Eliz was sliently dressing himself up when Anastacia softly called him out from bed. "Hey, Did I wake you up? I'm sorry." Eliz whispered, putting on his shirt and taking his shoes from the floor. "It's okay, where you going? Stay in bed." Anastacia invited lust still in her eyes. "Sorry, I have to go, I promised dad I'd help today at the Coffee Shop." Eliz said, although it was a lie, well, not entirely a lie, he agreed to meet up with Belerick at their coffee shop to talk and hang out, he guessed. There was that warm fuzzy feeling on his stomach just thinking about it, making him confused even more.

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"I heard you're meeting that Elizander today. Do you think he'll finally accept and be part of our company? I saw good things about him on his professional page, not to mention the good things Romeo's been blabbering last night." Rafael said as the whole Summers sat down to eat breakfast. "Yes, he agreed to meet me at their coffee shop, would be fun to explore new things." Belerick said as he munch down an omelet prepared by their mother. "If you're out of the office today, who's gonna be dad's temporary secretary then?" Cassidus asked. "Oh, I already asked Margarita and Bjorgi to help out, dad likes Margarita's attention to details and Bjorgi's, well his suits, don't you know dad actually asked Bjorgi to buy him his newest sets of suits for work?" Belerick said. "So, that's why you are looking more and more dashing in your suits honey." Sara said planting a quick kiss on her husband's cheeks, making Rafael blush. Margarita and Bjorgi are Belerick's best friends since elementary school, they started dating a few months ago after years of denying, pushing and pulling of feelings towards each other, they're technically family already for the Summers.

"Ahhh, how are they doing? We rarely see them here." Agatha said drinking her freshly squeezed mango tea. "They're doing good, they're focused on finishing they're PhD's that's why we hardly see them." Belerick explained. "But they'll be here for your birthday, right?" Sara asked. "And of course, Aurelio here would be your escort for that evening." Agatha said, making both Belerick and Aurelion blush and almost choked on their food. "Yes, sure." Belerick shortly replied, although there's one more person he wanted to invite.

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Eliz agreed to meet Belerick here at their coffee shop later, a little after lunch, making him unexpectedly nervous, both Sahara and Matteos noticed the panicky Eliz. "What's with your butt today?" Sahara asked as she finally flip the welcome sign to open. "Nothing. Nothing really." Eliz saide making his way to the stockroom to hide. "Go." Sahara said, nodding at Matteos. "Go after him". "Wait, why me?" Matteos asked confused clearly. "I think I know what's going on." Sahara said pouting her mouth a little as if she's thinking about something so hard. "What is it? Spill it already!" Matteos impatiently said. "It's about a girl, Maybe Anastacia, wait, no, he was never like this with her, must be someone new." Sahara started. "That means, it's a guy thing, and, uh, between you and me, it's obvious who he should talk to, no?" Sahara said, grabbing Matteos by the arm and forcefully pushing him to the stockroom.

Matteos grunted as he stumbled inside the stockroom, "Why me? I haven't even been in a relationship, why not dad?" He whispered to himself. There, inside, he saw Eliz slumped at the corner of the room, his head buried on his hands. "Hey, big bro? What happened" Mattes carefully said as he approached his step-big brother. "Ahh, it's just, something's just confusing me, that's all, don't worry about it too much." Eliz said not moving at all his voice muffled. "Well, whatever it is you can talk to me, right? Remember, were buddies." Matteos said crouching besides Eliz. "It's just, i feel like my head's being torn apart, like it's being pulled into two separate directions." Eliz said. "Wow, that bad? I thought Anastacia was the one? Who's this new challenger?" Eliz said with a joking tone. Eliz faked a laugh, "Someone. Someone stunning and interesting, a breath of fresh air from the girls i've dated before." Eliz said.

Before they can further talk about it, Eliz phone took their attention, Eliz opened the message sent to him by a college friend, "Crap. What the hell." Eliz spatted. "What? What happened?" Matteos asked. "Anastacia's drunkenly wasted. I have to get her, stay here for today okay? Help out, I'll be back soon." Eliz said quickly making his way out of the shop.

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It was one in the afternoon, people had died down Matteos and Sahara were preparing for the next rush of customers when Belerick entered the cafe, catching Matteos' attention. Belerick took the seat by the corner of the shop, where the sun hits him making him look ethereal. "Wow. Theat's Belerick Summers, right?" Matteos softly whispered to himself. Slowly, Matteos approached Belerick. "Hi, um, are you alone? Can I take your order?" Matteos asked slowly as Belerick meets his eyes making his spine shiver. "Hi, um, I guess you can give me your best seller, I would love to try it." Belerick said flashy a smile as warm as the afternoon sun.

