Mystery...

I was in a car, the sun was going down and I felt happy, really happy.

Someone beside me was taking my hand into his, and when I looked at him, he was looking right back at me with passion -like the kind of look you give to someone that you want to kiss, right there, right now-.

It made me blush a little. He was beautiful, a black haired blue eyes young man, a bit pale for my liking but it didn’t seem to bother me, we were happy together, I was happy. I caught my reflection in the driver’s mirror, and I was wearing a period dress again. I felt comfortable in it, of course forgetting about the fact that I couldn’t breathe properly, corset problems, but I looked beautiful in it. I didn’t ask where we were going, maybe I already knew it and without me seeing it coming he kissed my cheek. I felt butterflies in my stomach; my cheeks were getting hot and red. I had to look away from him so he wouldn’t notice, and the only way was looking through my window to hide it. I think he liked my reaction because he laughed joyfully as he felt my hand shaking underneath his…and then I saw it. A beautiful house with wooden stairs big windows and very bright. I loved that house and I wanted to have it.

The alarm sounded waking me up in a sec, I slept nice and easy but I couldn’t remember what I dreamed about. I knew I dreamed about something and I liked the feeling in it but I just couldn’t seem to remember what it was.

I went to the bathroom. I needed to wake up so I wet my face with cold water after brushing my teeth. I felt really heavy and didn’t know why. I usually have a good awakening but I felt weak, a little bit. Today I was what my dad used to call “a walking sleepy head”. I stripped my clothes off and got under the water, not so hot this time cause I wanted to wake up not to sleep more and after that refreshing shower I worn my blue jeans with a yellow jumper. The weather was getting a bit colder so I got my coat too. I left my hair down so it could dry, I liked it down anyway, that was just an excuse. I took my backpack and went downstairs just in time for breakfast. A quiet and nice breakfast cause she wasn’t there.

Breakfast went smooth; I ate slowly to enjoy it, just a salad fruit and orange juice.

“You are not eating pancakes and toasts today?” he said with a mocking face, hey if we start like this so early in the morning, I don’t think I’m going to like for much longer I thought.

“What you saw yesterday is not my usual eating behaviour ok? I was just hungry”

“Sure, you don’t have to justify yourself you know that right?” but he kept mocking me, it was actually quite funny, when I recalled it I couldn’t help by smiling, and then she opened the front door.

“Are you taking me to school?” I asked him quickly

“Yeah” he said with a bit of hesitation

“Can we go? NOW” I said emphasizing the last word “sure” as he answered I took my backpack and walked towards the front door leaving Elizabeth behind.

“Hi Gabrielle, bye Gabrielle” she didn’t have time to say anything else.

I waited outside for Jeremy 5 points for getting me out of here, I like him again. After a few minutes of me pacing up and down the stairs he finally got out. As I saw him closing the door a déjà vu came through me again, like the first time I saw the house. As I walked to the car, I couldn’t stop looking back at the house, why was it so familiar to me so warm to me? It really felt like home, like I’ve lived there for years. Where have I seen this house before? Jeremy drove off and I couldn’t stop thinking about the house, I knew something was missing, but what?

“What are you trying to resolve?”

“Huh?”

“It looks like you are concentrating really hard in something, what is it?”

“It’s nothing”

“C’mon I might help”

“Is nothing really, I just had a déjà vu”

“Déjà vu?”

“Yes, is the second time that I have it by looking at the house”

“Which house, our house?” I nodded

“And what do you think that you’ve lived here before?”

“Why would I think that?”

“You might have. People say that when you have a déjà vu you are seeing things that you already saw in another life”

“And you believe that?”

“Well, that’s what people say” I think he actually believed that.

“Well science says that a déjà vu is just an error product of your brain that processes the information twice through your eyes giving you the feeling of repetition”

“Yeah, I’ve heard about that too, in a movie. Why are you talking about science? We are talking about déjà vu’s here, there’s not scientific explanation for that, that’s supernatural”

“Yeah right”

“What, you don’t believe in supernatural stuff?”

