Kiefer pov.
When Jay Jay walked in wearing that simple grey outfit and looking like an absolute goddess? Yeah. I lost my sanity. How does she even do that?
She didn't wear makeup. Didn't comb her hair. Didn't go to huge lengths to wear an impressive outfit. She always wore something that was simple. And beautiful. And effortlessly stylish, elegant and comfortable. Something that was.... her. Her outfits always described her or showed what mood she was in.
Right now? It was giving 'don't disturb me I'm here for sushi' . I smiled to myself like an idiot. Typical Jay. Agreed to something just for food.
Then she sat down and started smiling and chatting with someone on her phone. My rage shimmered to surface again.
Who's that? Who are you texting? Is it a boy?
She smiled again before typing a reply.
Don't smile at anyone else like that!
Jay POV.
Continuation of last chapter...
My eyes narrow into slits. "Don't do it" I warned Yoshiko. He didn't listen. Within a second, my group chat flashed on the screen. Unfortunately, the first message was the dinausour one😭✌️. He read the insults and his face went red with anger. Then the next message came in.
James hacks-lacks: He connected our chat to the screen, didn't he?
The whole room went into a stunned silence. I continued typing on my phone as if almost 10 people werent watching my chat with my friends.
Me: Yep.
Nathan the Newton: Okay wait, Jam, HOW THE HELL DID YOU FIND THAT?!
James hacks-lacks: Skills.
Premium Liam: Gadgets.
James hacks-lacks: SKILLS.
Premium Liam: GADGETS.
Me: Shut it.
Premium Liam: GADJETS! Ohh... My bad Jay, I thought it was Jam.
Nathan the Newton: Hold up. Hey Hanamitchis and headmaster. If you're reading this, respectfully, I hope you choke on your food and die.😌✌️
Premium Liam: Again, you're not respectful.
Nathan the Newton: Again, true.
Ava-Baklava: Did you just say our chat is being displayed for entertainment?
Me: No, I SAID nothing. I TYPED it.😌✌️
Ava-Baklava: Okay so my mom's calling me for..uhm... something. Bye bye.
Nathan the Newton: Yeah same, see ya.
Premium Liam: Cowards.
Me: They're not cowards.
Ava- Baklava: Yes Jay Jay, thank you. We were just joking.
Me: They're traitors.
Ava-Baklava: Hey! We were kidding. We're right here aren't we? Aren't we? Uhmmm Nathan?
Premium Liam: Nath?
James hacks-lacks: NATH?! You in there buddy?
Me: He's gone guys. RIP Nathan✌️🤭✨.
Nathan the Newton: WHY DID YOU USE THAT EMOJI FOR MY DEATH?!
Me: It seemed accurate.
Nathan the Newton: ... I hate you.
Me: You say that everytime.
Nathan the Newton: I mean that everytime.
Me: No, you don't.
Nathan the Newton: ... I hate it when you're right.
Me: I'm always right.
Nathan the Newton: I disagree.
Me: That's because you're always wrong. (Y'all back me up)
Ava-Baklava: She's right.
James hacks-lacks: She's absolutely right.
Premium Liam: She's definitely right.
Nathan the Newton: ... You're all traitors.
Me: Takes one to know one.
Ava-Baklava: Okay, we really need to go now. It's time for our next case. We'll report to headquarters and let you know about the case Jay. Bye bye- Bitches.
Nathan the Newton: See ya- Suckers.
Premium Liam: Goodbye- Group.
Me: Peace out- People.
James hacks-lacks: ... You're all weird. Why do you all even type these messages to say goodbye. It's literally the same thing every single day. Ava does the B-B; Nathan does S-S; Liam does the G-G; and Jay does the P-P.
Ava-Baklava: Just do your damn A-A thing.
James hacks-lacks: But I don't like the letter A.
Me: Would you like for me to give an F?☺️ Because I don't rn about your opinions🙄
James hacks-lacks: Okay, okay. Fine! Adios- Amigas. Honestly though, why can't we say bye like normal people?
