Jay POV.
I shouldn't have been stupid enough to come here and possibly expect peace. It's sections E. And, Freya, had tagged along with grace, so my dear elder brother was all puppy eyes and in love or whatever.
I mean, I still don't understand why Percys going after her. She seems obviously uninterested. But whatever. Not my circus, not my monkeys. Apparently, Freya had forced Aries to come and Ella refused to let him go alone As she was jealous of Freya or whatever blah blah blah.... so they were here too.
As soon as I stepped back in after talking to Yuri... I saw it. Snorlax. A huge snorlaxxx. Ohhh goddddd! Actually, I loved snorlax! I ran to it and hugged it, and only then did I realise what I had done. Thankfully, Kiefer had not seen it so no murders today I guess.
I walked over to Ci n's parents. There was something I wanted to talk to them about. As soon as that was done, I walked back to Ci n. He beamed when he saw me.
"Jay come on, join us." He said gesturing to where everyone from HVIS where sitting. Aries looked incredibly grumpy, Kiefer's expression was unreadable, and Percy was still staring at Freya like a lovesick puppy. And so was edrix.
I went over and sat next to mica, who was, shockingly not sitting next to calix. Why are the magnets separated? Did the glue wear off? LQ?
Calix looked absolutely miserable, I felt a little bad for him. I looked at mica and raised an eyebrow questioningly. She just shook her head.
I was about to ask more, but then Ci n's parents called for cake cutting and gift giving, so we all stood up and left. After the cake cutting, slowly, everyone came and started giving their gifts. This dude, Kiefer Watson, he bought Ci a plane. Like a flight. A jet. What the hell?
Then it was my turn. By now, half the people had already left and went back to playing or whatever they were doing before. Only section e, Aries, Ella, Percy, and Freya were still there. Ci turned to me.
"Where's my gift?" He asked playfully. I decided to mess with him a little.
"Your gift is-" I started dramatically "- I forgive you. Completely." I said. He froze. I fully expected him to laugh or scoff or ask what kind of a gift that was. If it was anyone from my old school, that's what they would have done.
But instead, a huge smile broke out in his face. He hugged me. "Thank you Jay! That's the best gift ever!" He said. This time, it was my turn to freeze.
"Wait.. I was just kidding Ci n, that's not your gift." He pulled back. His face looked sad now.
"So you don't really forgive me?" He asked with puppy dog eyes.
"What? No- I mean yes. I do forgive you, but that's not the gift." I said taking the surprise egg toys that I had collected in the jar and handing it over to him. His eyes lit up with childish joy as he started thanking me. I smiled. "There's also something else. One last gift. Something you want from the bottom of your heart."
He laughed. "Jay, you've already given me the thing I wanted from the bottom of my heart. Your forgiveness. The only thing that could make me more happy is my parents agreeing for me to become a pilot." He said.
I smiled mysteriously. His eyes widened. "Wait- don't tell me" He started.
"She managed to convince us." Ci n's father said smiling at him. "But, only if you agree to complete medical course first. After that, since you're ahead of your studies anyway, you can pursue your dream of becoming a pilot." They said.
Ci n almost cried. He ran and hugged them while they laughed. I smiled looking at them, and let them be, knowing that if his brother was there then this probably wouldn't have happened. I walked away and sat down with the rest of them. Cin joined us after some time.
Then section e decided to cause chaos. I'm not even surprised anymore. These ulupongs are chaos.
"Truth or dare! Birthday boys order! You can't refuse." Ci n shouted.
"Oh no." I muttered. But of course, no one listened. Five minutes later, all of us were sitting on the floor in a circle. And somehow, they all had convinced Aries, Ella and Freya to join as well. Don't even ask me how.
The bottle spinned, and landed on me. I looked at the sky. Why god why. Felix grinned and leaned forward.
"Truth or dare Jay?" He asked.
"Truth" I said. Several people groaned. Some of them even booed or said boring. I just rolled my eyes at them.
Hah! Not today! I choose my sanity!
"How do you know percy? I mean we know he's your brother, but like, since when do you guys know each other? And also, why do you live separately?"
"I know him since I was born. We lived together. Until our parents- well technically my dad and my stepmom, but she was like my real mom,- until they died. After they died we couldnt live together as we only shared the same father, so we were sent to live with our respective mothers. Then he came to live with you guys and you know the rest..."
The bottle continued spinning and many people got.. well, let's just say.. some interesting dares. Then, the bottle spun and stopped on mica and me. I looked at her.
"Why are you and calix fighting?"
She hesitated. But then she said it. "I didn't like what they did to you. And we had a fight about the plan they had for you."
"That's stupid. You're both dumb." I said irritatedly.
Mica blinked. "But you're my friend and-"
"Exactly. You're my friend. Do you think I want my friend to be miserable because of me?"
"I thought that if continued being ok with him, then you might feel bad since you were the reason we got back together. I thought it would be like betraying you." She said.
I rolled my eyes. "You have it wrong if you think I'd feel betrayed. I don't help people expecting loyalty, it's not a transaction. I helped calix simply because I could. Besides, I worked way too hard to get you back together for you to just fight again."
She smiled. Then looked toward Calix. He was already looking at her hopefully. She sighed. "We need to talk." She told him. His face fell, as he realised he was not getting forgiven just like that, but he still nodded immediately and they both left.
Percy looked at me. "That's not good. Why are you smiling?"
"Just wait and watch." I replied. We continued the game. After 3-4 rounds, they came back in. Both of them were smiling and holding hands. Percy turned to me. "How did you even-"
I grinned. "The magic is the logic." I said.
"The magic is the logic." Percy deadpanned rolling his eyes, at the exact same time I said it. I looked at him.
"How did you know I was going to say that?" I asked.
"You ask that as if you don't say that every single time I ask you something." He replied.
The game continued. Percy chose dare and was asked to show his lock screen and home screen wallpaper. Everyone expected it to be himself as he was kinda self obsessed. But everyone's shock (expect me I already knew), it was a photo of me, Jare and Percy 9n the lock screen.
In the photo, four year old percy was sitting in the sofa holding 2 identical looking two year old (me and Jare, obviously). He was grinning looking entirely too proud of himself for being able to hold us on his own. Even if we were only sitting on him and he was not technically carrying us.
In the home screen was a more recent photo that included all 4 of us, including Leo, in an amusement Park. We all had ice creams on our hands.
Then the bottle spun again and landed at me. "Truth" I said again. I was NOT taking any chances with these ulupongs.
Drew grinned maliciously. Oh no. I'm in trouble.
"Do you still love Kiefer?"
And there goes my peace. I seriously did not want to answer that. Because the truth was- yes. You can't just magically stop loving someone just because they hurt you. That's logically impossible, and like I always
say - the magic is the logic. So if there is no logic, there can be no magic.
But how was I supposed to admit that with Kiefer sitting right there? Staring at me like he's waiting for my answer more than he'd like to admit...
Fortunately, something else saved me from answering that question. Unfortunately, that something else was a bullet. Someone from quite a distance had fired a gun. At me.