I was hungry, damn

Prescilla's pov:

"You wanna grab a bite, darling?" Dae Hyun asks me.

I nod "There's a Japanese restaurant somewhere near our apartments, I've been there once and I loved it, what say? Let's grab something for us to eat and then on our way, some Thai food for Hazu" I suggest.

"Sure, let's have our food first" he said.

I stand up and stepped on the grass from the blanket and he does the same followed by picking up the blanket and folding it.

We take our seats in the car and he starts to drive until we reached our apartment building.

"Where to go from here?" he ask me.

"Just go straight and take the second left and again.... Wait" I stop not remembering the place correctly. "Just go and I'll tell you"

In a couple of few minutes, we reached the restaurant, thankfully enough, I have a good memory.

I order a sushi and he does the same. As I was fiddling with the cover of my chopstick, unsure of what to say or what to do, Dae Hyun drops the silence.

"So what do you do? I mean your work" he asks.

"I am a wedding planner, got my degree three years ago"

"Cool huh"

"Yeah"

"When did you meet Hazel?"

Only hazel, I guess he doesn't know about Mk and Sienna yet.

"Actually, we met in an apartment, four years ago, she had some money given to her by her parents so she could afford lease for the apartment, and she shared it with another girl. It was a place big enough for four people, but they had to close two rooms because of some problems in it, there wasn't a window in one, which means no proper ventilation. And the other room was practically having cracks, and in rainy days, one would easily catch a cold even when they have heater in that room. Our apartment was on the top-most floor, so it was very cold there and also the last room where it were only two residents in it."

It felt as if one of those videos in social media where one asks a woman or a man how they met the love of their life and they explain the entire story to them.

He nods, "Let me guess, that another girl's name was Mary something? And then you three became thick as thieves and then met another girl later that year" he said.

He's definitely done some research on us.

"Yep, Sienna was the fourth one among us, because she's the youngest one and joined us later. And we became thick as thieves"

"So where are the other two girls?"

"Actually, we decided to shift somewhere since they – Mary and her – have completed their degrees, we thought to try a place which isn't as shitty as The Meadows – the apartment where we met – so just the two of us moved here."

What a lie! I love my lying skills. A chef kiss to my parents who made me.

"But you have two bedrooms in your current one don't ya?"

Shit! Why did he have to know that? What lie should I throw on his bucket now?

"Yeah, because we still aren't quite successful to pay for bigger flat, even though all of us are working now we don't make enough money to pay for bigger flat with four rooms. And we prefer to share our bedrooms, like if one has a nightmare or something they'll always have someone by them to calm their asses down –"

The waiter cut us off by bringing out food and prevented me from lying even more. I love this place now, I'm giving a five star to this restaurant even if their food didn't taste good which it does.

"Let's have food, I'm starving" I say and dig in.

On our way back home, we saw that the Thai restaurant was closed, maybe there was some problem, but we – me and the girls – have come here many times to hang out, this was basically one of our favorite restaurants.

"Let's go there." He pointed towards another restaurant nearby which I don't remember I have seen before now. I haven't been in this area since like eight months, so I guess they opened a new restaurant now.

It was an Indian restaurant. The door chimed as we entered it, like cafes. Talking about café, I haven't had a coffee since ages. I need to drink one now, maybe not now, or Hazu would kill me to intake caffeine at night. I will have a morning coffee with her tomorrow of she is up for it.

A man – probably in his forties – in red turban with beard and big moustache which covered half his face was at one of the tables, in an apron, which was quite stylish, unlike what I have seen on other workers. And from stylish, I mean, it was having golden borders and 'head chef' written in cursive at the front. He was the owner, maybe, because sometimes, owners are head chefs too, but who knows.

Dae Hyun ordered some Indian dish while I waited by his side and when the parcel came out, and headed back.

Hazel's pov:

I enter the apartment by taking the key out from the pot nearby, thanking God for not letting anyone see it there or our things – which aren't much here – would have been stolen. After setting my bag down, I plop myself on couch, relaxing on it, closing my eyes for too long that I almost fell asleep. That's what I'm perfect at, – other than many other things – sleeping whenever and wherever.

I open my eyes and walk into our room, and set the bags at the foot of the bed and decided to look into the other room. A hint of Lavender and peppermint's scent, which is Pres's scent, was lingering the room, and my books were kept as how I left them here, a month ago.

