Chapter 7 slurry

I asked Bryden and didn’t mind the man in front of me.

He seemed surprised when I asked.

"Hmm. Yeah," Bryden didn't expect that I'll talk to him.

"Oh shit! Of course!" Layla interrupted.

"Selena, wasn't Bryden your crush when you were in college?"

Layla, please not now; it's so embarrassing; the other table might hear her because of the volume of her voice.

I bit my lower bit.

"U-u-uh." What should I say?

Kier is looking at me earnestly with his blank face.

"Girl, you were still talking to Mia and me back then. You said you couldn't get over to him because you didn't see Bryden or hear anything from him when you were in 2nd-year college."

I'm embarrassed and dead.

We have a talkative friend.

"Right, Bryden?” Layla asked and realized something.

“O! M! G!" Her eyes grew while giggling.

“He’s your crush!” she roared.

“Am I right?” Layla.

I shyly nodded at Layla.

"I’m right! You, too, are destined for each other!” Layla’s shouted.

"Layla!" Ken called her name again. He seems not happy with what he heard.

This time the atmosphere became even more awkward, or I was the only one feeling because Bryden was still happy to see while Layla was already nervous and Ken was glaring at Layla.

Ken is mad again.

"Get out here!" Ken commands his cousin

Layla stomped her feet.

"But Brother, my crush, brother Bryden is here." She hugged Bryden’s arm again.

Bry chuckled at what Layla did.

“There’s a lot of boys there,” Ken said irritatedly.

"Jase is coming, now get out of here and wait for him at the gate,” Kier added.

So, his friends are coming too? Or was it Jase only?

"Really?!" Layla’s eyes are sparkling in happiness.

"Okay, baby, sissy, I will be back here; wait for me, okay? She happily stormed this place.

"And you sit beside me." Ken looked at me, and I pointed to myself. If I was the one he was talking to me.

"Yeah!"

I didn’t budge and sat beside him. When I sat exactly beside him, he put his arm on my shoulder possessively. While there's a playful smile on Bryden's lips, I bow my head because I feel shy.

They continued to drink and started chatting, and their other family members joined them, and I’m not familiar with them. Saltzman clan is too big, and I felt everyone is not present.

I notice he caresses my hair if he gets a chance. Sometimes he puts his arm on my shoulder like he is hugging me; he’ll hold my hands. He’s laughing beside me; he laughs with his uncles. He looks like he's already drunk. I don’t understand their topic; it's out of the planet.

We had just separated when mommy suddenly pulled me over to introduce me to other relatives and her friends who were also there. Hmm. Friends and relatives are here. Mommy taught me to everyone, and I was dizzy because I was confused with them. Hmm.

Kier is with his cousin and nephew; they're in the pool near the garden, they’re not yet done drinking with his uncle, but his nephew, niece, and cousin pulled him here. His hair is dancing because of the natural air.

“Brother, you fooled me!” Layla stomped her feet.

“Jase didn’t come. I was waiting at the gate almost for hours!” Layla is pissed. She can’t believe she got fooled by his cousin again.

Bryden laughed at her.

“It means one thing, don’t be assuming,” Bryden teases her.

Kier doesn’t give a damn; he can’t find his wife; he hopes she’s okay right now because his mother pulled his wife, and Kier can’t do anything with that.

Kier can’t believe his mom would threaten him if he didn’t give Shielyn to her. On the other side, it’s okay with him to meet Shielyn and the other family members.

“I feel that he likes me! He’s not vocal about his feelings, but I feel it!” Layla is sure.

Bry, mess her hair.

“I thought I was your crush?” He asked.

“Yeah, of course, you’re my forever crush, but I love Jase,” she hugs Bryden’s arm.

“Everyone is your crush, Sis.” William joins the conversation.

Layla glared at William.

“You do not belong, and I’m not talking to you!” She hissed at her cousin William.

"Brother Kierra, don't you know that Layla had a huge crush on you," Phil said.

Phil vulgar Layla’s secret, so she kicked him, but the other voided it. He's perfect, and his six senses are very active.

"Kier won't like you" Bryden joined her cousin in teasing her. He's a childhood friend of Kier Cousin Kier. That's why he's here and already part of their family.

"She likes someone like his Wife, Shy type, naive, innocent,t and like Maria Clara; unlike you, you're too showy and shameless."

Layla pouted her lips.

"I thought your side is with me, and you're insulting too much," Layla is in fashion, while Shielyn is just a simple and ordinary woman; she likes being low profile. They also believe and see why Kier agrees to this marriage because he wants his wife the way she is. In short, she passed his standards.

