One Roof With Five Hot Jerks

Maxine’s Point of View

“How will you know if you have feelings for someone?” I asked while staring at my bread.NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.

I’m with Ferries and Angela. We’re in the rooftop eating our lunch.

“Do you like someone?” Angela asked before she took a bite to her cake.

I blushed, “I-I still don’t know that’s why I’m asking.”

“Well…” Ferries put down her utensils and stared at me, “Based on my experience, you will know that you like someone if your heart race whenever you’re with that someone. You feel comfortable or you feel safe around them. Your thoughts return to them regularly. Everything feels more exciting. You feel compassion for them. You feel a little jealous of other people in their life and you want to spend a lot of time together.”

Angela clapped her hand, “To whom did you feel those, Ferries?”

“Alyn,” Ferries answered without a second thought.

It was as if my heart pounded when I heard that from Ferries.

“Oops,” Angela covered her mouth and turned to me.

“What?” My brows furrowed.

Angela smiled and shook her head, “So, why did you asked how to know if you like someone?”

I averted my gaze, “J-Just curious.”

“I liked Alyn before. I have moved on already so you can have him,” Ferries said.

My eyes widened, “I didn’t say I like him!”

“Gosh,” Angela rolled her eyes. “Stop denying the obvious, Max. We’re not a fool.”

“I said, I-” I didn’t finish what I was going to say when Ferries spoke.

“Do you like Alyn?” She asked seriously.

Damn, it. Why are they insisting it? I said, no already but they keep on asking the same question.

“No. I said, no. I don’t like him. How many times do I have to tell you that?” My brows met, “Gosh, so annoying.”

“You heard that, Alyn?” Ferries asked. She uttered Alyn’s name even though Alyn is not here.

I jumped in surprised when the tarpaulin that was covering the long chair at the corner suddenly fell. But I was more surprised when Alyn sat down from lying down to the chair.

Is he still there? Did he hear what we were talking about?

Fuck, it. My heart won’t calm down.

“Yeah,” Alyn answered to Ferries.

“I think our work is done,” Ferries said.

“I thought so,” Alyn uttered. He stood up and covered the chair with the tarpaulin again.

“We’re still not done eating,” Ferries said and looked at her lunch box.

Is she still talking to Alyn?

“You can come down after you eat,” Alyn turned around, so he’s now facing us. When his eyes met mine, he immediately shifted his gaze to Ferries which made my heart aches.

“Okay,” Ferries answered. Then, Alyn left.

“Ferries,” I called her and she turned to me. “What do you mean by what you said, ‘our work is done’ ?” I asked.

“Ah… he asked us for help,” she said.

“W-What help?” I asked again.

“Hmm… Maybe you should ask him yourself,” she uttered. “But don’t get the wrong idea, when Angela and I said we wanted to be your friend, that was true.”

Angela nodded, “Yeah, that came out from our heart. We meant that. Alyn just talked to us when he found out that we were approaching you again.”

In the whole class, the word ‘our work is done’ was that only thing I could think of. Our professor called me for the recitation but I couldn’t answer because my mind was blank even though I reviewed earlier.

Should I just ask Alyn so I could get it out of my mind? What if he heard that I don’t like him? That I denied it over and over again like I was grossed out? But, so what if he heard? That was his fault because he was sleeping there and covering himself with the tarpaulin.

I’d like to ask him about that but when we got home I can’t talk to him. It’s already midnight and I can’t sleep.

I reached my phone on top of the side table and opened it. I opened my facebook account and scrolled through my feed. When I got bored, I switched to Instagram. After a few moments, I got bored again and just decided to turn off my phone.

I sighed and got up. I suddenly felt thirsty.

I went downstairs and went to the kitchen. I opened the lights and was startled when I saw Alyn there drinking alcohol.

My eyes widened. He just looked at me for a moment before he looked back to the bottle of alcohols in front of him.

Did GH know about this? What if GH caught him? Gosh, does he want to come back to that Island?

“W-Why are you drinking?” I asked and awkwardly approached him.

“Why are you still awake?” He asked before he drank.

“I asked you first,” I said. When I felt thirsty again, I went to the refrigerator and poured water into the glass.

“I just felt like it,” he answered. “Your turn.”

“I can’t sleep,” I answered after I drank the water.

“Were you thinking something?” He asked.

I walked towards him and sat beside him, “Yep.”

“Go back to your room and closed the lights here, I’m dead if GH found out I was drinking,” he uttered.

I pouted and stood up. I walked over to where the switch was and turned it off, then I went back next to Alyn.

“Won’t you ask me what I’m thinking so I can’t sleep?” I asked. He seemed startled because his hand flinched. Maybe he thought that I really leave.

“Why are you still in here?” He asked.

Wow, this guy! I will give him a question and he will give me another question. Wow.

“Just answer my question first,” I said.

He clicked his tongue, “So… what are you thinking about?”

I looked at the shot glass, “The word Ferries spouted at the rooftop.”

“What word?” He shook his shot glass before he drank what was inside.

“She said, ‘our work is done.’ What does she mean by that?” I asked.

“Ahh… I asked them to ask you if you like me,” he answered.

My eyes widened, “W-What? Why did you do that?”

He looked at me, “Because you kissed me.”

“Ah… uhm,” I averted my eyes.

Okay, I don’t know what to say. And because I can’t find a word to say, I took the shot glass from him and poured it with the alcohol.

“Hey,” he tried to stop me but I quickly drank it. “Why did you that? And why are you still here? Go back to your room,” he ordered like a daddy.

“I just… felt like drinking, too.” I replied.

“You can’t,” he uttered and he took the bottles away from me.

“I’ll show I can,” I stood up and quickly took the bottle and swallowed the alcohol continuously.

“Huh?!”

And the next I know was I was lying on the bed. I was about to get up when an arm stopped me. I turned to my left and saw Alyn looking at me.

“Where are you going?” He asked.

I closed my eyes when my head throb. Gosh, it hurts.

“Am I… in your room?” I asked before I laid down again.

“Yeah,” he answered. “You want to go back to your room? I can still carry you.”

I shook my head which worsen my headache and dizziness. Damn it, I shouldn’t have shaken my head.

“No, I want to stay here.” I opened my eyes and looked at him, “Can’t I?”

He smirked, “You can.”

“Alyn…” I touched his face and stared at his lips, “You’re becoming more handsome to my eyes. You’re giving me butterflies and you makes my heart race. Just what… am I feeling?”