ASHLY POV
"Then Good job Mr. Bautista." I said and eat the egg again "But its little bit salty."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Did you use salt and vitcin?" I ask and he nodded "Well,don't use salt and vitcin cause Maeve doesn't like salty foods. Just use other's like Magic Sarap,etcc and also its good if you put chopped onions in the egg to make it more tasty." I take a sip of the coffee "The coffee is quite impressive." I said and pointed the caramel on top of the foam
"Of course."
"Skinless Longganisa is good too. Wait lemme take a picture of it and send it to Maeve." I said and run to my room to get my phone. "Here it is." I went down again and open my camera and take a pictures of it and send it to Maeve through Messenger.
Then I type 'Hurry,comeback home so you could eat Kaiden's salty eggs HAHAHA! Gotta scold him for you. He really did a great job and preparing for you to came back. Don't worry I'll look after him. I will kill him if he will cheat. By the way,when will you be free? Let's do VC. I have lots of chika's(gossip or stories) with you.' and then send it.
"Let's start eating." He said.
I put my phone in the kitchen counter and began to eat "Don't forget to attent to my gig this evening 8PM huh. In total, we will only go to one place, just get on my motorbike."
"I don't want to,it looks like ten wild demons are chasing you when you drive."
I look at him and rolled my eyes "You have no thrill. Boring. I really don't understand why Maeve likes you so much,your so downright boring."
"Maeve likes me cause Im romantic." He said and put egg on my plate
"Tss. I don't think so."
KAIDEN POV
I never expected that I became friends with my girlfriend's freak bestfriend. But during this days that Im with her,she's not that freak. In fact,she's easy going person,can be easily approached,but has weird sense of fashion. Her passion for music is unbreakable,she never gave up easily.
"Fvck,I've been asking you,where's your spirit goes?" Ashly asked irritated while holding her hard hat because its too big in her head. We goes straight to the construction site after we ate. "Sorry,what did you ask again?"
"Anyway,do you know Gabbi?"
I look at her confusely "Who's Gabbi?"
"Oh I forgot you're not in music circle."
I was about to ask her who's he when a worker approached me "Sir,here's the list of the lacked materials." he said and gave me the paper list
"Okay,I got it. You may go back to your work." I look at Ashly again "By the way,when will you pay your debt on me? Overall 700+ pesos."
Her eyes widen "So much!? When did I have so much dept!?"
"That Beer In Can plus those groceries."
"I never ask you to buy groceries for me,you treat me those so I won't pay." she said
WE WENT to other sites and returned to the company after, we also went to a food stall to eat lunch. About five o'clock when we finished and went home.
"Do you know where the CARD is?" She asked me.
"I'll just follow your motorbike." I replied
"Just get on my motorbike."
"I really don't want to, I don't want to die. I still have plan to marry Maeve and have a family,at the speed you run the motor you might hit somone in the road and be charged with reckless driving."
"You're overreacting. Its your choice then. Just follow my motor or just use google map. See you at CARD." she said and went inside her condo.
I open my condo with a key. When I was about to enter my condo,the door of her condo open again "Oh by the way,Call Quint for me." she said,smile and close the door.
I haven't even ask her yet why didn't she just call Quintin?
I'm new to the sudden closeness of the two of them, and I didn't think they were schoolmates back then in Cebu. I was right in my suspicions then. But why do I seem to have a sense of something different from these two? Why do I even bother about this?
I went inside my condo and went to my room to get dressed.
"Wait,Isn't it too early to get dressed? The gig is 8 pm. It is still 6pm now."
I was stopped by a knock outside my room. "Are you there? Let's have dinner at the food stalls near here." Ashly ask "It is bad to drink on an empty stomach."
"Are we going to drunk beers there?" I said and open the door
"Its a bar,what do you think you will do there? Sitting pretty? Ofcourse we will get drunk. How many times have we gotten drunk,you're still not used to it?"
I was about to say,when she cut off my words
"Let's goo!" She went to my back and push me from behind.
"My car keys."
"No need. It's just near here, we'll just walk."
WHEN WE got to the food stalls she says we sat at the empty table. I looked around, there were many eaters and customers at each stalls. There are also street food vendors.
I tapped her shoulder "Are you often here?"
