“Party at my place tomorrow! I’ll be glad if you come! The whole school will be coming! Be there! :) -Sadie <3”
Okay seriously, what the hell? Why was Sadie throwing a party? And why would she invite ME out of all people? This was weird.
“Goin for Sadie’s party tmrw? –Blake.”
“Yeah maybe. Are you?” – I replied.
“Yes I wil if your in.” He replied.
“*you’re :P and yeah I’m in :)” I replied.
He just texted back with a :)”
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“Get your ass move faster, we are getting late!” I shouted.
“Coming!” replied Alisha.
I hated being late. And I hated to dress up too, one of the reasons why I got ready before time. As I was waiting for Alisha to come, the doorbell rang. It was Rob. It was really awkward to see him after that incident. I faked a smile and went away calling for Alisha. The funny thing was, Alisha came as soon as I told her that Rob was here.
“Hi, baby!” She said, running up to him and kissing him.
I looked away. I just couldn’t stand them.
“Can we please leave?” I asked, irritated.
“We? Are you kidding me, babe? It’s only me and Rob.” Alisha said, looking at Rob and kissing him again.
I clenched my fist and walked fast towards the door.
“Hey, wait. Come along with us!” Rob said.
I stopped. Turned and just told him “no thanks” and went away.
Alisha made me sick. First, she made me wait for half an hour and now she was going with Rob. Great. All I wanted.
Anyway, I reached Sadie’s place. Her house was decorated with balloons and streamers. Oh god, it was her birthday! But, who has balloons and streamers decorated? I asked myself, rolling my eyes.
I parked my car and got out. I did not even have a gift. I couldn’t care less about it. I went inside. Sadie was at the door, hugging and welcoming everyone to her party.
She hugged me too. I don’t know why, I just had negative feelings about this whole thing. Sadie inviting me to her party, behaving so sweetly, not her. I went inside and sat, analizing everyone carefully. Half of them were drunk, and it was a little suffocating. I pretended to text to remove the awkwardness.
“Hey.” Someone said, sitting beside me.
“Oh hi!” I said, smiling to Blake.
“Dance?” he asked.
“No thanks, not really in the mood too.” I said.
“Okay then.” He said and we were just looking everywhere.
Things were going smoothly unless Sadie got the mike.
“ Helloooo people! I’m so glad that all of you are here! You guys just made my day!” she said, half drooling. She was drunk.
“Wooooooooooooo.” Was the crowd’s response.
“So on this special day, I would like to show you guys something very special, so here it is!” She screamed, very excited.
She switched on the projector. I was wondering what it could have been. The projector switched on. The first image that it showed was of me and Rob. It was a picture that was clicked two years back, when we were best friends. Then it said “best friends for four years”. It was a video. Dam it. Me and Rob looked at each other, both equally confused. And Alisha looking at Rob and Blake looking at me, with raised eyebrows. Then it changed to, “they were always together, everyone thought that they will be a great couple but..”. This wasn’t happening, it’s all a dream. I tried to convince myself. Then, it showed, “just when things were getting perfect, a bitch enters,” the entire crowd was staring at me and Alisha simultaneously. I felt like a wreck. Then, it changed to, “the ironic part was, she was Sam’s own sisterrr! :D” there, it started showing pictures of me and Alisha.
Then, “Alisha and Rob started dating, but were they actually dating or…?” then it changed to a picture of me and Rob kissing. Oh wait! It wasn’t a picture! It was a VIDEO! Sadie actually took a video! I clapped my hands on my face when the lights were turned on again. Everyone was dumbstruck. All of them turned to Rob, and then me. Giving us dirty looks. I couldn’t even have the guts to look at Alisha. All I knew was that she had left. One thing was obvious, I was killing Sadie. I could just have lost it at that point of time. Already, a huge scene was created, I didn’t want to give more effect to it by committing a murder.
I was horrified. I was too embarrassed to stand there anymore. I looked at Sadie, she had the smirk and a big smile on her face that showed how much joy she got.
I ran away from there. Ran unless I was out of breath. Someone was calling out my name, I didn’t want to know who it was. All I knew was that I did not want to speak to anyone right now. I just felt guiltier at that point of time. How could I do that? She was my sister! My own sister!
I sat down at the nearest possible place I could find.
“You love him, don’t you?” Blake said. He had found me.
I looked up at him for a second, and then looked away.
“May I sit here?” he asked.
“it’s a free country,” I muttered.
“You know, Sam, you’ll pass this, like you’ve passed everything else. Loving Rob, getting jealous, getting heartbroken, moving on.” He said, sitting beside me.
I stared at him as if he was speaking Greek.
“Okay wait, how on earth do you know so much about this? It was only I who knew all of this,” I said.
He chewed his lips. But then, he just whispered, “Jessica.”
I thought for some time and then remembered, Jessica Sofet, the girl who died last year, because of some car accident. But the point was, how on earth did she get to know?
“What about her?” I asked, confused.
“I was seeing her.” He said, in a little gloomy voice.
“Umm.. sorry but, how did she get to know?” I asked.
“She used to stalk you.” He said, a little embarrassed.
“she used to WHAT?” I asked, hanging my mouth open.
“Umm. Yeah, she was a great “fan” of yours.. she found your diary where you wrote all your secrets,” he said, not looking in my direction.
Oh yes! My diary was missing! I had searched for it in the entire house but could not find it, so I gave up. It had pretty embarrassing stuff written in it, which I wasn’t really proud of.
I held my head in my hands, how could I be so stupid!?
“Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me.” He said, winking.
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“We all do things that we’re later embarrassed for, we all make mistakes, we all love and get hurt. At that point of time we can only say, ‘It’s going to be okay’ when we know very well, that it’s not going to be.”
