Chapter 55 - 54
"I... I would never."
The two brothers looked at each other with shocked look on their faces.
"Hey, why are you shocked too?" Daniel chuckled as he looked at his brother. "Sh-Shut up..." Justin said as his face turned bright red.
Daniel laughed as he looked at his brother blush at his boyfriend's words.
"You gotta chill with those cheesy lines, man. Justin gets flustered really easily," he said as he smiled at Tristan, this time a normal one at that. Justin glared at him while frowning, which only made him laugh at him more.
Tristan chuckled and said, " That's exactly why I'm so cheesy."
Tristan felt somehow a bit comfortable compared to how he was earlier.
"Oh my... Are you all friends now? Hmm, boys?" The three looked at the direction where the voice came from and saw that it was Justin's mother, Marina, together with a man with a groomed chinstrap beard.
He has black hair, thick eyebrows, a set of deep hazel eyes, tall nose, pink lips, and sharp jawline. His build as also buff, almost as buff as Daniel.
"Papá, you're here!" Justin said as he stood up and tackled his father with a hug. "I missed you so much!" He said as his father wrapped his arms around him.
But even though his father was hugging him, his attention wasn't on Justin but on Tristan, who was starting to sweat again from nervousness.
'Wah... That's his dad? What's with his brother and father? They're both so... buff... It makes me feel so small next to them,' Tristan thought to himself as his eyes strayed all over the place, avoiding eye contact with Justin's father.
"What's that?" Justin's father asked as soon as Justin broke free from the hug. "Pa, what do you mean 'what'?" Justin glared at his father. He flinched as soon as he saw how his son reacted and decided to rephrase what he just said. "What I meant to say was, 'Who's that?'. Your father is getting older so please understand," He said as he smiled apologetically.
'Justin acts so cute around his father, very different from how he acts around M... Mom... Haha, it's still so awkward,' Tristan thought as he watched the father and son bicker.
"He's my boyfriend," Justin said as he proudly smiled while looking at Tristan.
His father glared daggers at the poor alpha who was just sitting quietly. Tristan felt even more nervous because of how his boyfriend's father looked at him, but he had to steel himself.
'I shouldn't get so scared. I'm meeting his family right now. I have to look cool,' he thought to himself as he clenched his jaw a bit.
He cleared his throat as he stood up and said, "Greetings, Mr. Alvarez. I'm Tristan Lee, Justin's boyfriend," as he extended his arm.
Justin's father took his hand and shook it as he introduced himself. "Rafael Alvarez," he introduced himself briefly and let go of Tristan's hand as soon as he finished.
All of them were quiet after that.
Why? It's because Rafael was giving an ominous vibe, that no one dared to speak after their introduction.
Rafael's hazel eyes were looking at Tristan intently as if he's repeatedly killing him in his mind.
"Mi amor, that's enough. The boy looks so uncomfortable," Marina said as she held her husband's arm. "I'm not doing anything, though?" Rafael said as he turned his head to look at his wife.
"Um..." Tristan didn't know why he suddenly opened his mouth in the middle of all that.
He froze when all of them turned to look at him.
"If you're worried that I might hurt your precious son, you don't have to worry. I care for him deeply, and I would never do anything that could possibly hurt him," Tristan said while looking at Rafael bravely, making direct eye contact with him.
"What?" Rafael's eyebrows scrunched as he stared back at Tristan without blinking. "Come on, Papá. The guy looks so serious about it. Why are you looking at him like that?" Daniel said as he squinted his eyes.
"Why are you all looking at me like that? I wasn't doing anything to him," their father said defensively. "You were clearly trying to squeeze something out of him," Daniel said and chuckled.
"No, I wasn't! I was just trying to figure out how my future grandchildren would look like," Rafael said, almost shouting.
"Huh?"
"What?"
"No, shit... haha."
The three of them said at the same time.
