Secrets and Things (MxM)

Chapter 78 - Hi, how you doing?

The break truly was what he needed, although Nero's mothering wasn't really necessary. It was more annoying than anything. After he heard that Aiden had broken his shell in front of someone else, he became very worried and assumed the electro user would do something to himself since this had never happened before. He refused to leave Aiden alone for the first two days, even taking a day off on the first but eventually, he convinced Nero it was just a moment of weakness and overwhelming and Aiden would be fine. He'd still visit Aiden whenever he's free though

Halfway through the third day, Aiden began getting really bored and since he wasn't allowed to do work, he decided to open up my odd jobs website again. It had been running during university years as a method of income and it did its job well, with many satisfied customers. The service was soon closed down after Aiden got involved with his sidekick job and the full time one.

He had got a couple of requests almost immediately but only took the ones that required a computer and nothing more since he was too lazy to get out of the apartment.

Except for one.

He had gotten a request from Mia, who was a university mate, to sing at her twenty fifth birthday party. Aiden was going to decline it since she was one of the rich kids who have CEOs as their parent, which means there's a high chance of coming in contact with other snobby kids or worse, meeting one of the Trophs but she sounded desperate and he hadn't seen her in years. Plus, there was free unlimited booze for the night, so if he came in contact with my nightmares, he could deal with it. More or less.

Which got him in the position of listening to Mia's rambling, on the last day of his mini vacation. Somewhere in the middle, Aiden somehow gotten a drink in his hand and the two moved away from the edge of the venue, now sitting at the birthday girl's table.

All her close friends were also there, listening in on the one sided conversation but Mia's eyes were still trained on her old friend.

"... and that's how my poodle got knocked up."

How the shit did we get here? Was Aiden's first thought.

"Well... damn." Cut him some slack, he just spent time filling in the details for you readers.

Luckily, the response was deemed satisfactory and her babbling was renewed again. As much as Aiden loved this girl, he wanted to do nothing more but to stuff a sock in her mouth.

Talk about nostalgia.

This time, her friends joined in on the fun, with some even trying to get Aiden into the conversation so they could talk to him but he only gave dry responses. He could just get up and leave but dinner hadn't been served so it would be seen as rude.

So he dealt with the mindless chatter. He slowly was regretting accepting this job. Actually, change that to rapidly.

He was so out of it, he began dozing off with his right arm holding up his chin, elbow on the table, when all of sudden the table went quiet. He blinked himself awake and noticed that the people around were staring behind him, with looks of aw, respect and lust.

Aiden turned around to see the cause of the looks, only to yelp and nearly startle off his chair. Erwin was currently crouching down to Aiden's eye level and was a lot closer than the latter anticipated. His head was literally a couple of centimetres away from Aiden's.

Erwin stood up, guffawing at the reaction while Aiden gave him a mean stare, mentally burning him alive by setting his maroon suit on fire.

"Ok, we've really got to talk to fate about this whole push-Aiden-and-Winny-together-whenever-possible thing," Aiden groaned outwardly. Inwardly, his heart was thumping, his stomach was fluttering and he was smiling like a loon.