The Hired Daughter

Chapter 10

My eyes drifted to Speed before it went back to Lee. Cast cleared his throat why I tore my gaze away. This guy, his family owned the University and yet he was too approachable. Dela Francia is a rich family also, I know, but meeting Lee is another different story, a humble and yet very handsome guy.

"I’m glad I shifted course.. coz now we are classmates." Speed smiled at me with both of his hands was on his chin looking at me.

"Shut the f**k up, Speed!" Cast’s voice erupted.

"Stop it, Speed! Stop hitting on her." Clint butted in.

"Just relax, okay? I know the bro code." Speed just chuckled.

I looked at Cast, and doomed! He seemed like he wanted to kill someone. I just pouted and focused only to my cake. What? I did not do anything wrong!

"How are you, Lee?" it was Zander.

"Just fine, more better now that Speed could not bother us." Lee chuckled cutely. I again stared at his dimples.

I heard another clear of throat and my eyes drifted to Cast again, he was raising me a brow. My forehead creased at him. What’s the matter? I rolled my eyes and looked back to my cake. The talk continued and I heard that the four were formerly from engineering courses. Like what I had heard before, Cast liked Engineering, but Dad made him shift his course.

Simon returned to our table with these trays on his hands. And they started their food why we all became silent and busied with our food. And when I glanced at Cast he was also silent but in a deep thinking.

"We’ll go ahead." Cast stood up and so I was. He was leaving the table.

"Nice meeting you all. We got to go, bye." I bowed a little.

"Bye, Sheina honey!!" Speed yelled.

Cast was that irate as he walked to me and almost dragging me away from our table and he was not actually taking the way to our class room but to the parking? I pouted, what if we were expecting some professors or anything. I just sighed.

He almost pushed me inside his car as soon as we found it. I managed my seatbelt and he walked to the driver's seat. And when he got entered he threw me a deadly glare.

"Were you hitting on him?" he asked me with his face a bit darkened.

"Wha-what? With Speed? No!" I shook my head, I even had crush on him and no other guys. So why flirting with Speed?

"Not Speed. Lee?"

"No!" I replied shortly.

"Then why you were blushing while looking at him?" he was mad coz of that?

"No-not really." I trailed off and bit my lips, yeah, I figured that also earlier.

"Don't forget what've Dad told you. And besides, I am more handsome to them." he said coldly before he started the engine.

I stopped myself from rolling my eyes at him, I knew the fact that he was more handsome than Speed or Lee. I just crossed my arms, the way he acted seemed like he was not my big brother. Well, news flash, he hated me so much!

He remained silent till he pulled over in a mall, then we both slid out of his car. He glanced at me before he cleared his throat and reached for my hand. He was holding my hand while we were walking, I pulled away and that made him looked at my way.

"I’d rather hold in your hand than making Mom and Dad angry." he said emotionless.

"I’m not going anywhere." I scoffed.

"Fine. Just make sure of that." he walked ahead and went inside this clothing line.

One of the staffs greeted him and they talked. And I was following him wherever he would go. The woman stopped on the middle section.

"Here’s some of our pants, Sir." she smiled, presenting their pants.

Cast just nodded before he faced me. "Twenty-five?" he raised me a brow.

My brows knitted and wondering what did he mean by that 'twenty-five?' “Your waist line? Twenty-five, isn't it?"

My mouth fell, how did he know about it, that my waist line is 'twenty-five'? "Ho-how?" still gaping at him.

He just shook his head and skipped on answering me, he just started rummaging and occasionally handing me some of the pants. All in all I got ten pieces of them, those were all his picks. My eyes bulged, thinking that I was going to pay for all of these. These are too much.

"Maybe that's enough." he took some of them from me and from the side of the rack’s and then he headed straight to the fitting room. "Try this one.." he stopped and faced me, he was holding out this faded jeans.

"O-okay." I then went in. I tried the first one to show him, I even tied my dress up so he could see its fitting. When I saw him outside the fitting room, those pants weren’t to be found anymore. "Ho-how do you think?"

He looked at me. "Good. We just need some tops for you too."

I sighed and turned on my heel to change back to my clothes. Well, I was fine wearing jeans than dresses and I was even more comfortable in it, but what about Mom?

He was still waiting for me outside the fitting room. And when he noticed me, he just raised me a brow and walked to the cashier section, I did follow him and put down the pants. I was about to pay for everything but then I heard the woman uttered ‘thank you’.

My eyes drifted from the staff to Cast. He was holding now some paper bags. I tried to get the bags but he just glared me, I pouted at him.

When we headed to the next stop, he then again had word to the staff and they were both glanced at me before the woman smiled and nodded. We rested for a while on their sofa while waiting, and not just so long sitting when the staff returned to us accompanied with another staff with these tops. They brought me a bunch of tops, I skipped on fitting them and just followed him in the counter as he paid again for my blouse.

