Fate

CHAPTER 4: Boyfriend

"I trusted you. But now your words mean nothing to me because your action spoke the truth."

Song: Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne

  I remember how I and my mum used to be. She'd lecture me on how to be happy and I'd kindly tell her to stop talking on nonsense. She'd always invite guests over and force me to get dressed on fleek. A1. She has always forced me to be someone I wasn't.

   "Are you gonna wait for happiness to knock on your door when you keep shutting it off every single time." She used to lecture me.

   "What am I supposed to do? Go roam in the streets looking for happiness? This ain't a fairy tale, mother." I gave her a dull look. Maybe she cared for me, because what mother wouldn't care for her daughter when she looked that unhappy. The problem though, was different. I was unhappy exactly because of this.

   We've been through this a lot. I refuse to get out of my room and even out of bed. Not having any communication with mankind or anything that connects me with having a life in particular. Cursing for the millionth time now that I didn't make much friends except Hailey. Why does she have to go to her grandma today? She would've been watching Netflix with me right now and we would've been eating ice-cream or drinking a milkshake somewhere out there. But instead, I'll have to handle my mum and her mood swings all day. I wish I can breakaway right now from this place.

   That's kind of my things. I run away, from my problems, my family, from getting heartbroken all the time. Long story short, I run away from everything.

   "No, I didn't say that. What I mean is," She took her sweet time reaching the door knob, "That you have to think about getting out of this cave." And with that, she left.

   I counted under my breath. One, two, three. "Oh, and take a shower because actually my friend is coming." She yelled. Here we go.

   With a huff, I stood up and reached my wardrobe to get some clean clothes and take a hot shower.

   Not for her sake, really, I just happen to stink.

   ...

    I've been staring into space for the past couple of minutes. I groaned before shampooing my hair with my cocoa-scented shampoo.

   After approximately cleaning up for 15 minutes, I started thinking about how stupid I am. Letting the negative energy get to me again, I sighed. Where the hell are you, Hailey?

   I shouldn't be so negative, I reminded myself. I hopped out of the shower, hooking a fluffy (not really) towel around my body.

   Just then that I remembered that I didn't actually get any clothes here. I rolled my eyes at my dumbness.

   A loud knock on the bathroom door snapped me out of my thoughts and made me mentally curse my mum for being so impatient, "Can you get any slower?" I heard her say "My friend is here."

"Just give me a second." I replied lowly and held the towel firmly to my chest and got out of the bathroom. "Well, she's your friend, what does that have to do with me showering." I mumbled under my breath, heading to my room.

   Mid-way through the process of heading quietly to my room (Which by the way, went perfectly smooth in my mind,) I heard a low chuckle which made me stop in tracks.

   "Oh my god." I gasped when I figured out I'm looking straight into the eyes of a blonde, blue-eyed boy who happened to look my age.

   And I'm wearing just a towel.