The Ugly Bet

Chapter 35 - He's Back

Lyz

I kept strumming my guitar, playing the same song on my bluetooth headset. I'm back to being "emo" as Dustin called me when he caught me here in this rooftop. I actually miss the place, what I've been doing here, alone. I may always be here to have lunch or sneak during vacant but Dustin was always here bugging me. Since him, I was never alone here, until now. Afterall, this is something that I love for it gives me peace, and so much time to think about things with a clear mind.

I was confined three days more after I woke up in the hospital. I was even shocked that I was unconscious for 40 hours, they say, and that I could be dead if not because of Georgia's blood. If I knew what she has done, maybe I wouldn't be able of arguing with her when she talked to me before she left me that dawn.

She wanted me to go back to New York with her or she would have Dustin expelled in our school, of course I won't allow any of that to happen. She was trying to get to me just to have me confess whatever I feel for Dustin, which I am not sure yet.

I don't know what to feel...

I'm still hurt with what he had done, not because I almost died and had to spend almost a week in the hospital which I really hate, but because he broke his promise to me. He left me alone. And I feel that he really likes Ashley, or probably loves her. That alone is enough reason for us to stop the pretense. This game is over.

I hugged my guitar. "I missed you," I whispered. This guitar had been my bestfriend since I moved to Maryland and found my little space here at the rooftop of Cameron Dale. Jack gave me this when I was twelve as a birthday gift, and is the last gift I've received from him. It's been almost a month since I have last played this, and that made me realized that everything has really changed already.

Everything.

And even those changes that happened had evolved too into something even more different.

I leaned back and closed my eyes while listening to Demi Lovato and Paramore. Dustin never returned to the hospital since I dismissed him. Pamy said he was busy helping Ashley and Greg taking charge of the Homecoming Party and the Halloween celebration as well. I asked her if Ashley and Greg are already okay now but she just shrugged her shoulders, still trying to ignore everything about Ashley. It seems the two haven't made up yet.

Besides, I wouldn't be able to help Greg and Ashley anymore. I've done everything I can to take Ashley's interest away from Dustin so she will see Greg instead, but it seems Dustin and Ashley will never detach from each other. If I didn't have the whole gang as my new bestfriends, making myself Dustin Gray's girlfriend would have been a waste of everything.

I looked at my phone and it is already almost 4pm. It's been two weeks since Dustin and I had what couples call "cool off". I don't even know where I got that idea.I know that Dustin and I will just split for real, I should have demanded to end whatever we had. Maybe Pamy was right afterall, that deep inside me, I am still hoping that Dustin and I would be back together.

Oh yeah.. I forgot about Pamy...

I disabled flight mode in my phone and automatically, I had 11 messages receive. I was about to read one when my phone rang. Pamy. "Hey Paye..."

"Where are you! Been looking for you!" she said like I was her child being kidnapped. "Never mind. Can you just go here, in the football stadium? And be fast."

"Okay." I wanted to roll my eyes but I can't. Pamy is too dear to me that I can't even complain even if she sometimes thinks too far from reality. "Be there in five." I kept my guitar in the cabinet and locked it then rushed to the football stadium. There's no one there actually. "Pamy!" I looked around and noticed something in the middle of the field. As I come nearer my heartbeat gets rumbled.