Chapter 109
Author: Adam Aksara
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I looked at Crystal. "Are you having an affair or dating two boyfriends at the same time?"

She pouted while looking at me. "When did you even realize you had a girlfriend?"

"When I am hungry?" I replied.

"Yeah," Crystal said, rolling her eyes. "I only have a boyfriend when he's hungry and wants to eat. And that guy, he's just dreaming of being my boyfriend. So, to him, I'm like his dreamy girlfriend."

"Crystal, you can't just say things like that," the man protested. "We've known each other since we were kids, and our parents are planning to engage us. You can't keep refusing it."

"Robert, you can keep dreaming, okay?" Crystal retorted, pushing past him with her friend toward the stairs. "I have a boyfriend here, his name is Alex. So I won't be having a second boyfriend for a while."

Robert looked at me, utterly shocked. "How can you be her boyfriend?" He continued to follow us to downstair.

"Well," I said, noting how Crystal really disliked that man and was using me as a buffer. "I t
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