As soon as Lee ended the call, he directly said;
*I need to leave and see my cousin.
Hearing this, Shyamara was quick to;
*Then let us meet her. She seems to be a close cousin for you to see so introduce her and maybe we can give a helping hand one day.
Was true that she's a close cousin for him to;
*She helped my mother take care of my little sisters when she's still in high school so yeah, she's a good cousin. Let's go or it will be late later.
And there, the group of eight went back to the car.
The destination, it's a University that is a one hour-drive from their current location.
With a traffic jam on the way, they took an extra twenty minutes before arriving at the University.
Through chat, Lee met this cousin in front the University.
Together, head to the Accounting office.
There's a balance of more than one hundred thousand pesos and directly paid by the boy that shock this simple cousin.
She's a hard working country girl and it shows on her skin but never earn such amount of money.
Not a place to talk, Lee lead this cousin to a nearby restaurant.
This cousin knew that the place is expensive so she pulled the boy to stop.
Lee is smiling when he went to look saying;
*I'm not the one who will pay so let's go and eat for free. Come on, everyone is waiting.
This cousin still want to convince when he saw the boy walking away for her to follow.
Already knew the private room number so he ask a waiter to lead the way.
As soon as they enter the room, seven beauties stoop up to welcome this dumbfounded cousin warmly.
Lee let the girls talk while he edit and upload videos.
Soon, the dishes that were ordered in advance came to be served.
These seven girlfriends are all approachable for this cousin named Jhodie to feel she belong.
A late lunch was eaten lively for almost an hour,,, talked for thirty minutes before seven girlfriends said goodbye.
Before leaving, Lee transferred fifty thousand pesos on Jhodie's bank account for her allowance,,, will send again if not enough until she graduates.
The group send this cousin to her boarding house before going to their own home.
Because there's a big event tomorrow, no one ask the boy for wet boxing.
Sent everyone home before Samantha drive to the family residence with Lee.
The boy first did is to prepare the things he will be using tomorrow.
There's a complete set of sport wears that the Kuma brand gave him but will only use a fit in long sleeve shirt.
There's a big Kuma on the shirt so this is enough for people to see.
Because if he wears new outfit, the comfortability will be taken away.
So even if his shoes is already old, will use it to such event with big price.
The next thing he did is to familiarize the route that they will run which is available on the internet.
Done after less than an hour for him to accompany Samamtha to have dinner.
Chat with everyone while resting his stomach.
At past nine, head to sleep alone in a room.
Samantha is so considerate not to bother her beloved man.
Lee didn't trust his body clock to he set an alarm at exactly four.
Did some simple stretching before taking a bath.
Like a supportive wife, Samantha make sure for his breaskfast to be ready: light meal but full of energy.
The boy's secret is two fingers of banana.
The two head out at five thirty and arrive at the venue before six.
Even though the event will start at exactly eight o'clock in the morning, the participants should be early to have their attendance checked and registration number.
Because this number will determine their position at the starting line.
The ones that will be assigned in front will have the advantage.
Rinaya came a little late and met Lee at the participants' waiting area.
As for Samantha and others, found a good spot to watch, can see a lot of happenings on a big screen.
There's still thirty minutes before eight and Lee use this to observe.
Most of the participants joined for fun but there are like him who want the first place.
Just looking at the legs, you can tell who's an elite runner.
Among these tens of thousands of participants, there are at least a thousand elite runners.
Unexpectedly, there are foreigners who came to join as a team,,, obviously trained hard enough to win any running competition.
But the boy is confident because he himself trained hard for many years, became his daily routine.
When there's only twenty minutes left, Lee start his warm up.
As for Rinaya, record herself talking as the boy as her background.
The race didn't start but Lee is already sweating,,, will warm his body enough to be able to keep up a fast pace from the very first start, knew the limit of his stamina.
Not only him but there are a lot of elite runners with a same plan.
When the time is near, an Emcee went to speak instructing the participants to go to their respective position.
Advice Rinaya to stay on the sideline and let the fast runners to pass through to avoid collision.
Lucky him, he was assigned to the front with only five lines ahead.
At the last minute, the Emcee announced that the first place will receive ten million for these elite runners to become excited.
The person in front of him can't stay still and was in a hurry for the countdown to hit zero.
And as soon as the horn sounded, rush out to bump a girl in front of him to fall down to the ground.
To protect the unfortunate girl from the people behind them, went to take a knee sheltering the fragile body with his tough built.
Like a stone in a rushing current, block several force coming from these out of control people.
The worst he took is a knee to the face, exactly on the eyesocket part for a cut to be made.
A bloody wound, compromised his vision...