"Language, Dani boy," Marina said as she glared at her son. "Mom, I'm 28. I can cuss whenever I want," Daniel said as he rolled his eyes. "And I'm your mother. Is it nice to cuss in your mother's presence? No," she said as she glared at him.
"Fine, whatever," Daniel frowned.
"Why are you fighting? Aren't we supposed to focus on what Papá just said?" Justin said as he looked at them one by one.
Daniel was still frowning, Marina was glaring at her son, Rafael was awkwardly averting his gaze from them, and Tristan had a blank face, as if he hasn't processed what his boyfriend's father just said a few moments ago.
"What's wrong with what I just said? He's the first lover you've ever brought home," Rafael pouted. "Mi amor, you look like an ugly duck. Please stop doing that," Marina said as she covered her eyes with her hand.
"But you love me, mi amor," Rafael said as he walked behind his wife and hugged her from her back. "The children are watching," Marina whispered and giggled.
Daniel's face distorted as he watched his parents flirt in front of them, while Justin and Tristan just stared blankly at each other.
"I'm outta here. I don't wanna see any more of this," Daniel said as he rolled his eyes while shaking his head. "It was a pleasure meeting you, Tristan. Take care of my brother, hmm?" He said with a half smile, raising his left brow a bit. "It was a pleasure meeting you, too," Tristan said and smiled a little.
Justin watched the his brother leave the house and decided to bring Tristan to his room. His parents were still in the living room, flirting with each other, so he knew that there was no point in staying there.
TRISTAN'S POINT OF VIEW:
I'm... I'm in Justin's room.
My eyes scanned the entire space. The room was clean and simple. There weren't plenty of unnecessary things and everything looked like they were maintained so well.
There were photo frames on the table and Justin still looked so young in them.
I walked closer to the table and held one of the frames.
Justin was wearing a middle school uniform. He looked so neat with his uniform that looked like it was freshly ironed. His hair looked neat too, and his posture literally screams that he's a good model student. Everything about him in this picture makes him look like a model student. Next to him stood a man who was a few inches taller than him.
He had dark red hair that was almost close to black, thick eyebrows, black eyes, pierced lips and flushed cheeks.
It was obvious that he likes... Justin.
"Oh, I still had that, huh?" Justin said as he stood next to me, looking at the frame I was holding.
From the moment I saw the person standing next to him, I immediately knew who it was because my blood started boiling all of a sudden.
"Is this.." Not finishing my sentence yet, Justin continued it for me.
"Xander. That's Alexander back when we were still kids," he said as he smiled.
I suddenly felt bitter.
They've known each other for so long, huh... It makes sense why that bastard has the nerve to piss me off so much from acting so close with Justin because... they really are close.
"Oh and by the way, that thing on his lip," Justin said as he pointed Xander's pierced lip. "That isn't really a piercing," he chuckled. "That's just a cuff. He said he wore it because it makes him look cool," he continued.
I didn't want to say dry comments about it when he talks about it happily, so I just decided to laugh with him.
I placed the frame down and looked at the other frames that were on the table.
He looked so young then. Nothing much changed but he definitely looks more beautiful now. He looked so cute then.
"Do you want to see some of my childhood pictures?" He asked as he looked up with smiling eyes.
Ah... How did I manage to become the lover of someone as beautiful as him? I'm such a lucky bastard, haha!
"Absolutely," I grinned. "Just a sec," he chuckled as he rummaged through his things.
After a few minutes of flipping the the whole room upside down, he finally found what he was looking for.
He handed the photo album to me and we both sat on his bed.
I swallowed hard before opening it and nervously held the cover with cold fingers.
I'm about to see Justin's past. It's alright with me if he and that Xander guy were friends since childhood.
I'm his boyfriend anyway.
I giggled as I opened the album and I noticed Justin looking at me weirdly as I did that.
But...
My smiles and giggles immediately vanished and was replaced with widened eyes and slightly gaped mouth because of what I saw.
What in the world...
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