Chapter 3 Stay away from him

JENKINS MANSION*

Franco opened the door and groaned when he saw Jericho. "You said thirty minutes dude,I was starving, you know I was waiting" Franco said.

"You should have just ate" Jericho said and entered. "Where's mom?" He asked.

"Kitchen" Franco replied and walked to the kitchen immediately. "Jericho!" Mrs Jenkins called happily.

"Good evening mom" Jericho smiled.

"You two should take your seats,I will serve you right away. I made your favorite" Mrs Jenkins said.

"You're totally the best" Jericho said and Franco scoffed behind him.

"Don't be jealous son" Mrs Jenkins said.

"I can't be jealous of this brat mom" Franco said. Jericho sat down and Franco also did.

"Don't tell me you fought with your parents again" He said. "No" Jericho muttered, hanging up a call before it even started ringing.

Mrs Jenkins served the delicious looking food on the table. "Whoa" Jericho smiled, picking you a fork. He took one of the gimbap and shoved it into his mouth. "Hmm" he moaned and nods his head. Another call came on his phone and he groaned before hanging up.

"Where the hell are they getting my number?" He scoffed.

"What do they want ?" Franco asked.

"My d*ick" Jericho stated without thinking twice.

"Dude!" Franco laughed. Jericho rolled his eyes and continue eating. "You should give them what they want" Franco said.

"Am I supposed to be picking randomly?" Jericho asked and Franco laughed.

*

9PM, IN THE CITY*

"Wow!! That's so pretty!!" Marigold screamed excitedly in the car, Xavier was driving while Marigold was busy taking pictures of anything she sees with her camera. She love taking pictures and she's very good at drawing also. "Are you planning to become a photographer or what? Why a camera?" Xavier asked.

"You can't understand the joy brother" She smiled and took a picture of a tree.

"I mean, when I checked earlier, I couldn't find a single picture of human there" Xavier said.

"I don't take human pictures" She replied.

"I see" Xavier chuckled.

Marigold saw a cheesecake shop and immediately stopped Xavier. "I want some cheesecake" She pouted.

"Let's go get it then" Xavier said and parked the car.

"No, I will stay here and take more pictures... "

"It's late for fuck sake, continue tomorrow" Xavier groaned. "Just these last ones" she said.

Xavier scoffed and they both got down from the car, she lean on the car while Xavier went into the shop. Marigold continued taking her photos randomly, she walked away from the car and was about taking the picture of a flower tree in front of her when a strange guy appeared on her camera screen and she dropped her camera. The boy smiled at her and waved.

"Do you take pictures like this every time?" He asked.

"I didn't take your picture" Marigold cleared.

"I know.....I'm Richard" He smiled, offering her his hand for a handshake.

'He smiles alot' Marigold thought inwardly.

She was about taking his hand when a bike appeared, coming directly toward her with full speed, Her eyes widened.

"Hey!" Richard immediately grabbed her hand the moment the bike was about knocking her down. He fell and Marigold fell on top of him. "Fuck" Richard spat and they both turned to see the biker has stopped, he raised the helmet face shield and looked at them.

"Jericho Brown" Richard mumbled, folding his fist.

Marigold said nothing,she only focused on the biker. Jericho released a remorseless smirk and covered his face again before riding off in full speed.

"Are you okay?" Richard asked while helping Marigold up.

"I think I am" She smiled and picked up her Camera, luckily the camera fell on the flower close to where they fell.

Xavier came that very moment. "What happened here?" He asked.

"Oh..it was....a little accident" Marigold replied.

Xavier looked at Richard.

"Are you her brother? Do you know me?" Richard asked.

"Yeah" Xavier mumbled and Richard smiled.

"What happened? Why were you two on the ground?" Xavier asked.

"Jericho's bike" Richard replied.

"Jericho?" Xavier called the name like it's something offensive and Marigold wondered why.

"You mean he hit my sister with his bike...."

"Almost, it was a a mistake, trust me" Marigold immediately tapped his chest and Xavier looked at her. "I told you to follow me in and stop the damn pictures you were taking" He snapped.

"I'm sorry" Marigold mumbled in a sad voice.

"Get in the car" Xavier said.

Marigold waved at Richard.

"Thank you...bye" She said.

"Bye" Richard smiled and waved back, she entered the car and Xavier drove off.

"You're not mad at me right?" Marigold asked after few seconds of silence.

"Eat your cheesecake, I'm not mad" Xavier replied and she smiled.

She took the cake and inhaled the scent. "Smells so nice"

"So you're still addicted to cheesecakes?" Xavier asked.

"Is there any other thing I can be addicted to?" Marigold asked with a mouthful of the cake.

"Stop being a baby" Xavier chuckled and wiped her bottom lip with his thumb.

"Who's Jericho Brown? Sounds like you both know him" She asked.

"Don't ask about him" Xavier replied.

"Why?"

"He's not someone you should associate with, when you see him you run, okay?" Xavier said.

"Is he that bad?" Marigold asked curiously.

"Bad is an understatement, He's dangerous. So stay away from him" Xavier said but that only made Marigold more curious.

She didn't say anything more though, she focused on her cake.