“Why should I?”

“Well this is Zoneville baby”

“What do you mean?”

“You’ll see…aren’t you getting down?” I didn’t realize we were already here. After our interesting conversation about supernatural stuff he left me in the parking lot and I went to my first class. Today it was biology and we were talking about eyes and brains, what a coincidence right.

Jenny sat two desks away from mine and Brook was behind me. Mr Benner the professor was the kind of teacher that just went on and on talking, guessing that we all understood what he was saying. After half an hour I couldn’t keep up so I just stopped paying attention. Suddenly Brook touched my back, I turned to see what she wanted and she gave me a note. I took it and read it.

ARE YOU COMING TO THE ZET ZONE TOMORROW NIGHT????

I wrote back WHAT IS THE ZET ZONE? And I gave it to her; we were passing it back and forth IS A PUB WE CAN HANG OUT, ARE BOTH OF YOU GOING? YES!!! ALMOST EVERYBODY WILL BE THERE I turned around so I could face her.

“Mmh…I don’t know” I said

“C’mon, it’ll be fun” she whispered at me

“ok” I said not very sure of it and then Brook turned towards Jenny –that was looking at us- and gave her two thumps up indicating that I was going, it made me smile.

“Is there anything you’d like to share with us Miss Prado?” said Mr Benner, oops!

“No sir” answered Jenny

“Then pay attention” said Mr Benner

“Yes sir!” Jenny said with a military tone and we all laughed. It looked like we pissed Mr Benner off a little because he sent us a lot of homework for next week. Well…at least I’ll be busy in the weekend.

Trigonometry went by really quick; I liked Mrs Anderson she knew how to teach. While getting a few notes from the blackboard my pen started loosing ink and my hands got messy, my sheets too. I asked for permission to go to the toilet, I felt a bit stupid.

I found the toilet after a few minutes and I went straight to the sink to wash my hands.

I could see smoke coming out from one of the cubical toilets, it looked like some girls were breaking the rules by smoking in school. Bad girls, I liked it.

“My mum says that she has seen her a lot of times getting in Sam’s house” said one of the girls.

“Sam from the grocery shop?” said the other

“Yes” they were gossiping about somebody, I’m not a gossip girl but I had to wash my hands, I wasn’t going to leave because they were minding other people’s business.

“My mum said” she continued “that she remembers when they came from California, Elizabeth left town for almost 10 months”.

“Really?”

“Yeah, Maybe she was pregnant then” They were talking about Elizabeth? About me?

Seconds after they came out, and when they saw me their faces went blank with shock and they left.

The bell rang indicating change of class. I wet my face with cold water to calm me down and went back to class to get my stuff. Thankfully Jenny had it already and was waiting for me at the door.

“Brook has gone to her music class, now our next stop, History” she said to me giving me my book and notebook. We went to our lockers to leave our books and pick the history ones. She was talking to me on our way there but I couldn’t hear what she was saying, people were talking and running through the corridors which made it a bit difficult. “I can’t hear you” I said while opening my locker, she was doing the same, she was one locker to my right away from mine but I couldn’t hear her. It wasn’t just the people around us talking what disturbed my hearing; maybe I have some water in my ear from my shower so I tried to massage my tragus with my finger leaning my head to the left and then I went blank…

I’ve had to die and go to heaven cause what I was seeing was an angel, he had to be. He had the sweetest face I’ve ever seen in my life. He was so beautiful so perfect that it couldn’t be real. For a moment I wanted to stretch my hand to touch him but it all broke off when I looked at his face. He was walking towards my direction and when he got closer I could see his eyes, the way he was looking at me…it shocked almost scared me. He looked like in pain, like if somebody had stabbed him with a dagger and he looked scared too.

I couldn’t take my eyes off of him and when he walked passed me I felt Goosebumps, I turned to keep looking at him, and he was looking at me over his shoulder, with the same painful eyes, I was shocked and I dropped what I was holding. I couldn’t even pick it up; I just kept looking at his direction. Then Jenny started talking, did she actually stop talking? And I could hear her but I couldn’t react. She had to shake me so I could wake up.

