“You know he is not interested in me cause I am not Nevaeh.”, She thought.
“Why do you h@të Mr Rowan?”, Leon asked when it got to his turn.
“Don’t we all h@të him? You were even begging not to be on the same team with him.”, He replied.
“That was then, we judged him without knowing him but we no longer h@të him.”, Ruby said.
“Why do you h@të Mr Rowan?”, Leon asked again and Harry carried a drink.
“I don’t h@të Rowan.”, He replied and drank.
“And you expect us to believe?”, Heaven said.
“I don’t h@të him and that’s the truth, I don’t care if you believe or not.”, He answered.
“Have you ever betrayed Mr Rowan and do you feel bad?”, Ruby asked.
“So no one is going to ask questions about myself, no one wants to know more about me? Gosh that hurts!”, Harry said rubbing his chest.
“I can’t answer your question.”, He said and drank.
“Why are you here Mr Harry?”, Mrs Janice asked.
“Someone finally asked a question that is not related to Rowan but the answer is related to him though.”, He said and looked at Rowan who has just been staring at him since.
“I followed you here because of Rowan, I like teasing and annoying him. I knew he would surely be annoyed if I follow you guys and the other reason is …. a secret that I will take to my grave.”, He said and Rowan just shook his head.
“Jerk! He really knows how to annoy me.”, Rowan muttered.
“So Mr James any questions and I hope it is not about Rowan.”, He said.
“It’s about the both of you, actually I have many questions.”, James said.
“Have you …. Have you ever thought of Mr Rowan as your brother?”, He asked and Harry just laughed.
“Why would I consider him my brother? He is just my rival.”, Harry said laughing.
“Actually I have been wanting to ask you so many questions Mr Harry but there hasn’t been time because of work but I think this is the prefect time.”, James said.
“Aren’t you here because you don’t want to be alone with your dad? You want to be with Mr Rowan but what I just don’t understand is why you would care about Mr Rowan since all you do is to hurt him.”, James said and Rowan furrowed his brows and looked at harry.
“I don’t know where you got those ideas from but it is not true, I h@të Rowan.”, Harry denied.
“But you just said you don’t h@të me.”, Heaven said.
“Mr Rowan haven’t you wondered why harry never visits you but he always comes on your birthday to annoy you? He would end up not saying anything important.”, James said and Rowan thought about it for a while.
Yes James was right! Harry never visits but he hasn’t never missed visiting him on his birthday even they would end up fighting and arguing.
“How did you come up with all these ideas?”, Harry asked.
“Sometimes you treat Mr Rowan nicely and sometimes you act like the opposite, why do you have to pretend?”
“I don’t know if they are trying to make you feel better by saying all of these but I can assure you that I don’t see you as my brother, you are just my rival.”
“Explain why you are here then?”, Leon demanded.
“I told you that it’s something I can’t say.”, Harry replied.
“Maybe you are not here for Nevaeh.”, Rowan said.
“Mr James you know better than anyone else that Rowan and I are just rivals, he is someone I have to get rid of and someone that I need to cheat.”, He said.
“Cheat? What are you talking about?”, Rowan asked.
“I always go to Rowan on his birthdays because I want to hurt him well since that’s his special day.”, He explained.
“So do you h@të me or not?”, Rowan asked.
“I can’t answer that.”, He said and drank and then left.
“That jerk!”, Rowan muttered.
“Why did he take it so seriously? Wasn’t it only a question? He could have just said that he doesn’t care about Mr Rowan.”, Ruby said.
“No matter how hard I try to understand Mr Harry, he is just impossible to understand and read.”, James said.
“The chairman called to confirm what harry told him, harry told him that he planned this trip and it is for work. I think the chairman is angry that he is with you and he allowed you to come out and he has even asked harry to return but I don’t understand why he isn’t going back and why he didn’t tell us that the chairman knows already.”, James said to Rowan.
“That was why I thought that he came with us because he wants to stay away from the chairman for now, if he didn’t say that he planned this trip for work then we would have all being in trouble.”, He said.
“Maybe he is planning something? Or maybe the chairman was aware of this from the beginning?”, Leon said.
“I don’t think he was aware, if he was aware then we wouldn’t have come. He would have stopped us.”, Rowan said.
“Jeez! This trip is meant to be for fun and here we are trying to solve a mystery, I feel like I am already a detective.”, Leon said.
“Well this trip isn’t fun because you cheated or have you forgotten?”, Ruby said.
“I wasn’t the only one who cheated.”, Leon said.
“Since it’s Mr Rowan—- I will try to understand why he did it.”, She said and Leon rolled his eyes.
“Mr Rowan don’t forget what you promised me”, Leon said and he glared at him.
“Why should I fulfil my promise? It wasn’t as if the planned worked anyway.”, He replied.
“What promise?”, Heaven asked.
“Oh my goodness! I can’t believe this, are you going back on your words now. I can’t believe that Mr Rowan is not a man of his words.”, He said.
“Yes I am not.”, Rowan said and Leon frowned.
“Should I tell Nevaeh why you wanted to cheat?”, He asked.
“Go ahead.”, Rowan said.
“Mr Rowan wanted to cheat because he wanted to impress you and make you see that he’s better than Mr Harry.”, Leon said and everyone gasped.
“Good! It’s my turn now.”, Rowan said and Leon’s eyes widened.
“Ruby, Leon agreed to cheat also because…..!”, Rowan didn’t finish what he was saying when Leon quickly ran to him and covered his mouth.
“Mr Rowan please don’t talk.”, Leon pleaded with him and Rowan scoffed.
“What were you thinking when you revealed mine?”
“But you said go ahead.”, Leon defended.
“And you went ahead? You said go ahead the moment you revealed mine.”, Rowan said.
“Ruby, Leon likes ….!”
Rowan didn’t finish his statement as Leon covered his mouth and Rowan started struggling but Leon was determined not to let Rowan talk.
He would rather die than for Ruby to know that he likes her.
“Li…kes you —- he ….!”, Rowan kept struggling to talk and ruby just looked at them confused.
She was the only that had no idea, Mrs Janice and heaven knows but they just thought that it was better that she hears it from Leon herself.
“Mr Rowan please, I will keep your secrets safe from now henceforth.”, Leon promised.
“Okay! Just let go of me, I won’t say it.”, He said and Leon reluntanly let go of him.
“You shouldn’t have trusted me, ruby Leon likes you very much do please give him a chance.”, Rowan said and ran away.
“Mr Rowannnnnnnn!!!!!!!”, Leon screamed angrily as he ran after him.
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Leon doesn’t understand that go ahead means don’t you dare ?
