(A/N: Nice)
[Haley POV]
"What's wrong with you?!" Alex asked in confusion as I entered the room.
"Hmm? What's wrong with ?" I asked as I touched my face to understand what she was talking about.
"You look...relaxed...like you just got back from a spa or sothing." Alex said before she lost interest and continued reading her book.
I swallowed my saliva in fear of how sharp my sister was before I went under my blanket and pretended to go to sleep to avoid answering the question.
'Alex is so scary.' I thought. Edward managed to do what none of the other boys I dated before did, that was....granted permission to go 'down there.'
"But I cannot do that again!" I whined as I kicked up the blanket without getting my legs out of it. The feeling of 'what if' and 'if I could' kept haunting . Why did I ever decide to stay as friends with him?
"Shut up!" Alex scolded as I was too noisy while she was trying to study. I beca docile and laid down quietly in bed before I said to her, "What do you think about his song for you?"
"It's good." Alex replied curtly as she was disinterested in having the conversation with . I scoffed and said, "A song about... 'Friends.' HA! You're in the friend zone Alex!"
"Your song is about a girl who got dumped after a one night stand. I wouldn't be proud of it if I were you." Alex said sarcastically.
"NO! It's ABOUT FORBIDDEN LO... I an ummm being true to oneself ?? Yeah, being true to oneself !" I defended my song while throwing a bear doll at Alex. "JERK!"
[Haley's comntary]
"I nearly told Alex what happened, just minutes after being alone with her. What's wrong with ?? And Why did I want to tell her everything ??"
{comntary ends]
"Ow! SKANK!" Alex cursed as the bear hit her head.
"HMPH! I'm not talking to you!" I said as I angrily pulled the blanket to cover my face.
Alex turned off her desk lamp and went to bed 15 minutes later, making the entire room dark. She lost all mood to study after our short fight.
Underneath my blanket, I was having a truly intense struggle about my actions today.
"Why did I say he's not like other guys?! THAT ANT I DID A LOT OF GUYS! UGHH! He noticed, didn't he? ARHH!"
Although my words were on purpose to make him lose interest in , the way he reacted caused to admire him more. I guess he knew that I was only pretending to be a slutty girl, and was still a virgin at the ti. The skills were from mock practice! (cucumber lol)
'Haley Dunphy is the most popular girl in school! I got a reputation to keep!'
But now, I wasn't sure that being a popular girl was the path I wanted to take anymore. It was easy being dumb and pretty, but I always felt lonely – Like no one really understood in this world.
Ed spoke up for . He helped get closer to my mother. He sang a song for , and threw away his prejudice towards my grandmother just for us.
"It's not fair! He's too young. Why am I attracted to him?" I muttered. Abby's words about giving the green light for dating him in the future after she left, kept ringing in my mind. Blood rushed to my face as I thought about what we had done tonight.
I stared at my phone, and saw that it was almost 1 am.
"He's sleeping now...right? Or...Is he like – restless and unable to sleep, as he keeps thinking about what we did before- Argh Whatever!"
I reluctantly went to take a shower and clean up all of his traces from my body before I finally fell asleep that night. As if God wanted to torture , I dreamt about the both of us going 'all the way' as I gave him my first ti... I may pretend to be "slutty" but I wouldn't go so far as to actually be with soone that I wasn't sure was worth the experience.
[Jenna POV]
(A/N: She seems ntally unstable, which was on purpose. I will tell you why this bit was important during the decathlon arc)
-Evening, before the party had ended-
"Are you sure you're not coming with us?" Elsa asked before she and Jacob left Edward's house.
"Yeah. I'm going to stay for a while. Don't worry, my mom will send soone to co pick up."
As I waved goodbye to Jacob and Elsa, I went to Edward's kitchen and started avoiding him to make sure he didn't know I'd stayed behind. He did ask Alex about a few tis, but even Alex didn't realize that I was still there, and they ca to the conclusion that I had left with Jacob and Elsa to go to the cinema.
From there, I lurked around his house until everything was over.
"Oh...He's singing a song...for Alex?" I muttered in jealousy as I enjoyed watching him sing from the gap of the closet door I peeked through. He created a phenonal song as usual, but my heart felt uncomfortable as I saw him laughing around with the family.
"He never showed that kind of smile...ever..."
A sincere smile that showed he truly enjoyed the company of the family. A smile where he was comfortable to be himself around them.
"All I ever have is a teasing smile, or a kind smile, but never a sincere one."
The family had left now. It's just the two of us inside the house. My heart beats quickly as I follow him around without him realising it– not noticing how creepy my actions were. I just wanted to understand him better.
"He's....taking a shower!"
I took a small jump, giddily dancing around before silently walking toward the bathroom. I opened up the door and peeked at him from outside – but I was almost caught by him, therefore I could only see his body for a few seconds.
