Teen Romance Fantasy

Act 58 (Ch)

"And you're sure you didn't do anything to Sarah?", Eric questioned me for the millionth time but once again told him that I was not the reason why she was absent all of a sudden.

"I know this conversation is important and all but we're throwing the game right now. How about you concentrate a little more on the game?", Kadir suddenly snapped at Eric and me.

This whole conversation was already awful enough without us being in the middle of a game in Seeker. When Eric invited me to the group call, I expected everything to be the same as always but I was instantly confronted with the fact that Sarah had been absent from school for a few days now. This happened quite often actually but usually the school would be informed. This time however this wasn't the case.

"Anyways, je pense que Christian surely came too short when she visited him."

"Anthony!", Eric began shouting.

"What? What else could be the reason?"

"Maybe she's just sick??? Have you thought of that?"

"Mon dieu, first Siren disappeared and now the freak aussi. I bet Tyson is-"

Silence. Anthony hadn't gotten over what happened between him and Tyson. Furthermore, they were both too stubborn to apologise. I honestly felt bad for Anthony. We were all friends with Tyson but Anthony and Tyson shared a special bond. Since the day they met, they were never actually separated from each other like this.

"Maybe it wasn't something Christian did but rather something he said.", Kadir interrupted the silence between us all of a sudden.

I sighed. I neither said nor did anything to Sarah or at least nothing she didn't like I guess. I apologised to her after the kiss and told her that I saw this on TV and... I don't know... I just felt like kissing her. She wasn't mad or anything. She was just a little flustered because she didn't expect me to kiss her. Besides, she even admitted that she kind of liked it which was good because I absolutely loved it.

"Okay, maybe I did do something with Sarah but it was nothing she didn't like."

"Voilà, he got her pregnant."

"No I didn't Anthony! I just kissed her, okay? Nothing else."

"Hold on a second. You kissed her?", Kadir asked slightly unsettled, even though we just won the game.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Nothing. I just didn't expect this. I thought you weren't really the type of guy that likes physical contact."

For a second I let his words sink in. Physical contact. It really was weird. Kadir was right. I wasn't actually interested in physical contact or love at all but here I was, dating Sarah Archer and even kissing her.

"Let's change the topic. Leon is going to join our call in a second.", Eric suddenly interrupted my thought process and quite literally after a second Leon joined us. He wondered why we were all staying quiet but luckily nobody felt like telling him what was actually going on and Leon didn't even ask any further to begin with.

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After our gaming session I felt awkward. I kept staring at my phone next to my monitor and couldn't decide what I should be doing. I reached for it but chose not to pick it up at the last second. Why was I like this? I couldn't even call my own girlfriend to make sure that she was doing alright. I kept bumping my fist on the table, expecting it to have some magical effect but nothing ever happened. As I leaned back into my seat, my eyes wandered to my bed. This was where we had our very first kiss. It sounded so surreal and yet I had butterflies every time I thought about it. I couldn't help but smile.

Anyways, just sitting around wouldn't solve anything. Despite feeling uncertain about what I should be doing, I picked up my phone, dialled Sarah's number and sat down on my bed, waiting for her to pick up. My hands were trembling as I expected to hear her cold voice after every ring but she never picked up. Eventually I gave up. She wasn't picking up. Perhaps she was already asleep. It was quite late after all. Just because Siren started streaming a minute ago, didn't mean everyone else would be awake.

Something must have been going around lately. Siren was really quiet. She did everything Sam asked of her and never asked any questions. The others seemed a little concerned about this. Oz was the first one to say that he couldn't take this anymore and ended his stream. Both Samira and Otis followed soon after. Sam made a last attempt at reminding the audience to do their best on the junior tournament before eventually ending the stream.

Now there was only Siren. She didn't say anything. She didn't do anything. Her mask kept looking emotionlessly at the camera. This continued for an entire minute until eventually she slammed her face on the table and began sobbing. Countless time she repeated the words I'm sorry which made her voice changer run havoc. It was an awful sound. So much so that I had to pull of my headset in an instance because otherwise my ears would have exploded.

I had no idea what was going on and seemingly no one did. She had been acting like this for a while. Something happened to her. Knowing Tyson, he probably had somehow managed to find all the details on what could have been wrong with her but I was obviously not going to ask him. Besides I was busy enough with my own girlfriend who didn't even call me back the next day.

Even the following days Sarah didn't make it to school. Maybe I should have tried to call her again but honestly I was just too lazy. I told myself that it could have been that she was just mad at me. Why else wouldn't she at least message me?

You don't have to say it. I know that my self esteem was rather low. It didn't help that right after school my sister May ran into my room without knocking and sat down right next to my with a serious expression on her face.

"What did you do to your girlfriend?!"

"Why is everyone asking me this?! I didn't do anything to her."

"Oh really? Than I bet you're aware that she's been secretly meeting up with your friend at school."

"Hold on a second. What exactly are you talking about?"

The moment May began nibbling on her lower lip, I realised that she was not taking about Eric. Secretly meeting up sounded like something Anthony would do. He probably forgot about social norms again and went up to her how she felt about the kiss.

"As if I'm talking about Anthony. I'm talking about the one that always beats you at everything."

"You mean Tyson."

"Yeah, whatever. Fact is, I think he tried to make a move on your girl today. I saw them behind the basketball court and they seemed to be talking about something important."

"Okay? He acted like a dick around her a while back. He was probably just apologising.", I stated nonchalantly while in truth my heart bursted into a million tiny, sharp, fucking pieces. A dark thought lingered in the depths of my mind.

Was that what you call jealousy?