Chapter 28: Chapter 28

“Wait a minute!”

Vincent heard a loud voice outside his room, and before he could close the door, someone placed his hand at the closing door.

“Wait Vincent!” begged Kyle. Using all of his remaining strength, Kyle pulled the door open once again. “I have something to ask!”

Vincent stared at Kyle.

Kyle catches his breath while carrying a basket of soap, shampoo, conditioner and body scrub. On his other hands, he carries his towel, short, underwear and shirt.

Even without telling the reason why he came, Vincent can figure out what Kyle wanted from him.

“The shower in my room is broken. Can I wash in your room instead?”

This isn’t the first time Kyle asked a favor like this. Among the rooms, Kyle’s room has the weakest water supply. That was why Vincent and Terban told Kyle that before the newcomers arrived, he should have exchanged his room. But the kind Kyle felt guilty for the newcomers, so he stayed in his room.

‘Well. If ever Ryan chose Kyle’s room it will be a mess. So, this is better,’ Vincent thought before he widely opened the door and walked to the side.

“Sure. Come in,” Vincent said.

Smile spread on Kyle’s lips as he walked inside Vincent’s room.

“Thank you so much! I will make sure not to make any mess!” he promised, then went inside the bathroom.

Vincent blinked his eyes and stared at nothing. Seconds later, he murmured, “I left my phone in the kitchen.”

Recalling his mistake, Vincent left his room and forgot to close the door.

As soon as Vincent went away, Ryan arrived in front of his room.

“Vincent?” she called, but heard nothing from inside. “Where is that guy? I will ask him something.”

She was about to go but halted when the guitars inside Vincent’s room caught her attention.

“He has too many guitars. I wonder if he can play all of those.”

Ryan didn’t realize how her curiosity led her to enter the room without the owner’s permission.

“I bet these are all expensive,” she whispered while nodding her head. When she turned to the side, Ryan saw her reflection through the mirror, and that’s when she realized that she entered Vincent’s room!

Going inside the man's room without his consent, isn't this invading as someone's property?

Even Ryan hates it when someone would go inside her room without her consent. But just like the old saying, regrets only came when it’s too late.

Ryan stepped backward, about to dash outside when a sturdy and large thing hit her head.

“Ouch!”

She touched her forehead which throbbed in pain. Wondering what hit her, she opened her eyes. Soon, she realized that the thing she bumped onto is not a thing, but a person.

“What are you doing inside my room?”

Worse, that person is the room’s owner.

Holding his phone, Vincent stared at the intruder. He was surprised to see Ryan inside. But among them, Ryan was in more dilemma. Sweats formed in her palm as she think of any excuse she can use at the moment. But her brain stopped working. No. Something clogged inside that she couldn’t think properly.

Ryan just stared at Vincent with her mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, opened and closed like a machine.

Until Vincent spoke again as he crossed his arms.

“Goiing inside the room without the owner, that’s what pervert does.” Vincent smirked, and added, “Eve.”

Ryan’s eyebrows soared, as well as her blood. “H-Hey! Can you stop calling me Eve! And also, I really didn’t mean to… to you know… to…” Ryan bit his lips firmly as she couldn’t continue what she wanted to say.

Vincent knew that Ryan has no ill intention for coming in, so he finds it amusing that she’s panicking too much.

“Are you going to say something to me that’s why you came here?” Vincent asked as he saw that Ryan would die out of embarrassment.

Seeing the glint of hope that the topic changed, Ryan quickly answered, “Y-Yes! The door is open. Then I s-saw your guitars. I felt so curious so I unconsciously went inside to observe at them. S-Sorry.”

Vincent nodded his head as he expected this answer. He felt proud that his guitar collection caught someone’s attention that much.

“So, what are you trying to ask?”

“Well, I wanted to confirm if our plan to go to the wedding is still good.”

“If you wear the wedding dress, maybe,” Vincent teased, which Ryan did not understand.

“Excuse me?”

With a serious face, Vincent added, “Nothing. Anyway, the plan is still good. We will go tonight, 6pm.” He checked the time from his wrist watch and said, “It is still 1pm. We don’t need to rush.”

“Alright,” Ryan said, walking backward with blush. Until now, she’s feeling embarrassed. “T-Then, see you later. Bye!”

She walked out through a door, which is not the door towards the exit, but the bathroom’s door.

Ryan’s mind was out of place that she didn’t know she entered the wrong one. Well, she will figure that out soon.

“Why did she enter the bathroom?” Vincent murmured.

After few seconds of thinking, his eyes widened when he remembered that someone is occupying his bathroom right at that moment. And that person is…

“Kyle,” Vincent murmured before a loud shout pierced the space.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

The mixed shouts of Kyle and Ryan made Vincent dashed towards the bathroom. When he opened the door, he saw Ryan sitting on the floor while covering her eyes. In front of her, the wet and naked Kyle went pale as he covered his manh**d.

“F*ck,” Vincent uttered while blinking his unholy eyes.

Ryan quickly stood up and ran outside while still covering her eyes, while Kyle stared at the space as if he lost a few years of his life.

