World After Worlds

Gale was about to slap Spencer again, but he caught her arm, he pushed her aside and she fell on the floor. "I give you one chance to slap me, not again."

"I c-can't believe you! You are such a jerk! How dare you!" Gale couldn't stand, she felt so weak, she felt so dumb! Spencer looked at her with no remorse for what he had done to her… instead, he was criticizing her too.

"Yeah, I'm a jerk, and you? What about you, Gale? You are her only friend and you cheated with me, with no hesitation. You gave me more reason to hate you. You just proved that Yanarym was a lot better than you."

"BECAUSE YOU SEDUCED ME!" Gale screamed but Spencer shook his head and smirked.

"No, Gale, you can't blame me for that. I'm pretty sure that I didn't even try so hard to make you agree to have an affair with me. And from my perspective- cheating is always a choice."

Spencer left Gale, he had to find Yanarym. And first person comes to mind, where Yanarym could run off to, was Hansel. But Spencer doesn't know where Hansel is living, so he tried calling Hansel. And Hansel kept on rejecting his call. Spencer gritted his teeth and drove as fast as he could to the university.

Spencer went straight to Hansel's department, and heard that he was in class. Fortunately, the class was already over when Spencer barged into the room. He went straight to Hansel and landed him a punch in the face. The female students screamed in surprise while the male students didn't know if they should interfere.

"Where is my girlfriend?" Spencer gritted his teeth and grabbed Hansel's collar. "Where is Yanarym?!" He shouted to his Hansel, but Hansel was unfazed. "HANSEL, ANSWER ME!"

Hansel is forced to push Spencer away. "I don't know what you are talking about, didn't you drag her away from me yesterday?" Hansel said in a solemn tone, he picked up his book that fell on the floor.

Spencer seemed to be flustered with what Hansel replied, "She's not with you?"

"Why would she be with me? Don't tell me she ran away from you? You lost her?" Hansel asked in a grim tone that made Spencer believe that she was not with Hansel at all. Spencer took a step back and washed his face with his palm in a frantic manner.

Hansel knew that Yanarym was still willing to be with Spencer after all that happened to them. And he received countless texts that Spencer was over about the cheating thing. Hansel ran out of options, he wanted to be with Yanarym but none was going in his way.

Hansel watched Spencer predicament with uninterested expression. Yanarym was with him. She is definitely in the bedroom, eating or watching movies. Hansel managed to convince Yanarym that Spencer has to learn his lesson, that if Spencer was really willing to be with her, he should know when to stop stepping the line. He advised her to stay for days in his condo and make Spencer lose his cool for the time being.

Yanarym told him that last night- what happened to them will not reach Spencer's ear. She was determined to get back on Spencer… which Hansel couldn't understand. He's been very good with her, why can't she just stay with him. He won't become another version of Spencer- he will not be like Spencer at all!

When the morning came, Yanarym insisted that he should go to his classes. Even if he wanted to stay with her, she told him that Spencer would be looking for her. And the first person Spencer would suspect where she is, is Hansel. And she was right, Spencer went straight to him to confront him. But Hansl made a decision and that is to keep Yanarym. He will keep her until she chooses to remain at his side. He's not giving her back to Spencer… her bruises on her arms and chin were still visible and Hansel won't let Spencer hurt her anymore.

Spencer ran out of the classroom after believing Hansel's words.

Hansel heard his phone rang and saw Gale's caller ID so he rejected the call, Gale kept on sending him text messages and he had no choice but to block her. Leaving the class- he decided that he wanted to go home and just be with Yanarym. Nevertheless, he saw Gale marching in his direction, he sighed. Too tiring, should he just kill them all?

"Hansel!" Gale screamed and rushed to his front, Hansel looked at Gale with frigid eyes. "I need to talk to you."

"Speak." Hansel said and gestured to her to talk, Gale shook her head to disagree and looked at the surroundings. Many students were eyeing them, they were waiting for another drama to unfold.

"Not here, somewhere private." Gale said and toon Hansel's hand and dragged him into an empty room.

"That's enough, talk now, I have somewhere to go." He said and pulled his hand away from Gale. As much as he didn't want to talk with her, he could still use her to stall Spencer discovering that Yanarym is in his place.

"Did Spencer come to you?" She started, when she was left in Spencer's condo, she realized- she doesn't want to lose Spencer. She likes Spencer so much that she couldn't give him up to Yanarym. The only person that could help her is Hansel. If she persuaded Hansel to steal Yanarym from Spencer- there would be no Yanarym to hinder her love story with Spencer.

However, right now, she has to clarify things with Hansel. Because at the beginning Hansel told her that Spencer likes her- turns out- Spencer hates her. She was hurt by that, but it won't discourage her. She made up her mind, and once she put her mind on it, she'll always win over it.

"You told me before- Spencer likes me." Gale said, she looked at the floor, she didn't even change clothes, she headed straight here to talk.

"I did." Hansel nodded, "I said that before."

"That was not the truth." Gale intercepted, she wanted to re-tell things that Spencer  said to her but Hansel seemed uninterested with what she was telling him.

"What does that mean?"

"Spencer told me- that he loathes me. He seduced me to hate Rym- and get out of their lives." Hansel paused, he smirked, he didn't expect Spencer to tell Gale the truth the moment Yanarym left his side. Certainly, Spencer was such a weak-hearted person if it's about Yanarym. His grin slowly turned to a frown. It was fun to have a challenge but it's not fun if he was not winning.

"Why do you know that? Did he tell you?"

"N...no, didn't I tell you? I was there. I was there…"

"Did you go there this morning?"

"No, I have been there since last night."

"Then, how come, he's just searching right now? Did she sneak out in the middle of the night?"

"We don't know!"

"Why don't you know? And why was there last night? Did you do something? Gale?"

"We had sex! Spencer and I had sex next to the master's bedroom! I thought she was kicked out by Spencer so that we could do whatever we want without her. But Spencer thought she was inside the condo all along! When he found out she was not there- he became cold to me- and he told me awful things! It's over between us."

Gale didn't succeed in making Spencer fall in love- Rather, she was the one who fell in love. If only she made Spencer, at least like her, maybe, Spencer would not be too desperate with Yanarym at all. Only then, if Spencer was the one to decline Yanarym, maybe Yanarym would choose him. But Spencer was too determined to be with Yanarym.

"Hansel." Gale called his attention because he seemed to be drifting away from his own thoughts.

"What?" Hansel asked, what else could he tell, Spencer had thrown the white towel. It's a game over. There's no more affair between Gale and Spencer, Yanarym wanted to go back to Spencer and he wanted her to stay with him. What should he do?

It seems like he was trapped in the corner, he ran out of moves. But Hansel knew there was always a way. He would always find a way.

"Do you know that? That Spencer hates me?" Gale looked at Hansel and there were no specific changes in his expression. He wasn't lying… he seemed confident with what he said, he's not changing his stance.

"I don't know that he hates you, I thought he likes you." Hansel said, and Gale trusts him. "You mean to say, Spencer had sex with you and disposed you after that?"

"Dispose… I'm not disposed, don't make it sound worse than it is. I'm just…  not the first option."