04

Eccedentesiast.

It means, someone who hides pain behind a sweet and ensuring smile.

The first time I heard about that word. I agreed with it in an instant and considered myself as one of those thousand people who's suffering from it.

Whenever I'm alone I feel free but when I'm with someone or within a crowd, I feel tied up. I can't smile freely, talk freely and act freely. I'm like a puppet. Even if everything seems wrong for me I can't react. Even if I'm helpless and pained inside, I can't show it cause they can't see me being in suffer. Everything will just turn out worst. Worst than before.

"What the f*ck", he suddenly curse in front of my face.

My eyebrows met immediately because of what I heard, but before I could react he suddenly stand-up and fix his jacket. Now I can breath.

I blinked twice as I force and help myself to sit. My back still hurts. When will this hoodoo kind of life that I have, will stop?

I just wanna help and this happened.

I yelp when someone suddenly hold my arm and force me to stand up from where I'm sitting and trying to deal with my back pain.

"Ouch! That hurts", I stated and didn't mind to filter my pained voice.

"Are you crazy?", I would have been annoyed by what he said. My back hurts just because of my willingness to save his life and that's all he'll gonna say.

I was about say something but I felt different when I looked at his face directly. I cut myself off to what I wanna say. I just frowned.

He. He had a wound that turned black and stung by the side of his eye. Is he. Is he okay?

"Are you---are you okay?", a soft and only words that came out of my mouth.

I saw him frown.

"You--you have...", I uttered unsure while trying to point his wounds.

He blinked at me before he immediately averted his eyes from me and little by little I felt the relaxation of his grip on my arm. Then he finally let me go. I almost fell into my own feet just because he let go of my arm but I was able to control it immediately. I stand up straight in front of him but my eyes are fix into his flesh wounds.

"D-does that hurt? That needs to be treated---"

"I don't need your mercy, woman", he cut me off using his cold baritone voice.

"Leave", he followed at the same time as he threw a bad look at me. I swallowed up by the slight nervousness I felt inside.

His scary.

"Jayson! ", a loud and familiar voice suddenly called my name reason for me to look at the woman who shouted.

Tyrian.

"My goodness Jayson!! Are you nuts?! We've been looking for you almost an hour!", she loudly followed in between her gasps.

She's wearing her worried look while looking at me before she finally shifted her gazes to the man who's standing beside me. I saw how her eyebrows frown and wondered.

"Joven amo, la señora te busca ", it's a sudden and groin said by a man wearing a formal attire, from behind Tyrian. We turned our constant attention to him.

(Joven amo, la señora te busca - young master, madam's looking for you)

"¿Han terminado de reunirse?" , I heard him said in a different language that I can't understand at all. I look at the man beside me who just spoke but I can't see his full face anymore. He's wearing his black face mask and his hair are messier than before. He's looking directly at the man who just came out from nowhere.

(¿Han terminado de reunirse? - is the meeting over?)

"Si, joven maestro"

(Si, joven maestro - yes, young master)

I alternated my gaze to the two men talking using different language just until without any words, the man that I was talking to a while back walked away from where we were standing. He walked straight until she passed Tyrian's stand and he reach for the man wearing a formal black and white.

They left. The man left without saying thank you or sorry or something. But it's okay, I am used to it. He didn't even looked back until they disappeared from my sight, so my attention went to Tyrian and I saw how confused and surprised she was.

"Rian?", I called her name and so she finally looked at me.

"What. Was. That?!", she asked loudly well almost aloud as she looked at me like as if I committed a grave sin.

"What?", I asked her with wonder but she looked at me like I was a criminal. She finally walks towards me and stared at me.

"So, who is he?", she asked with a denunciating tone. I blinked at her as I realized something. Oh crappy! She misunderstood everything. She misunderstood what she saw, what had happened.

I winced.

"I know what you're thinking , Rian please drop that", I said indurated.

"Who is he?", Rian asked me again like she didn't hear what I just said. I sighed. This woman and her odd mind.

"I don't know", I honestly answered and her face turns blank.

"Your with that guy yet you don't know him?", she said as she threw me her as-a-mother-of-fact look at me. Now, how can I convince this woman? I'm telling her the truth but she doesn't believe me.

I shook my head and sighed.

"Where's manang?", I only asked to change the topic but this woman didn't give it up.

"Come on tell me. Who is he? Gosh! Is he your---your man?!", she suddenly asked aloud with a tone of excitement. I look at her dumbfounded.

What is she talking about?!

"What?", the only words that came out of my mouth.

"Is he your secret boyfriend, Jay?", she has that teasing tone and she even jokingly stabbed my side that as if she doesn't know that I have no tickle in that part.

"You're crazy. I don't even know that man besides only blind people could like a fatty woman like me", I said with a tired voice.

"Jayson", she called me with her serious voice.

"Just stating the truth"

"Shut up! "

And now she's grumpy. Tyrian isn't just my closest and only friend by the way but she's also my cousin in my mother side. She transferred into our campus this year and unexpectedly I became closed to her.

She care for me a lot and she doesn't like someone that's lowering themselves and basically, she hates me and she gets mad at me whenever I'm trying to lower down myself.

"You better tell me everything or else...Now let's go! Manang's been so worried. Your crazy! You even removed the niddle attached on your vein!", she said one after another before she finally supported me to walk slowly.

And there goes my back again.

"His just a stranger"

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