Stupid Cupid

Arguments

Pete's POV:

Now we were seated inside the car which was being driven by Ae. Yes, we, because Ae insisted on dropping me and phi home. "Thank you Ae for the ride." Phi acknowledged. "It's alright phi.... I was anyways going to drop Pete off..." Ae replied. "I didn't ask for it!" I shot back. "I didn't say so..." he replied. "I told you to drop me at bus stop! It was you who dragged me to meet your father." I accused. "I am not denying that either!" Ae stated. Oh God!!! What should I do of this person??

We finally reached in front of our house and Ae pulled over to the side. I immediately got off the car and closed the door. "Thank you Ae for dropping us off. And also for taking care of my little brother." Phi was all grateful to this person unaware about what he did. "It's nothing phi... Oh, I have something to give you." Ae said while reaching for a bag. "What is it?" Phi asked. "We went pottery painting and these are the vases we painted. So... I want to give them to Pete as a memory of our first outing." Ae spoke.

"That's so sweet of you Ae. Thank you for taking him out. I was rather worried about him because he looked depressed. By the way, are you free tomorrow? I was taking Pete out so it would be nice if you can tag along." Phi invited. "He is n-" "YES!!! I will come!!" Ae cut me off mid sentence accepting the invitation. "That would be great... See you tomorrow then." Phi spoke.

"See you tomorrow phi and take care Pete... See you soon." Ae said as began to drive the car. "He is such a nice kid..." phi said. "Nice my ass!!" I groaned. "Pete? Language??" Phi pointed out. "Phi~~~, you know he is always troubling me. He appears out of nowhere and today he stole......" I stopped immediately realizing what I was doing. "Stole what?" phi asked all confused. I had to rummage through my brain to get decent answer and ended up saying, "ME!!"

"He was kidding dear. He wanted to take you out. That's it..." phi explained. If only you know what he did to me.... My first kisssssssss..... I wanna cry so bad!!

"Why are you so mad at him? He took you out, dropped you home, took care of you and you are still grumbling... Is something wrong?" phi asked. "He just.... Nothing... I am just pissed off because of Zee..." I replied. "Pete, listen carefully to what I am saying. I have always been worried when you were with Zee because I never saw the same love and concern from him towards you like the way you did. It always worried me when I thought about you being together with him. But in case of Ae, I can see how much he is trying to make you happy. He is giving his best and also trying to cheer you up. There are hardly few people who would actually think about your happiness than theirs. You must think about everything because if you ask me, I would rather prefer seeing you with Ae than with Zee." Phi stated.

I wanted to say that he was being bias but I couldn't deny the fact that his observations were up to the point. Yes, Zee was never careful about my feelings like the way Ae do. When I am with Ae, I don't have to think about anything or be scared. I feel safe being with him. With Ae, I was able to show my vulnerable side. I don't have to be mature all time and can even throw tantrums.

It made me realize one thing, I always envied Can because he had such a nice boyfriend like Tin. I always yearned to have someone who would be this crazy in love for me. And that was what I was searching for. I always wanted Zee to have the same affection towards me as Tin had for Can. May be that was the reason why I always looked up to Zee for love and comfort. But I never knew that I am looking up at the wrong person.

"Pete, I would suggest you to think over everything and decide. It's rare to find someone like Ae. People are dying to be with him but it's you whom he wants to be with. Just think over it." Phi said as he moved to head towards his bedroom. I sighed as I began to climb the stairs to drag my lazy ass to the bedroom.

After dinner, I returned back to my bedroom and lay on bed while recalling all the events. I remembered the first time I came across Ae, he had helped me to grab a book from shelf, the second time was during match, then he saved me again from Mark and helped me many more times. He never asked for any favor but rather just wanted to be with me. But having had bad experience with Zee, I was feeling reluctant to let myself be comfortable with him. I was worried that he too might turn out the same like Zee.