“Gabrielle! Are you ok?” I looked at her “huh?” I shook my head “yeah sorry” but I was still looking at his direction, nobody was in the corridors, we were alone.

“What are you looking at?”

“Nobody”

“I said what not who”

I looked at her “nothing” I looked around and realized we were alone “shoot, we better run” I said, closing my locker I grabbed her and drag her while running.

When we got into the classroom they were calling our names out.

“It looks like he’s not here today…” said the professor, somebody was missing, and then he continued “Amanda Porter?” “Here” “Jennifer Prado” “here” “Gabrielle Thomas” “here” he kept on, -good thing we were one of the last names on the list- till he started the lesson, I was really interested in history but right now I couldn’t keep up with anything. It was like I’ve had memorized his face and I was seeing it in my head again and again like a picture. He had kind of gold brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin, paler than usual but he was gorgeous, like a model from a cat walk, even his body was great he was perfect. But why was he looking at me like that? I don’t remember seeing him around and I couldn’t help by wonder where was he now, what was he doing, why did he look at me like that. Goosebumps didn’t leave my body throughout the whole hour, even Jenny was throwing notes at me asking ARE YOU OK? I just looked at her and nodded. But I wasn’t ok; I needed to see him again to ask him if he had a problem with me. When the class finished I grabbed Jenny and dragged her into the cafeteria, everybody was going there so I expected to find him there too. Jenny asked me if something was wrong and I told her that I needed to check something so I needed to hurry. She must have been thinking that I lost it, but I didn’t care I needed to find him so I just kept dragging her.

We finally got in the cafeteria and I started looking around without making it too obvious. Brook was already waiting for us in our table, so Jenny and I went to get our food. I couldn’t see him anywhere and I was starting to think that it was a hallucinating.

“What are you looking for?” Jenny said while walking towards the table, I didn’t answer just kept looking around. We got to the table and said hi to Brook.

“Have you lost something?” said Brook

“Me?”

“Yeah you, what are you looking for?” she continued

“Is nothing, I’m just tying to locate somebody I saw in the corridors but now is like he’s disappeared” I said looking around but then Jenny made me look at her

“Ah! So that’s what you saw, a guy” she said with a cheeky smile and then she turned to Brook and continued “she’s been acting weird this last our and then she dragged me in here with such a hurry for guy” both of them turned to face me.

“What’s wrong, the hormones are causing you troubles Gabrielle?” said Brook

“Is not like that, I just need to ask him something but he’s not here”

“Well how’s him? Maybe we know who he is” Brook continued

“Well, he’s got brown hair and brown eyes. He’s pale too”

“You are going to have to give us more information missy” I knew that, but what could I say, it was obvious that he wasn’t the only guy that looked like that, but he was paler than anybody else, I think.

“Aaah! Forget it” I finally said “maybe I was daydreaming… what are you doing? I said to Jenny when she closed her eyes and started chanting in I don’t know which language.

“Oh! We didn’t tell you, did we? Jenny here says that she’s a witch” said Brook that was looking at Jenny like saying here we go again.

“I am. My grandma told me, she said it jumps a generation my mother wasn’t so I am” said Jenny very proud of herself

“Right…so what are you doing now? I said, making the effort in looking interested

“St.Martyr’s day is a few weeks away so I’m throwing a good luck spell on everyone” I nodded instinctively “why?” I continued.

“Cause in St.Martyr’s day something always happens”

“This is Zoneville baby” said Brook, I remembered Jeremy saying the same thing this morning. “So?” I said, Jeremy didn’t say anything else and I was hoping they would explain.

“Wow” said Brook “you’ve never heard of the mysteries and disappearances of Zoneville?

“Not…really. Is there something going on here?”

“Do you believe in supernatural?” Brook continued

“I don’t know, do you?” I said, she looked at me for a while, I don’t know what she was looking for and then she said “of course not, there’s lots of animals around here, if somebody disappears ask the wolfs”

“Wolfs?” I almost choked at it; remember when I said I didn’t like animals, of any kind? I wasn’t joking and they have wolfs in here??? What!!!

