Chapter 30：Bottle of Shampoo

When Seb woke up at around 6:20 in the evening, he noticed Nomin appehensively sitting by his side.

" Hmm...Bro, my head seems to crack, it's so heavy." Seb complained while pressing his head.

" You just have to prepare imminently, somebody might be nagging at you." Nomin smiled.

" You mean, Karla? and why she'll be nagging at me? what have I done?" Seb smiled.

You were ambushed by Carmen, remember that sorority friend way back in college and my old neighbor? she removed your shirt and hers...and that's the scenario that Karla had witnessed. Similarly, she was able to trace you in subsequent attempts of calling and out of its ring tones from your pocket, it led her to see you being molested inside Carmen's house. Oh dear, I don't know how to react on this but, you must take care with that body. Ah...that's my body. I told you not to drink liquor that much and sure you'll go farout." Nomin's further sermon.

" Are you serious? Did it happen to me?" Seb was staring at nothingness and unbelievably. queried.

" Which one...when Carmen remove your shirt or when you remove hers? or things I don't know yet, go ask Karla. I need to buy groceries and I'm still using the card. Bye, be the force be with you." Nomin winked his eye on him.

Still pressing his head with his hands on sides made him closely hysterical and dizzily stood up in front of the windows. He tried to recall everything that happened inside Carmen's house.

" Good heavens...forgive me. I did not expect it have gone that far. I now remember everything."

He immediately got out from his room and saw her going outside the house to dry out some clothes. He followed her but she was not responding and as if she did not see anyone. He kept on blocking her way but she was insistent to finish hanging the apparels and other stuffs on the clothesline.

" Hey, what happened to you? Are you mad at me? for what?" Seb asked her while gently pushing her at the corner and looked at her straight to her very eyes.

" What have you done...I guess you are a married man, you remove someone's blouse...and you allowed yourself to be molested. I guess that woman can't just carry you inside her house, but you did." Karla was too close on his face to the extent that he missed to understand some of the words she was telling him and Seb hurriedly ran towards his bedroom's bathroom and took a shower.

" That one...she's so cute that made me still sober up to now." Seb smiled while looking up to the numerous droplets of the shower.

" She's jealous, haha." He thought.

Nomin just arrived and delivered to the fridge all the stuffs he bought. Hi all, we have a lot of food today and in a week time. I bought 12 bottles of liquor for someone who thirst for it so he will not anymore go out to find strangers outside. Of course, I can volunteer as audience around if he insist to drink and dive to the floor again." Nomin additionally sermon to no one.

" I've heard it. You silly. How can I drink with you when you hate liquors, haha." Seb teased him.

" Who knows? I can try as long as you will not litter yourself around to put us all miserable." Nomin jokily said.

" Deal! let's drink again tonight." Seb challenged Nomin.

" You both try. Just try. What if Demido strikes anytime and you both are drunk? " Karla interrupted.

" We're just kidding Karla. I hope you won't take it seriously. Anyway, I'm sorry for what had happened." Seb explained.

" The table is ready now, let's have our meal together." Karla suggested.

One of the solemn meals they all shared together. Thirty minutes past, they were done with their dinner, entered their room, washed up and slept. Nomin and Seb were still at the receiving area. Indeed so silent, but when Seb hastened his back on the couch, they started conversing with Nomin.

" Who do you think among us could fill in lovely children in this house. It's interesting, isn't it. Someone from us will be her husband but I couldn't be here if she's not." Seb sighed as Nomin gave him a glass of wine.

" Are you serious? how about the principal's office?" Seb laughed out loud.

" Don't worry. Just take this glass. No matter how many glasses of wine you'll drink on, I'll stay awake to fix and send you in place. Just enjoy drinking, let's just this angel to angel talk. Regarding why you were upset." Nomin smiled and tapped Seb's shoulder.

" That's an unrestrained question. Anyway, do I really need to tell the truth?" Seb curiously asked Nomin.

"Of course, we're angels, that's our Standard Operating Procedure, isn't it?" Nomin expound.

" You've got two glasses already but you are not yet telling me if why you were upset, just got out and had a drink with Carmen."

" Well, I was insinuated by jealousy, it's wrong but I am also a husband, you and me. I saw both of you together this morning, it ached inside. She was fixing the bed for you." Seb interpreted as Nomin gave him another glass of wine till he slept on a couch.

Nomin fixed him, removed the smell of wine from his system and gathered the flower scent around. Then Nomin sent him on bed, safely beside her then left them. Midnight came on and she was wondering if why's Seb is sleeping next to her. He also woke up and saw her straight from her eyes.

" Hmm...I did not...plan of sleeping beside you, maybe Nomin sent me here. I need to transfer now." Seb said but she tightly held his hand to just stay and get back leaning on bed.

" How do you feel...Does this make you a little better...hope so, think nothing...just feel better." As she looked at him so straight, he then was closing his eyes. His heart is on the race again and again.

" Do you do this to Nomin..." He whispered to her.

"No...if you were both confused, my heart won't. If I do this to you, I listened to him twice as I believed myself. We never had any intimate moments, I don't like him to be punished. That's why he understands me to be with you and near him when I need counsel."

" But...what if..I go beyond. Will it just be okay....I mean..." Seb explained and gently looked at her eyes trying to avoid them. He bit his lips and felt shame because she did not answer yet she just smiled and looked graciously to his eyes.

" Good heavens...what does that mean...well nothing, maybe she just wanted me to break the silence. Oh dear, I must talk now."

But she opened up right away."

" ... I was jealous today..." She softly whispered

" ...I, I know...that's also the reason why I was upset getting out." Then he caressed her hair strands and twirl them on his fingers.

"It's the shampoo I bought and I really like it, it's making my hair softer. Wait..." She immediately stood up and Seb tried to stop her to get back on bed but she took the bottle of shampoo from the bathroom, turned on the light and showed it to him.

To her surprise, Seb was in crisis and hurriedly vacated towards the bathroom while she was talking alone holding the bottle of shampoo. The shower started to pour on him inside and lavishly closed his eyes and had a deep concrete breathe in and out. He was as if had climbed the steepest Mt. Everest and fell like it was a dream.