Nature Bells

4

      "Mae open up." I said knocking on her door.
     "Who is it?" She screamed.
     "Its me."
     "I'm sorry, but I don't know anybody that goes with the name ' me'." She said
     "Please open up, we need to talk." I said still knocking.
     "Name please?"
     "Urgh......Jasmine Guinivere Walter, now open the fucking door." I said banging on her door.
     "I'm coming your highness." She said sarcastically which earned and eyeroll from me.
      I heard the door unlock and saw Mae wearing a robe, her hair rolled open and wearing a face mask.
      "Since when did you start body treatments?" I asked her pushing past her and sitting on her sofa.
      "Since I realized I'm going to get married!" She said. Now that's a shocker.
      "What do you mean 'I'm going to get married'?" I asked her as my eyes followed Mae till she sat opposite me.
      "Well Keith proposed and I said YES." She said raising her ring finger to show me one of the most dazzling rings I've ever seen.
     "Wow, this is amazing. When did he propose?" I asked taking her finger in my palm and admiring it.
     "We went on a date yesterday."
     "Hold on, why didn't you tell me you were going on a date with Keith." I said looking hurt.
     "It was an impromptu date and besides I assumed you were tired after the stressful day at the competition and stuff." She said still blushing over the ring, obviously reliving the date she had with Keith.
     "Honey darling......go do something about that mask, its getting dried." I said.
     "Oh, I'll be right back." She said immediately pulling her hands off mine and running off.
     I was left alone in her sitting room. I picked up my phone and decided to scroll through my contact list and landed on a name I vowed never to talk to again

        "BILLY WALTER"

