The Game

Chapter 38- I am free

Tori

I have been calling K.C nonstop since yesterday . He hasn't returned any of my phonecalls, I guess he still needs to progress the whole Serena thing. He hasn't come to school either. Or not yet at least. It's 12 already, I don't think he will come. Serena isn't here either. She locked herself in her room all day- I think they got into a fight.

"I totally understand why she hasn't showed up, I mean- god she should be so ashamed of herself. If I was her, I would never  show my face on this school again." Omar says and shakes his head in disapproval. "Well, I don't really care about her, she can stay away forever, it's K.C I am worried about. He hasn't returned any of my calls."

"Just give him some time, he just found out yesterday, he's still mad about I guess." Omar says. I don't understand- I know that he's mad, but he's been mad for a whole day, shouldn't he be happy by now? She's not pregnant.

"Tori, he's here." Omar says and I follow his eyes to the entrance to the cafeteria. And sure enough, K.C just walked in. I quickly get up and walk over to him. He smiles when he sees me, and when I am close enough, he embraces me. It's one of those tight and long hugs. Or not that long, he lets go and takes my hand, and we walk out of the cafeteria to a quiet place with only us.

"Where the hell have you been, why weren't you answering my texts!" I say the moment I look at him again. He doesn't say anything, but pulls me in for a hug again.     

"I'm sorry, I just needed to be alone." He says and caresses my hair.

"Did you talk to her?" I ask after while. He lets go of me and leans against the wall.

"Sorry, can't help being curious.." I say and shrug. He just smiles.

"Yes I did."

"And?" I ask curious.

"And what?" He says. He clearly doesn't want to talk about it.

"Nothing, it's okay if you don't want to talk about it. I should stop prying in everything." I say.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, nothing special happened. I saw her, we fought and that's it." he says like it's nothing.

"It must have been one hell of a fight then, huh?" I say trying to joke, but feel a little disappointed that he won't tell me what happened in details. He just chuckles, but doesn't say anything. He isn't happy at all right now. He is smiling, but he is not fooling me.

"What's wrong, K.C?" He just looks straight ahead, exhales sharply then shake his head.

"I turned down the offer I got. All because of that..." bitch is the right word, but he doesn't say that. "I will never get that offer again, Tori." He says and looks down. I slide the back of my fingers on his arm, trying to comfort him.

"It's okay, K.C. I am sure you are going to get something better." I say. I really suck at comforting people. I don't really know what to say..

"Screw that. How are you?" He asks after a while. "I'm good.. I'm just glad it's over, you know?" He just nods and smiles. I wonder if this means that we are going to continue where we left off.

"I know this is probably the worst time to ask but... where does this leave us?"I ask.

"In my bed hopefully." He jokes and starts laughing. That's my K.C.

I hit him in the arm and he starts laughing more. I missed hearing him laugh, he has been so stressed these days. I can't help but to wrap my arms around him again. It's been way too long that we have had a conversation where we didn't have to worry about anything.  I move my head a little so that I can look him in the eye, still with my arms wrapped around his neck, but he is looking behind me, I turn my head to see what caught his attention.