Chapter 50: Chapter 50

"Triffany." Gabby smiled like she had just won a trophy and went close to her. "Welcome."

"Thanks." Triffany smile back. Carlos stare at her as the others did. "S3ems there's a little party going on here." She looked around the pool side.

"Yes. Carlos decided it." Gabby said and turned to Carlos.

"He's the host!" Eric said out loud and Triffany face Carlos but he looked away, sipping his wine indifferently.

"Carlos invite her over too. She's back." Garrett told him.

Triffany shook her head. "I should probably leave you all to enjoy yourself."

Gabby exhale softly. "What are you saying dear. We miss you so dearly." Gabby held her hands, staring right at her face.

"We're happy you're back, so join us." Blake added. They all turned to Carlos, waiting for him to say something too.

Carlos saw his friends giving him that come-on-man expression. "Since you're back, fell free to join us." He tod her and everyone beams.

"It's a pool party, so go change and come back." Gabby who was the happiest among them told her.

"Alright." Triffany walked into the mansion as Carlos glance at her, then turn back to his friends.

"We should wait for her to come down before we play the game." Eric said.

"I will go get some beer from the fridge." Eric said and got up to go into the mansion.

"I will go!" Carlos put his glass down and got up immediately as all eyes were on him surprised.

Gabby looked at him suspiciously. "Since when did you willingly start volunteering to get us beers or drinks?"

Carlos looke at all of them, they were so curious and with that expression. "Can't I?"

Garrett shrugged and leans back to his chair. "It's a surprise, that's all."

Carlos roiled his eyes and sit back on his chair. "Okay, Eric you can go." Carlos took up his glass and lifts to his lips as Eric went into the mansion to get the beer.

Carlos kept looking at the doorway, waiting for Eric or Triffany to be out soon, and he breath a sigh of relief when he saw Eric out with the beer.

Eric set the drinks on the table next to his friends. "This should be enough." Blake told him and Eric sat down with them.

Triffany came out wearing a bikini and a small jacket as all eyes turned red to her. Carlos who was about to sip his wine, paused. He looked down at her straight sexy legs as she stood there with a smile.

"You're here." Gabby smile, she was so excited that she won't be the only lady in this party after all and this will go give her the chance to play her cards well.

"Find a place to sit." Blake told her as Carlos looked at all his friends, no doubt they were also staring down at her exposed skin.

"Hey!" He called out to Triffany before she can sit.

"What's wrong Carlos?" Garrett asked, turning his eyes to him.

"Why are you dressed like that?" He ask Triffany as the rest looked at him surprise, he was saying nonsense.

"How?" Triffany looked down at her body and then at him.

"Those legs." Car6said softly as his eyes sweep her body. Gosh! You.." He furrowed his brow. "Why is your legs so exposed?"

Gabby sniggered, this was actually the drama she had been expecting. "Carlos It's a pool party." She told her brother.

Carlos touched his hair, thinking of an excuse when he got one he turned to Gabby again. "She can't swim and the swimming is over already." His friends started laughing, knowing the reason he is acting this way already.

Carlos put down his glass and stood up. "Triffany, come with me." He told her.

"Jeez! Carlos, we know she's yours already." Eric said clearly. They believe he was acting like this because he doesn't want anyone of them to stare at her seductively.

"She could get cold." He told his friends and turned to Triffany. "You need to wear something warm Triffany. Like a trouser."

"I'm fine." Triffany told him seriously.

"Carlos can we just play the game already?" Gabby told him. "I'm more exposed than she is and I could also get cold too, Wilbur it's really warm now." His friends sniggered.

"Does this mean you care for your now?" Garrett asked as Triffany looked at Carlos waiting to hear his response.

Carlos scoffed. "Why?" He returned to his chair. "Who cares if she gets cold or not." He said nonchalantly and drink his wine. "Can we play the game already?"