     Yup, He's my elder brother. I didn't have the best time growing up with him. Every time we were together, I always ended up being traumatized, although my parents never found out about any of the stuffs Billy put me through. They always thought that Billy and I were role models for siblings everywhere, every one did. Because we came from a rich background didn't mean it was safe. That was what I was trying to say, trying to tell someone, anyone who was ready to listen but I couldn't because apparently Billy spread a rumor that sometimes I might just make up ideas. He also said it was a medical disorder, like who does that to their younger sister? I was angry, my parents were more than mad but when Billy produced a faux medical report and prescription he became a hero who was looking after his disordered sister.
       That bastard literally became a god and I was the source of it all. Always telling people I had one thing or the other and they all believed. Who wouldn't believe Billy? I even started believing for a moment that I was not normal.
      Weird things started happening to me. Any thing I touched would float and I heard strange sounds. Anybody I told would always look at me with pity and said the phrase I learnt ti despise.
     "Don't worry, Miss Guinivere, everything would be alright."
      It would end up with them patting my head and walking away. I later found out that Billy was behind it all because I noticed that strings were attached to most of the furniture in the house and guess what; they all lead to Billy's room. He went out with some friends of his and that gave me the opportunity to check his room.
      In his dressing room, there was a machine of some sorts and I later discovered that it was the machine that made the strings to pull back the furniture hence making them float.
    When my parents later arrived, by then Billy was back. I told my parents about the machine and I felt the best joy in my life.
    "Williams J. Walter...." Yup, whenever mother calls us with our full names we knew it meant trouble.
    "Why did you do this? You have such an amazing contraption and you decided to hide it and use it on your disordered sister. If we can give your idea to an engineer, it will sky rocket us and help so many people with lifting heavy objects. I'm so proud of you William." She said giving him a kiss on the forehead.
     Well, I kinda knew it was coming. Who wouldn't love Billy. I was definitely cast into the shadows and Billy thrived with his stupid contraption. While I was still in high school, he was earning approximately twenty dollars a day, he became instantly rich, not that he wasn't before. Anyways, I was starting to fade from people's memories as my brother was the only thing on their minds.
      I eventually ran away from home. What made me to finally decide to do so was a conversation I heard between my former best friends Bailey and Paige.
     We were in school. I was a cheerleader and they weren't. I was coming from practice when I over heard their conversation.
     "Do you know Billy and Lisa broke up?" Paige said.
     "Yeah. Now we have a shot with Billy." Bailey said.
     "But what about Guin, you know she hates Billy's gut." Paige said.
     "We can't keep on sticking around her if we want to be with Billy. Besides she's disordered, it would be better for us, you know, to talk to normal people for a change." Bailey said.
      "But Guin told us it was just a silly rumor Billy spread."
      "She can tell that to the drugs found in her locker." Bailey said.
      "You know it was Steven who put that in her locker. Why are you being so cruel." Paige said.
      "Oh stop it Paige, you know better than I do that Guin has dragged us to the bottom line of popularity. We need to cut loose from her or it will be too late." Bailey said.
      "I guess you're right. How long do we have to keep on pretending?" Paige said.
      "Not long enough now. Let's go to class, Guin will meet us there." Bailey said.
      After that conversation, I ran away from school, from home to any place I knew they could never find me. My dream country was France so I cancelled that off my list. With the little money I had, I flew to North Woods. I found a job at a coffee shop and with my pay I enrolled into North Woods College, were I met Mae and ever since then we've been best friends.
     "I'm back." Mae said entering the living room without the face mask.
     "That face mask is working wonders on your face." I said.
     "Stop flattering me, besides you know I can never be as cute as you." She said sitting down.
     "I know."
     "So now that you know about the wedding, will you be my maid of honour?" She asked.
     "I don't know, when is the date?"
     "We haven't decided yet..... Come on Jazz, we made a promise that we will be our maids of honour." Mae said.
     "Well, I think I'll be leaving town soon." I said.
     "Please, if your'e not there, I will feel so out of place." Mae said as tears gathered her eyes.
     "Ok fine, I'll be your maid of honour. Will you stop crying now, why do even have the idea that I won't be there. I'll never forget that promise." I said wiping her tears that were already falling.
     "Thank goodness, you got me there for a minute. Don't ever do that again." She said hitting me.
     "I won't, I promise" I said.
     After some minutes of trying to calm her down, which was futile, I burst into laughter.
     "What's so funny?"
     "I never knew you were in love with me. I feel......."
     "Don't feel like anything. I just had to do something for you to agree." She said wiping away her tears.
     "You tricked me. Well then, I think I'll be traveling very soon and maybe I'll be back when I hear you're about to give birth." I said still laughing.
      "Oh my gosh.....I'm going to have sex." She said after being silent for some time.
      "Are you just realizing that? How on earth did you think you'll make babies?" I said.
     "Keith and I haven't really talked about sex and making babies."
     "I have a very sensitive question."
     "Ask away."
     "Have you had sex with Keith?"
     "Well......"
     "Amanda Manchester"
     "Fine, I haven't had sex with Keith. I'm not sure I've had sex with any one before."
     "Soo....you are a virgin. I thought you said you fucked a guy named Noah when you were in high school."
     "I just said that to sound cool....Ok, you looked like a dweeb when I first met you in college and I thought if I say I have had sex, you'll think I'm cool."
     "Well, I didn't think you were cool, I just thought you were stupid."
     "Hey."
     "Allow me to finish. But now that you've told me the truth I respect you. I guess you really are cool."
     "You think."
     "Yeah."
     "Thank you so much." She said hugging me.
     "Now let's talk about you, me time is over." She said pushing me away and looking me in the eye, dead serious.
     "Ok, throw your questions at me. I'm ready."
     "Job?"
     "Yes, I guess so. I just got a job at the new news center that just came up as a journalists."
    "Good. Financial stability?"
    "Well with the money I just won't from the competition and with my pay from new job, I think I can do very well on my own." I said
     "Boys?"
     "Nope."
     "Unwanted child?"
     "If I can do that without a boy, then that is not a problem." I said emphasizing on the " that".
     "A cat?".
     "Allergic."
     "Dog?"
     "I have dog-o-phobia, that's if that is a real word. But I'm sure you understand what I'm saying."
     "Bird?"
     "Will most likely kill it."
     "Social media?"
     "Doesn't intrigue me."
     "Well according to what I gathered, you can do very well on your own for the next eternity but your life is dead boring." She said.
     "Hey, it isn't. I just bought a new companion." I said.
     "And what's that."
     "A flower."
     "A flower?"
     "Yeah. A cute and unique set of harebells that I got three weeks ago."
     "Ok.....so can it talk?"
     "Noooo. But at least it listens to whatever I say and support whatever I do."
     "It can't oppose what you tell it because it has no mouth to talk. And here I am thinking I'm the one running crazy."
     "Hey, even if it did have a mouth it will still support whatever I say."
    "It won't.....Ok, let's become more realistic."
    "I'm as realistic as it can get."
    "Noo.. I mean boys. Isn't there a boy you want to at least just sit and talk to"
    "Nope, I think I have a strong dislike for boys."
    "You fear them?"
    "No, not at all,I just feel there's nothing interesting about them."
    "Ok, sooo....let's approach it this way. Name all the boys you have on your contact list." Mae said.
     "Ummm...Ok I guess. Billy."
     "Who's Billy?".
     "My annoying brother I don't like speaking of."
     "Oh skip."
     "Gregory."
     "Who's Gregory?"
     " He's just some weird dude I met back at college."
     "How weird?"
     "Stalker weird." I said recalling the day that I found out that he stalked me.
     "Skip."
     "Blake."
     "Skip."
     "Your uncle Justin."
     "Funny but skip."
     "Are you sure you wanna do this, the rest are pretty weird." I said.
     "I'll be the judge of that." She said grabbing my phone and looking at my contact list.
     "I think I've found him." She said staring at my phone.
     "I hope its good." I said fingers crossed.
     "Trevor."
     "And here I thought I'm the insane one." I said feigning hurt.
     "Look, we are best friends and that's why I'm choosing Trevor for you. Only I know what's best for you." She said
     "Well, my best friend is gone and I think I should start going too." I said getting ready to leave.
     "Oh sit down. You can't live forever with just your flowers. You need a man Jazz and that man is"
     " definitely not Trevor. Come on Mae, yoe know what Trevor did to me and now you're telling me to go out with him?" I said interrupting her.
     "No, not go out with him. Just give him a chance, maybe you'll get to know the other side of him."
     "Well I'm not complaining,I'm perfectly fine with this side, I feel if I get to know more I'll be doomed." I said.
     "I'm just saying."
     "Well I'm happy for your concern." I said standing up.
     "Just know I love you and care about you to much." Mae said
     "Yeah you do."

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