Chapter 201 - THIRD

"Hello?"

Yazeno: "Where are you all? Why aren't you home? Are you all together?" 

"Hey, calm down lil' bro." 

Yazeno: "I'm calm ATE." Yanarym smirked at him, stressing the word ate and wasn't even trying to hide his irritation. 

"So, here's the situation. Kuya is on a blind date and Cailly with me was surveilling them. It seems like we were too busy to inform you that we are out for the night." 

Yazeno: "..."

"Hello?"

Yazeno: "Where's that?"

"Mall."

Yazeno: "On the mall? When will you come home?"

"After the date was over, maybe?"

Yazeno: "Let Kuya be, he's old enough to handle that." 

"I promised Kuya to stay until everything was concluded." 

Yazeno: "... I'll go there." 

"OR! You can have a date with your girlfriend!" 

Yazeno: "Ate, I broke up with her." 

Yanarym turned mute, that was right! She told him to break up with his girlfriend. She and her darn mouth and principles! How could she do that? She and her concerns! She couldn't help it because the situation was too real, and she could help but think of the other party. Where in fact, she doesn't have any luxury to think of another party at all! Now, she just had another headache. 

Yazeno: "I'm broken-hearted, you should be with me." 

"...alright, come here. I'll treat you to some ice cream." 

Yazeno: "See you, ... I love you." 

"See you, love you too." As soon as she heard the dial tone she muffled her hair in frustration. As she fixed her dilemma with Yashnile, Yazeno was starting to rise on the surface. She doesn't know the trigger, but he's already realizing the emotion he had for her. She wasn't anticipating that, that was why she didn't prepare any backup to counter the awakening or something like that for him. 

She, so far, solved the top two people on her problematic list; however, the third catastrophe came at the top one. At least it is not happening all at once, she could still manage Yazeno. 

She headed back to the cinema and watched the movie. She will finish this first before thinking about anything else. She deserved to chill and relax, she had to cherish all of this calm moment before the tsunami began.

When the movie was over, Yazeno texted her that he was already in the parking lot and asking for their current location. She opened her GPS and shared the location, they passed on the ice cream stall and she asked Cailly to buy one for her. As a matter of fact, she had a lot of money but all was in her debit card, Yashnile never let her have actual money to manage. She could spend her debit or credit till its limit, but that was only available at malls or boutiques. She was not allowed to go to small stores. If she wanted to, she had to be with those with money to shop. Namely, any one of the siblings, in other terms, she could shop by herself, there must always be someone stuck to her. 

Yashnile saw the two girls at the ice cream stall while escorting his date to a perfume store, he wanted to buy Maddi a gift before having dinner together. He had to admit, this date was a lot more thrilling than he thought, and he was having fun with Maddi's company, it's like he found a person he's been with for a long time. He was surprised that they never knew each other, but she was so familiar to him and it's comfortable to be together. 

"Hey, do you want to go karaoke?" She suddenly asked while browsing the expensive perfume on the shelf, she couldn't afford it. It's much better to just spend her money on something that her budget could actually buy.

"Karaoke?" Yashnile sprayed a sample bottle on the air and gave it to the sales lady who was assisting them. Then, they ambled to the other shelf that had the most expensive products in the store. A glimmering diamond-shaped bottle caught his attention. 

"...oh, you don't want to?" Maddi observed his movement lowered her tone, seeing his disinterested reaction to her suggestion. Figures, rich men like him, going on karaoke with her, she thinks that was too much. 

Yashnile glanced at her and smiled, he shifted his attention to the sales lady and pointed to the perfume. 

"I want the set of this crystal edition. And give me this set too. And that one." 

"Alright, sir." The sales lady lightened up and glimpsed the girl he was with. The jealousy and admiration plastered on her face as she thought that this was all a gift for Maddi by this handsome man. What a catch, a lover that was willing to spend millions of pesos just for perfume. 

"No… I don't know how to sing." He said to Maddi and she smiled. 

"Me too! Don't worry about it." She laughed and watched the sales lady pack the perfumes that had gorgeous packaging. He had a lot of people to gift those perfumes. "You bought a lot, is there a party?"

"No, that's for my siblings." 

"Oh, Rym?"

"That's right, you know her. I almost forgot that she was the one who introduced us to each other." 

"Yeah," they moved on to the counter and Yashnile gave her the first one that he picked for Maddi.

"This is for you."

"Me? No! No! That's too expensive!" Maddi refuses while shaking her head as she peered at the paper bag with the branded name. "That's too much."

"I knew you would say that, that's why I picked the least expensive one for you. It didn't cost much really. I hope you can accept it, as a sign of our successful date?" Maddi hesitated but she was convinced. She defeatedly took the paper bag with care. 

"Thank you, Yashnile."

"You can call me Nile." Maddi blushed.

"Thank you again, Nile." 

"No problem," he redirected his eyes to the saleslady.