More Than A Game

Chapter 28 - Part 1

"Carmen, wait up."

Walking along the rough pavement of the city, Grace and myself spent most of the morning sightseeing some of the most iconic landmarks the city had to offer. Without realising, I could hear somebody calling my name from behind. Turning around, I could feel my heart skip several beats.

The moment I turned around to face who was calling me, Angus was in my sights trying his best to catch up to us, well to me. Melbourne was said to be a rather large city - perhaps larger than my hometown of Adelaide and with the size of the city, unfortunately I still managed to run into a witness of my steamy position with Ollie that night.

Angus soon came to a forced halt and began to open his mouth before pausing and giving Grace a rather flirtatious glance. Several moments later, Angus turned to me and changed his facial expression as he bought his voice down to a gentle tone.

"I'm really sorry that I have to disturb you and your beautiful friend over here, but I really need to speak to you about Ollie."

"What's there to talk about Angus? There's isn't anything between the two of us that is important to discuss, now if you'll excuse us, we have to attend to some important business."

"No Carmen, there IS something we have to talk about between the two of us, in private."

Angus sighed as I looked over at Grace, who looked rather confused. Just as she was about to reply, her phone started buzzing and excused herself to take the phonecall.

"I don't know what to do anymore, it's Ollie. For some reason I've noticed he's been rather silent and honestly, I think it has something to do with you. I know it isn't any of my business but from what I've noticed, you two are obviously in some kind of relationship so really you are the only one I can speak to."

"Angus, we aren't in a relationship. Whatever you saw that night was just an accident, okay? I don't want you or anybody trying to justify a non existent thing between Ollie and myself. Yeah, he might be silent but isn't there some kind of phrase that males go through that makes them moody?"

"Carmen I'm serious - "

"Well I'm serious too. Ollie's probably just missing the high life of footy. I'm not a god damn therapist to help Ollie whenever he becomes upset or feels down. Please just leave, I honestly don't have the energy to deal with anything at the moment Angus."

"I don't understand how you can be so stubborn? It's strange for me to see him in the state his in and right now, you're not helping me. I know Carmen, he's never spoken about anyone as much as his spoken about you before and yet here you are trying to hide what he thought you two had.

Ollie's been like a little brother to me since I've grown up as an only child. It just sucks you know, to see somebody who's rather close to you push you aside. I'm begging you Carmen, if you know anything please tell me."

I gulped as I thought about Angus' words about his sibling like relationship with Ollie. I desperately wanted to help Angus but really, there was nothing I could do. If Ollie had a problem, he knows I'm always a call or text away. I bit my lip nervously and before I could get a word out, Grace slowly made her way towards us.

"I'm sorry I had to go but I really needed to take that phonecall. Is everything okay, is there a problem?" Grace asked concerned, as she slipped her phone into his jean pocket.

"There isn't a problem Grace, Angus was just asking for something, something that I can't help him but he was just on his way, right Angus?" I asked as I stared at him rather angrily. He agreed and said goodbye before slowly making his way towards the opposite direction.