In the other room, the sheets and the couch chair were covered in dust and as soon as I lifted the blanket, I start sneezing. Being allergic to dust is one type of curse. I practically ran out of the room for my sneezing not to get worse. But it always takes the worst of me; I can never stop sneezing and my runny nose when I have an allergic reaction. Thank god I don't get in much worse condition than sneezing for hundreds of times, like my mother who used to get rashes on her skin right where she came in contact with the dust particles.

After unpacking all of my stuff and Pres's stuff, I was pretty bored so I went into the kitchen to see what I have in the fridge to cook after checking time that it was already nine. The time span when they – Pres and Dae Hyun – made me wait had already made me hungry.

Wow, she didn't have anything to cook, what was she eating all those days? Let's ask that once she gets back. I went into our room to find my phone; I pressed the power button attempting to bring the phone back to life if Pres didn't let the phone die. Thanking her mentally, I called the first number in my missed calls.

"Hello." I say, grinning as an idiot.

"Hazu?" she asks, her voice shaky, just as how a long lost mother would sound. Mk was always worried about everyone. Being the oldest among us all, she thought that our responsibility was on her.

I move my phone away from my ear to switch the call to Face-Time her. She gasps and covers her mouth which was agape due to the shock, a good one. Her eyes widen "I missed you Hazu" she whispers, finally removing her hand from her mouth.

"I missed you too Mk." I replied

"How – When – wait. You're back?"

"Yes."

"Like back back? Back for good?" she asked.

"Yes Mk. Back for good. And I have literally too many things to tell you that I don't know I could survive without saying them at the instant." I said.

"Well, go on, let's talk about your disappearance later when it's appropriate" she said, with a smile which screamed 'I fucking missed you bitch'.

"Well, first, I'm glad that I didn't agree to get that promise ring with sienna that day" I whisper, feeling as if I was hiding one of my biggest secrets, I've never hidden anything from her. Not a single thing. Yep, none. And we've literally made our own meanings behind the rings, we were about to get the rings as an engagement to our nonexistent boyfriends.

"Oh." She says, "Wait! What? Are you serious? How did it all happen? Who's the guy?" she rained questions on me after realizing what I said.

"Actually it not a guy, its guys" I reply.

"This is not a time to be unserious, Hazu. You've never been with even one man before now, and you've shagged more than one? If one's lying, then they should lie as if the lie would seem as truth. If you were to lie, say something believable."

I laugh at her teaching me how to lie.

"Who's one the line?" Sienna's voice was heard from the background.

"Come over" Mk said.

She came in the view and nearly choked up, yeah, we're pretty dramatic, but that's what makes us best friends, right?

"Hazu. How are doing? When did you return? Where's pres? We've been calling her but she isn't picking up any of our calls. Do you know where she is?" now it was her to shower me in questions.

"Whoa, whoa. Calm down, geez. Actually, I returned now. A few minutes ago, Prescilla is out with that mafia boy who was – I mean, Is – her crush. I've been feeling alone so I called Mk, hers was the last missed call I got. And yeah, I'm fine because I had three pretty girls from my gang who had my back and were always praying for me to return safe and sound" I say.

"Jesus, no. I'd never pray for you. All I knew you'd find your way back here or it would have been us to come to your rescue." Mk winked.

"But I was praying for you to be safe and sane where ever in the chocolate fudge you were" Sien says, she never cursed; it'd have been a rare occasion for her to cuss at something. Occasions like when she got shot or fell from her bike or anything like that, and those rarely happened now, since she was quite trained, longer than us.

"Also, a little birdie said that you've lost your innocence to someone" she says, making me glare at Mk who was saying me that she didn't say anything to her. She was right; I was here when Sien joined the call. And Mk didn't say anything to her; she might have overheard our conversation.

"Who? You or Mk?" I playfully ask.

Sienna flashes her promise ring to me from the other side of the screen and says "We all know that Mk lost it before she met us, I mean before she met Pres or me, and you knew her back then before us. So it's you who I'm talking about" I smile at the memory. The memories hitting me back of when it were only me and Mk who were friends back then since the other two girls are younger, and Mk was admitted a year later than usual kids do into school so we both were of same classes when we met.

"Yeah, so...." I start, "Never mind. But it were the mafia king, and the nerdy hacker and their second best gunman"

"You've had a foursome?" Mk asks, her eyes wide and her jaw was practically on the floor

"Yeah. And close your mouth or a fly will enter; you don't like that, do you?" I say.

"Okay, everything aside, who's who in them?" Sien asked. She looked as if I was seeing her daily, I closed my eyes and tried to recall, she resembled Jinah, I don't know why and how but she does.

