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17 | here to save her

17. HERE TO SAVE HER

— JAY'S POV

Jay was busy studying by himself the whole morning in the library. He had his phone on Do Not Disturb mode so he could be focusing on revising some notes on the previous classes without any distractions or interruption from those notifications. Almost two hours in, he discards away the earbuds from his ears, as he's slowly putting his pen down to massage his fingers from the ache. At the corner of his eyes, Jay abruptly has his eyebrows knitted together when he's watching the rare sights of Jake hastens his steps towards the table where Jay was sitting.

"Dude, come on out" Jake commands hastily, there is a solemn tone wavering in his deep voice as he lets out the words flow out of his tongue. With his calm demeanours were expressed through his quiet gestures, Jay silently steps out of the room with those arched eyebrows resting on his face, "What is it?" Jay asks boredly.

"Have you seen those chats in the group today?" Jake frantically asks, slowly taking out his phone from the pocket of his jeans. Jay shakes off his head nonchalantly, "I had my phone on DND the whole time because I don't like distractions while studying. Why's that?". Jake agapes in disbelief and gradually shoves his phone screen right before Jay's face, "Do you have any idea about Anais' leaked video?". With his quick reflexes, Jay pulls the phone away from Jake's grip to get a clearer vision of it.

The whole visual of Anais in such revealing clothes is flickering through the screen, and as Jay's heart couldn't bear with it, he immediately pauses the video with a heavy breathing. "How did this happen? Why is people spreading this video? She doesn't deserve thi—" Jay mutters, shoving the phone back to Jake's hand. "People figured that she made contents on those MyFans platform. I mean, isn't that downgrading for a decent girl like her to be making money off that site?" Jake states, shrugging off his shoulder coldly.

Jay returns his friend a death, eerie stare in return, clenching his jaw rather tightly. "It's best that you don't speak ill of her like that man, I swear to God! She's not what other people are imagining she's like. For whatever reasons she has, spreading her leaked video without her consent is still a crime." Jay retorts distastefully.

"But even so, do you still want to associate yourself with a girl like her?" Jake asks in a condescending tone, folding his arms over his chest. Jay backs away from Jake in disbelief, shaking off his head slow. "I don't care, Jake! I still trust her. She has the reasons behind those actions of her and it's none of my business. It's none of anyone's business actually. She's been a good friend to me and those video?" Jay emphasises, rising his brows rigidly before continues. "—won't even change the fact of how I view her as a person."

Jake lets out a sigh exasperatedly, "Jay, do you even know how much of a tarnish you could be in for you to be near Anais right now?" The male asks. Jay nods confidently, "Why should I even care about what other people are thinking about me, huh? I've always been sincere to her from the start, so others' opinions about us are invalid."

"You could do so much better than her at this point" Jake emits a sarcastic statement through his gritted teeth, only for Jay to turn to him with even more tense yet strained expression plastered all over his face. "Oh now that you're figured that she's doing all of this, suddenly I deserve someone else other than her? What happened to your prior ideas of wanting me to pursue her before, huh?".

"Whatever suits your boat, bro. I am telling you this advice as a friend of yours!" Jake scowls.

"Well, just keep the unsolicited advices to yourself" Jay spits before hurriedly swirling away from Jake. With those heavy steps in his feet, he leaves his friend behind as he's running down the hall for that one person in his head — none other than Anais. He couldn't imagine the pain and sufferings she must've felt after figuring it out earlier. He tries to look for her everywhere around the campus, dialling for her number multiple of times but she couldn't be reached at all.

In the evening, Jay tries his luck by searching for Anais at her apartment as he repeatedly pushes the doorbell, but it seems like nobody is home by the time he's there. Jay ends his evening with those throbbing pain in his feet after hours of running to look for her. He tries to call for her again for the last time, just in case, if she finally has the guts to answer him but to his dismay, her number is not in service.

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A week has passed since the incident happened and Jay wasn't still able to be in contact with Anais. He went to search for her almost every day at her apartment, but she wasn't even home. She skipped the whole week of lectures to avoid meeting those people at the campus. Jay is starting to feel that her absence that wavers around him pains him severely. Living a day without uttering a single word to Anais surely makes him misses to be around her more. It's been a week since she's being missing.

On the night when he's busy scrolling through some article reviews on his laptop, Jay finds himself visiting those MyFans website unknowingly. He looks up to several creators on there, hoping he'd find Anais' account as he scrolls through those users. Thousand of creators have signed up on this platform and it's almost impossible for him to find some information on Anais without knowing her username there. Jay heaves a sigh heavily as he digs further, didn't give up to scroll and scroll again.

But then he remembers that last time he saw the glimpse of Anais' video and about people was mentioning she was doing a roleplay content. So Jay tries on his luck to type those keyword on the search engine of MyFans, only to be stumbled upon several roleplay videos from the search. He scrolls through the page again, until his unblinking gaze stops at the familiarity of her. He quickly clicks and goes through her profile. She was called Summer on that.

On those profile, Anais has about 100k followers on her account. She has quite a lot number of followers considering how attractive she appears in all of her videos. Although the fact Anais doesn't fully expose her face, people could already sense that she's a one stunning girl, hiding under those mask. There's also couple of options at the top corner of her profile, whereas the clients have the privileges for other services.

Meet 1 vs 1 with the creator. The option states.

In return, the client will need to fund about  ₩1,500,000 for the service. Jay gulps the lump in his throat while staring at those bright screen flashes before him in his darkened room. Upon not hearing any news or information from Anais, Jay is willing to pay just to see her again but does meeting her like this is going to be a good idea for him? He has no ill intention like those creeps but this is the only way he could think of to meet with her.

By filling up several details on his profile's section, Jay's meeting with Anais will be scheduled tomorrow's night at Hilton Hotel under the name of Dean (he doesn't use his real name or identity). With this, he wishes to see her again and finally wants to confess about what he really genuinely feels for her.

THE END OF CHAPTER