“W-Why did she come in?” he stuttered, before his weakened knees gave up and he fell on the flower with white face.

“I forgot to say that…” Vincent paused for a moment then laughed. “I forgot to tell you that my bathroom’s door is broken. Sorry.”

What an unfortunate Kyle.

Speaking about being unfortunate, maybe, Ryan is at the main list.

“Hello, Ry…” Terban was trying to greet Ryan. Yet, he was intrigued when he saw her running with her eyes covered.

Terban followed her with his gaze until…

“Hey! You will bump in the…!”

Too late. Ryan bumped her forehead on the wall.

“Ahhh!” She screamed and fell down on the ground.

Terban winced while watching the scene. He felt how painful it must be as he murmured, “Bullseye.”

It seems Ryan’s day didn’t start well.

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“Here, raw egg. You should rolled it around your forehead to get rid of the bump,” Terban said, offering her a raw egg.

Ryan got the egg and said, “Thank you.”

The two of them went to sit under the shade in the boarding house’ garden. Terban thinks that the calm scenery would help Ryan to calm down, as he saw her running before as if she saw a monster.

“What really happened?” Terban asked. “Why are you running with our eyes closed? Did you see a ghost?”

It would be better if Ryan just saw a ghost. Nevertheless, she does not have the plan to tell Terban that she saw Kyle naked in the bathroom.

“Don’t ask anymore. I don’t want to remember it again.”

Since Terban is an easy listener, he just nodded his head. “Okie dokie,” he said, chuckling.

As he chuckled, Ryan turned to his side. Few days ago, she saw Terban crying over his past lover. After that incident, this is the first time she saw him laugh again.

“Ahh, I dreamed about you,” Terban shared, meeting Ryan’s gaze.

“Me?”

“Hmmm. When I was sick, I dreamed that you went inside my room to see if I am fine.”

Terban thought that the images he saw that day are only part his dreams, since Ryan did not talk about this to him.

‘Maybe, it will be better to forget what happened that day. That he hugged me,’ Ryan decided.

Smiling slightly, Ryan replied, “Oh really? Then what happened?”

“You went to my side and you hu…”

Terban shut his mouth.

They both know what happened next.

In Terban’s dream, he hugged Ryan so tight. But little did he know, that dream really happened in reality!

“N-Nothing,” Terban lied as he avoided her gaze. “My dream just ended like that.”

Feeling the sudden awkward, Ryan just nodded her head and keep rolling the egg on her forehead. The two of them felt embarrassed and fell into deep silence.

“Your head is pretty hard,” Terban suddenly spoke. “The impact when you hit your head on the wall was too much. I though you broke your skull.”

“Is that a compliment or what?” annoyed, Ryan rebuked.

“Of course! It’s a compliment.” Terban even raised his hand and gave him thumbs up. “Ryan, maybe you can perform in talent show. You know those people who use their heads to smack things.”

“As time passes by, you are being bully,” Ryan complained with a pout.

“I was only joking,” Terban said then laughed. “But I am serious when I said that your head is… ah!” Terban stopped when he accidentally bit his tongue. “Argh. I bit my tongue.” He stick his tongue out, looked at Ryan and asked, “Dhosh ish bish? (Does it bleed?)”

Looking at him while he is sticking his tongue made her laugh.

Terban put his tongue back and frowned. “Why are you laughing?”

“Because you look like a dog with your tongue out,” Ryan teased.

However, this kind of teasing does not work on silly Terban. He just shrugged his shoulder and said, “When I was joking, you don’t laugh. But when I am serious, you laugh. I think there’s something wrong with your head after you bumped onto the wall. Shall we put it back?”

Terban suddenly knocked on Ryan’s head.

“Ouch!” Ryan winced, even though it was that hurt.

The guiltless guy asked, “Is your head feeling better? Are you sane now?”

Ryan bit her lower lips. She really wanted to take a revenge!

“Your head is harder than mine!” Ryan said.

Chuckling, Terban replied, “Hard? Oh no. My head is as soft as newborn baby.” He even acted cute which annoyed her even more.

As she felt getting bigger and bigger, the angry Ryan looked at the egg in her hand. “Shall we test if your head is as soft as newborn baby?” she asked before she suddenly hit Terban’s head with the egg.

She was going to laugh.

Well, she wanted to.

Not until she realized that she smashed him with a raw egg. For a moment, Ryan thought that the egg is boiled, not raw.

"Oh my gosh," she exclaimed.

From the top of Terban’s head down to his handsome face, the sticky liquid of broken eggs dripped.

Ryan gaped, while Terban flushed in anger.

“S-Sorry,” she apologized. “I forgot that the egg is raw,” she added, hoping that this explanation would calm the man whom she hit so hard.

Ryan looked at the broken shells on his head. Then slowly, she got them out of his head, thinking that everything will be okay as long as Terban isn’t saying anything. But…

“Ryaaaaaaaaaan!” Terban shouted.

At the loud voice, Ryan covered her ears.

Terban looked at her fiercely which made her gulp in fright.

“Damn it,” Terban cursed before he stood up and walked inside the boarding house.

'So it is really confirmed that I'm unlucky today,' Ryan confessed to herself.