I blinked a several times while thinking of the right answer to tell her. I mean, I was trying to remember their roles in the mafia group.

"The mafia king is Ha Jun, I don't know what made them chose him as one but yeah they did, maybe there was some politics in it but why am I giving my guesses and opinions? And first best gunman and a hacker is Chin Hua, the one Pres is shagging up along with the weapons' in charge or whatever the fuck you call him." I said.

"Wait, pres too? And I think that weapons' in charge is Dae Hyun?" Sien asked.

"Yes and yes" I replied.

"What's the name of the second best gunman you're fucking?" Mk asked.

"Do Yun" I replied dryly, but only if my body doesn't react in a way that makes me arch my back whenever I think about the guys fucking me like animals.

"And there comes a nerdy hacker who's this taller and buffer than anyone in them, Joon Wo. Then the devils in form of angels, I seul and Ji ho, they're..... Like hawks, keeps an eye on everything and I noticed, they were the only guys not being in someone's pants. When we were still studying, while me and Ji Ho shared classes, we played a game with other classmates, where a girl asked him about his virginity, he said he was a virgin and I think that he have kept it that way since. Both of them are thick as thieves, they never leave the other behind in whatever they do. As if they are twins. Mk might have met Ji ho once or twice, even. They maybe security in-charges" I say, getting the images of them when any woman tried to approach them, they would just stick to each other and shoo away the woman. Wow.

"Interesting" Sienna said.

"So..." Mk started. "The mission you were on when you were –" I cut her off by widening my eyes as a hint not to talk about it since I heard the main door open and close followed by muffled noises.

"I guess they're here. I'm sorry to end the conversation right now but –" now it was my turn to get cut off mid conversation when Prescilla called out my name.

"Hazu? Are you asleep? I brought food" she shouted standing in the living room then lets out a giggle which followed a male voice.

I waved them goodbye and mouthed them 'did you hear that?'

They nod and we hang up.

The thought of food made me hungry once again. I can never resist food. Never.

I plug in my phone since the charge was almost nearing to twenty percent I literally walked into the living room to see them shoving their tongues down their throats. I cleared my throat making them yank out of each other's arms, and fix their clothes and messy hair.

"Food?" I ask, reaching out for it from my palm.

She hands over a bag to me and said, "This is from the new restaurant near that Thai restaurant we used to go. It's Indian."

That made me smile, she has no idea of who am I or where I am from, but she does this thing she always does and probably is obsessed with – taking care of our likes and dislikes. Though I have never admitted I like Indian food nor have I eaten some with them around, but she made a thought and brought me it.

"You ate?" I ask.

"Yep" she answers.

"Okay then I guess I have to eat this alone"

I didn't like to leave my loved ones while eating.

I plopped my butt on the couch and tuned into Netflix while eating the food. I loved spicy food, and it felt amazing to eat spicy food.

India is known for their spices since centuries, and I must say, it taste wonderful. I regret not having birth in the country. It's beautiful, worth going for a long trip. I am damn sure it's worth it.

Both of them stood up after eye-fucking each other and pretending as if I didn't notice them even though they know I have seen them.

"I plan on sleeping tonight, make sure not to break the bed" I say without removing my eyes from the telly in front.

Dae Hyun nearly chokes and Prescilla blushes, hard but I ate silently as if nothing happened.

"We weren't gonna do that" Pres said and he nodded.

I roll my eyes and took a large bite of the flat, rubbery bread dipped in chicken gravy and practically melting into the spicy taste, creamy-buttery texture and deliciously cooked chicken. At least I know how to eat Indian food. Thank god.

"Do what? Explicate what you thought I mean" I say, my mouth full of food.

"You meant we were gonna bang, didn't ya?" she asks.

"Nah, no shagging will take place in my residence, you know it. I meant, as a kid you are, don't jump on the bed like you used to do. This bed seems older and you have grown up and added few pounds, didn't you?" I said.

She blushes in embarrassment and moves inside the room and they started talking with each other about I don't know what.

I wasn't interested in what I was watching so I switched it into Kingsmen: the secret service. What? I like those movies and they somehow remind me that I have to do something like that in my future life. Going against the villain in my life: Amadore. Well anyway, let's concentrate on Taron Egerton starring as Eggsy.

Somehow, I ended sleeping on the couch after my dinner and the movie. I didn't even know when Dae Hyun left. When I woke up in the middle of the night to pee I saw that Prescilla was snuggled up in blankets and then slept beside her after doing my business.