Me: Because we're not normal? Anyway Peace out- People for real this time.✌️🫡
I looked up from my phone to see everyone still staring at the screen which was showing all the messages.
"Having fun reading my chats?" I asked they all jumped.
Yoshiko sneered. Little did he know, I already knew his name, luckily- the message in which I asked and received his name wasn't displayed in the screen. Like I said, the first message shown was the dinausour one. And then the alien one.
"A group chat with 3 boys? I was right about you wasn't I?" He asked, deliberately ignoring the fact that Ava was a girl
"Number 1: This, what you just did here, is a serious invasion of my privacy. These are MY thoughts and MY conversations with MY friends. And you have absolutely 0 rights to exercise your power over me. Number 2: who I talk to is entirely NONE of your business. That's private. And it's you stripping away my freedom." I said, my voice blazing with protective fury over my friends.
Those people were my teammates. People who have always been there for me and did whatever I asked them to do. People who have fought on behalf of me, and covered for my shifts if I asked them to. They have been my team ever since I joined, and they always will be. They report to me, and I protect them.
He laughed. "Privacy? Freedom? Big words for someone who is being married into my family for money, you gold digger. I told Yuri he could do so much better than you. He didn't even listen. Did you seduce him or something? Why is he obsessed with you anyway?"
As soon as I heard the word seduced, every single ounce of patience left my brain. I was furious. I open my mouth to give him a lesson, but Kuya Angelo beat me to it. He stood up slowly, dangerously.
"You will NOT talk to my sister like that. My company might be down, but remember who I am. I can- and I will- burn you and your clan and bury you alive, and then happily go to jail after that, if you dare utter a single damn syllable about her that is not respectful." He said. He looked downright terrifying. The sheer aura that was vibrating off him was enough to make anyone recoil.
Kuya Angelo for a reason. Demon pretending to be an angel...
"You- you wouldn't risk going to jail." The headmaster said.
"Try me." Kuya hissed, his face devoid of hesitation.
What was even more terrifying, his voice was low and steady, a dropped sound of steeled and barely controlled violence that made chills travel up the back of my spine, even though the threat wasn't even directed at me.
Mrs Hanamitchi tried to break the tension. "S-sit back down, Angelo. He was just uhmm- it was a misunderstanding. That's all. I apologise deeply." She said sounding totally fake. Kuya Angelo was about to retort when tita Gemma placed a hand on his arms, and shook her head gently, telling not to cause a scene here, trying to maintain the shred of peace they had left.
Kuya looked at me. I smiled reassuringly and nodded gratefully. It meant a lot to me that he stood up for me, he was the first person to ever do that after I started living with Jeanna. She usually joins in on shouting at me instead of defending me. But tita Gemma was right.
Kuya sat back down, a little reluctantly. The headmaster, who apparently had 0 survival instincts, continued talking. He had been a little shaken up by Kuya's threat.
Wow.. even Japan-man is scared of Kuya Angelo. Damn..
"Mr Fernandez, you're cousin is in safe hands. She shouldn't go to work, or college. She can live her life. Inside this house. She can cook, clean, wear dresses, anything that can be done inside the house. Doesn't that sound wonderful?"
"That sounds like imprisonment to me." I deadpanned.
He ignored that and continued. "Her only responsibility will be to produce an heir to the Hanamitchis. I expect a baby within the first year. That's a non- negotiable."
My head snapped up. My patience, which had already been hanging by a thread, snapped completely. "No."
His face went angry. "Excuse me? You have to do it! That's not up for debate."
"I said NO, Yoshiko Takumi." I said, using the name- his name- that he had buried years ago. The name nobody else has ever found, or lived to tell the tale after finding it. His face paled. For the first time, something close to fear crossed his face, before he quickly masked it.
That's not a normal reaction to a buried name. There's something else here. What is he hiding? What's going on here?
"H- how? No one has ever-.... Who are you?"
I slowly raised my hand, and dropped my chocolate brown eye colour contacts to the table. I was done pretending. I was done hiding.