However, that was enough for to replay the mory while adding my imagination to it.
'It's big! AHH~!' I thought in excitent before running away to the closet. As I was stalking him, suddenly the doorbell rang.
"That's the girl...Haley...why is she here?" I thought as I saw her sitting next to Ed on the couch. I couldn't hear what they were talking about, but their conversation was heated. Suddenly, their conversation turned physical and they were doing adult things in the living room.
"NO! He's MINE!" I muttered in dissatisfaction as I watched the whole thing. I got turned on watching them, and my hand unconsciously slid into my panties as I watched. However, they didn't have sex with each other, and I found out that they agreed to end their entanglent today.
'So they are broken up? I'm confused.'
My breath beca heavy as I dazedly entered Edward's room while he was sleeping. I gazed at his face and muttered, "Liar. You told you liked smart girls."
"You told you liked milfs."
"But then you do that with Haley, so What am I supposed to do now?"
"She's like , you know? So why couldn't it be ?"
Without realizing it, tears fell out of my eyes as I asked the sleeping Ed my questions. I slowly got into bed with him, and I cuddled with him. I touched his 'weapon', but the mont I did that, I rembered how angry he was when Madelyn slighted him before.
'Actions...have consequences...If he knew I was here...then I guess he would get a restraining order against ...'
I finally realized that I had been creeping around him for too long, and I left soon after– but not till I got a sample of what he tasted like– kissing his lips before disappearing. My driver had already waited 6 hours outside the house so I just silently got into the car.
I left Edward's neighborhood around 2.30 am and went straight ho. My tears kept falling down during the whole ride before I went and locked myself in my room so as to not let anyone know about it.
[Edward POV]
In the small, teenage boy room.
"Why is my face wet?" I thought as I woke up from my 4 hours sleep. I reached for my phone to turn off the alarm before I stared at the ceiling, trying to check if there was any leak from the roof or water damage, but I didn't find any.
"Weird."
I washed my face and opened up my laptop after drinking a cup of coffee before I started the usual grind.
"I missed this." I muttered as I finished up the Flappy Bird ga. In my previous life, not sleeping at night to work on bugs and fullstack coding was a normal occurrence. Although I didn't wish to return to that kind of life, I have to admit I missed the experience.
I had managed to launch an animated trailer for the ga thanks to Pepper's connection, but I had only posted it on Youtube a few days back. Although it hadn't reached 1 million views yet, the feedback around the trailer was very good, and people were excited.
Also a few days ago, I noticed that I had a fan club page on Facebook that had just been created 3 days ago and had already reached 31,000 followers. The agency reached out to the fan club and found out it was created by Lily– the sa girl who gave the "Fairytail" keyword during my last concert.
She was flabbergasted when the agency contacted her, and our company soon reached an agreent with her to cooperate in running the page thus making it my official fan club.
"Let's see. I need to put the terms and agreent in." I muttered as I inserted the terms that Harvey had drafted after I shared her possible reactions from the users who downloaded the ga. The terms and agreent would help to avoid possible lawsuits against those who were utterly broken by the ga.
"The reason Flappy Bird beca viral was because of the ga's difficulty. It would be stupid for to lower my difficulty here in the world. But...seriously, it will be launched 3 years earlier. Will it still be a viral ga?"
Even though I had so concerns about the ga release date, I still continue to code while waiting for the ga launch. An official notice was posted on my fan club page about a ga I created, and how I made the songs inside the ga too.
"Although it's just a quirky soundtrack."
At 6 am, suddenly soone knocked on my bedroom door three tis. Dad opened the door and greeted while standing in front of my bedroom without walking in, "Hey. I saw the light was up. You're catching the sunrise?"
I turned slightly to the left to et his eyes as he opened the door. I rolled my eyes when I heard his greeting and said sarcastically, "You'll never find waking up early to catch the sunrise."
Dad smiled and asked, "Are you finishing the ga? Is there still much work to be done?"
"Just sanding off the rough edges. I'll finish soon." I answered dismissively as my fingers continued to type on the keyboard. I had to split my focus with parallel thinking to do so, otherwise it would be impossible for anyone to code without looking at the screen.
"Okay. Do you want to bring you breakfast?" Dad offered.
"That'll be great. Thank you. I want hash browns and coffee."
"Wait- Do you want to go out and buy it?" He was flabbergasted as we usually didn't go out to buy breakfast. Not since I unlocked my previous life mory a month ago.
"Of course. The fridge is empty. I served all the food at the beta testing yesterday. There's only the 'Ropa Vieja' left. Do you want to have that for breakfast?"
Dad gulped his saliva and said, "I'll go out and get it for you. Do you want anything else?"
