Dance Video

Kinsley smiled but still didn't reply to Elliot's message in the end. He instead put his phone back in his pocket and walked out of the hospital in large strides.

Then, he hailed a cab and told the driver to go to the nearest public market.

Not long later.

The taxi cab arrived at the city's biggest market. Kinsley immediately paid the fare for the cab, alighted the vehicle, then went inside the market.

Kinsley spent an entire afternoon inside the market buying ingredients. He had initially entered the market empty-handed, but the moment he stepped out, his hands were already holding several plastic bags.

He wore a satisfied smile on his face as he managed to buy everything he could think of in the market. He even bought them at discounted prices thanks to his peerless haggling skills.

While he was happily checking his plastic bags, he was suddenly interrupted when he heard loud booming shouts not far from his place.

He subconsciously looked up and saw the long line of taxi cabs together with the taxi drivers tens of meters away from him.

At this moment, the taxi drivers were all smiles as they enthusiastically waved their hands at him, asking him his destination.

Their intentions were quite obvious.

Kinsley: "..."

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The cab parked in front of the residential building's entrance. He took his phone out and scanned the taxi's QR code to pay the fare.

[Your account XXXXXX paid P142.18.] (A/N: 1 US Dollar = 50 Philippine Peso)

After that, he got out of the vehicle and went inside the tall residential building.

A while later.

Ding!

The elevator arrived on the 12th floor and opened.

Kinsley stepped out of the elevator and strode to where his room unit was located. When he arrived in front of his room unit, he immediately stretched his finger out and inserted it inside the small fingerprint scanner.

When the door unlocked, a small beep sounded.

Kinsley pushed the door open and closed it afterward before he went to the kitchen to drop off the plastic bags. After a while, he walked to the living room and tiredly sat on the soft sofa.

The instant his body touched the sofa, he immediately closed his eyes and let out a long comfortable sigh, "Haa…"

An entire minute passed like this when he suddenly opened his eyes again and exclaimed, "Right! What time is it?" he hurriedly took his phone out and looked at the time.

[17:42]

Kinsley was taken aback when he saw that it was already this late. He didn't expect that time had unknowingly passed so fast.

In the end, he could only sigh since there was nothing he could do about it. "It's quite fortunate I got back before dusk or I wouldn't have had any time to prepare the dishes…"

However, despite his mutterings, Kinsley was still lazily fiddling with his phone and cozily warming himself up on the sofa like he didn't have any plans on standing up at all. (A/N: This was supposed to be written as 'warming his b*tt' but I don't know if the word is allowed here so I could only change it to the safer option.)

He opened his messaging app, but when he found that he still hadn't received any new messages, he couldn't help but silently raise his brows in surprise.

'Elliot should've already arrived at his friend's gathering party by now, right?' he thought, wondering why Elliot still hadn't sent him a message whether he already arrived at his friend's despedida¹ or not.

He mulled over it for a while before he refrained from sending Elliot a message. He already heard Elliot's promise anyway. Thus, he could only trust his little brother and wait for him to return.

So, Kinsley closed his messaging app, opened the BlingBling app, and went to his bookmarked videos. He had a video he didn't get to finish earlier, so he could only place it on his bookmarked page to watch later.

Now that he had the time to do so, Kinsley didn't hesitate to open his bookmarks and search for the said video.

However, he wasn't in a hurry to click the video open. His finger hesitantly hovered over the screen for some time before he gritted his teeth and decisively clicked the video open.

When the video finally played, Kinsley saw a tall man standing inside of what seemed to be a brightly-lit and spacious dance studio.

The man was wearing a plain black sweater and loose gray pants, a black bucket hat that covered most of the man's facial features, and a pair of white sneakers.

A few seconds later.

Kinsley heard loud korean-pop music playing in the background. Its lilt was fast and exciting and made his eyes lit up with surprise.

He didn't have deep knowledge when it came to a music's intricate details and only judged whether a music sounded good or not. So, he couldn't say for sure whether the music was good from a musician's perspective or not.

However, in Kinsley's perspective, he could say that the music was a bop since it could manage to stimulate his feelings to a certain extent.

On the other hand, when the music started playing, the man in the video finally moved his body and danced.

Kinsley looked on with a pair of sharp eyes as he silently scrutinized the man's movements. He took in every single bit of detail that the man showed in the video as he danced.

He saw how the man moved his entire body like he had no bones, saw how his legs bend and jump on the floor, and also saw how his arms rhythmically moved in the air as they swung along with the beat.

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[1] a social event to mark a person's departure; a going-away party.

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P.S. I'm really sorry for the super later update since Christmas made me quite busy that I lost time to write a chapter.

P.P.S. Thank you to d_reen as always for the powerstone votes~!