The entire room suddenly stared towards the door when a nerdy looking young man that would pass for an uncommon denominator in a party of glamor came inside. He was holding in his hand a flower bouquet as he nervously closed the door behind him. His glasses bent as one side had slipped out. Nervously he pushed back his glasses as he glanced around the room to find the lots of pairs of eyes staring at him. He was scanning for one person in particular and had not seen her yet.
"Kevin? Why are you so late." the feminine voice called as she emerged from a doorway and into the sitting area. She walked up to him while he shook nervously.
Dressed in his light brown jeans, a checkered shirt with weird looking sneakers whose shoe laces were undone, Kevin was no match for the beauty approaching him. He totally did not belong here in this world but he would rather affirm himself lucky that Melinda had even been kind enough to consider dating him through these months. He was sweating profusely now.
"Hey babe." he said to her nervously shifting from one leg to another.
"Care to offer up an explanation as to why you are late to my freaking birthday party?" she demanded angrily.
"I'm really sorry. We had lots to do at the laboratory and then I spent time trying to get you something for your birthday." he said and gave a weird smile as he really was scared.
She looked around him and even behind him like she was looking for something.
"Well, where is it then?" she asked.
"Where's what babe?" he asked.
"You said you got me something for my birthday. I want to see it." she said.
"Here." he said, pushing the flower bouquet into her hand. "Happy birthday babe. And oh, I had them put a card in it to show how much I love you. They're your favorite, roses."
He was even nervously pointing at the card in the midst of the flowers while she glared at him. She said nothing for a while and slowly he caught a whiff that he had upset her. He stopped talking now.
"Flowers? You got me flowers Kevin on my birthday. What should I do with them, open a florist shop?" she demanded angrily.
"I thought... I... I'm sorry. I could get your something else if you want." he said.
"Perhaps more flowers!!!" someone shouted from among the guests they were watching them and everyone burst into a fit of laughter.
"You could get me something else? Like you can even afford it? Look there..." she said pointing as she spoke.
"That's Mickey and he got me a Rolex watch for my birthday,"
"Over there is James and he bloody hell got me a really cool channel handbag. Legit one."
"Those trio sitting there are this snazzy girls, they got me the complete Kylie Jenner makeup kit and if you want I could go on and on."
He could no longer take the pain.
"I'm sorry babe. How can I fix this please?" he asked her.
She suddenly let go of the flower and it fell to the ground and then turned to face the rest of the party.
"Who's thirsty for more drinks?" she asked them and everyone said that they sure needed more. The waiter was just coming in to take their orders when she stopped him and took the towel from his shoulders, patting him in the most seductive way possible.
"How about you take a break my dear, Kevin here would serve us the drinks. Right Kevin?" she asked him, batting her eyelashes as her fingers traced lines seductively on the waiter's chest.
Kevin swallowed as he held onto the towel. It was really painful seeing his girlfriend do this with someone random, not to mention a mere waiter. Well, this was certainly what he deserved for not pleasing her like he should. He might as well as do whatever she says before things gets out of hand.
"Su-sure." he said in a near whisper.
"Good." she said and turned to the rest of the party excitedly. They all went back to what they had been doing before he had come, totally forgetting that he existed there. She did not even turn to look at him again.
Kevin made his way around and was about starting his task of humiliation when he tripped on his shoe laces and fell with his face to the ground. He sat up and realized he had hurt his nose but they all simply turned to look at him only for a moment and went on with what they were doing earlier. Clearly, he did not exist in their world. She too; she just stared at him with a disapproving frown and continued with what she was doing. Kevin sat down on the floor and fastened the laces hoping they would not come off again as he started to head for the kitchen area.
"Oh Kevin, could you throw that flower in the trash. It does not look right there at the entrance." she said to him and refocused on her discussion with her friends.
Sadly, he returned to pick it up and some persons giggled. He felt really bad that it was his own job to trash the flowers he had bought for her himself. He finished up eventually and then started serving the drinks to the guests. They made sport of him as some of them even had complaints up their sleeves as they tried their best to make it all frustrating for him. It was way after two hours later that he was done with his task of servitude. His girlfriend was nowhere to be seen and so he decided to look for her so he could apologize to her properly.
He went into the bedroom area and just as he would happen on her bedroom, he discovered the door was slightly open and he heard giggles. They were sounds from she and someone else that was within the room enclosure too. He walked quickly and found her in the most compromising position with someone. It was the guy that had bought her a Rolex. He laid on the bed while she straddled his waist as she lent over kissing him.
"Vanessa? What are you doing?" Kevin asked feeling broken.
She looked up to see him standing at the doorway.
"What does it look like I'm doing? Give us space please and shut the door behind you." she said and tried to return to what she was doing.
"Give you space? Damnit Vanessa, you're my girlfriend." he said.
She sat up now and came down from the guy onto the ground. Vanessa started walking towards him and he was already hoping she had come back to her senses. However, just when she stood in front of him, Vanessa dealt him a heavy slap across the face.