“Yeah, huge wolfs” Jenny said, and then they looked at each other and started laughing ooh what’s going on in here? Brook looked at me “we are joking Gabrielle relax” “you should’ve seen you face…wolfs!!” said Jenny mockingly, I smiled at them sarcastically but I was relieve that there were no wolfs around.

“Let me read you hand” said Jenny

“What?”

“Let me practice with someone new”

“She’s done it with me already, she says that I see things in a way people don’t” said Brook “and is true, C’mon Gabrielle let read your hand” Jenny insisted, I don’t believe in those things but what do I have to loose? So I extended my arm and opened my hand, she examined it for a while and then started talking.

“Let’s see, this line over here” indicating the one in the middle of my palm “is the line of the present and this two are the lines of your past and future” indicating the ones above and below the middle “this other lines are the lives of the people around you” she stood in silence for a minute looking at my palm “the lines around you are too short” she said looking at me “say something we don’t know” said Brook, what did she mean by that? “Your present live is complicated but I see love and mystery lots of mystery” ok I can deal with that, she was about to talk about my past and future when she suddenly broke off. “What? What do you see? I said, she looked up at me and with urgency she said “nothing, I see nothing. I need to go to the toilet” and she left almost running.

“What’s wrong with her?” I asked Brook

“I don’t know…maybe she saw something bad in your future” she said mockingly, we both started laughing.

“Right…hey what did she mean by the lines around me are too short?”

“You didn’t get it? It’s pretty obvious you know?” Brook said

“Mmh no, I didn’t get it” and it was true, I didn’t know what she was talking about. Brook looked at me as if saying Duh! And then started explaining

“You do know that all your family is dead right?”

“Excuse me?” I said confused

“I mean not all your family; you still have your mum and your uncle. But everybody else is pretty much dead” She said leaving me in shock “they didn’t tell you?” she continued.

“No they didn’t… what happened to them?” was she joking? Cause this wasn’t funny

“Who knows, they talked about animal attacks and a few disappeared” so they are huge animals in here they are just not wolfs, OK…she continued “they never truly confirmed anything though, but like I said who knows. Ask your family they must know more than I do” sure they knew, but would they want me to know, they didn’t mention anything about a big family being killed or disappearing.

While in class I couldn’t forget what Brook told me all your family is dead, the lines around you are too short. And then Jenny’s been acting all weird since we left the cafeteria, whenever I asked her about the rest of the lecture she ignored me or avoided my question. Did she really see something? I doubt it, she said that my present was complicated but anyone could’ve guessed that. Just think about my father’s recent dead and my moving with Elizabeth, of course is complicated. Then she talked about love and mystery, and there is this mystery guy…but I told her about that too. What disturbs me is that she’s been so quiet in the last two classes when that never happens, she’s usually always chatting away. I don’t know what, but something is not right.

Mrs Newton gave us a lot of homework too; it looks like I’ll be really busy this weekend. That’s fine for me I’ll be in my room.

We finally finished class; I wanted to talk to Jenny but she run out of the door before I could even get up of my seat, it was starting to annoy me. I looked at Brook and she looked at me with the same expression I had in my face, we really didn’t know what was wrong with her.

“Maybe she is ill” said Brook but I didn’t think so, she looked fine “or something happened and she didn’t want to tell us” she continued saying, maybe she had bad news from home, I just could not believe that it had something to do with my hand reading.

After a while I said bye to Brook cause we were in different class rooms now and I had to run to mine. We spent lot of time talking. I ran through the corridors with my long hair covering my eyes almost blinding me, I was going to turn around the corner and when I did I bumped into something hard again. Ouch! That hurts but I didn’t fall this time and I realized that it wasn’t something but somebody. Oops! I apologised and looked up and when I did, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was the mystery guy…his eyes a topaz brown colour, looked straight into my eyes. They were unreadable. Nothing to do with the way he looked at me this morning. His eyes were hard on me, he was looking straight at me and then he moved his lips to talk, my heart started beating without a reason, so hard that it felt like it was about to pop out of my chest. I wanted to ask him why he looked at me that way and then he stepped back and said

“How are you so clumsy?” that’s not what I was expecting him to say to me considering how shocked he was when we had our first meeting. And he said it in a rude way, why was he using that tone with me? So I answered.

