BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR

ALEXIA KING

"It's just an infatuation, get over it"

"Sure, you'll get over it"

My phone pings with a message and same time Kevin gets a message too.

'Dr. Phil- When should clear my schedule for you?'

'Alexia- Next Monday. Thanks for managing time for me'

'Dr. Phil- What you did for my family is nothing compared to my time. I'll always be in your debt'

''Alexia- I told you never to mention it, especially on the phone

"I'll meet at your place tonight" I switch off my phone and slip it in my pocket.

"Sure," He says giving me a tight lip smile and return to his phone.

Must have got some important message.

I step out of the car and join my friends on the fest ground.

The non-teaching staff has already cleaned the ground and now the decorating committee is selecting lights and posters. 

Ed, Nich, Pastry, and I are staging the booth.

Ed is talented in spray painting, so he is decorating his booth with kisses and some explicit slang.

Nich is using his muscle power to shift objects in order.

I, on another hand, am struggling with the banner but finally, I did it with the help of a ladder.

The pastry is shuffling some papers and grinning like a maniac.

"What is the inside joke?" I ask stepping down.

"I'm gonna be freakin' rich after this fest"

"You already are"

"No. My parents are but soon I'll be too"

"How?"

"I'm fixing 50 dollars for one kiss"

"What?" 

We all three shrieks in unison.

"I'm charging 50 dollars-" He says again.

"We got it clear the first time, but are you nuts? Not a single person would choose our booth after looking at the amount"

"I already got 493 applications from students to kiss you first. I'll have to place them in order"

"493? This fest is for one evening. We don't have an entire week to kiss them all. You're a shitty manager" Nich has a point.

"I'm not gonna kiss 493 guys" No, definitely not. 

"Girls are included too"

"No freakin' way" I blanch dramatically.

"No. No. No. You gotta find another girl to fulfill your weird fantasies"

"I can't. It's too late, besides there is no girl out there who could even come close to your competition. You just can't back off now"

This whiny little bitch and his guilt trap. I agree on much to my annoyance but decides internally not to kiss 493 people. That's way too much and impossible for one girl to kiss all of them in one evening, especially when I don't want to feel anyone but Kevin's lips on me. But this has to happen. Every person has limits. I am sure this would be his.

I don't see Kevin all day but I do watch Victoria gushing over her booth, not to forget, just in front of ours.

This little hoe.