Kevin heard the part of his face where he had been slapped as he stared at his presumed girlfriend. He would never have believed that their always sort of unhealthy relationship would deteriorate further as he had always hoped that since she agreed to date him, she probably loved him and would come to terms with how to treat him right. But clearly, that was something not short of a dream too good to come true."No leave before I do something stupid." she yelled at him."But I'm your boyfriend Vane, you shouldn't do this to me." Kevin said but shamefully he could feel tears rolling out of his eyes. He did not want to cry. He was not planning on crying but the pain of the dawning fact that he was just seemingly useless and not man enough to fight was painful. But her voice snapped him off his thoughts as she laughed."Boyfriend you say? Sad to think that a geek like you would think that." she said and looked at the other guy still seated on her bed before turning again to him."Is this
Find a beauty, the voice had said but right now, Kevin was in a whirlpool world of his own. He could not believe his eyes at what he was seeing but decided that he probably had hit his head really hard to an extent he was beginning to see things. He decided that he would get him first and get some sleep and so by the morning when he wakes up, it would all have cleared out. The time already was a quarter past eleven pm and he had managed to sneak out of the storage and made for the elevator immediately. Luckily he was the only one in there but more awkward for him was the fact that the moment he stepped out of the laboratory building, Kevin was pretty much shocked to see Jean and the other ladies. They were staring at each other's phones and gigging. He needed no soothsayer to tell him that it still was his video they were watching. He needed to get a cab but apparently with them standing out there, it would be really impossible for him. Kevin decided on walking away from them. He was
Kevin stood there not really understanding what the system was implying. He looked behind him and all he could see was the painting boards and various artistic crafts. It the struck him, what to do and almost automatically, Kevin turned back. He could still feel curious eyes boring into his very being as he walked past them all. There were whisperings here and whisperings there but he cared less now. All his life has been filled of whisperings as people taunted him through that. He knew no one cared about his feelings whatsoever and just continued inside. Kevin looked around and then he saw one of which that was having a clear view of what he wanted to see. Kevin walked over, sat on the bench and then he picked up the paint brush. He sat down suddenly like a pro and it came to him, that painting he wanted to make. He had never been a painter all his life which made it surprising when his hands started working. He kept switching brushes and paints but still he could not see how what
Kevin was in a dilemma. He sure as hell wanted to be as handsome and as dashing as a model which would attract girls but then he recalled Mickey, the guy from his ex-girlfriend's party. He was not that good looking but clearly he had ample amount of cash to throw around which was why he had Vanessa all over him. He did not want to be the broke yet handsome jock but even more, he was scared that he would change totally to a complete stranger."Money." he muttered under his breath.The moment he said that, he was waiting patiently for the money to probably fall from above but nothing happened. He started counting the seconds and by the time he was reaching sixty seconds, he was already nearly giving hope as it felt like a really long time when at exactly one minute, his phone chimed his message tone. Kevin wondered who it was as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He was met with a total shocker as well as surprise which he found hard to believe.There was an alert mess
Kevin had never felt more satisfied in his entire life by an event reoccurring as he felt about this one. He could not believe that simply accomplishing a task could get him this great deal of fortune. He had gone back home that day and did not return to the lab as he had school the next day.Waking up that morning, Kevin was actually feeling skeptical as to whether or not he should continue on his way to school or not. This fear was arising from the fact that he recalled that a video had been made the night of Vanessa's birthday and by now, it should have circulated all round the school. He wished now more than ever that the system could assist him with an option to get the videos deleted. He would readily do anything for that to happen but that morning when he had woken up, he saw nothing from the system. Kevin decided to just get ready for school with great hopes that perhaps when he gets out to the public, a task would present itself.Kevin took his bath quickly and stared at his
"Well, well, well... what have we here? If it's not sissy Kevin." the irritating guy began.Kevin had not expected that the object of his humiliation would still haunt him after the video upload. He was not in the mood to entertain his troubles at the moment. All he had wanted was so he could complete yet another task given to him by the system and see if he would get another opportunity at picking a gift again. This was merely the second level and he would very much rather that he does not accustom blockages. Not even ones that looked like his ex girlfriend's hooker. He faced him now and the young man started laughing."Listen, I don't want any trouble." Kevin said."Oh, the sissy has grown balls and now talks back." he yelled and everyone started laughing."Yeah, whatever you say but leave me alone." Kevin said to him."And you think I would do that because he simply asked? You should have known better." Mickey said to him.Kevin stood there seeking for the right words to tell him w
"Seriously Alice? I initially thought you were joking about going on a date with Kevin. Yet, here you are getting all ready and set for him. Have you no shame?" Vanessa was asking her cousin.She had actually been meaning to talk to her about it but eventually decided to watch instead as she strongly believed that her sister would stand him up. They had gone about their normal activities after school but what seemed shockingly baffling to her right now was the fact that Alice was indeed getting ready for her so-called date with Kevin. She felt really angry and if she was being honest with herself, she was jealous.Of Kevin, no. But the fact that Alice had moved over to their county and resumed in her school was really upsetting. She had seen how Alice had managed to get everyone to stare at her including Mickey. She could tell from the way he was staring at her that he too was overcome by lust and she might start living in the shadows of her own sister. Then it got worse when even her
He made up his mind eventually as he had stuff to do. Kevin had managed to put himself in order and looked at the mirror, although he was not impressed seeing himself, he was okay with his looks. At least, he could pass for a person's date. He stood in front of the mirror as he now tried rehearsing how he would talk to her when he saw her that evening. He practiced smiles and gestures but then, his soul was dampened and his eyes lowered. He was not at all confident and was wondering how he would pull this off when his eyes fell on his wrist watch. The time was already going fast and he needed to get her to go on this date with him. He quickly buttoned his shirt sleeves and grabbed his jacket as he stepped out onto the street.Kevin knew that he would be spending a lot at the hotel but he just needed to get the right cab that would fit into his budget. He glanced around until he found one that seemed to suit his purpose. The cab driver was sleeping from the obvious boredom of having no