I slumped down on the bedside, waiting for him to say or do something. "Here. I bought you this" he handed me the pouch he had carried. I brought my hand inside of it and seized some of the contents. A hazelnut chocolate bar, a pack of licorice chewing gum and a fashion magazine.
"Thanks a lot" I shyly smiled and placed the items on the commode. What he didn't know was that I detest licorice. I am also allergic to hazelnuts. And frankly, I'm not that into fashion either. I very rarely read fashion magazines, or really magazines at all. Call me boring, but that doesn't change anything. But I guess I can make an exception.
My mum wouldn't mind acquiring it though. Maybe if I gave it to her as an apology, she would even loosen the reins on me. Not that this house arrest was much of a burden. My mum isn't very strict like that. While 'grounded' to some parents meant, no friends, no TV, no nothing for a month or so, my mum didn't take it that seriously.
Her idea of giving me a house arrest, was simply take my computer away from me, for about a week. Not much of a punishment, but believe me, she thinks I'm that dependent on my computer. But then again, she's very unaware of electronic stuff and social media, so she doesn't know about the fact that my phone also can be used for surfing through the internet.
"I just wanted to make sure you were alright" he must have noticed that I was deep in my thoughts.
"Oh no no, it' okay I guess. I just don't want you to think that.. Look, I'm sorry about yesterday.. I wasn't myself really" I stuttered, fumbling with my phone. All of a sudden it buzzed again, the screen lighting up, displaying Luke's name. I quickly closed my hands around it, in an attempt to hide it.
"Aren't you gonna see who it's from?" he finally asked, as I just sat there, embracing the phone with my small hands. I removed my fingers from the screen, tilting it away from him. 'I hope you're happy now!' the message read.
The phone must have slipped from my fingers, as it hit the ground between my bare feet. Dominic reached to retrieve it.
"No!" I remonstrated, but it was too late. His eyes was fixed on the screen as he let the words sink in.
"Luke.. Lucas Legrand?" he asked, still holding unto my phone.
"Give it to me" I warned, standing up from my position on the bed.
"Wait a second, you guys aren't.." he was interrupted as I tried to snap the phone out of his hand, but he avoided me by holding it over his head, so I couldn't reach it.
"We're not. It's just.. He thinks so, but I.. I don't know what I want. I don't know how I feel, not about him, not about you, not about anything! And don't come here and tell me I'm cheating on anyone, cause I'm not!" I struggled to put it into words.
"I wasn't going to" he voiced, before sitting down on the bed, gesturing me to sit down beside him. "So, what you say is that the kiss didn't mean anything?" his eyes moved to mine again.
"No! All I'm saying is that I need some time" I could tell that he was hurt. But what else could I do?
"I think you should go" I breathed after a while, not looking up at him. His eyes was still fixed on me. I felt his hand placing the phone back in my lap, before he got up and walked out of the room, showing himself out.
I leaned backwards, falling down on my back with a huff. My cell was lifted and held in front of me. I didn't know what to reply to Luke's message, so I moved on to the next one instead. An answer from Evelyn.
'Let's discuss that over a cup of coffee'. That girl is so obsessed with coffee, or basically any hot drink.
'Next week, I'm having some sort of a hangover I think. I might stay inside for the rest of the weekend' I typed as a reply. The whole concept of a 'hangover' was fairly new to me, as this was a first actually. But well, they say there's a first time for everything right?
I continued to look through my inbox. The rest of the bunch, was from Dani. All sorts of curious messages about last night. 'Good going last night, you need to tell me all about it' and 'That kiss was wicked! AWESOME!'. Wait.. Which one exactly? I sent her a reply, asking. Within a few seconds, my phone buzzed again.
'Don't you remember it? Are you for real!? Seriously?' typical of her to torment me instead of just getting to the point. 'Fine!' I typed, giving up on her stupidity. Buzz. There it was again, another text. 'You made out with Scarlet, how cool is that?' she answered, making me jolt up.
What? I did what?! I kissed a girl? Rather made out? What other foolish things did I do? Slowly, the memories of last night was getting back to me, but at one point it just completely stopped. After the kiss with Dominic, everything was blank. What happened before the kiss was kind of in a blur too, but I was aware of what I had done at least.
I didn't dare to text back. But instead I went on to the last older message from Dani. 'I think I've done something really stupid'. Been there, done that.. Obviously. It's weird actually. Dani don't usually tell me about her problems. But then again, she was quite drunk yesterday, so it wouldn't really surprise me. Probably just another feud between her and Joanna, surrounding Drake.
I ended up lying down on my bed again, my eyes fixed on my phone. I was studying the text from Luke. Trying to come up with possible solutions on what to write. He was probably referring to the kiss. The one with Dominic. I suppose the Scarlet kiss didn't do him any harm. Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if he found it 'sexy'.
I couldn't by any chance have hurt him, could I? I could at least cross my fingers and hope he didn't remember too much about last night either. But somehow, I was strongly doubting that. He's more used to drinking, or so it seems. Maybe I should just ignore it. Maybe I had finally gotten him off my back. But I'm not sure if that's what I want. Life choices sucks.
A former question came back to mind, who did drive me home last night? I laid there for another while before getting up to prepare a breakfast.
