CHAPTER 5: the makeshift dinner
The time is 9:38 PM, kentaru and chinky made their way out from the taxi and into the apartment’s lobby. Along the lobby there was a mini bar with a display of cold drinks. Chinky asked kentaru if he wanted a drink or two, a cold beer perhaps before they move up to her pad.
Kent: no thanks, I don’t drink beers by the way, my belly can’t handle them… well do you want some?
Chinky: nope, I was just thinking if you would like to get maybe a few cans upstairs and have a few drinks.
Kent: nah. The food is fine with me. But if you really wanted too, I can buy you some.
Chinky: [sees the elevator doors open] hey forget about it, let’s go dig in this pizza before it gets cold.
Upstairs, upon entering the room kentaru prepared the sofa and the adjacent table for them to dine in. chinky went ahead in the bedroom to change her clothes. Kentaru was changing channels to see if there is indeed something nice to watch in the tube at this time of hour. All he can come up with are a few lousy news channels. Then chinky made her way out wearing a very big T-shirt, as if a man weighing in 500+ pounds wore it.
Kentaru: wow that’s one hell of a shirt. Now grab unto one of these [gives chinky a slice of pizza] then you’ll prolly end up with a few extra pounds in the morning and you will look a lotta better in that get up of yours [laughs]
Chinky: are you making fun of me? [Bites tenderjously at the pizza]
Kent: nah just messing with you. With that figure of yours I’m betting a lot of girls at your office envy you… oh such slim and ideal figure. I’m guessing that waistline is a whooping 25?
Chinky: I haven’t measure in these past few months, but I’m getting close in there. It’s really 24 on the average and last time out when I was hospitalized I measured in 22-23.
Kent: you in a hospital? Fever?
Chinky: no you dumb dumb, it’s my heart.
Kent: really? I never knew a heartache can lead you to check in a hospital? Was it that serious? Did you slashed your wrist? [Jokingly]
Chinky: you idiot! I don’t have love problems. It’s my heart literally. I have these tiny veins in some part, which stops the correct blood flow in and out in my heart. I have been suffering from it since college; do you remember that you can always see me alongside the hallways near the stairs leaning back against the wall? Those were the times I was catching my breath. I felt like an asthmatic old woman. That’s when I found out that I have a heart disease.
Kent: yeah now I remember [reminisce the times he was talking to chinky back in college] I never thought you were already suffering way back then. No wonder you always look so gloomy.
[THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION TOOK PLACE 6 YEARS AGO. IN SCHOOL]
Kent:[running to the third floor using the stairs] hey we are going to be late, and I haven’t done my homework yet. Do you happened to have yours done already?
Chinky: [taking out a piece of paper at her notebook] here… *gasp* take it… where’s lorie your girlfriend? Didn’t she make you one? *gasp*
Kent : oh her? Well we have a misunderstanding this morning. Forget about her. I’ll just copy this and we’ll be on our way[copies homework rather rapidly than normal] hey what’s with the face… you sick or something? I saw you this lunchtime eating burgers, oh those burger kings did you good eh? [laughs but returns much attention to copying chinky’s paper]
Chinky: I don’t know *gasp* for some strange reason I can’t breathe right.
Kent: prolly allergy! [finished copying the last sentences] not to worry I’ll take you to the clinic after the period. Thanks for the assignment, you really are a life saver [returns chinky’s assignment]
[END OF 6 YEARS AGO SCENE]
chinky: yeah and you never did take me to the clinic, you parasite!!!
Kent: well sorry ms.host just happen that I have so many other priorities back then. I have a gang, a gf, a car and a good reputation to cover… just that you weren’t in the picture back then yet. Not like now… wow you are the secretary of my future partner corporation who might sponsor our company back in the province.
Chiny: yeah parasite!!! [walks to get her glass of milk]
Kentaru: you know something chin, you look kinda blooming. Any new guy yet in your busy life?
Chinky: what did you say? A new guy? As if I have a guy! Well I have so many crushes at the moment that I don’t want to involve my self to any new guy.
Kent: just what do you mean by that? You want that new guy to be one out in your crush pool?
Chinky: [offers kentaru a glass of milk] not really. Just that when I feel them getting close to me, I just happen to lose interest with them fast! And I mean really fast!!!
Kentaru: sigh, you are a player!
After enough chat for almost an hour, kentaru cleans up the table and decided to have a nice hot bath. Chinky was left alone in the bedroom and was staring bluntly at kentaru’s stuff in the shelf, most notably his cell phone…