“I’m not clumsy I’m just in a hurry” I said in a really soft voice, he intimidated me a little bit.

“Is not the first time you bumped into somebody or trip over your on feet” He said in a harsh voice so you’ve been watching me then I thought, and I answered with the same harsh tone that he was using with me.

“Yes I’ve tripped a few times today but is just cause I think too much which unable me to pay attention to what’s going on around me thank you very much”

“Then you should think less, I can’t hear it anyway” what is that suppose to mean??

“Are you making fun of me? He was starting to irritate me

“Just be careful from now on” he said harder than ever and then he left, just like that.

All the time we were talking, I could sense that he wanted to leave. He was leaning away from me and stepping back whenever I got closer. What’s wrong with this guy, haven’t his parents taught him manners? And how many times have I bumped into him for him to say that anyway? Then somebody poked me, I was really irritated so when I turned I wasn’t the most pleasant person in the world.

“What!” I said making pretty obvious that I wasn’t in the mood for conversation and then I realized who he was. Is not that I knew him but I saw him before, he was a nice guy.

“Sorry if I disturbed you” he said very kind

“No, it’s ok. Sorry about that I’m not in a good mood”

“I can see that” he said with a smile

“Did you want something?”

“Not really, I just saw you standing here alone, when you should be going to class and I thought to myself, lets annoy her a little” that actually made me smile and then…

“Oops! I’m late” I said

“Yep, we both are. I’m Ben” he said extending his hand.

“I’m Ga”

“Gabrielle yes I know” he cut me off, of course he knew.

“Shall we go?” he said showing me the way through the corridor and after a few seconds of quiet walking he said.

“It must be pretty annoying that everybody knows about you?” you can’t imagine

“A little” I said

“Sorry about that”

“Is not your fault, consequences of a small town” he nodded; I realized that he was still walking in my direction so I asked him.

“Are you following me?” he laughed

“We are going to the same class”

“Are we?” I asked incredulous, he looked at me and said

“Have you ever noticed me in any of the classes?”

“Nop…sorry”

“Is ok” he said

“But I knew I saw you before” I said quickly, he then stopped in front of the door of our class room “ladies first” he said with another smile, like I said he was a nice guy. In between class I found out that he plays in the basketball team, well he’s actually the captain. They even won a few games, yay! A bit of excitement for Zoneville tsk tsk…I thought.

I feel uneasy and I don’t like this feeling, was it because of Jenny and the whole hand reading thing or because of that rude mystery guy? *sigh* what’s wrong Gabrielle, what’s wrong…I need to talk with my girls, the only ones that really know me, Zoe and Miranda. They must be thinking of me as a horrible friend I haven’t called them yet. I’ll make sure to do that ones I get “home”.

Jeremy picked me up, he said he would sort out this situation but he still takes me to school and picking me up, I didn’t want to ask him about it yet cause I didn’t want to upset him. And I didn’t want to upset him cause I wanted to tell him about tomorrow’s plan. So after a few minutes I started talking.

“Jeremy, just letting you know that I’ll be going to the Zet zone tomorrow night with some friends”

“Friends, you have friends?” he said in disbelieve

“What did you think that I was a loner?”

“Kind of, you don’t look like a talker girl, who would go near you with that face of bitterness that you carry around”

“Ha ha, very funny” after a few seconds of silence he started

“You should tell your mum” I looked up at him and at that moment I felt like boxing with his face.

“I’m telling YOU, isn’t that enough?”

“I’m not your mum neither your dad, you are going to have to talk to her someday”

“A little bit of help here, please?” he wasn’t going to give in but I wasn’t neither

“Just tell her, will you die if you talk to her?”