"Nah. I'm good. Pepper is coming here at 8, so buy so for him too."
"Okay.For the record I... still think that I should take the day off today."
He felt bad as he couldn't be here for the launch. Although I was the one who decided he should go do the trip for a few movie studio execs, he couldn't help but have a guilty conscience about it.
"It's all right. You need to do your job properly if you want the business to grow. I'm already searching for another ship captain, and we're now leveraging the ship to buy another boat. We're taking over all the business at the port anyway."
"Hmm...A few businesses tried to create their own websites, but all of them suck. They desperately tried to convince to introduce them to the web developer, but..." Dad snorted as he rembered the other business owner's reaction. "...all of them were frozen when they heard my son made the company's website."
I laughed and said, "They didn't even know that?-"
Before I could continue, a lightbulb was turned on inside my head.
"Wait...I think...I can do it...Absorb them all- No Dad this isn't the ti! I need to focus on my work here!"
Dad was puzzled and he said defensively, "I didn't even say anything."
"Go get my breakfast. Quick. I'm really hungry."
"Okay. I'll make sure to bring a big portion for you."
I nodded at my dad before he closed the door and went out to the restaurant.
...
[3rd Person POV]
Ted drove 15 minutes toward another part of town where he arrived at a restaurant Edward had recomnded to him.
"Hash Browns, muffins, coffee, and bagels to go please." Ted ordered with the waitress after sitting down on an empty chair.
Maxine, the kind southern woman replied teasingly, "A big breakfast love? I thought you were dieting based on your son's order?"
"It's for him. He's working hard right now, so I'm bringing it over to him." Ted replied as he felt comfortable around Maxine already as this was his 7th visit.
He usually stopped by after work, as he wanted to get lunch together with the ship's crew at the restaurant. All this was thanks to Maxine who always treated them kindly, every single ti they visited so they all frequented the place.
"Wait. he's already working?" A feminine voice interjected to Ted and Maxine's conversation. Ted turned his head around the restaurant to scan for the source of the voice before he found a pair of mother and daughter were sitting behind him.
"Oh hi Abby. And... Desiree."
Both of them decided to go out for breakfast, and didn't expect to see Ted there.
Abby had turned her waist fully to face Ted and she asked again, "He's working this early in the morning?"
Maxine was baffled when she realized it and added, "On A SATURDAY!?" Then, she hit Ted's shoulder.
"OWW! I didn't force him to work, but yeah, he did wake up early. Maybe around 4 am."
"4 AM!?" Maxine exclaid in bewildernt and hit Ted's shoulder again.
"Stop that!" Ted said while rubbing the sore spot on his shoulder.
"He's supposed to sleep in and wake up late in the afternoon. Like ordinary boys would. I'm not giving you coffee." Maxine said before she walked to the kitchen.
"...the coffee's for though." Ted muttered but Maxine had already walked away.
Desire looked at Ted's uniford attire while biting her lower lip. She especially enjoyed seeing his big arms, and kept staring at Ted without him noticing it.
Abby had fallen deep in thought about Edward, so she said, "Mr...Newgate. You're going to work right? I can give Edward his breakfast if you want."
Ted thought for a few seconds before saying, "I don't want to trouble you-"
"It's not troubling at all! I'll be glad to do it!" Abby said.
"I thought we were going to the mall?" Desire mumbled in disappointnt while looking dejected.
"We can go in the afternoon. I want to see him launching his ga." Abby said to try and comfort her mother.
"He said it's not worth seeing. He would just upload the ga to the store...and that's it." Ted said, not to prevent Abby from going over there, but it was what Edward had said to comfort him for missing the launch event.
"Then I'll just go to give him breakfast." Abby said decisively. Desiree sighed and turned to Ted.
"How about this? After you finish, co pick up at the Marina. I want to see the port as I have never gone there before." Desiree said. "I'll hitch a ride with Captain Ted- if that's alright with you?"
Ted gulped his saliva as he saw Desiree batting her eyes at him. "O-Okay. We can do that."
"Excellent." Desiree said as she moved her seat to sit at Ted's table. She lightly touched Ted's arm as she talked with him about how his son saved her before, and kept being flirty with him.
However, Abby still didn't realize what her mother was doing as she was too absorbed with the whole Ed situation.
"What should I say when I enter his house? Breakfast is here? What if he thinks I am the food? Will he eat ? Ehehe~" She mumbled gleefully as she waited for the order to arrive. Maxine returned with the food soon after, and Abby grabbed the packaged food from Maxine before she could put it down on the table.
"I'll et you there!" Abby said as she waved goodbye to her mother.
"No rush~!" Desiree replied as she dragged her words before running her hands up and down Ted's biceps again. "Oh. You're so hard. You must work out a lot." She said as she 'accidentally' squeezed Ted's arm.