"In short, Brother Kierra is conservative, so he liked conservative women," Maze said, another cousin.

"Stop calling me Kierra, or else I'll break your neck, you all," Kier warned them. He's still not in the mood.

Maze covered her mouth.

"Chill, Bro. Did you wake up on the other side of the bed?" Bryden, tease.

Kier looked at his friend,

"And you, why my wife has a crush on you? from this day, stop showing your face to my wife," Kier seriously said, and the two girls giggled while the others laughed.

Bryden looked at him in disbelief but enjoyed teasing his friends; this was his first time seeing him like this.

"Why am I being included again? Bro, it's not my fault if I'm her crush," Bryden laughs.

"And I like you, don't worry, you're the only one in my heart," Bryden gave him a heart sign.

"I love you, Kierra," Bryden teased.

"I like sister Shielyn, she's innocent and simple, but when you look closer at her, her beauty is on her fire," Zeam seriously said

"Do you want to die, Z?" Kier asked in danger.

"Stop with my wife!" Kier roared at his cousin.

"So possessive, brother Kierra," Layla said, and her cousin said in chorus.

Kier glared at them.

Bryden put his arm on Kier's shoulder.

"Even your gay bro, my love for you won't change" Bryden is in the mood to tease him, even kissing his cheeks. They’re close to each other even though their dreams separate them; they’re like brothers since Kier is one and only child.

They tease each other. A reunion like this is rare, and the cousin misses having a bond with each other.

I’m now with Kier, and we’re in our room.

While Ken is sleeping beside me, his position is on all fours, and he’s holding my left hand while I'm leaning on the headboard.

It's late; II can’t sleep; I’m missing my bears in my room. The smell of the alcohol is too strong; Kier smells alcohol. I heard a knock and opened the door.

“Are you with my brother Kier?” I saw Layla. I saw fear in her eyes, and she was about to cry, too, but she kept her posture. And I notice she’s in a hurry?

I nodded at her.

“Selena,” she held my hand.

“I’ll show off something.”

I come with Layla, and we go downstairs. The place is messy; I bet everyone's sleeping right now.

He took me to the dark part of the room.

"Kier is bullshit!" I heard someone cursing.

"Brother, let me go here!"

I can hear crying.

"I'll break that asshole's neck!"

"Sister, Layla, I don't want to be here anymore!" Closer and closer, the voice I hear is louder and louder.

Layla opened the storage room, and my jaw dropped at what I saw.

"Sister!" Phil cried when he saw us.

"Fvck! Why can't I break this damn shit!" I saw Bry struggling.

A young cousin of theirs looked terrified.

"What happened to them?"I asked Layla

"Sister, tell brother Ken, I'm sorry," Phil shouted, almost crying.

Layla held my hand.

"Please, please talk to Kuya Kierra- I mean Kier to let them go" she looked scared.

"What happened?" I'm curious.

"Eh, I was teasing you earlier with brother Bry, and Kierra got angry with me. Brother Bryden teases Kier too," she stopped.

"SiIIIsTeeer!" someone shouted desperately. Is that William?

"Sister, I'm sorry to tell Kuya Kier," someone was crying at them.

All that happened was that they were handcuffed with both hands and locked to an iron wall.

"It's gross here!" An American accent complains.

"Then he made my cousins angry. He should handcuff me too in case I just ran away" you can see in Layla’s eyes that he was afraid of Ken.

"Did you fight?" Layla asked earnestly.

"Because he poured the heat of his head on us. Normally we joke that he's a cousin, but brother Kier got angry immediately."

"Maybe you offend him?" I asked unsurely.

"Damn, Shielyn, can you please tell your asshole husband to unlock this shit ?!" Bry begged while still trying to get out of his handcuffs.

“Offend? He knows his name should be Kierra,” she said, stomping her feet.

"Huh?"

"We're calling him Kuya Kierra because Mommy's story is about him, his parents expect him to be a girl, they already bought him women's clothes and even a woman's name, it's okay to settle down, he's a man, so Kierra just became Kier. We teased him like that, and our cousins called him gay, and then he bent down and handcuffed them; he won't do that unless he had been suppressing his emotion. So I concluded that you were fighting because when he approached Kuya Bry and me earlier, he had a hot head and was looking for alcohol," Layla said, almost crying.

It's true what my aunt said earlier that you couldn't talk to him when he's hot-tempered.