“Maybe” I said in a harsh voice

“C’mon” he insisted

“You know what, forget it I’m not going” I said

“What?”

“I’m not going”

“But you need to have fun with people of your age, what are you going to do in the house in a Friday night”

“Mmh… I’ve got homework to do, I might as well start”

“You’ve got the rest of the weekend for that”

“I’ve got lots” I insisted “don’t worry I’ll stay in tomorrow, I won’t get bored” after a few minutes of joyful silence for me, uncomfortable for him, he started talking.

“I don’t think you should just stay home the whole weekend”

“Me neither but that’s exactly what I’ll do”

“Ok, ok I’ll tell her for you” he said

“There’s no need” I insisted

“I said I will”

“Ok” I finally agreed, reverse psychology, I love it. I still wanted to ask him about what Brook said and I didn’t know how to start, but the sentence they are pretty much dead came to my mind and I wanted to know.

“Jeremy?”

“Yes?”

“Can I ask you a question?”

“Sure”

“How big is your family” I said with a bit of hesitation

“Why do you keep saying your family, like your house? Is YOUR family and YOUR house too”

“Well yeah whatever” he looked at me like in defeat and after a sec he continued

 “Is just the three of us.”

“But before I came, was it just the two of you?”

“No. We were lots, we had a huge family here in Zoneville, Cousins, uncles, sister” she said the last word in a sad tone

“Where are they now?” I said I knew what he was going to say but I wanted a confirmation, his expression was suddenly filled with pain, I looked at him waiting for his answer, answer that never came after a while.

“Well Gabrielle *sigh* accidents do happen and when you are in a place filled with animals…people die” people die…but just our family? How is that fair?

“Where they all attacked by animals?” he looked at me with surprise and thoughtful

“Where is this coming from?”

“What?”

“All this questions. Why are you asking about our family so suddenly?”

Busted!! I thought and I answered quickly “curiosity”

“Careful, curiosity killed the cat”

“Meaning?”

“*Sigh* Gabrielle…just leave the dead dead and don’t ask questions, is hard to not revive the pain whenever you ask about it”

“Sure, sorry” and that was all we talked about in the truck.

Once in my room, I couldn’t stop thinking about all the things that had happen today. Let’s recap: Jenny’s weirdness, the girls in the toilet talking about Elizabeth, my discovery of the family’s dead secret, then there’s the mystery guy, the nice guy and let’s not forget about the déjà vu. Déjà vu… Déjà vu…and then I remembered, isn’t it the same house of my dream? I remember that I wanted the house, and somebody was seating beside me but who was him? I couldn’t remember his face. But it couldn’t be just a dream, it felt so real, I’ve had to seen it somewhere else. And then I stopped my foolishness, why was I thinking about seeing it before, when I’m on the side of science. That’s just an error of my brain and that’s it so stop it now.

I had my shower and changed into new clothes. I needed to call my girls, so for the first time I switched on the computer on my desk and connected to the internet, hopefully they both would be connected and we could talk. I waited impatiently for the green light to appear and yes!! They were so I rang them, a video call.

“Hey Gabrielle at last” said Miranda

“How are you honey?” said Zoe

“Hi girls, I’m fine how are you?” they both said at the same time “we miss you”

“Yeah I miss you too, you can’t imagine how much”

