a big company in manila, while Fred is just a common youth that you can see everywhere at that time.

Whenever Fred have a problem, Prince is always there for him, and vice versa.

One time Fred's family got problem related to money and when he talk about it with Prince, he immediately said, "How much do you need?"

But Fred declined that, he doesn't want their friendship to turn ugly because of money. He don't want it to look like he's just making friends with Prince because of money.

That time further strengthen their friendship and they become almost inseparable.

Always hanging out together, causing trouble here in there since they started high school.

The two did many trouble at those times, just doing their own thing.

But now it's been 2 weeks since the two of them last met, it was before Fred headed for his trip to Taal Volcano.

Prince look at Fred more closely then said, "Why does it look like you changed a lot?"

He circled around Fred scrutinizing him from head to toe with his hand on his chin.

Fred just look at Prince with a funny look, "What? Did I became more handsome?"

He did some post as he said that.

Prince stopped then look at his face with a look of disgust.

"Bah! What handsome, I'm the handsome one!"

He started doing some pose as well.

The two then started laughing as they look at each other.