Jasmine's POV
I stepped into Bamior Cafe at about 6:05 in the evening (I'm not the best with time) and met Kate already sitted at a table at the far end of the cafe, overlooking the road. "sorry I'm late, I had some errands to..." she cut me off "no worries, you are always sorry" she scoffed. I've had enough "Kate what really is the problem? I thought we were cool, why the sudden attitude?" I asked trying to make my words as clear as possible. "you thought we were cool?" I waited for her to continue "Jasmine when is my birthday?" Jasmine, that pinched, she hates that name that's why she calls me Lav (Lavender) and all of a sudden it's now Jasmine.
Wait but when is her birthday? I think it's something like March? no wait it's her name er er April! yes April, but April what? 27 I think? no it's something like 23 wait a minute it's 22, the day I met her but hasn't that passed? I gasped oh no! today is April 25, Kate's birthday has passed! "I'm waiting for your reply" her words brought me out of my reverie and I replied slowly "April 22" "so you remember then" she said in a low voice "of course, I would never forget your birthday Kate" I thought I was getting to her till she shocked me, yeah, she shocked me "so I take it that you just didn't want to come" she said with a snicker.
"come? come to what?" "my birthday party and girls night out that I planned for both of us" "party? you didn't tell me about any party" I was confused, there is no way in the world that I'll know and I wouldn't attend "well if thirteen missed calls and twenty seven messages doesn't count as telling you then I don't know what will" she chuckled mirthlessly. "Twenty seven messages? thirteen missed calls? how I swear I didn't see any missed call or message, if I did I would've....oh my goodness! I changed my SIM card because of network issues on the other one, didn't I tell you? it must I've skipped my mind" my eyes widened, I didn't realize. "yeah, of course, it skipped your mind, very typical of you. You'd always think about what concerns you, and the easiest way to fix it, but you'll never think of how it affects those that care about you" she was starting to annoy me.
"what are you even saying, I just told you what happened and...." "what stopped you from going to one of their branches to lay a complaint or better still put a call through to their customer service?" she asked slowly "you know I don't like that type of stress" my response sounded kinda stupid, even to me. "just like I thought, you know Jasmine, in all my years of being your friend, I noticed something about you that hasn't changed and I don't think it will change any time soon" she paused then stood up grabbing her purse from the table. I had a feeling she was about to say something I wouldn't like.
"you're just a spoilt brat that likes getting everything at her own convenience, that would not strain a muscle out of her comfort if it is not affecting her directly" then she left. Just like that. Leaving me there, staring at her departing form as she walked out of the cafe like a moron (I'm sure you know that type of look). My hands were shaking and the only thing running through my mind was the billion dollar question: Am I a bad person?
Keira's POV.
Right now, I'm somewhere between really mad and partially hurt.
Okay get this, I went to the supermarket this morning to get my brother a gift for our birthday (yeah you heard right, it's our birthday) and guess what I saw (you guessed wrong, don't worry, I'll tell you) I saw my brother that told me that he was going to the warehouse to see if he can get into the new file that appeared in Mateo Enrique's system (their oldest son and young master), the file was labeled TOP SECRET with two shiny golden stars on each side (talk about dramatic) which makes it the exact kind of thing to pique our interest. I met my brother that I was planning on surprising with the computer game he wanted so much, at the supermarket's chocolates & toys department with Xiao Mei on his shoulder.
You might be wondering, why not just buy it himself but you see, Kyle is not exactly the spend wisely kinda guy, he's more of the spend as long as you have the money kind guy, which is why mom and dad placed him on a spend limit for two weeks and the game costs way more than the what he's allowed to spend for a week. The game has been out for like three days now and Kyle has been out of his mind for not being able to get his hands on. But certain responsible people like us are trusted and have no spending restrictions which means we can spend as much as we want (and by the way, when I say us I mean me).
As I was saying, (Kyle says I digress and get distracted easily this days, I wonder if it's true) before you call me paranoid or wonder what is wrong with that, listen to my own side of the story.
I approached them and cleared my throat, Kyle looked back. "Keira, what are you doing here?" he asked in surprise "funny how I was about to ask you the same" "it's good to know that you've made so much progress in cracking the file open" I added air qoutes when saying the last part to make my point clearer. "oh that" he turned to Xiao Mei "Mei why don't you look around a bit if you'll see what you'll like" he put her down and waited until she had walked a bit farther from where we were standing before he turned to me. "I had an emergency" he said simply "oh what? the toys and chocolates department was on fire or some of the toys and chocolates needed to be saved from their shelves and racks" I brought out my water bottle and downed half it's content "I actually was on my way to the warehouse when.." I cut him off "I don't want to hear it, and as much as I'd like to get upset about you lying to me then taking a detour to the supermarket, I won't because today is to much of an happy day to condone any negative vibe".
I reached into my bag and brought out four tickets I had collected on my way to the supermarket. Every year on our birthday our parents allow us to take the week off and go for what we call our one week birthday tour of any country of our choice sponsored by them as long as it's during the holidays, otherwise, it'll be postponed till we are on a break (we can't go more than four countries though). "I chose tickets for Bellarus and Finland" I said beaming "what did you pick?" he on the other hand brought out six tickets "why six? you know mom and dad won't allow us to visit more than four countries right?" I asked confused "yes, I know, these are tickets for Luxembourg and Haiti" "which is supposed to be four but you're holding six" "yes, it's actually two for me, two for you, and two for Mei".
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