Chapter 2

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Dressed in just a plain striped t-shirt and faded jean, Jamie locked the door to his mini studio apartment, putting the key into his cross bag. He made his journey towards his place of work.

Checking the time on his rose gold colored iPhone7, 7:37AM. The school opens at 9AM. Jamie is used to leaving his house very early, the school is not really far from his house, a bit far but not tgat far and Jamie loves walking there every morning. It gives him more time to be by himself and think.

It's not like he had much to think about but still, he had come to love the feeling of just walking by himself, getting to take a glance at his surroundings and see the environment from his own perspective.

Maybe from the old granny feeding the stray cats that had make it a regularity to come to her house for food to the mother who kissed her daughter goodbye every morning when she was about entering her school bus to the mini shops opening down the street or to the street vendor pushing his food down the street in a cart, maybe they did gives him the solace that he is not alone. But he really didn't know, he just knew he like how he felt after seeing all this.

With the school coming into view, Jamie branched the tea shop closeby to the school as he made to get himself his regular.

"Hi" Jamie said softly to the guy at the counter whom he had gotten acquainted with.

"The usual?" The boy whose name Jamie didn't bother knowing asked as he nod. "Yes"

"Coming right up." The guy who seems to be probably in his late twenties said as Jamie gave another short nods shifting his weight from one leg to another patiently waiting for his order.

"Here goes your regular milk tea and pink bubble tea" The guy comes back less than two minutes later with the two orders in different package bag.

Jamie could noticed the way some of the customers are looking at him for ordering a pink tea. They just don't see it as a normal thing for a guy in his twenties ordering a pink tea.

"I hope the lovely girl likes her pink tea, I added some extra boba's for her" The guy said coming to Jamie aids which the customer seems to believe as one could noticed the look of relief on their faces making Jamie wondered if it's really that weird he was ordering a pink tea.

Jamie really likes the tea, the color was just the tip of the iceberg, the taste and flavor that accustomed the tea almost gives him this unexplained feeling and no the tea boy didn't make up the story of him getting the tea for a supposed girl, Jamie had made that up himself to make himself less embarrassing when ordering it. He had told the guy the first time he ordered it that he was buying it for a girl at his place of work.

"T-thanks" Jamie collected the tea after paying for it walking out of the tea shop hurriedly. He couldn't bare to stay an extra seconds in there any longer.

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"Morning" Jamie placed the regular milk tea in front of Liam-the supposed girl he was buying the drink for before he made to walk towards his class.

Liam look up from his phone staring from the milk tea to Jamie. "The same regular? Atleast get me other things or the same pink as yours if you really want to get me a tea, I am starting to get fed up of the regular" Liam whines.

"Nah, that will make things weird if I ordered two pink tea"

"Ugh, you are no fun. No one will bite you for buying pink tea for yourself Jamie." Liam said before picking up the tea to feast on it.

Jamie just shrugs as he also pop open his tea drinking it before the parents will starts arriving with their kids.

"So how are you?" Liam said "how was your night?" he added.

"The same everyday" Jamie replied nonchalantly not looking up from his drink.

Liam had made it his everyday routine to ask Jamie how he was doing and the other also replying him with the same answer every single time. It's not like he was lying. He had no special thing to talk about, it's just him going back home, finding something to eat and then him being in his little space for as long as he remember. Sleep off and wake up the next morning for the routine to be repeated again.

Liam nods. He placed down his tea before giving Jamie a full focus, "So what about what I discussed with you yesterday? About the caregiver."

" The guy is really interested in you, I showed him your picture and he likes you and you really have nothing to worry about. He is a close friend of mine and had being into this for as long as I could remember"

Liam had talked to Jamie the previous day about him getting a caregiver to spice up his daily routine a bit, but Jamie just don't think he was ready for that. He doesn't want to be paired up with someone he doesn't know too well.

Liam being a caregiver himself, Jamie would had loved if Liam had became his caregiver instead but Liam had his little girl already. His girlfriend.

Jamie didn't want to be paired up with just some random stranger he got introduced to, It doesn't matters to him if he had been a caregiver for a long time. He just doesn't think he want that.

What if he was aggressive with him or thinks he is being too much? Or what if he is the hardcore type who doesn't know how to treat him well?, and-the sex, what if he is the rough type? And what happened to his last little boy or girl? what was the reason he or she is not with him again?. Jamie had a lots of questions which he can never bring himself to ask. He rather just keep things to himself and forget about having a caregiver until he is very sure he is fully ready.

Not like he doesn't want to have a caregiver or be cared for. He just doesn't think he is ready for that yet.

"My answer still stand the same, no."

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