Chapter 59

**Kapittel 59**

**The day after Rebecca told about everything,** Allison was surprised to see her charming pregnant friend holding two huge bags. That was when she knew that the former and Brent talked about their situation and reconciled. As the child's father, Brent took responsibility for her and their baby. The two agreed they would shower love to their child and make the little one feel how it would be like to have a family even though they were not married. Her best friend's heart still didn't falter, and he didn't bear any other feelings for Rebecca other than platonic love, which she accepted and respected like how she always did.

However, their current dilemma was their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kade wanted the two of them to get married because, like Allison's parents, they fear what the people will think of their family if ever the public found out that their son made a woman pregnant out of wedlock, and so did what Mr. and Mrs. Christian Potter thought. However, they both argued strongly that they didn't want to force themselves on each other.

"Ooh." Allison giggled and nudged Brent. "Looks like we've found a good husband and daddy material."

"Oh, shut up, Drew," he shushed her before turning on his heel and walking to the cupboard to get the ingredients. She just giggled in response and sat beside Rebecca, who playfully nudged at her. The notion rendered the two women look at each other and share a huge laugh.

"Shoot," she heard him curse while he was rummaging through the cupboard.

"What's wrong, Dawson?" she asked.

He groaned. "I don't have enough ingredients for the cookies. I can't bake cookies if I lack ingredients."

"N... No... cookies?"

She looked at Rebecca over her shoulder, and her eyes widened. The latter looked like she'd cry at any minute.

"Hand me the ingredients, Dawson. I'll buy 'em," she told him and offered her hand at him. He looked at her incredulously. "Are you sure?"

"Of course," she answered firmly. She didn't want to see Rebecca cry over cookies.

"All right," he said before grabbing a notepad and a pen. He scribbled all the ingredients before giving it to her. "I added some few ingredients for the food I'll be cooking for tonight's occasion," he noted to her, emphasizing the word occasion with a twisted sneer on his phizog. She glared at him in return, and the latter laughed in response.

"Ehem." they heard someone fake a cough. They looked at Rebecca in unison. Her blood ran cold at the sight of the woman's face, who looked like she was going to skin the two alive and make them the main ingredient for human stew.

"I...I better get going," she stuttered before taking herself off the stool and sprinted to her room to dress up, leaving Brent with a furiously jealous Rebecca.

"Drew!" she heard her poor best friend call out for help.

"I'm sorry, Dawson, but I choose life!" she shouted before closing her room's door.

"Hmm, which here is which?" Allison asked herself while looking at the shelves, searching for the last ingredient on her list, which was a can of condensed milk. It was easy to find, but the problem was she forgot which brand Brent likes the best. He was very picky when it came to ingredients. It was the reason he cooked best too.

"Aha!" she exclaimed when she found it and tip-toed to grab the can from the shelf. She read the milk's brand before confirming that it was the brand that Brent liked, then placed the can on the cart and proceeded to the cashier before grabbing four chocolate bars.

The cashier, a bachelor in his mid-30s who loved chewing bubblegum, became breathless at the sight of her, who was smiling at him joyfully once she arrived. "Why, hello there, miss," he greeted her with his usual charming smile that was already more than enough to swoon any woman.

"Hi," her smile became wider before picking up her groceries and placing them on the cashier's counter. She was excited to go home and get a taste of Brent's cookies. She was already imagining herself taking a bite of that one crunchy cookie. She could already sense the taste of chocolate chip melting in her mouth and grazed by her molars. It was close to giving her an orgasm.

"Joyful today, are we?" he asked, trying to open a conversation with her while taking each of the groceries and began sliding them over the scanner to punch their price.

She giggled. "Moody, rather."

"Why so?" he looked at her, but then, he stiffened in surprise and fear when he saw a colossal person wearing a hoody from the other counter glaring at him menacingly. The cashier's hands quivered, and his throat went dry.

"Hey!" someone snapped a finger in front of him that awoke the cashier from his reverie. He blinked his eyes, and there he saw Allison staring worriedly at him with her innocent face.

"Are you all right? You spaced out," she asked.

The cashier shook his head, faking a cough before looking at her with a wide smile on his lips. "Of course. I was just thinking about something," he clandestinely looked at the hooded man who continued glaring at him.

"Let me guess," she placed a hand on her chin and began pondering. "Problems?"

"Y... Yup," the cashier lied. He looked away from her, glanced at the monitor to check the total, and told her.

"You know, even though we have problems, we shouldn't waste our time sulking about it. Rather, we waste our time thinking about a solution," she told him and placed a handful of bills on the counter. "Here you go."

Even though he was still afraid of the hooded man's presence, he couldn't help but smile. "I'll take that piece of advice," he told her before taking the cash and giving her the change. He then packed all of her groceries in one paper bag before giving it to her.

"Thanks," she muttered before taking the bags. "I'm Allison by the way," she offered him her hand.

"Alvin," he took her hand, and they did a handshake. Through his peripheral vision, Alvin saw the hooded man glaring at him, viscously looking at his hand that was holding Allison's.

"I'll see you around, Alvin," she told him, holding the bags tightly, getting ready to leave.

"Yeah," he nodded. "See you when I see you."

She just giggled in return before turning on her heel and began sauntering to the exit. Alvin took a sigh before looking at the hooded man, but his eyes widened in flabbergast at what he saw next. The hooded man also turned on his heel and started following Allison!