Trust The Traitor

◇7.FRIENDS FOREVER?◇

Ryan's POV

I sat at the lake thinking about the day . I had never fought with Brady in these years . In fact I had rarely fought with anyone .
I feel useless today .

I am so lucky that I got accepted in this group even after being such an outcast in my previous years.

But I guess this comes with my family as my parents were friends with these people's parents.

I feel really terrible after having an argument with my best friend .

I recall the moment as I watched the clear blue sky.

"What is your problem Ryan? Why don't you sit for a while and tell me where were you all this time ?" Said Brady .

"What is your problem man ? I am telling you now the 100th time I have been just roaming around ." I said with exasperation.

"See Ryan I know you . Okay ? " you are hiding something from me." Said Brady sternly .

"For God's sake Brady stop being like you know everything about me . We are not kids anymore . I have my own life ...just let me live . Stop being a leech !" I said without thinking .

"What ? A leech ?" Brady questioned thinking about the relevance here.

"Yeah a leech ! Who sticks to you and keeps sucking your blood." I replied rudely .

"Oh jesus! Why can't you just tell me where were you ? We are best friends man ! " Brady said with frustration.

"Yeah but you are acting like my mom ! It's my choice , I can go wherever I want to ! " I replied

"Just go to hell !" Brady said as he stomped away .

I felt a soft ball moving near my feet bringing me back to the lake from my flashback.

I glanced down to look at a white furry cat ." Meow " the cat purred .

"Hey buddy ! I am Ryan and you are?" I touched the cat gently.

"meow ,meow" the cat jumped on my lap for comfort as it's big bell on the neck chimed.

I recognized the cat as Giselle's I saw the pink bell.

I realised how long it was that I hadn't met any of my friends .

When we were younger we used to visit Katherine's home for evening snacks , sometimes for weekend movies. I was never close friends with any one of them but I enjoyed their company .

For now I had all of them but I was not sure to tell anything to them .

"Yeah I met a girl some days before , she was very familiar yet I couldn't recall where I had met her before ."

"She had green eyes with short blonde pixy haircut . I saw her behind the backside wall of the school when I was on ground . That's the reason I went on the ground every time I got a chance . But she had appeared only twice . "

"There was some mystery in her eyes . I wanted to find her . And yesterday I had also followed her when I bunked but she dissapeared somewhere behind the trees ."

"This was the reason I didn't tell anyone about this or else everyone would have bombarded me with their opinions. "

"Brady would have gone to the next level. He would have given me a four hours lecture for following a girl ."

"He would have made me regret my actions but that's the thing, I want to find who the girl is ...and I don't want to regret about it ."

As I thought these things loudly I regretted saying it but after moving my eyes all around and finding no one except this white balled up soul on my lap I took a relieved breath .

"Hey ! Don't tell my secret to anyone okay ?" I said to Joe the cat as I picked it up and walked towards Giselle's home.

I heared Giselle's cry from her garden.

"No mom ! I'll eat nothing until I find Joe." she said crying louder.

"Hey Giselle! Here's your little cat ! " I said surprising her.

She leapt forward and grabbed her cat from my hand ... and kept kissing it.

I watched her in disgust . I was not so touchy with animals .

"Where did you find Joe?" asked Giselle after few minutes of reunion with her kitty .

" umm near the lake ...and before you ask me what I was doing there ? I was just roaming and went there for peace ." I said

"Peace ? From when did you need peace for yourself ? " she asked laughing .

I opened my mouth for saying something but nothing came out as a good reason so I closed it.

Also it was difficult to tell a lie to Giselle ,she caught it easily . Not that I had lied to her but I had heard that she was swift to catch lies .

"Hello Ryan! Thankyou for stopping Giselle from yelling . Anyways you can have a supper with us today." said Giselle's mom from behind her .

"Some other time Mrs. Glick ! And thankyou ." I replied with a smile.

But Giselle came running towards me as I attempted to leave and hugged me suddenly.
I was shocked by her gesture.
As far as I know her she never was this close to me . In fact she always made fun about my behaviour of not studying properly .

I knew her from the start she
was a bookworm that too a mean one.

She made friends who were intelligent and got good Marks. It didn't surprise me when she made friends with Rose.

It was hard to tell what was she thinking now but before I could hug her back she pulled away from me.

"Thankyou so much Ryan I had never thought of losing Joe. Joe is very close to me. How can I umm..." tears formed in her eyes before completion of her sentence .

"Giselle? Are you okay ? " I asked with a terror that she might start the same loud cry again .

"It's just that Joe was gifted to me by Johny and ...I can't umm ...thankyou so much Ryan. This means a lot to me ." She said genuinely.

Tears were coming up in my eyes too now hearing her mention Johny .

"Stop saying thankyou and just come here ." I hugged her this time, she hugged me back and handled herself before crying and messing up.

I was overwhelmed by the love she had for her brother Johnny and his gift .

I started walking and didn't realise that the tears stuck in my eyes were now coming down my cheeks . I quickly wiped them .

Crk crk ...suddenly I heard some squeaky footsteps approaching me and getting louder as I increased my pace.