Sweet Mischief’s Rollercoaster Romance

On the car.

Without any prior agreement, both Mia and Leo clapped in unison for Jade who was sitting at the back.

Mia asked, "Jade, are you a silver-tongued devil or what?"

With an air of arrogance, Jade fluffed her bangs and smirked. "Hmph, I already planned to expose that bastard when I heard about it from Chad last night. I'd be a sinner if I helped him cover up such shocking news. And that ungrateful jerk actually had the guts to ask me out today. Like I, Jade, would ever fall for such a bad guy."

Leo curiously asked, "Jade, how did you know about the hourly hotel room and his... short performance?"

"My brother let it slip when he was cussing him out yesterday, and I overheard it," Jade confessed, looking at her friends innocently.

Last night, in Jade's room.

She was sitting cross-legged on the bed, a pillow on her lap, arms resting on the pillow, hands propping up her cheeks, listening to her brother's rant.

Suddenly, Chad revealed that Eaton didn't last long in the hourly hotel room. Jade's eyes lit up. She asked curiously, "Chad, are you saying he's bad in bed?"

Chad lightly tapped Jade's forehead, admonishing her, "What on earth is in that head of yours?"

After that, Jade was relentless, following Chad from her room to his, sitting on his bed, pestering him nonstop.

With curious eyes, she asked, "Chad, if he's that bad, what's so attractive about him?"

At that moment, Chad wished he could smack her out of the room.

He was her brother, not her boyfriend! How could he answer that!

So, Chad wrapped Jade in a blanket and threw her back into her room. "Chad-"

bedroom door and locked it,

...

to Gold Level, Mia and Leo got

it, Mia thought Jade was

Leo again, "Leo, how long is normal for you guys? Is what they write in novels true, that you

exasperated, replied, "I'm still single,

turned towards the married

looking at me?" Mia stuttered, caught off guard. "Just because I'm married

could ask your

told you

she remembered it very clearly. She had even felt

with her husband, where her hand accidentally brushed against that part of him, she started to doubt Leo's words. "What are you two whispering about? Spill the beans," Jade, the gossip queen,

my husband is for me to discuss, none of you are allowed in on this." "What's going on with your husband? Just this morning you were blaming him. Why are

persistent questioning, Mia

After that, he didn't say another

so long and gotten nowhere, Jade complained,

the destination indicated on the phone, they got

cans of red, black, and white paint, the trio shared a silent

did you get these?" Leo

responded, "I just grabbed

one of us could be Batman, another a ninja,

"natives". Using black as the primary shade to mask their identities, they accented with red and white stripes. And thus, their makeshift "native" disguises came to life. Later, their car halted before a hotel. Once the check-in formalities were done, they entered the elevator,

the dim ambiance. Sparse lighting from lamps barely cut through the shadows. Fall was setting in above ground, but the chill was more

rubbing their arms to keep warm, Leo, despite feeling cold himself, took off his khaki jacket and

at the man behind her with gratitude, "Young

our house, I've been