The next day, Leonard woke up at 5 am and walked downstairs to find something to eat, when he found food on the table and Jack sleeping on the table; he promised Jack to eat with him, how could he forget? After he came back yesterday, he went straight to bed because he didn't want to think about what he did and the consequences of his actions in the long term, and in the process; he broke his promise to Jack.
Leonard felt extremely guilty but he couldn't do much about it at 5 am with Jack sleeping, so he carried Jack upstairs to the guest room, Jack's room, and went back downstairs, to eat the food Jack made for them, and it was delicious, he was surprised by how much he liked the food and decided to eat it all, because of how hungry he was. After he finished, he washed the dishes and saw the clock, it was 6 am, if he started making breakfast for Jack now, he would be able to get it ready by 7 or 7:30 in the morning, before Jack's class started.
And his prediction was correct, he finished making the breakfast at exactly 7:27 am and went to wake Jack up, who was confused about why Leonard was in his room when he made it clear before that he won't step foot in it, that confusion was soon cleared up when Leonard informed him that he made him breakfast as an apology for yesterday.
His apology was accepted after they agreed on eating breakfast together every day, with each of them making breakfast on specific days; Leonard also told him that he should understand that they were only cousins and would stay like that for life, Jack nodded slightly and continued drinking his juice, while thinking of a way to contact Layla, to ask her if she was still with him on the plan, of making Kin and Leonard apart.
Leonard, who didn't know what Jack was thinking of, was looking at his phone, at the news of him being humiliated at a cafe, by his former lover or lovers, there were articles about it, faith video evidence attached to it, he wasn't surprised to see that but he was surprised to see Natasha's fifty messages, which half were insulting him and the other half begging him to get back with her, he didn't pay it any attention and turned off his phone to eat, he didn't want to get distracted by anything, he wanted to relax.
"By the way, what happened to your cheek?" Jack asked, he finally got the courage to ask about Leonard's red and slightly purple cheek.
"Nothing much, I got slapped by my girl.... ex-girlfriend, it doesn't hurt that much though." Leonard said and shrugged it off, even though his cheek had been throbbing ever since he woke up, he wanted to stick a block of ice to it, which he did before Jack woke, but he took it off, to appear less weird, but that didn't work.
"Oh okay, you should probably get it checked out though." Jack said and looked at his phone to find that the time was 8 am and his class start at 9 am, he should go now or else he won't make it.
Soon after Jack left for his class, with the brightest smile ever, Leonard got a call from Kin, telling him that he set him up on a date with Lucas because he hadn't done it himself yet and a reminder, they talked about this yesterday's morning, it hadn't been even a day and Kin's reasoning for that was: "His heart eyes are killing me."
Did he understand what he meant by that? No, but he did understand that he had a date with Lucas at 4:30 pm, at a mall, where they would be watching a movie and hanging out in the mall. And with the longest sigh ever, Leonard said okay and went to get ready, but before he could get to his room, he thought of something, if he made himself look ugly, which would be extremely hard to do and acted poorly in front of Lucas, he would reject him and he won't have to date him! And he could even go back to dating the girls after that. And with that decision being taken, Leonard headed to Mark's shop, to look for the ugliest outfit ever.
What Leonard didn't know was that Lucas would never reject him because he needed to prove to Kin that not just anyone would do, and to do that, the person Kin would choose, would need to break up with him and he would make them do that no matter how hard he should try, and he would keep doing that until Kin would give up on finding him a lover.
Both of them wanted the other person to break up with them, will they succeed? Probably not. Was the author considering making Leonard and Lucas a couple? Yes. Will it happen? Who knew, not her at least. Anyway, breaking the fourth wall segment was over, let's go back to the story.
When Leonard reached Mark's shop, he got in and looked for the worst shirts and pants he could find; he ended up finding four shirts and five pants that he knew would look horrible on him. He smirked and went to the changing, to decide which looked worst on him; halfway through putting on the third pants, the curtains were opened by none other than an angry Mark.
"I am going to kill you."
"Kill me after I get dressed and also, this is harassment, let me wear my pants in peace." Leonard said and pulled his pants up, to avoid any awkwardness, and not make what happened last time repeat itself.
"You are not welcomed in my shop." Mark said, glaring at Leonard and even picking up the clothes he chose and keeping them, which were ugly by the way, he had a horrible taste, he should probably give them back, he did him a favor by taking them away.
"Oh really, and why is that?" Leonard said and made it seem as if he was interested in listening to what Mark had to say, even though he wasn't, because Mark would never do that, what Leonard bought was 75 percent of his income and no one was going to throw that amount of money at any cost.
