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Chapter 31 – Eli’s Boyfriend

Parties tend to get boring when you’re enjoying it alone. Eli’s still pissed at me but stayed with the executives. She still haven’t decided whether it is about the sisters or I did something wrong again that I don’t know about. Jericho’s back in the company and I am here talking to these old bosses that they obviously didn’t care if I am here or not. I mean, can I just go?

Battling with my own useless thoughts, I was greeted by a girl who’s been eyeing me for a while since I got here. She said hi and, eventually, started talking some nonsense about her life. As for the reason she’s here, her dad’s the one I was talking to an hour ago. Apparently, her dad is the president of the golf club where Jericho plays every Thursday. “Haven’t see you around lately in the club house” she stated. Club house used to be one of my property and I named it Club house because it used to be my “party house” near my studio in LA. Eli told me to shut it down so I looked for a buyer and when I found one, they asked if they could keep the name and I agreed. I party there once a month and I stopped whenever I am in tour. I was their best brand, obviously, people just party there because they know that I’ll be there and they’ll get to see me. On the hand, I still own some percentage of their stocks.

“You still go there?” I asked. She nod and ask me if I still want to visit there but I told her “I don’t know. Maybe, after my tour? You still gonna be there?”. She smiled and I can see it in her eyes like she’s into me but I just shrugged that feeling. Anyway, we talked a lot of things on why she’s here in Bangkok and some stuff that didn’t really matter. After the party, we went back to the hotel to rest. I’ll be flying tomorrow afternoon to continue the tour. I will still be thinking what Eli’s been thinking right now. I should probably confront her, right?

Eli was, obviously, glaring at me. “What are you doing here, Ian? It’s 2 am. I need my sleep” she said. I stormed in her room and directly sat on her bed. “Ian, seriously? What?” she said closing the door. I started the conversation “I am sorry. Whatever this is, can we talk about it?”. she looks tired but stayed standing in front of me. She started the conversation by saying“After the concert, you stormed outside hurriedly. I can’t reach you so…. I let Jona followed you”. I was speechless and I was about to confess when she asked “Are you dating anyone new?”. I laughed for a second but her smile faded so quickly that I got so nervous.

“You’re not dating anyone, so, who’s those girls?” I was happy for a minute there. I came so close in hiding these secrets. “I….I….” I was going to deny it since I was about to get busted and I thought that telling her now would be a bad idea because I am on tour. Things might get awkward with her so I started stuttering again but this time I am going to tell her the truth.

She makes me nervous with those serious eyes. Everyone will think I am confessing my sins to my mom. I exhaled and started confessing. I looked at her and she’s furious, not because I dated girls without her knowing but the fact that I did go out with Yannie and Sunny at the same time. “You knew how I hated cheaters. Right? You always asks me why I never talked about Alden”. I was shocked because, honestly, this will be the very first time she’ll be talking about her forever love “Alden Roman”. I think that I should be very careful with my words. I can’t help but think if this is a confession or a lecture about cheating but I stayed silent.

She sat next to me and starting talking about Alden. “I was a sophomore and he was a senior. We clicked so much and very happy about everything. I thought we are going to last forever, I was wrong. After he graduated, we got a condo near the college and he started looking for jobs, I was busy with school works. We stayed like that until my last year in college. We fought almost everyday and he finally said to take some time off together. He asked for a cool off but started seeing one of his clients. How could he do that? I didn’t know it then. He came back and said everything’s good and I was an intern back then to a big law firm but I had to leave because he started his firm and he wanted to do it with me. I was happy, real happy. I thought it was the best decision I made but it wasn’t. after a few months of a healthy relationship, the girl came back and demanded she was pregnant and that Alden was the father.” she laughed like she was being sarcastic.

She continued “He never admitted it and the girl said she was fine even if Alden starts dating us both. I was so humiliated and felt very insecure. Alden started confessing and he told me things will work out just fine even if he was the father, he won’t come back to Cecile, Camille, or whatever her name was. I told him we’re breaking up and from then, I never saw him, ever again, until now”. she wiped her tears with her right arm and she confuses me when she asked me to stand up “Why? Do I really need to stand up?” I asked. She tilted her head to the right with her right eyebrow raised. I stood up straight and I didn’t expect her to do that after our little moment. She slapped me, literally, and it burns. “Wha….?!” I didn’t finish my argument because I knew I deserved that. After a moment of silence, I asked her “Are we……… good?” slightly nervous but quite calmer now. “Be ready at 1 pm and get out of my room. I’m still sleepy, Now!” I smiled slightly as we solve one argument once again. I was happy but at the same time still feel guilty and feel remorse about everything that happens last night. I don’t know why I did that but I picked up the phone and dialed Yannie’s number which I got from Sunny last night too.