Swapped Love | ✓

■ Jerk

Numbness. Thats what I felt. Also include shock, surprise, anger, disappointment. But mostly anger.

"Trevor?" I whispered, "Trevor Anderson?"

"Alice? Is that you? God! You look so different. I-" Before he could finish, I strode forward and punched his face.

"Aarrghhh!" He held his face and crouched down.

Trevor Anderson. The reason why my sister became a desperate girl from a good girl. The one who broke my sister's heart. The one who left her. The one whom I was gonna kill now.

"How. Dare. You. Come. Here!" I gritted my teeth, giving the best disgusted expression I could muster.

"Alice, I need to talk to you-" He began but I cut him off.

"After two years? Sure. Lets get a cup of coffee and be nostalgic about our previous love life. Get the hell out of here, Trevor," I spoke quietly in case Alice heard the commotion outside. She was inside and I didn't want her to come out and experience her terrible ex-boyfriend.

"No. I need to-"

"Why are you here? Weren't you in Ohio? Why have you returned? Just go back where you came from. And never ever speak to me again," I said harshly.

I was shaking with anger. Trevor was here and it was a bit weird too. He had grown more manly, I would say. He had even grown a stubble but Alice would have a breakdown if she saw him. He had no idea what she went through when he left. It took her a lot of time to move on. He had no right to interfere in her life again.

"Al, I have come back for something and I-"

"Are you deaf or are you pretending? Can't you hear what I am saying? Just go. You are not welcome anymore at my home," I said irritated.

He looked....sad? Depressed, maybe?

"I came here right now to talk to you and saw a guy leaving. So, you are in a relationship," He said, ignoring everything I just said.

Seriously? He was going that route now?

"How does it matter? Whatever I do is none of your business. Get the hell out of here, Anderson. You can't suddenly spring up like a geyser and ask personal questions. If I see you again, I am breaking your bones," I warned.

"But-"

"Leave," I said coldly.

I took the spare key from the potted plant and opened the door without looking back and slammed the door.

Alice had no idea Trevor had returned. I couldn't do that to her. She was moving on, I couldn't pull her back. But then again, not saying would be bad. She had the right to know, but not now. For starters, this guy had to leave.

I peeked through the eyehole and saw him running a hand through his hair before he kicked a stone and walked away, shaking his head. Thank God.

"Hey! How was your date? Why are you peeking outside? What's there?" Alice asked and I jumped and looked back to find her looking at me suspiciously.

"Uh...hum...Jared. I was peeking at him," I said.

"That's creepy, Alli. You look weird. What happened?" She asked, moving forward and standing in front of me with her arms crossed.

"Nothing. Just tired. Its been a long day," I shook my head, "Nothing,"

"No, something is wrong. You guys kissed?" She persisted.

"What!? No!" I shook my head, "No, no, no."

"You sure?" She wiggled her eyebrows and her face turned mischievous again.

"Alice!" I groaned and went up to my room.

"You can't deny forever, Allison!" She shouted from behind me as I closed the door and exhaled.

Lies, lies. More lies and hiding truth. Whats wrong with me? I took a long shower and sat down with my books. I was never such a liar. How come things changed so much within few weeks?

Trevor had returned and was dropped off the face like a bomb. I wonder how he couldn't recognise me.

He was the only one besides our parents and Jared (though wrong names) who could recognise us clearly from the beginning. We could never fool him as he knew our appearances like the back of his hand.

He had been a great guy. He was smart, tall, dark and handsome. He had been the basketball captain and he genuinely took care of Alice and I had never seen her so happy ever. She was on cloud nine with him and I had met him too. He was so polite, so nice and so charismatic.
My parents loved him. I felt he was the best guy for Alice. His parents loved Alice. Until he left without any message. I knew he didn't have any secret disease he was hiding or parents shooing him off.

He was very similar to Jared in this manner. Everything had been fine until that day.

So, how come he still didn't recognise? I had no fake beauty spot anymore.

There could be three reasons:-

1) Alice had changed her looks after he left. So he didn't recognise her as the previous nerdy Alice.

2) It was dark outside so he couldn't see my face properly.

3) Both one and two

I would go for option three.

I really hope Trevor wasn't coming back again. I hoped he would stay from Alice. He was bad news for her. He was the past, Alice had a new future waiting for her. He wouldn't come back again.

But boy... only time was going to tell how wrong I was.