Chapter 10: 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟎𝟗

BREE

“Why are we here?” Rose asks, annoyed because she was dragged against her own will while she was reading a book.

He didn't even let her take it with her.

“Because it’s nice to spend time with people you love,” Jack says, grinning.

Rose glares at him while I frown, confused.

“What?” I ask.

“Don’t think about it too much. Order something. I’ll pay,” Jack says, shoving the menus on our face.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Rose asks.

“Nothing,” he smiles innocently.

Rose continues to investigate Jack’s strange behavior, and my attention gets turned to the glass wall of the cafe where I find two familiar faces.

Finn and Farhan. Both dressed in all black. Finn is wearing a hoodie and pants while Farhan is dressed in a leather jacket, a black turtleneck underneath and pants.

As if feeling my stare, Finn turns his head and locks his gaze with mine. Automatically, a smile takes over my lips and I wave at him. He waves back, wearing his smile.

Farhan notices us and gives me a big wave which earns him a weird look from Finn.

Both of them enter the cafe and make their way to our table, cutting Rose’s investigation as they pull their chairs to sit with us.

“What are you two doing here?” Jack asks.

“You said you’ll pay,” Farhan replies.

“Yeah, I said that because you two went on your ride.”

“You mean so much to us that we decided to cut our ride short and accompany you,” Farhan grins. Jack makes a face.

“It’s hard to believe you all are billionaires sometimes,” Rose mutters.

“Why? Because we’re so charming?” Finn asks. I suppress a laugh when Rose makes a weird face.

“Charming? No. Annoying? One hundred percent,”

“You call it annoying. We call it entertainment,” Farhan says, proudly.

“Is that why you haven’t been able to babysit Maham?” Rose grins.

“I…”

“Excuse you. The only reason we haven’t been able to babysit Maham is because Faizan knows if Maham spends a day with us, she’ll never been entertained by her father,” Jack states.

Rose hums, “I think she’ll lose her brain cells if she spends an hour with you three,”

“You-”

“Hi, what can I get you all?”

We all look up at the feminine voice to find one of the waitresses by our table, holding a notepad, wearing a sweet smile.

“Oh, I’ll have a sandwich. Any.” I say, mirroring the smile.

“Same here,” Rose says, wearing the same kind smile.

“I’ll buy all the food here since Jack is paying,” Farhan says, “right, Ja-” he cuts himself off when he notices Jack frozen.

He didn’t even look up when the waitress came. He’s frozen while staring at the table.

“Jack?” Finn waves his hand in front of Jack’s face, “dude?”

“Tell her your order then act weird,” Rose says.

“I.. eh.. Uh..” Jack starts mumbling gibberish which confuses everyone.

“He’ll get a sandwich too,” I say on his behalf.

The waitress looks away from my weird brother to me, “is he okay?” she asks in a concerning voice.

“He’s fine. He’s just…”

“This is his true nature,” Farhan says, nonchalantly.

Somehow, that snaps Jack out of his frozen state and he glares at Farhan and grits out, “shut up.”

Farhan and Finn blink at him.

“Um, should I bring all of you sandwiches?” the waitress asks, nervously chuckling.

“Yes, thank you.” Rose says. The waitress nods and hurries back.

“What the hell was that?” I ask when Jack relaxes, “you traumatized that poor girl,”

Jack’s head snaps towards me, his eyes widen, “really? Did she look like that?- shit.” He drops his head on the table and we flinch at the thud.

“Ow,” his muffled voice reaches us.

“Are you okay?” I ask.

Jack says something but it comes out muffled.

“Do you have a crush on that waitress?” Farhan asks.

My brother freezes for a moment then covers his ears, not saying a word.

“Oh, my God, you do!” Rose exclaims. Jack groans.

“Jack, you act so weird when you have a crush,” I say, chuckling.

Jack lifts his head up, “it’s better than pretending I don’t like her,” he says and earns a hit on his arm from Rose.

“Shut up,”

Before I can say anything, Farhan wraps his arm around Jack’s shoulder and says, “look at us, five billionaires whipped.”

“Five?” Rose asks. Farhan freezes.

Rose and I turn to Finn who’s also frozen.

He…

“You have a crush on someone?” Rose and I ask at the same time.

“W-what? No! Farhan is dragging me with him!” Finn quickly says. His ears start turning red.

“You’re blushing.” I point out.

“No, I’m not! It’s.. cold..” he says, looking away.

An unfamiliar knot ties in my chest at his reaction. I ignore it.

“Who is it?” I ask.

“It’s no one, Bree.” He says, without looking at me, “i-ignore it.”

“This is the first time I’ve seen you blush,”

“I’m not blushing, Bree,” he nervously chuckles.

Rose and I keep asking questions but Finn keeps trying to change the subject. The shade of his ear starting to get darker by every second.

He must has a huge crush..

All three of them get saved when our order arrives. They quickly shove their mouth with their food so they don’t have to answer.

Finn is the first one to run out of the cafe as if he’s on fire.

I blink at my sandwich.

Finn likes someone…

I rub my chest.

Why won’t this knot untie?