16 weeks of torture

chapter 4 [phone]

[James' POV]

Me and Alex were chatting on my bedroom floor, we were catching up with each other and Alex was telling me about the city he lives in now. As he was talking he got cut off by the sound of what seems to be someone calling him on his phone. "oh" he said as he leaned a bit to the side to be able to get his phone out of his back pocket, it was an unknown number he frowned at his phone but shrugged it off and answered the call. He shifted the phone to his ear and said in a completely different tone: "hello?"

The change of tone surprised me a bit but i noticed his frown slowly fading as i heard some muttering from the phone. "Ah, right.. sorry i'll add your contact next time Darius.", I tilted my head to face him and mouthed the words 'who is it?' with a confused look. His eyes shifted to me but he turned his head away and didn't reply.

I sat back as he did this and awkwardly scratched my arm. He stood up not too long after that and moved to the corner of my room and was whispering instead as if he was saying something I am not supposed to know, obviously? 

He ends the call with a smile and hangs up, putting the phone in his back pocket and turning to me "sorry for that", he said back to the tone he talked to me with from the start. "who was it, Alex?", I asked  but he just smiled avoiding the question as he moved closer to me again and sat down.  "So you were gonna tell me about how your school teacher retired, right?", he asked me.

"Oh- uh.. yeah I guess?, I said in a confused tone as I changed my position a bit. "uh.. you know what- I think I could use the bathroom real quick actually." He said as he stood up giving me an awkward smile. As he left I noticed he left his phone on my rug not too far from where i was sitting. I couldn't help but take a glance at his phone, I'm a very nosy person if you didn't know.. .

I looked at  my surroundings and then crawled towards the phone until I heard a familiar voice: "what are you doing?" I quickly turned my head around and pulled my hand away that was going to grab the phone. "oh, m-me? I was just.. getting some dust off my rug..? Can't let my Persian rug get dirty after all.!", I said stuttering a bit. "Ah, right..", he said awkardly as he turns his head away a bit.

At the moment all I could think of is how this guy can possibly piss that fast.. he wasn't even gone for 2 minutes.???

He sat next to me closely. "so uhh.. could you pass me my phone?", he asked and I looked over to his phone hesitating a bit but eventually grabbing it and passing it over to Alex and he gave me that sweet smile again. How could I find him suspicious when he's as sweet as an angel, I mean.. at least that's what it seems like??

He gave me a gentle shoulder push, "What's on your mind?", he asked. I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at him with a nice smile: "nothing..", he shrugs and leans forward and then looks me in the eyes: "we should watch a movie, I'm bored anyways", he said and I smiled nodding, i needed to empty my mind anyways.

I pulled out the tv-remote and got on my bed to be more comfortable and so did Alex. I scrolled on Netflix trough the movies until we reached the horror section. He turned his head to me with a grin and i looked back with a frown "what's that look for..", I asked and he replied with: "We should totally watch a horror movie dude." I'm a REAL SCAREDY-CAT. Ofcourse I wasn't gonna say that out loud so I simply agreed and we settled on terrifier. By his grin i could tell the movie was very scary but I didn't say anything and just played the movie.

I looked away from the movie trying to avoid the horrific scenes while Alex is peacefully watching as if it's a Disney movie. After a while he looked at me and pulled me closer with a laugh: "ur such a scaredy-cat Jamey.." ME?! SCAREDY CAT!?! IS THIS GUY INSANE??? IS HE NOT SEEING WHAT I'M SEEING??????? Before I could talk i was cut off by him pulling me even closer till out shoulders touched, it was as if i felt a spark when the fabric of our shirts touched each other. I relaxed a bit as I tried to follow with the movie.

When the movie ended my disgusted face slowly turns to Alex's calm one before I punched his shoulder. "OWWWW!!! HEY-! WHAT WAS THAT FOR..", he cried out and I just rolled my eyes "Jeez it's not like punched ur arm off.." He huffed and looked away trying to seem annoyed while he was clearly annoyed by my trembling form. "looks like someone was a bit scar-" "SHUT UP THAT MOVIE WAS SO DISGUSTING UR SO SICK FOR CHOOSING THAT I HATE YOU YOU'RE A JERK DIE."

He laughed at my sudden outburst while I had a mad look on my face. "yeah yeah KEEP LAUGHING."
He laughed even more at my comment. If life loved me I would've slapped that smile right off his face and back to the town he came from but I couldn't help but chuckle a bit myself at the sight of him laughing so sweetly.

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