"*Ehem* I do...quite a bit." Ted replied with a flushing face as he still hadn't taken the hint despite Desiree's advances toward him.
Abby texted Haley before she drove to Ed's house in excitent, not knowing how her text ssage would make Haley react. But she was lucky as there was no way for Haley to wake up in the early morning on a Saturday.
Haley was still sleeping, with her hair unkempt and her mouth half opened. A strand of hair was stuck on her face because of the drool coming out of her mouth. Her phone chid a few tis, but she didn't even flinch at the sound.
"Mom. I'm going to Edwards house to pick up my bike!" Luke ran toward the front doors without wearing his pants from his excitent.
"Luke! Pants first!" Claire yelled at him from the kitchen. Luke finally realized he was in his tighty whities as he looked at his legs. He ran up to his room, passing by Alex who was going downstairs while reading the novel, "The Scarlet Letter."
"Honey. Can you please go with Luke to get his bike back? He finished all of his chores today." Claire requested with a kind voice as Alex rarely gave her trouble when asked to do sothing.
"No problem. I'll make sure he won't get his bikes back. That way, he will clean up the toilet after using them." Alex said casually and before Claire could react, she was already outside the door.
"This might be a mistake." Claire muttered in concern. Then she shrugged and exclaid dismissively, "Oh well," before going to the kitchen to make breakfast for the kids. Phil had an open house to attend today, and left the house around 6 am, so he couldn't co with Luke in his quest to finally reclaim what was his.
...
[Edward POV]
"Bagel." I ordered.
A pale white hand picked up the bagel and fed while I was focusing on finishing the ga.
"Coffee." I ordered.
Abby picked up the cup of coffee she got from my kitchen and said in dissatisfaction while feeding the coffee, "This wasn't what I expected when I ca here today."
"What Did you expect?" I smirked teasingly as I glanced at her. She avoided my eyes and answered with a stutter, "A-Anyway. Are you finished?"
"Soon. I'm compiling." I said as I took a break from my laptop. I stretched my arms to the air as I let out a grunt. I massaged my right shoulder after that.
"Are you okay?" Abby asked in concern.
"I'm just tired." I replied.
"I'll help you massage it." Abby said before she stood behind and put her hands on my shoulders. Right then, Alex and Luke barged into my room.
"Hey, you didn't lock the door. That's dangerous." Alex said casually as I turned toward her with a surprised expression.
"I want my bike. I did the chores. I want it." Luke demanded as he held his right arm towards .
"Speak politely." I said with a devilish grin.
Luke whimpered before he changed his attitude, "May...May I have my bike back...please..sir?"
"You don't have to call sir. Sure you can get your bike back. You did well. Of course, you could have gotten it earlier if you had just listened to in the first place, but this is good too." I said as I threw him the key to his bike lock.
"This is for the new bike. Co by next week and we will get started on pimping out your old bike."
"Yes!!" Luke shouted in excitent as his misery was over. I do hope he learnt sothing from this lesson and will apply it in his daily life after this.
I turned to Alex who had a smile on her face as she was infected by her brother's excitent. Although she always teased him , she was genuinely happy for him too when he achieved anything.
Alex noticed I was staring at her and hid her smile imdiately.
"No. I'm just happy I don't have to report to you anymore. It's exhausting to have to supervise him."
"Sure. Let's go with that excuse." I said teasingly , making Alex avoid my eyes in embarrassnt.
"Hello children!" Suddenly Pepper appeared from behind Luke and Alex, startling everyone there.
"That's a bit of an overreaction. I told you I was coming. I thought that's why you didn't lock the door." Pepper said as he barged into the room. He looked at Abby who was frozen in spot while still holding my shoulder and said, "You guys have broken up... right?"
"R-Right-"
"Hey. Continue massaging. Alex, follow Luke to fetch the bike. Don't let him touch anything else in the garage."
"Sure." Alex replied.
"I don't need a babysitter!" Luke said in annoyance.
Pepper waited downstairs for to finish with my ga. I uploaded the ga exactly at 9 am and was finally finished with my first project in this world. I released 2 versions of the ga, one with an ads option, one without. The one without cost 99￠ a month while the other one was free.
"Now. We wait." I muttered before Abby suddenly hugged in excitent. "Congrats Eddy. I'm sure the ga will do well! It's very fun!"
"Sure. Sure. But stop rubbing your body on . I haven't had a bath yet." I said while patting Abby's back. She released and blood rushed to her face as she was embarrassed.
Directly after Abby released , which took only a few seconds, I saw the data on the screen.
" Already 100 downloads? Damn."
The downloads numbers kept increasing and it reached 10,000 in just an hour, but I was no longer monitoring them as I had to follow Pepper to the recording studio.
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