1 Affection 1

HE countless sighed. He's sitting in his swivel chair, only one in his office and it seems like he feels bored even there's a work that needs to be done. Well, it was past 2 in the afternoon but it still early. Meanwhile, there's a person entered his office, smiling at him like a fool, he literally rolled his eyes when he recognized that person.

"Hey! What's that face?"

"Shut up, Luke." Luke just laughed at him, as he comfortably sat at the chair facing him.

"I heard there's a party in your mansion." He tsked with that word. The party was the idea of his so-called stepmother.

"Tss, I don't f*cking care with that stuff. If they want to have that fool party then go, as long as they don't bug me." He said. Looking at his face there's a wave of anger. He glanced at the man who's in front of him. "I don't think you're going in here to hear my complaints?"

Luke just smirked, "Don't worry it's good news." His forehead furrowed. "Remember the magazine you've been into? There is a model who wants to date you and she's beautiful! Sexy, this is good for you ----"

"I don't know when and how you're doing match-making. And I'm not interested in your fools." He glared at Luke, and Luke just zip his mouth. Thinking the young man was scared.

"I'm just kidding. You're way too serious you know? That's why you don't have a girlfriend."

He glared at Luke.

"You wanna die?"

He just laughed at him, then he stood up and then he put an envelope on his desk.

"That's the good news, bro." Then he came out of his office. He looked intently at the envelope in front of him, then he finally took the contents. Seeing that piece of paper from inside of that envelope gave him a smirked. After looking, he called someone on his phone.

"I WOULD like to thank all of you for your presence here. The Verde Group is gladly welcoming you and have applause for the anniversary of Verde Group."

The visitors started their applause and having their great time because that night is the 25th Anniversary of Verde Group.

The woman who was started the opening remarks is the Second wife of the chairman of Verde Group, Mrs. Elaine Ani Monteverde.

"Oh, how great Hon, how wonderful to see you on that stage." The chairman smiled and hugged her. They are at a table with the other guests.

"Thanks, Hon." She smiled back at him. At the same time he sat next to his wife.

They focused their attention on the guests. Too many guests are gathered in their mansion, the venue was in their own huge garden. The other guests were inside the mansion, they were seeing the richness and classy style of its inside, while the others were talking about the business and such.

Yet, there's someone silently looking to the outside of the window, wherein that room he's the only one in there. As if, that he didn't interested in what the occasion is. He was just standing facing the windows, drinking his red wine, and plainly looking at their guest.

He rolled his eyes when he saw his step-mother smiling to his father.

Tss, a fake one.

He frowned as he looked at the married couple. Instead of taking standing to this place for too long, he put the glass of red wine on a table, then he entered a hidden room where the passage was directly through the hidden exit of their mansion that only he and his mother knew-- -his father's first wife.

He is already outside their mansion. He was coming through the hidden passage and he was stranded in a lush garden. The highway is close to where he stands.

He was next to the road and fortunately there was a taxi. He told the driver the place where he would spend the night first. It's up to the people who are having fun in the mansion to find him.

****

A LOUD music came from the club. Many liberated girls are shamelessly dancing and flirting with their partners. Businessmen, Bachelors, and even the rich men are flirting and deliriously drinking while dancing on the dance floor. Some are kissing, hugging, and the sight was awfully worldly.

In the dark corner, there are five people who were enjoying drinking --- and of course, flirting with their woman.

"Did you already called him?"

The man who was busy drinking the ordered vodka while a woman was kissing him on the lap.

The other man answered him, "Yeah, earlier. I'm sure he's already bored there." Then he swallowed the beer he was holding. Unlike the man who asked, he did not have a girl on his lap.

"Just relax, Will. He will come soon." Another man replied, they were just next to a man drinking beer. He was also drinking beer.

"Shut up, Xel." The man glared on Xel. "Tsk, anytime he's really a VIP." Impatient utterance of the name Will. "Call him again, Luke."

"Tss, you just called, you're so bored. Don't boss me." Luke was just ignored him.

The other two with them laughed. Oliver and Hans, It also has its own woman hugging them. "I suggest that you should just wait for him. You don't want to hear his cold earful, right?" Hans said. He's like the referee or the peace monitor in the group. Oliver was just agreed at his words. Their friend is a cold man thou.

Then after a few minutes their waiting is done. What they have been waiting for has arrived. They greeted him and at the same time sat next to them. Order the Tequila first.

"Thank you for coming. You are really a VIP." Will said here. He just rolled eyes then when his order was already there, he just plainly drank it.