"Okay boss." Blake smile, Carlos looked at Triffany who sat next to Gabby. "Alright, here is the game rule." Blake sat up. "If you won't tell the truth, you will drink three shots of beer." He looked at the others. "Okay?"

"Okay."

"Okay, we start with me. "Truth." Blake said and waited for a question.

"Blake have you had sex before?" Gabby asked, curiously as they turn to him.

"Yes." Blake told her. "That's nothing to hide." They all chuckled.

"That's no fun!" Gabby grinned. "My turn...Truth."

"Gabby who among the three of us, apart from your brother. Have you wished to.kiss?" Eric asked her, as he watched intently.

Carlos frown. "How can you ask that?" He gave Eric the cold glance.

"Carlos chill. Let her answer." Eric told him, Carlos cold gaze don't scare him anymore.

"I will drink to that." Gabby told them and they laugh and echo as she drink her three shot, with Carlos staring at his sister. Have she really thought of kissing one of his friends?"

"Gabby nice escape." Eric gave her a thumbs up, he was really curious. "My turn. Truth."

"Eric among all the ladies you've been with, who do you love most?" Gabby's asked him as silence fill the air as everyone paused.

Eric exhaled sharply as he reluctantly opened his lips. "Maya." Maya was his first love and the only lady he had love dearly until she left him.

"So sincere." Carlos was the first to speak.

Gabby smile. "At least he answered." She turned to Garrett. "You're up next."

"Truth." Garrett sat up, ready to hear his question.

"What is your dreams for the future?" Triffany asked him as Carlos scoffed at her question to Garrett.

"To be a Pope." Garrett said simply as everyone burst into laughter.

"Seriously?" Triffany's eyes grew wide in surprise.

"Yes." Garrett nods.

"He swore never to love again after he lost his first love." Gabby told Triffany. "That must be the reason he want to become a pope." Gabby chuckled, so did the rest.

"Triffany your turn." Garrett told her, looking straight in her eyes.

"Okay." Triffany sat up. "I chose a dare!" Carlos smile as he also looked at her with his penetrating gaze.

Gabby lift her brow. "She's breaking the record. Interesting." Gabby smile.

"I dare you." All eyes turned to Carlos who just spoke. "To go into the pool and hold your breath under water for half an hour."

Gabby frown. "Carlos that's so cruel. You know she can't!"

"She chose a dare." Carlos shrugged, his eyes still on Triffany.

Triffany glared at him, damn he is so annoying, does he have to decide. "I would drink to that." She drank the three shots as Carlos smirked.

"Carlos It's your turn." Blake told him.

"Truth." He said indifferently.

""Have you kissed Triffany before?" Gabby was the first to ask as all eyes turned to him, he stare at Triffany whose eyes was wide in shock.

Don't answer! Drink to it! That was all Triffany could repeat in her head.

Everyone looked at Carlos and were waiting for his answer. He look directly to Triffany with a smirk on his face. "No." Triffany looked down as she closed her eyes.

His friends were surprise. "But at the wedding.." Eric opened his lips to speak but Carlos shook his head.

"That was a fake kiss." At their wedding, they had used their hands to cover the audience from seeing them and had pretended to kiss.

Gabby frowned. "How can you speak so lightly about that?" She asked her brother, Triffany was looking down and cursing him in her heart.

Carlos sip his wine and turned to his friends that were still with that surprise expression on their faces. "We are playing a game, so next please."

They had no other choice but continue the game. "Truth." Garrett broke the silence.

"Who among the two of us. I and Triffany do you find more pretty?" Gabby asked.

Garrett stare at Triffany with a smile on his face, Carlos frown when he saw this. "Triffany." Triffany looked up and met his gaze, while Gabby smile.

"Woah!" Eric exclaimed as Triffany smile, while Carlos scoffed.

"Trurh." Triffany said as Blake smile.

"Do you find Carlos handsome and want to kiss him sometimes?" Blake asked. Carlos who was curious stare right into her eyes as their eyes lock.