I was staring at my phone for like eternity. Cast bought me this new phone and right now I was thinking that he was spoiling me by buying me those stuff and now a new phone like his. From my phone it travelled down to the paper bags that still unpacked, I sighed, so this how rich people gone for a shopping. I remembered then when Mom bought me my things, it was doubled of what Cast had paid.

I already texted Mom about it, that her son wanted me to wear casuals and she agreed about it but only at school, still in here at her house I had to wear dresses. I made face when I remembered that it was only two weeks the university would allow its students to wear civilians coz we have school uniform after all.

The next morning, I hurriedly went down, I have early class today.

"Nice earrings." Cast commented before he slid out of the car.

I was wearing now his present from my last debut. With blouse and pants on.

I blew a sigh of relieved when we reached our class room, we arrived just on time. Like yesterday we took the last seats and then his friends came next and greeted us, Clint, Zander and Speed. And just like yesterday they were all loud while I busied myself tapping on my phone.

But everyone fell into silent when an old man had entered, probably our professor for this time. "Good morning, class! I am Mr. Delfin Magsino, your professor in Math." he cleared his throat. "Let's get to know each other by introducing yourselves."

The entire room suddenly in chaotic state again, everyone had started chatting around and giving some comments.

"Class, quiet! You." as our professor pointed at the student on the first seat in front. "Start to introduce yourself.." Mr. Magsino settled on his chair, waiting for the introduction.

The girl went in the middle. "I'm Aila Sales, eighteenth." she was smiling widely looking at our way. I bet, she’s beaming smile to Cast or to his friends over here.

The other students introduced themselves on their seats and did not bother on going in the middle. Why I think of doing the same. "Brent Estefan, nineteenth." The guy said, he was sitting on the other edge of our row. "Amadeo Roxas, eighteenth."

"Clint McCain, eighteenth." Clint said seriously and then he sat down.

"Speed Angelo Marquez, eighteenth.. Speed for you, ladies, I'm hot and always available.." he bit his lower lip as he winked at the girls in the room that later turned into hyperventilate.

"Zander Valenzuela, eighteenth." Zander just bowed.

"Cast Eulises Dela Francia, nineteenth." Cast in his bored tone.

Some of the girls were gushing over them but with Cast they were shouting shamelessly, they were almost chanting and moaning his name. Jeez!

I stood up after him. "I'm Sheina Dela Francia, eighteenth. Please to meet you all." I managed a smile.

I heard some gasp then followed by whispering.

"Dela Francia? Is she related to Eulises?"

"Ohh, the long lost sister of Eulises.."

"Adopted sister?"

"No, according to my sister who happened present on her birthday she was presented as a legit Dela Francia. A legitimate heiress of Dela Francia.."

My hand gripped on my arm rest. The way they were talking about me, it seemed they swallowed a megaphone. Cast glanced at me, he just shook his head slowly before he rested on his seat.

The introduction continued with some added information about their likes and all but I was annoyed to give a damn. It was a relieved when it’s over.

I took my bag and stood up, Cast halted me on my arm why I glanced at him.

"Don't mind them." he said in his serious tone.

I just sighed and smiled. "I know, thanks, Cast."

We left that room and headed to our next class. And like the previous class, it was all like that. So I assumed we were going to get to know each other the entire week.

When we arrived in the cafeteria, Simon and Lee were already here. However, Zander and Speed were too loud about the new girls in their class, it was only Clint who seemed not into girls unlike his friends.

And Cast.. was being firm to his word. He was watching me all the time like what he promised to Dad.

"This is the very first time I saw Eulises cares to someone, especially with a girl.." Lee shook his head.

"Uhm, really? Cast insisted.. that’s why.." yeah, even at their house I never saw him being polite.

"And that’s because you are his sister." Lee smiled.

"Yeah. He's being over protective with you." Clint commented. "Men have a tendency of being over protected to their sisters or daughters and that’s a fact." his eyes were following Cast.

"I heard from my Dad, your father is over protected about you also. Why you never danced to others." Lee chuckled.

"Yeah, he’s like that." I smiled at him too.

"Maybe they were just protecting you because you’re too beautiful." he raised me a brow while watching me intensely.

I could feel the heat creeping on my face down to my neck, Clint even looked at my way. I did not say anything after that compliment till Cast returned with our food and the others.

Cast was setting down our food on the table but his eyes were like dagger as he looked at me then to Lee, his jaw clenched before he sat down violently.

"What's your problem, man?" Zander frowned at Cast.

"Nothing." he gasped and started his food.

I started my food also and never looked at his way, at Cast. Okay, maybe he’s right, I kind of like Lee.. I liked him like a simple crush. But then, I firstly liked him, it had just gone when he always angry at me.