To Live Again, For the First Time!

He understood where this was coming from, but why the hell did it seem like he was going to poison her?

Was he begging her to take them?

Was he selling them at high prices like drugs?

No and no.

So why did he have to be made out to be a bad guy??

Really though, it was only natural that things would end up like this.

After all, the effects of this medicine to Theodore were only natural, anything less than this couldn't even be considered as medicine!

That was all trash.

Theodore couldn't possibly comprehend how medicine with any side effects or unknown effects could be even accounted as medicine at all.

How could those things be sold to people?

Not to mention, if the medicine was any less efficient than the ones he took growing up, they would only garner his distain.

Which pretty much discounted 99% of the market.

These were the effects of growing up with an encyclopaedia of advanced medicine.

As for Jenna, who grew up relatively normally in that aspect, it was way too suspicious to be given something so magical so casually.

She hadn't seen the effects for herself before, so it was bound to be like this.

"Sure thing, Milady," Theodore still complied, popping a pill into his mouth.

"But I should tell you, since I'm in a semi-optimal shape right now, they won't be of much use, except for perhaps digesting the noodles I just ate so I don't gain weight from that. I guess you'd be better off eating it after a buffet with a body like mine," he revealed calmly.

The worst part was that Theodore wasn't even exaggerating.

Jenna didn't know if she should complain about Theodore being too narcissistic or too straightforward.

Not to mention, she felt like her own physique was being attacked.

"I'll take them!"

Jenna snatched the bottle without anymore hesitation, and Theodore, who was just planning to give her a few relented with some helplessness in his brows.

'Well, that is fine as well, I should ask Emilin for a few more bottles.'

"Considering your body's condition right now, I'd say you shouldn't eat more than 2 a day. You might want to slow down your intake and check progress daily so that you can see the progress yourself. I don't want to be accused of giving out fake stuff," Theodore's voice had some innate arrogance of someone who felt like they broadened another's horizons.

Then again, if he didn't tell Jenna to check her progress, then she might not even realize how good the stuff he gave her was.

These pills were of very small sizes, so even though there was just one bottle, it would have been enough for a Theodore since he didn't really have to eat them as he did intense exercise daily.

But if 2 were taken a day, they might not last 2 months.

Well, this time Theodore felt like he had dug himself a pit, but when he thought about how amazed Jenna would be at the stuff Emilin made, he couldn't help but smile in gratification.

It was somewhat similar to when one shared the things they liked with others and others couldn't help but praise and like the same things.

It was inevitable that Theodore would feel satisfied, but that would have to wait until the future, when Jenna finally figured just how magical these pills really were.

He smiled.

Jenna kept this bottle well in her own bag after staring at it for a few moments, even wrapping it around in some napkins from the restaurant.

"By the way, I do suggest you do more exercise in the future though, after you see the effects of the medicine. It wouldn't be good if your mental health got effected because you got to obsessed with these. Though there are no addictive substances in the medicine, just the idea of losing weight without doing much of anything is quite addictive in of itself," Theodore explain.

He didn't want to deal with an addict, or he might really mistake himself for a drug dealer.

Jenna understood what he meant, especially as a girl who had gone through puberty.

If not for the warning, she might really just get addicted to the idea of losing weight while slouching on a couch all day long eating junk food for all meals of the day.

That would be as counterproductive as vapes were.

"Let's head out?"

Jenna didn't see what else they could be doing here, and it was getting quite late too.

"Sure," Theodore nodded and paid why leaving.

Something that though he didn't say, Jenna, who was walking behind him, easily noticed.

She giggled.

"Are you paying for Gen?"

Theodore's brows furrowed a little.

Those two had hopped on off while somewhat drunk when Gen was the one treating them.

Though he wasn't lacking in money… 

"I'm a frugal person!" Theodore claimed proudly.

In other words, stingy.

"Of course, when I go back, I'll be collecting my money," Theodore smirked wickedly, and in the night, that only made him look even more alluring.

It was clear without anyone having to say just who Theodore was collecting this money from.

He was going to be collecting money… with interest.

Kayden would be lucky if he was still awake at night to pay the man back.

If he waited till the next day… it was unknown how much money and blood he would have to cough up as interest.

Theodore's money was more valuable than others.

Jenna laughed, her voice somewhat melodic under the night sky, while praying for Kayden's future good health and stable blood pressure.

Though no matter how much she prayed for him, that wouldn't prevent the man's blood pressure from skyrocketing the next day.

"So, Kayden and Gen, huh?"

Jenna said with a mischievous undertone.

"Mhm," Theodore strode slowly so that Jenna could keep up.

"Are you jealous?" 

Jenna sounded just like a little kid who was meaning to play a prank on the adult, whereas the adult knew nothing of it, but even if he knew, he would still have to follow that line of thought.

In this case, Theodore had no clue what Jenna was talking about.

"Hm?"

"Where you and Kayden not an item? I recall hearing some rumours in the beginning of the year…" Jenna smiled innocently while giving Theodore a sideways glance.

Theodore's lips twitched.

"I don't know what you mean, and aren't you being presumptuous to believe everything you hear?"

Kayden and Theodore had already agreed to never speak of that incident, so they were ready to deny any and all allegations.

"So, you guys didn't…" Jenna moved her two index fingers together and tapped using them twice.

Theodore scoffed and said no more, which only prompted more exaggerated words from Jenna, who was having her fair share of fun.

"Oh! You know how I felt while studying with you two? I felt like a third wheel, a light bulb of 1000 watts!"

Each one of her words was more exaggerated than the previous.

Theodore didn't know how to deal with this.

They didn't teach him how to deal with unscrupulous girls in improv class!

On the other hand, Theodore felt like Jenna deserved an award from the academy of magic and preforming arts.

She clearly defied physics, creating something out of nothing.

"There is no such thing," Theodore continued to deny.

There really wasn't though... a kiss was only a kiss when it was a kiss.

It's quite like if someone did CPR to you and your lips touched, would you consider that a kiss?

No.

Well, if both parties say it wasn't, then it wasn't.

"Hmm, but there was clear chemistry there! So, would you be jealous of Kayden or Gen? I think Gen's really got something there when she said it was suspicious that you were drinking all of Kayden's drinks for him, isn't that only what you do for people you are interested in?"

Jenna continued since she was having fun and Theodore couldn't do anything about it, which was the best part, even though she knew that there was nothing there.

But that was also where she went wrong.

Jenna should have really stopped while she was ahead.

Rookie mistake.

"Really now?" Theodore mused.

Suddenly, they both stopped walking outside of an alleyway, the same one they used to get here.

There were still a couple of lights around, so they could see each other clearly, but the lights weren't particularly bright either.

"Well, I also drank your drinks, so what does that say about me, hm?" 

Theodore's voice was seductive, and his undertone was a little dangerous. Somehow, the two people who had been walking side by side had their distance closed.

Jenna looked at the man who was a head taller than herself and gulped.

At this moment, she questioned whether she had teased the wrong person, but it was too late.

"Well, Kayden that poor drinker is paying me with snacks to drink his shots, so are you going to pay me with dessert?"

Theodore leaned closer, and Jenna realized that there was nowhere to back off as she was already leaning against the wall.

Now the question was, did she even want to back off in the first place?

The atmosphere became somewhat ambiguous and tense, and Jenna wasn't able to muster out a word.

She had definitely provoked the wrong person, there was no questioning it anymore.

And at that moment, her eyes met with the person whose face was just inches away.