All Chapters of Despising the Bachelor: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“Come on, no one will know it’s you!” Michaela pushed me towards the walk-in closet to change into the sultry set of clothes that she prepared for me. She was quick to close the door even before I was able to react. I let out a groan before shouting back at her, “I told you I’m not doing this!” “For the record, you agreed a while ago. You can no longer take back what you said,” she replied, which immediately made me sigh in frustration. I agreed because I thought I’d only be performing in a regular event, which usually what my gigs are about. I never knew it would be in a freaking bachelor’s party! I don’t want to dance with someone’s soon-to-be-husband! I’m a performer, not a stripper. “You’ll just be dancing to three songs, okay? Three songs for 20k! Where will you ever find a gig that will pay you that much money for three songs to dance to?” I heard her say as I was eyeing the pieces of clothing that I am holding in my hand. “You told me you need the money!” “Yes, but—“ “No

When I opened my eyes, I quickly closed them because of the bright lights. It took a few seconds before my eyes adjusted.Where am I? I looked around, and saw that I am in an unfamiliar room. My eyes widened in realization, remembering what had happened before I passed out.“Shit, shit, shit,” I cursed as my gaze went down to look at my clothes. I am still wearing the clothes I wore, and when I looked at the bedside table, I saw that my scarf is there neatly folded. What happened?My eyes widened the moment I realized that Kio was there when that random guy harassed me! I stood as I felt panic rushing through my system because of that realization. I’m a hundred percent sure that I am in his property right now. He’s a great fighter. That man had no chance against him. We were together for years. I just know what kind of person he is!I felt my head aching, but that did not stop me to look for my things. I picked my scarf up, and looked through the sheets for my phone. I can’t find i

“Come on! You’ll be even more depressed when you stay here all day. You don’t even take a bath anymore,” Michaela commented. She is now dressed in a body-fitting red dress. “Vivi’s old enough to decide on her own. She’s no longer a child. Come on, give yourself a break.”I frowned even more. Even if she says that, I still can’t give myself a break! It has been a week since Vivi ran away from home, and I have already tried contacting her friends that I know, but they’d either tell me they know nothing or ignore me at all.I’m getting more and more restless day-by-day. I even tried waiting for her in the entrance of her university, but to no avail. Sure, she’s already an adult, but she’s still my sister! I still feel responsible for her.“How many times had she left without telling you? She barely even lives here,” Michaela said.“She always comes back, though.”“Then she will come back! So give yourself a favor, and at least come with me and enjoy the night. My treat. You’ve been too

For the past years, the world felt so big for me. Probably the reason for that was because I barely got anywhere else aside from my apartment and the locations of my gigs. There were no more vacations, no more road trips. In an instant, my world started revolving around survival.Being outside the country even seems like a dream for me now. I feel like there are even more places in the world that my gaze would never reach. I don’t know what changed, but ever since I met Kio once again, the world feels so small. It even feels like everyone I know now lives a few hundred meters away from me. Once I was out to buy a bottle of shampoo, and I bumped into Kionno! I don’t know what he was doing in that small convenience store when he literally lives an extravagant life in the metro. He even has the money to be anywhere else in the world right now. Tell me why he was in my small town?! He couldn’t be stalking me, right?”You’re buying that? You hate that brand,” he commented, eyeing the bott

Kionno was my first love, my first everything. I experienced almost every single thing I wanted to experience with him. At some point, he was my world. I saw myself spending the rest of my life with him. But life isn’t a fairytale. It is not automatically a happy ending when the princess meets her prince because maybe…he isn’t really her prince to begin with.When we broke up, and my life started going downhill, I became so fixated with survival that I swore to myself never to let my guards down again. I swore never to date anyone or even be friends with anyone of the opposite sex.Of course there have been a lot of men who tried climbing up my walls, but I knew better. I knew that they only like what they see from the outside. I knew they would dump me once they got whatever they wanted from me.So I’m not really certain why I agreed to grab some snacks with Isaac in the first place. Maybe I loosened up a bit when he didn’t judge me because of my work, especially when the majority of