"No. I don't have time to go here. So this is my first time. There is first time in everything right?"
I smile and nodded.
"Wait let me order." She stood up and went to the table full of dishes.
"Chicken Halang Halang,Ginabot,Adobo,Mechado,and Kaldereta,Sinigang,Crispy Pata,Sisig. Do you also have Halo-Halo? You have? I'll order two of that too."
(PS. Some of the Filipino dishes have been mentioned above."
"Later, we go to street foods." She said and sit down in the chair in front of me
"You order too much."
"Its okay. Next time,let's invite Maeve and Quintin here."
When our order was served we started eating.
"Woahh,its soo tastyyy!" Ashly said as she fanned her mouth.
"Its hot,don't get too excited." I said while blowing the hot rice.
"Its tasty when its hot."
As discussed, after we ate and paid, we went to the street food vendor
"Isaw,Betamax,Cheese Sticks,Fishballs,Squid Balls,Kikiam,Kwek-Kwek,two each please."
I laugh and grabbed her hand "Hey,can we finish this all?"
"Yes ofcourse we have to finish this all."
The vendor placed Ashly's orders on a plate. She picked it up and laid it on the empty table. We started eating.
"So what's your sched?"
"Hmm,Usually I'll be on CARD in 7:50 PM. The gig starts in 8:20 so my bandmates have 30 mins to get ready offstage." Ashly said while we are walking back to our condos "Ill just call you when its already time. Get yourself ready. Don't worry about Quintin,he knows the way to go to CARD" She said and enter her condo
"LOUD MUSIC volumes, crowds and ohh you can even inhale the smell of alcohol. That’s really how it is here at CARD. Mostly college students come here to get drunk." Said the CARD bar manager
"I see." I said while looking around. But that's not it,Some pairs are dirty dancing on the dancefloor,some are smoking, some are almost having sex on the couch because of their aggressive kissing.
I approached Ashly and whisper "Is it really like this here every day. Look at that around you, the obscene."
"Of course that's why I'm used to it." She said "Why?"
"HAHAHAH! Don't worry, we will perform upstairs." she look at the watch wrist "Someone booked our band upstairs."
"Hey Ash,I heard that you write a new song?" A man ask her
"Yeah. Gotta sing it tonight. Get ready now,its already 8."
"We'll get going."
They talked almost out loud because of the volume of the music here.
Quintin ran up to us, still panting "Sorry Im late."
"No its okay. Let's go now." Ashley said and walked upstairs first."
When we got there the music was just soft, cozy and relaxing. There are also a lot of people here. The loud music below could not be heard here on the second floor.
"Ash is already here." A man said when they saw us.
She approach those guys "You two come here, let me introduce you to my bandmates." Ashly said referring to me and Quintin.
"On my left is Quintin my senior,he also love music. On my right is Kaiden,an achitect and my friend." Her introduction to us. I don't know but I felt warm when she said the word 'My friend'. Maybe because we had been enemies in the past and just recently resolve our misunderstandings.
One by one, Ashley's four bandmates shook hands with us while introducing themself
"Im On,guitarist"
"Im Huns,drummer"
"Roger,electric guitarist."
"Im Don,sub vocalist. I also know how to play piano."
A man called roger put his hand on my shoulder "How did you and Ash became friends?"
I guess Ashly heard it "Hey,stop pestering him. Let's get ready for the gig."
ASHLY POV
Our band played first three pop songs , then Don’s solo performance. What he sang was Justin Beiber's 10,000 hours and Baby. He even ask me to duet with him in the second chorus. Then when its my turn to sing, I went to the small stage and sat on the tall chair,facing the crowds.
"I'll sing a song for my former enemy," I laugh then everybody also laugh "who later became my friend and most importantly,he's my bestfriend's boyfriend that haven't expected that I will sing a song for him." I said and look at Kaiden who was so shocked
I look at the DJ and gave him a thumbs-up sign then I startes singing.
After a few minutes after singing. I went down from the stage and rested for a while.
"You didn't even told me that your going to sing a song for me."
"That's a surprise you dumbass."
"Your getting more and more good huh." Quintin said
"Wait."
I went back on stage to sing the song I wrote for Quintin.
"Senior,this is for you." I shouted.