Chapter 12

Stupidly Ernaline obeyed Kyle's command and left it in the place where she had been sitting before.

'How could this happen? We've just met and we're bandmates. Will he court me? I think I just want to pass out!'

Ernaline entered the elevator shaking her head. Maybe it’s just a prank? She won’t be fooled by the guy’s ‘I’m serious-thingy’. Until she entered their room, only Kyle's words prevailed in her brain. She dismissed them in her mind before arranging to lie down next to Sav who was fast asleep.

'Maybe he's not that serious. I know I didn't know him that much. But I was bothered. What if I hurt him?'

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Dezrail and Gun boarded a vehicle with Cold to Palawan where a transaction regarding illegal firearms will be held.

"Why are you always with me on this mission? I'd rather be with Thud than you two," said Gun while driving. Are you going to be with two dumb people after a long trip, who can’t be bored especially when the night is getting darker?

"Quit complaining, just drive will you?" Dezrail said to the friend before resuming watching outside the road even though they could only see houses.

"Didn't Thud have a mission in America?" Cold is curious.

"There is but he will go home tomorrow," Gun replied before turning the car to the right side of the road when a van exposed on their sight blocking the road as the result of their curiosity.

Gun stopped the car but Dezrail stopped him immediately.

"Keep driving!" He commands his friend.

"Huh? But maybe they need something?" Gun doubts that he immediately stopped the car where they are.

Even before the three could get out of the vehicle, there are raging bullets coming to them from those five people who got out from the van blocking their way.

"What the fuck!" Gun sharply cuss before he slammed into the steering wheel to avoid the raging bullet in front of them.

"Tss! I told you to drive away but what have you done?" Dezrail said disgustingly, they still don't have weapons even though they are just monitoring the wharf!

They hurried to the back of the car and went through there to get out. They had to get away before a bullet landed on their head!

"Fuck this life!" They sped away from the car as they smelled the gas leaking from it. Even before Gun could hide in a tree, the car immediately caught fire when it exploded.

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Just as the door to Ernaline's room opened, Kyle's handsome face met her. He was carrying a bouquet of roses.

"You're thoughtful Kyle. Is that for me?" Sav said while blinking her eyes in front of the guy. Ernaline knew who the flower Espasol was carrying was for but she did not speak.

"You can buy it if you want. It's for my Queen," Sav gasps loudly in disbelief. She turned her gaze to Ernaline because they were still at the door and had not yet left the room.

"OMG! Is there something I don't know here?" Saviel exaggerated the question to Ernaline. She went out first to Sav as she handed the flower from Kyle. She didn't want to embarrass Kyle.

"Thanks for this. Come on Sav, I'm hungry," she said to Sav who just closed the door of their room and giving her a teasing look.

"What a nice morning you have there. Why your hair is long Ernaline? Wanna share it with me? How to be you, girl?" All the shame climbed on his face. He knew he was blushing at what Sav was doing.

"Shut up!" They no longer waited for Kyle. Instead, they walked to the elevator first.

"Did something happen while I'm sleeping?" Saviel asked her as they entered the elevator.

"Err. Just last night," she replied with a smirk.

"Are you dating him?" She slapped Sav's arm with its excessive overacting reaction.

"Crazy. He just said he was going to court me," she said shyly to the woman.

She wasn’t used to court things and she didn’t know how to deal with Kyle.

"Kyle is making his move. I like that!" The woman still seemed thrilled when she says that. She just ignored it and stared at the white rose. That’s too good for someone like her who is boring and a freak. She did not realize that she was already smiling as she smelled the petal of the flower.

"Come on. Do we have a nice smile there? You are already in love?" Saviel teased and stabbed Ernaline in the side.

"No. Will you stop tickling my side?" she rebuked her.

"Ashoo. Sometimes the girl you also bring flirtation out of your body. A Kyle Lee Yoo is approaching as if when the chicken comes to you grab it immediately,"

"Isn't it when the rice comes to the chicken you grab it?" she said.

"Oh my, that was another meaning!" Ernaline's face blushed even more at what Saviel said. She knows what is meaning of it is. She was surprised when Kyle was ahead of them at the restaurant where they were going to have breakfast. He was already sitting in front of the rest of them and his crazy smile of his was still there.

"The loverboy is smiling," Saviel whispered to her. She just shrugged and ignored her friend.

"Good morning, guys. Here's the goddess you're with is in front of you. Hey, Kyle pulls the chair for the goddess and the queen," Ernaline nodded in embarrassment. Sav immediately pulled her and Kyle obeyed to pull them the chair. As they sat down, she could no longer look up at her companions because of the embarrassment she felt.

"Where did you get that flowers Ernaline? Who's the jerk gave you that?" Senri asked in surprise that he had just talked to her again.

"Oh! Let me answer it," Sav snapped. "She has an admirer. So boys back off."

"What?" Simultaneous ejaculation of the three who seemed unable to believe what they heard

"That dragon lady has an admirer?" Kaizen said.

"Fuck. He already admits it may be," Jasper said, simply looking at Kyle's side.

Ernaline's feeling she's in the hot seat right now. They were the only ones in the band and Sav at the same table. The staff was at the shooting site first.

"Who's that bastard Ernaline? Your older brother will kill me!" Ernaline looked up at Senri. His voice was full of annoyance and seriousness.

How did his older brother get into this?

"I'm the one who gave that flower. I decided to court her," All the attention on the table went to Kyle who no doubt admitted to his friends.

"Are you out of your mind?" Senri asked irritably.

"Call me crazy or whatever, Senri. I like Ernaline," Ernaline was stunned to the side. Even Sav dropped her jaw because of what they heard.

"I’m Dead," Kaizen whispered out of nowhere.

Even before there was any tension, their food arrived. They eat the usual breakfast every morning is fried rice, sunny side up, ham, toasted bread, and coffee. No one even spoke at the table because the food had taken away what they were talking about earlier. According to Annika, they should only eat light meals. Ernaline lost her appetite due to the tension that was building up but she forced herself to eat. Until the end, they simultaneously went to the shooting area. A van picked them up outside the hotel. The men with them didn't even utter a word to each other.

"It feels weird, do you feel it?" Sav whispered to her as they boarded the van.

"Shut up Sav," she scolded angrily to the woman who immediately zipped her mouth and pretended to have thrown a key out of the window. She was just shaken by its awkwardness. A silent atmosphere filled them inside the van. No one attempted to speak until they reached the place.

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