(JOY) RICHARD caught sight of me. His expression changed, as if he too was apologetic when he even rarely talks to me for almost two weeks that I know them. My jaw locked up and numbness slowly spread throughout my face, a sign that I am currently in a lot of stress. I turned my gaze to Hosea’s broad and tensed back. He didn’t even bother to look back at me to check for my reaction. He was looking straight ahead, probably at the beautiful woman named Pearl who was now running towards him. Like Hosea, she doesn’t seem to notice anything else too aside from him. She continued to approach him with a sparkle in her eyes. Then when she was directly in front of him she wrapped her arms around his neck and tilted her head. I knew she was about to kiss him. My knee-jerk reaction is to