"Because my relationship got ruined, and you are the reason." Mark said in an irritated tone, wanting to choke Leonard for what happened at his house yesterday. He was going to storm Leonard's house yesterday, but Prince stopped and told him not to come in contact with Leonard, which was something he wasn't able to do after he heard from his employee that Leonard was in their shop.
"Can you explain more?"
"Princesse! You broke up with her and now Prince is angry at you and me for some reason, even though I did nothing wrong, but he says, I am the one who introduced you two so I am at fault, and worst, she is going to stay with us until she is over the breakup and she already broke five vases and twenty dishes." Mark only mentioned half of the damages he took from the breakup, he didn't even mention the emotional ones or the fact that he won't be able to sleep with his finacé for the next month or months.
"I can pay for those." Leonard said as if that was going to make anything better
"Are you going to pay for her therapy and couple therapy too? Our wedding is in two months and it might get postponed because of this and it's all your fault." Mark knew how attached Prince was to Princesse and vice versa, they were twins after all, and if Princesse wasn't feeling well and had a heartbreak, Prince wasn't going to let the wedding happen.
"No, it's not my fault how she takes the breakup, now if you will excuse me, I have a date to catch up to." Leonard decided that he would go with the outfit he had on now, took his old clothes, and went to pay for them.
"You have a date? You broke up with five girls yesterday and now you have a date?" Mark asked, utterly shocked and disappointed in Leonard, he knew Leonard wasn't the best guy out there, but to go on a date straight after a breakup? That was just messed up.
"Not my choice, trust me." Leonard clarified and went to the cashier, with Mark behind him, telling him to get back to Princesse, Leonard ignored him like Mark ignored the redness of his cheek, that he knew Princesse caused, and after Leonard paid for the clothes he got, he told Mark to apologize to Princesse for him and to tell her that she would find someone better because she was an amazingly strong woman.
He wanted to tell her in person, but he knew he would get punched if he approached her, and he was still recovering from the slaps she gave him, he doesn't need another injury; but maybe, a few months later, he would meet her and make it up to her, with whatever she would want, because even though, they broke up, he wanted to be friends with her, he wanted to be friends with all of them, maybe but Natasha, she was slightly toxic and probably wouldn't make that great of a friend.
Thinking about Natasha, made him wonder why he started dating her in the first place, maybe it was because she was attractive and seemed different than the rest of the girls, because unlike other girls, she wasn't shy, or more like was controlling, other girls wouldn't ask him where he was 24/7, she would, other girls wouldn't watch his diet to make sure he stayed fit, she would, other girls wouldn't cost him millions with their calls, she would, other girls wouldn't gaslight him, she would, other girls wouldn't make him believe he didn't need anyone or any friends, she would, other girls wouldn't threaten his other lovers and a***e them for no reason other than being jealous, she would at times, even though she consented of them being in an open relationship and even hooked up with other people.
"Maybe Kin saved me from her." Leonard said to himself and started remembering everything Natasha did to him, he was a confident person, who didn't care much about anything, he lived his personal life carelessly and never care about what people thought about him, until Natasha came to his life and started talking about how important it was to keep a high profile and make people believe they lived a perfect life.
Leonard believed the had a perfect life, he had money, he had a best friend, lovers, a life to live and dreams to achieve, but to Natasha, that wasn't the perfect life was to do out on vacations, travel the world, buy everything and to show it off to everyone; it wasn't a healthy lifestyle but she convinced him it was.
"I need to stop thinking about her." Leonard thought and tried to take her off his mind, but just then, he got a text message from an unknown number and long be hold, it was Natasha, threatening him, he either took her back or else she would make him regret the day he was born, Leonard rolled his eyes at the message, he got so many of them and he got sick of reading this kind of weak threat, at least threaten him by destroying his business, that would scare him more.
Afetr receiving that message, Loenard was done with Natasha's messages and her unendless attempts at getting him back, so he threw his phone out of the window.
Luckily, he didn't give her his business number because he can't get rid of that, but for his personal phone, he just had Charles, Kin and some girls phone numbers on that, nothing that important, that he couldn't retrieve; now, he can finally stop getting calls at 3 am and blocking numbers, it was getting annoying and he valued his sleep.
Unluckily for him, Natasha wasn't joking and when she saw that he didn't reply, she loaded her g*n and angirly fired at the pictures of Leonard, that she had of him on her walls.
"Either be mine or die." Natasha said and threw a knife at Leonard's forehead, the picture that was on the ceiling and walked out, to plan his t*****e and murder.