"You're, uh, Belerick Summers right?" Matteos carefully asked. "Yes, yes I am. And you are?" Belerick politely said. "Oh! I'm Matteos, son of the owner of the shop. It's nice to make your acquaintance" Matteos said. He's been reading a lot of articles about the Summers brothers, one article caught his attention, the article of Belericks coming out, back when the world knew him as the only daughter of the family. The scandal and revelation about Belerick's true self. Ever since then, he's been secretly following anything related to the Summers brothers, but especially with Belerick, but of the three, Belerick was the most elusive one, almost all of his photos in the articles or online were photos of him from a few years back, no recent photos of him, although it is said that hes as attractive as his older brothers, so for him to actually meet him face to face right now, makes his knees weak. "Are you alright? You look a little pale." Belerick asked after Matteos spaced out in front of him for a bit. "No! no! I'm okay, I- uh, I'll bring your order right up." Matteos said.

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Eliz tried his best to get to Anastacia as fast as he could but it still took him at leash an hour to reach where she is. "I really should consider buying a car or a motorcycle at least." Eliz thought to himself as he makes his way inside a bar that is owned by an old college friend that informed him Anastacia's passed out drunk in the middle of the day. "This better not be because of that asshole Ross Summers." Eliz whispered as he saw Anastacia slumped at the bar stool, his friend Alex standing behind the bar rubbing Anastacia's back gently. "Hey." Alex greeted him pointing his lips towards the slumped body of Anastacia. "Hey, dude, geez. Thanks so much." Eliz thanked the guy for taking care of Anastacia. "What happened man? Why's Anastacia drinking? She looked so upset earlier, not even wanting to talk about it, this isn't like her at all." Alex asked out of curiosity, in all the five years they've spent in college he'd never seen this kind of scene before, it's usually Eliz who's drinking and drowning the problem off. "Yeah, this has happened before, few times tho, whenever she hits a dead end and can't seem to find a way to get her way, she drinks. Don't worry, this won't get worse from here, she'll bounce back for sure. Thanks again, bro." Eliz said as he cradled Anastacia, Eliz took out his phone to call an uber ride when Anastacia barfed all over him. "Oh, shit." Alex said covering his mouth with his hands. "Oh, no. crap!" Eliz disgustingly said.

"I'll go get you a clean change of clothes, hold on, go to the bathroom and clean up." Alex said as he disappear to get some change of clothes. Meanwhile, Eliz lowered Anastacia back into the stool, placed his phone besides her and quickly went to the bathroom to clean up. A few seconds later Anastacia lifted her head up and snooped through Eliz's phone, the phone, of course locked with a passcode. "Damn it. I only have a minute to do this." Anastacias said as she wiped her mouth clean of her own vomit. Anastacia tried a few passcodes, but non worked, so she took out her phone and called her friend from work, Millena. "Hey, bitch! What's up! You done it yet?" Millena asked with her annoyingly high pitched voice. "Haven't it's password protected." Anastacia started. "Need your help, your the professional on snooping through someone's phone, what do you think is his password?" Anastacia asked. "Hmmm. I don't know, maybe his birthday, yours, or your anniversary? You said he's still so into you right? How many characters does it want?" Millena said, clearly knowing what she's talking about, she has done this too all his past relationship, even with her boss's phone, which is the reason how she got promoted at work, by blackmailing him with sensitive information she dug on his phone.

"Just four characters. And yes, i've tried almost everything, none of them works. Think you bitch!" Anastacia said, sweat bribbling down her cheeks, any moment now Eliz or Alex can walk right by in. "Hm, anything stands out with him? favorite number? food? pet name?" Millena asked. "Pet name! TUCK!" Anastacia said, quickly typing the characters that corresponds to tuck's name. "I'm in!" Anastacia said. "Damn, your ex's weird, having a pet name for a passcode. gezzus." Millena bitchly said. "I know, I know, I'll call you back later." Anastacia said. "Okay! Okay! Spill!!" Millena said as the line went dead.

"So, Eliz, did you or did you not accepted the job." Anastacia said as she opened the email app on Eliz's phone, seeing there's nothing there she closed it and opened his texts instead, there, a smile formed in her face, Eliz just texted Ross's about the job, and said, he's meeting with Belerick today to officially accept the job, but with few conditions. "Yes!" Anastacia exclaimed as she heard the faintest sound from the bathroom door, quickly closing the phone and pretending to be passed out drunk again.

"Hey Anastacia? Ready to go?" Eliz asked as he makes his way back to her.

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