“How are things going over there?” said Miranda

“Tell us about your mum” said Zoe “she’s not my mum” I said “well, you know what I meant, is she being bitchy with you?” said Zoe “why would she be bitchy?” said Miranda “I don’t know” said Zoe “no, she’s not” I said and continued “we don’t see each other much, thank god and when we are in the house I avoid her as much as possible” I could see Miranda thoughtful “well done” said Zoe “no, that’s not good” said Miranda and continued “if you don’t talk to her you will never know what were the reasons she had to leave you” “abandon her” corrected Zoe “whatever you want to call it” said Miranda “girls I didn’t call to talk about her” I said making sad faces to the screen “what’s wrong honey?” said Zoe “have you made any friends yet?” said Miranda dubiously “Miranda you too?” I said “What?” she replied and continued “we know you Gabrielle, you are not what we could call a friendly girl, if we wouldn’t have grown up together, I don’t know if we would have been friends” “yo! Missy what are you saying of course we would have” said Zoe “for your information I have two girlfriends and a possible male friend, he’s the captain of the basketball team” “is he cute?” asked Zoe “mmh yeah” “what do you mean mmh yeah, is he cute or not” insisted Zoe “he is, all right?” after a few seconds “What’s wrong?” said Miranda and continued “you’ve always been like an opened book to me Gabrielle, so tell us, I can see that something is bothering you”  I sighed “my day has just been a bit weird” “start from the beginning” said Miranda “well…one of the girls I hang out with has been acting a bit weird after reading my hand and then” “wait, reading your hand?” said Zoe and continued “what kind of people are you hanging out with?” “Let her finish” said Miranda, I really need Miranda with me. Whenever she talks to me is like having all my thoughts put together in order, coherent and fluent like a road without potholes.

“Well, like I was saying, she’s been acting weird after that, and then I found out that Elizabeth’s family, well my family have been dying kind of one by one from animal attacks which freaks me out and then there’s this guy” “wait a minute, a guy? Is he cute?” said Zoe, I looked at her hopeless “have you been listening to what I’ve been saying or you were just waiting for a romantic story to come up?” “I was hoping that, yes, but I listened about the family thing too, pretty spooky, so what’s with the guy?” “You are impossible” said Miranda “I’m not going to apologise girls, you know how I am and you know you love me” said Zoe. “Dinner’s ready!!!!” said Jeremy, “that’s mu cue girls; I have to get going” “who’s that?” asked Zoe “is my uncle Jeremy” “is he hot?” Zoe continued “Ew Zoe is my uncle!” “But you sure can tell…” “Bye Zoe” I cut her off “call us soon Gabrielle” said Miranda “I’ll try” “don’t try, do it” Miranda said “yes mum” We said good bye to each other and I switched off the computer, then while stepping out of the room I got a call from Brook.

“Hey Brook, what’s up?”

“Just confirming that you are going tomorrow to the Zet zone”

“Yeah I’m going don’t worry, I told my uncle already”

“Ok, and don’t worry about your transport either, I’ll take you home when we are done so tell you uncle not to pick you up after school, we can go to my house with Jenny and then go together”

“Sure, that’s a good idea. Have you spoken with Jenny?”

“No, I’ll check on her later” “GABRIELLE!! Jeremy called me.

“I have to go dinner’s ready, see you tomorrow”

“Ok, bye” I hung up and got downstairs. We had pasta tonight with salad. It was again a quiet dinner till Jeremy started talking, I was about to tune him out when he started talking about the Zet zone, hold on, is he going to tell her with me in here? What was he doing down here, he could’ve told her before me getting down or after me going up!!

“Eli, I was talking to Gabrielle and…she wants to tell you something” my mouth was hanging open, I couldn’t believe what he just did, Elizabeth turn to look at me and I looked at him with rage, I just talked to Brook and told her that I’d go I couldn’t back up now, I hate you Jeremy you will regret this I thought then I turned to Elizabeth and said.

“Tomorrow I’m going with friends to the Zet zone” and started eating again cause otherwise I would have thrown him my glass of soda.

“At what time would you be back?” she said. Right it wasn’t enough, now she wants the details too, any excuse to make me talk, seriously Jeremy you will regret this I kept thinking.

“I don’t know, when we are done”

“You better be here before eleven” she said making me tighten my jaw, is she really going to play this on me now? I just stopped eating leaving my fork fall into the plate.

“I’m done can I leave now?”

“Sure” said Jeremy with a cheeky smile. I stood up and stormed through the stairs and into my room.

It’s been a crazy day and this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I wanted to cry, I wanted to cry badly and rip his head off. But I went to bed instead thinking that tomorrow will be another day. A different day, it has to be.

To be continued                                                          

 

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