Coffee and Bliss novel Chapter 15

After assuring that Chen was finally okay, Harris tucked her in bed before slipping into his room. His mind was still fixated on what happened, what he had said, why he bent out his unexplainable feelings for Tristan. He knew for sure that Tristan got confused by his action. But even him couldn't understand what’s running through his mind. 

His mind wandered at the first time they met. Both of them are being arrogant with each other. Then they became roommates. Him being called mommy by Tristan’s niece. And when things get awkward between them.

'Did I grow feelings on him?' 

But no way! Tristan was a guy. A guy having the same thing he had between his legs.

'Love has no gender. If you felt it, you felt it.' He remembered what his grandma said to him. 

Then a sudden realization occurred on him. His eyes went wider, his body was shaking, heartbeats racing. He clenched his chest when his heart beat faster when Tristan's face showed in his mind once again. 

“No way!” He snorted. Throwing his face on the pillow, punching it at the same time. 

'Yes, way. There’s nothing wrong with risking for love. If you don’t take a risk, then you won’t find real love. Go for it, fight for it. We only live once.' He could hear his grandma on his mind, scolding him. 

“Arg! Why me?” He said, prolonging the word 'me'.

'Because it was fated to you. Trust yourself. Su su na!' The voice inside himself cheered him up. 

After an hour, he found himself searching for some information about Tristan online. Well, there was really nothing, just his basic information. But what caught his attention was the article in their school newspaper. It stated that Tristan was the head hazer of their department, had a strong personality, had a little patience on everything, and was feared by many students in their university. It also claimed that Tristan didn’t care much about others except his two buddies. The article was just made for entertainment in their university but he could say that they were really true except the last one. Tristan cared. 

“But why is his action towards me different? He acted like a child in front of me!” He screamed in his mind. He chuckled when he remembered how childish Tristan was. Why the hell that article didn’t know about that?

He was about to log out when their online campus paper posted a new article. He almost lost his breath reading it.

“HEAD HAZER, TRISTAN DICKINSON WITH HIS HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER. Read the article below.”

That was the fucking headline he just read. Below the caption was their photo. Mia was smiling widely between them, her hands were holding both of theirs. It was the time when Mia begged him to buy burgers outside. And what was more surprising was that Tristan was smiling too, looking at him like he was kind of starstruck. 

His head spun around. He instantly felt a headache seeing the article.  His heart was like running for its beat. He shoved his head again into the pillow. After deciding what to do, he got up and headed to the door. He almost stumbled back when he opened the door, Tristan was there. Looked like he was about to knock. He was catching his breath heavily. 'Did he read the article too?'

The tension between them passed through to every corner of the room. He was eyeing Tristan with surprise and Tristan looking at him with an unexplainable emotion on his face. They both stared at each other, not looking away. He gulped, noticing how awkward the situation they were in. 

He cleared his throat and looked away first. “What are you doing here?” He tried to sound calm.