One Out of Two!!

40. Brothers

A weekend passed away making me the most miserable self in the world. Today I had to go back to school, close to reality. Dina picked me up at school and today Peter appeared at school.

I waited for him all this week but when I saw him in the crowd of our school, I looked away. I couldn't encounter him, something is stirring inside my gut. I stood at the lockers, I glimpsed at his face through my lashes. He carried himself with a placid expression and didn't bother to look at me.

I know that he knew that I'm standing there but he walked away. Soo, it was proof that he didn't want to talk with me or face me. I wandered into our classroom, sadly we share every class.

Throughout the classes, he avoided me like he didn't know me like I was a stranger to him. I hate his behaviour, his ignorance like the fault was s mine.

At lunchtime, he was nowhere to be found. It must be true? He must be back with Betty and probably she had insisted him to stay away from me. I expected to talk with him, I want to know what's actually happening but his face is too intimidating to approach.

So I took a step back.

What made him be soo angry with me? What mistake did I make him not even look at me? This is too much for me.

Dina dropped me back home, I stayed in my room crumbling with my grief and anger. But still, something made me stare at my phone, lingering for a text that never came up. I didn't know when I drifted to sleep but I woke in the middle of the night. I heard a car and hopped out of my bed hoping it would be Peter. But... It was Robert, I sighed. I stared blankly at him lost in my thoughts and he looked up at my window like he heard something that I never said. I hesitantly smiled at him and he stared at me blankly. He signalled me to come down and shook my head rejecting. "Come on." He hissed.

I went down only because I need to improve the air enclosing me. "You didn't sleep yet," Robert murmured looking at me as I stepped towards him.

"I just woke up," I said gazing at the clear sky. "Wanna go out for a ride?" He said to me and I looked at him.

"No, it's okay." I snickered. "What was with you?" I asked him, shivering at the cold breezes.

"Me?" He doubted. "Yeah! Where have you been?" I questioned him. "Just at my playmates' house." He mumbled and tilted over his truck. His face is gleaming even in the night, how it feels to be soo luminous even in the night? I smiled at him.

"Why are you smiling?" He asked and grinned. "Admiring," I mumbled. "Admiring what?" He asked. "This... darkness," I mumbled.

"Anna?"

I heard my dad and looked back with widened eyes. "What are you doing out?" My dad questioned glancing at Robert. I glanced at Robert who's still standing there recklessly lent back on his truck and looked back at my dad. I searched words to answer his question...

"Isn't it cold out there?" My dad asked staring at me. I nodded and without looking back at Robert I walked towards my dad and inside our house. He locked the door and followed me, he didn't say anything, he walked back to their room. I sighed in relief and went back to my room.

*****

Today for the first time I decided to drive to school on my own. I reached our school safely just to watch how Peter ignored me just like yesterday. It kinda hurts but I wouldn't care about it anymore. I went back home after school but Dina called me and asked me to come over to Olivia's place. I really didn't want to go because I may have to come across Peter, which I don't appreciate but she said she wanted to plan for Olivia's birthday and I convinced myself on going there.