"I'd drink to that." She took the three shots of beer as they cheer to her. It will be too embarrassing to say she watched her husband every night and wish to kiss him or feel the taste of his lips.

"Triffany can you handle that six shots?" Eric asked with concern.

"I'm good." She was a bit tipsy, she was not even a strong drinker , but looking at the smiling Carlos she had no choice but to continue. "Next please."

"Truth." Gabby sat up.

"Gabby if I ask you out on a date, would you go with me?" They all look at Blake, what kind of queen would he be asking Carlos sister.

"No." She shook her head and they all boo's him, laughing.

"Truth." Triffany said again.

"Who among all of us do you love? Apart from Gabby." Carlo asked her.

His friends were amused by Carlos question but waited curiously for her to answer.

Triffany was not expecting Carlos to be the one to question her, and whereas he was being ruthless right now. She had confessed her feelings for him privately and now he want her to confess publicly.

She will never let this man get his way. "I will drink to that." She took the first shot and was about to take another one.

"Triffany you would get drunk." Gabby was worried. "Carlos stop her." Gabby turned to his brother but Carlos ingored and took the next two shots.

Triffany waved her off. "I'm absolutely..fi..ne." She smiled drunkenly and her face drop on the table

"We better stop here." Gabby knew she was drunk and turned to Carlos. "Carlos why don't you take your wife inside. We would wrap things up and leave since it's already late."

Carlos exhaled softly as he look at the drunk Triffany. "I told you we were doing okay without her here." He put his glass down and tap her. "Hey Triffany." She didn't move, Carlos rolled his eyes with a furrowed brow.

"You got to carry her." Gabby told him.

"Things I have to go through because of her." He muttered as he picked her up and went into the mansion.

Inside his room he lay her gently on the bed. This reminded him of the past, when he took the drunk Triffany back to his house and lay her on his bed.

He smile gently as he watched her. "Hey Triffany." He called out.

"You're rude." She muttered and open her eyes gently. "You know I.. love yo..u." Carlos beams to hear this. "But then.." she closed her eyes without completing her speech.

"Then what." Carlos asked curiously.

"You wanted to make..a..fun out..of me." She scoffed. "You..you.." She open her eyes again. "Kiss..kiss." She stutter pointing at his lips. "Kiss. You rude jerk!" She cursed him. "You should have drink to it. Why..did you tell your friends and sister..do you have..any idea how I feel?"

Carlos was enjoying this, now he had the idea to get her drunk whenever he want to hear her deepest thoughts.

"How did you feel? Have you ever wish to kiss me before?" He asked her, but before she could answer she closed her eyes. "Hey! Hey, answer me before you sleep. Hey!" He leans close to her when he notice she was mumbling something.

"You can't even be my knight in shinning armour." Triffany mumbled. "Rude Carlos...you're so rude." Just as he was getting close to her face to hear her more clearly, she opened her eyes.

He jerk back. "Hey, you scared me."

She furrowed her brow. "Don't take advantage of me because am drunk."

Carlos scoffs. "Who told you I will do that?" He asked her and she started laughing. Carlos was surprised and puzzled. "What's funny?"

Triffany stop laughing. "I know you wouldn't take advantage of me." She sniffles. "You don't even love me...you only see me as a pillow when am so close to you."

"I wake up by your side on the bed, but..." Tears filled her eyes. "You sleep so...soundly and comfortable, like you don't feel.me close." Carlos looked at her, this was when he realize that she do watch him when he sleep.

"Do you have any idea...do you know how many times I...wake up looking at your handsome face and your.." she gently close her eyes.

"And my what?"

"Your sexy lips..." Her tears rolled down her cheek as he followed the trail of her tears to her lips. "Why do you have to be so handsome...what do I...have to do to get your attention? When am like a stranger to you." She mumbled and drifted to sleep.

Carlos watched her for a while. "You're not." He pulled the quilt over her shoulders, switched off the light and left the room