His Bet

Chapter Twenty Five

The exams flew right away after that day. Red came into my apartment to let me help pack my things, he doesn't need to bring so much because we will be having a vacation on their Grand Ma's house and I'm pretty sure they have stuffs there. Well, because of not being girly I just packed my necessities and a couple of shirts, pants, 3 pair of shoes and shorts for my nights. It's all stuffed on my Traveling bag so I don't need to carry so much bags. We brought my bag together as we drove to school. I also left my auto I don't need to get back just to park it in, Red's giving me a lift anyway.

I was staring at the window the whole drive thinking of how am I going to avoid Green if he's together with us.. With me.. The whole summer. I also don't know how am I going to be with the brothers and especially to their Grandma. Red's been telling stories about her and by his stories I can tell that she's strict and full of rules with her conduct teaching and sure you're gonna be in trouble if you happened to disobey her. For real.

I started to get nervous and panic about it because I don't know if she'll like me or worst not. What if she beat me? Am sure that's not going to be alright, that might even scare me.. Petrified and back away so I could avoid to panic and break down. Not with those people. Keeping it as a secret with Brix is hard how much more if all of them will know about it. It won't be flowers and sunshine for them and for me.

I almost scream when someone touched me and I was out of my thought by that gesture.

"I'm sorry.. You were just zoned out and I've been calling you but you're not hearing me I think." Red apologized having a quick glance at me.

"No.. I'm good." I breathed.

"You know its okay not be okay Acy. You were just like that for a few days. Is there something happened that I don't know?" He is now parking at the lot when he asked me this. And I know he's not letting me slip from this. I don't know how he did it. To know that there is something going on. Or maybe he really know something but he is just waiting for me to spill.

"No.. I'm okay. I was just thinking deep I didn't meant to turn you down Reddy. I'm sorry." I apologized pursing my lips because I swear I'm not comfortable with this conversation. He was about to press further when I told him we are going to be late for our exam if we don't start going.

Letting that topic slip in and getting out of the car I know he's not convinced about what I said. He's Red, a member of the school council of course he's smart. And he know me for three years I can say that he can read my reactions and body language now.

The exam pass through and I don't even remember myself focused on it. I was answering the test questions but am sure I'm out of this world. Before I pass my paper I took a review on my answer and feeling satisfied on it I stood up and did the same thing I'm doing whenever I got finish, signal Red and walk out to the room. After a couple of minutes Red came into view so we head to the parking lot. This is the last day of school for this school year so everyone's busy chit chatting and hugging each other goodbye, some are going out for a closing party. But us Red walk out just like its a normal day.

"We'll stop by our house and we can go now together with the boys." He said smiling at me.

I nodded and return back a small smile.

Red

We are now heading home but Ace is still zoned out. She's been like this for days. And I'm sure Brix has to do something with this. He is the last person Ace with before she became so distant. I mean its never out of her league to be like this but its getting consistently on her system. I know something is wrong. The man will have a word with me later I swear.