"Slow down, Zary. What? Is your party over there?" Oliver asked him. He doesn't want to talk about it, but he knows that his fool friends, they were really importunate

He sighed, "As usual." His friends tsked.

"Tss, you're already a pain in the ass, man!" Zary glared at Xel.

"Well, what's the new? He doesn't want to see his step-mother. Maybe it's really not money chasing your father?" Luke said rudely, they widened their eyes. Luke was just confused. "What?" It just shrugged.

"Should I plastered your mouth, moron?" Then, that moment Luke seemed to know why they reacted like that. His tongue restrained when he saw Zary's sharp gaze on him.

"Enough of that! What if, we should have fun? I'll look for my girl." Xel smiled, he was just interrupting the serious tension.

"Stop it! You're just like that, since no one hitting you." Xel hit Oliver.

Zary shut them up, and the women hugging them pushed it away. His comrades regretted it and complained. He ignored their tantrums and when he said something serious they were look at him questionably, and listened to him.

***

Half an hour later Zary arrived at the club. He was just shaken by his comrades who were flirting with their tabled girls. With his problem and his father's wife, he has no interest in women. Most of all he holds a promise from his mother.

His anxiety was interrupted by a commotion. His companions also stopped what they were doing and then looked at what was happening.

He would have just continued drinking beer and ignoring when someone caught his attention not far from their place. Although it was dark he could barely see its face.

The chaos got worse, some begged, some participated, others seemed to have no trouble happening around them because they were still doing the same thing. He was about to avoid the gaze when the disco lights tends that someone. There he saw a woman, with her movements she had a hard difficulties to leave her position. This is the woman who just sat next to their table.

He just looked back at the beer he was holding but instead of just sitting he couldn't stand it and he stood up from his seat. His colleague looked up.

"Hey, where are you going? There's a rumble going on." Ani Hans.

"None of your business."

At the same time, he immediately walked to the part of the club where someone was dancing. Some woman hitting him and tried to invite him to dance with them. He just continued to walk without a hitch, it was a bit far from the rumble so he knew he would get there. He just turned around inside the club to get to the woman's location. He already feels congestion because he is there near the one who is fighting. He immediately tracked down the woman then grabbed her hand then pulled.

"What ---?"

He pulled her away and walked to the opposite side of the bathroom.

The woman looked at him in shock. He even surprised himself. The man is also confused as to why he is bothered helping the woman he doesn't know.

"L-let go of my hand!"

He looked at their hand. They were holding hands. He immediately let go of her hand, then the woman lay down.

"Ouch! Take it easy! Men are not gentlemen." The girl says.

His lips gaped of what had her said. He looked at her head to toe. He raised an eyebrow at the woman.

"I didn't know there was a lesbian coming here. You know the girls here are hot, wanna have some? I know the owner." He said here.

He didn't want to do that, but he found himself that he wanted to tease her a bit. The woman's ears twitched at what she have heard. He looked at her and she was wearing a leathet jacket, T-shirt and jeans. She looked at him sharply, and confused was drawn to his face as she looked at him intensely. Then she slap him once --- no, rather she punched him. He was lying on the floor.

"F * ck!" He looked at the woman in shock. "What the heck!" He traced his lips that already bleeding.

"Hey, I would like to thank you. Damn, you just insulted me. I don't like women who are like caterpillars and hauls huh? Remember I'm not a lesbian, I'm a woman. F*ck you, you're crazy."

At the same time she glared bad on him then walked away.

His mind was blank after that. He just chuckled when she did that punched. Instead of getting angry, he just found himself smiling.

ZARY just went home, it was near five in the morning and when he just got home an early lectures he got from his father.

"Servin! How many times did I tell you to fix your life? Your mother just embarrassed earlier! We were looking for you but you are no longer here in the mansion! And you were just there that pest club! What? Is your d*ck got itching?" His fathers words angered him. And from what his father said, instead of ignoring it, he turned around.

"Shut up! What will you do? Will you send me away like how do you did it from my mom? I don't f*cking care with your so-called wife. "

"Is that how you talked to me? And most of all I didn't let your mother go! Your own mother left me because she has a man--"

"No! Mom left you because of this woman! You are actually blind by her fake kindness!" His father nearly punch him if his stepmother didn't step in and stopped his father. "And because of that Mom died."

Remembering what Luke gave him, the documents that Zary got worked in, got voided. He thought those documents would help but as before, he still failed to answer for his mother's death since she left.

Before he exploded, he passed them.

His father called him a few more times, and he just went upstairs to his room. There's an anger drawn on his face, while his father is still angry by his behavior and the second wife comforts him.